The Journey Down: Chapter One

K. Fields
2025-08-06T19:24:30-04:00
Video Games

After playing The Dream Machine, I decided to try another adventure game—The Journey Down: Chapter One. Its website describes it as "a classic point-and-click saga with an Afro-Caribbean vibe." It had the feel of a LucasArts adventure game and that is a good thing. It was quite different from The Dream Machine and more in line with familiar classic titles. In addition to its visual appeal, it had solid voice acting and very nice music as well. The puzzles weren't too difficult. It involved the typical collection of items as you visit every accessible area and build your inventory. As with most adventure games, there was a good deal of backtracking to solve puzzles once new items are acquired. The number of areas in Chapter One wasn't excessively large, however, so most areas were usually only a few screens away. As point and click adventure games go, I would definitely rate this one as very good.

The Journey Down is presented as a series of chapters. I only own Chapter One of the trilogy. As with The Dream Machine, I am tempted to purchase the other chapters to see how the story ends. Instead, I think I will dig into my deep backlog of video games and choose something else to play next.