Journey vs Words of Gold
Journey
Journey is literally a quintessential "artsy" adventure game. Why so? Well, the game puts you in the shoes of a mysterious robed figure who you will control throughout your adventure across beautiful, quiet and mostly desert landscapes. Each landscape provides players with a puzzle to solve that will allow them to move on to the next scene, though players can simply roam around the place and drink in the gorgeous visuals.There isn't a lot of buttons in the game and that's fine enough since you really don't need much to solve the puzzles, but personally, I'm incredibly intrigued by the Sing function. Although it is used to solve certain puzzles, most of the time you'll probably be using it idly while your character is travelling. Depending on how long you press the button and how fast you do so, you can actually create amazing little tunes that you'd love to have it recorded down and turned into perhaps a ringtone or something.
That said, Journey is a game that's so much more than composing music and solving puzzles. It is a journey (like its namesake) to help the robed figure discover who he/she is and to help you figure out what's happened in the game world, resulting in the sprawling desert that spans most of the game.
Words of Gold
Words of Gold is a really innovative word puzzle game that combines your average word puzzles with the joy of playing scrabble. To play, you simply need to connect the letters on the board with the jumble of letter tiles you have all neatly arranged in a rack to form a word. There are special bonus letter tiles as well as board tiles that will either hamper your word-forming efforts or boost your overall word score. The game is competitive as you can compare your highest score with your friends on the leaderboard. Naturally, the one on top will have bragging rights. Best yet, this game can be played offline as well!We are currently seeing a lot of innovation going on in the word game genre and Words of Gold is one of the better ones. So, if you long for a different sort of scrabble game, Words of Gold will astound you!