Encodya vs Journey
Encodya
Encodya is a gorgeous point-and-click adventure game featuring a young orphan, a 9-year-old girl named Tina, and her robot nanny, S.A.M. 53. Set in a dystopian cyberpunk world where many people have fallen deeply addicted to VR, an incident sparked off a journey where she tries to carry out the mission her late father has left her and possibly change the world for the better in the process. There are plenty of obstacles and puzzles along the way, but by switching between the robot and the girl, you’ll be able to solve them and figure out where to go or what to do next.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.