The Sojourn Reviews
If you are looking for a puzzle game with a relaxing setting and score, then The Sojourn is a must-play. However, if you want something with more narrative driving the gameplay, look elsewhere.
Despite its flaws, The Sojourn has moments of greatness. Weaving a web of dark tunnels or daisy-chaining angel statues to the exit feels wonderful. The game world is stunningly beautiful, and wandering through the vistas is quite peaceful. However, the poor communication with the player, nonsensical greeting card writing, and frustrating final act leave The Sojourn a mixed bag of great puzzles and crappy idioms.
The Sojourn has an effective story and occasionally rewarding gameplay, but its inconsistencies in gameplay, pacing, and progression make it less than the sum of its parts.
The Sojourn, despite its beauty and competent game mechanics, suffers from pacing issues and a lack of purpose. An impressive package initially, the game shows its cracks as it presses on.
The Sojourn is a competent and technically apt puzzler, but one which feels oddly empty.
More rewarding, interactive story elements and some sort of in-game hint system would go a long way towards making The Sojourn an enjoyable experience for wide audiences, but right now only serious fans of spatial logistics may find the energy to persevere.
The Sojourn is a well-made puzzle game with a firm challenge and fresh mechanics layered in throughout, but the symbolism draped over it all is vague and boring.
The Sojourn is an average, middle-of-the-road puzzler, that struggles to be memorable after the first few hours. There are interesting ideas here, both in terms of gameplay and aesthetic. However, they both suffer from the same problem, which is unfortunate repetition.
The sojourn is a puzzle game that relies on the duality between light and dark to propose some very interesting challenges, at least at beginning. It also has a storyline to beautify the game but it is too cryptic and ends up being diluted while the adventure lengthens incomprehensibly based on repeating challenges and situations without provide new playable mechanics from the beginning. But to his credit it also has a remarkable artistic section, and some of his proposals are quite intelligent and interesting.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The Sojourn is definitely one of the best and well-designed Iranian games. It has great artistic world and genuine puzzles, even compared to best games in the world. But two main reasons made it fail. One, separating the story from the puzzles completely, which damage the storytelling and the Second, low quality of side puzzles which have putted in the game with no creativity and has no worthy rewards for solving them
Review in Persian | Read full review
The Sojourn is the equivalent of one of those big books of crosswords you can buy at the supermarket check-out. Its puzzles are well-constructed and provide a nice mental workout, but they're all rather one-note, and the game's world is dry as toast. If you're a hardcore puzzle nerd, give The Sojourn a shot, but those expecting to be taken on a deeper journey may be disappointed.
A few puzzles are exhilarating to decipher, but too many others beat the concepts into the ground through repetition without offering enough to keep the solutions fresh
The Sojourn is a beautiful game with numerous extremely clever puzzles but it has a hard time balancing its story and difficulty curve.
A clever and beautiful first person puzzle game that fails to integrate its themes into its mechanics, and/or viceversa.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The Sojourn makes a great first impression. Strong visuals that show great production values. Unfortunately, the game fails to keep things interesting. Repetitive levels and repeating puzzle ideas stop this game from leaving a lasting impression.
While repetition defines The Sojourn as more of an attractive collection of brain teasers than a rich narrative experience, its intricate levels and creative puzzle design will engage any player looking for gratifying challenges of a slower pace.
The Sojourn is a well-made, standard puzzle game that every fan of the genre should try it.
Review in Persian | Read full review
It's not exactly original, but The Sojourn is a solid puzzler with well designed levels and some nice ideas.
Lame story aside, The Sojourn is a satisfying puzzle game. This debut effort from Shifting Tides isn’t going to reinvent the genre, but it certainly has a place for fans of puzzle games and The Talos Principle.
The Sojourn doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it does enough to carve its own identity and succeed. The story weaves nicely throughout each section and touches on the visuals and mechanics of each respective area very well. For puzzle game fans, this is a strong recommendation. It's not an all-time great, but it is worth the time.