4 Pics 1 Word vs Journey
4 Pics 1 Word
4 Pics 1 Word is a mobile word game that had enjoyed tremendous success mainly due to its innovative, simple-to-get-into and yet challenging gameplay of word guessing and partly because of its social features which allow players to share puzzles that they can't seem to solve to their social media pages for others to help out. Of course, like most word games, 4 Pics 1 Word also has a hint feature which can be frankly limited. The game is often updated with new puzzles so you'll never run out of words to guess!4 Pics 1 Word is an impressively addictive word game despite being mind-blowingly simple to create. It has spawned a whole new generation of picture-based word guessing games - the last major change in this genre was brought on by the game, Draw Something.
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.