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Journey

Cross a desert as a small robed traveler, moving toward a distant mountain and sometimes meeting another player on the way.

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Release Date MAR 13, 2012

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A robed traveler crosses a long cloth bridge between desert ruins.

Sunlit ruins and the distant mountain appear across a hazy desert.

The traveler stands near flowing cloth on a platform among pale sand dunes.

A traveler glides past luminous cloth shapes inside a warm-colored chamber.

The mountain is framed by two dark pillars beyond a sunlit courtyard.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment

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Journey begins with a robed traveler in a broad desert and a mountain visible in the distance. You move toward it through ruins, sand and darker places. The game does not give you a long list of spoken instructions or a combat class to build. Its central act is movement: walk, glide and use a scarf-like trail of cloth to rise or cross parts of the landscape.

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Sometimes another traveler appears. That person can be another player, but the game does not introduce them with a conventional name tag or chat box. You can continue together or part ways. The images below move from a cloth bridge and old structures through the open dunes to a lit interior and the mountain beyond. They give a sense of the journey’s changing spaces without turning the story into a checklist.

Thatgamecompany developed Journey, and Sony Computer Entertainment America brought the original to PlayStation 3 in North America on March 13, 2012. The PC release shown by the official Steam art and screenshots came later; PC is not listed as a 2012 launch platform. The U.S. ESRB rates the original PS3 game E (Everyone) for Mild Fantasy Violence. Do not confuse that original rating with the separate Journey Collector’s Edition bundle, which has its own rating.

Explore and glide toward a distant mountain Wordless encounters with other travelers Desert, ruins and changing light A focused adventure without a quest checklist