While searching through this month's PlayStation Plus months we got some good choices for this month's free games surely like Weird West and also The Callisto Protocol coming to PlayStation Plus, right? Yeah, sure Sony whatever you say. Then I explore what new Free-to-play games have come out and of all things I find a puzzle game that is (of all things) shovelware but at least it is not one of the those shovelware games sold for a cheap price to give you nothing out of it.
There is little to be said about this game, it is just a simple matching puzzle game where you pick from a set of cards to match two of the same pictures together. In this game the picture cards are categorized with land and sea creatures like foxes, frogs, jellyfish, dogs, zebras and so on. The presentation is very bare bones and everything looks so bland even the island background looks really bad and looks something drawn on the Microsoft Paint program.
There are four difficulty options from easy to expert where you try to match all of the picture cards as fast as possible and with as few clicks as possible, aside from the Expert setting which will get you confused for good long while these puzzles are straight forward as long as you have a good memory of where everything is. The simplicity of the puzzles and what you get out of it is not what makes the game so boring, it is what makes this game so pointless.
You can literally earn a Platinum Trophy for completing all of the puzzles within the time and clicks and for the most part it is very simplistic and you won't have much trouble getting through them. So, unless you have an hour or so to waste before you go back to meaningful matters, you may get something out of it but you are better off getting a set of matching cards in real life and enjoying that instead. But at least this game is free, which is the main thing you need to know about this.
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Game Score: 4.0/10
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Game Title: Puzzle Journey
Platform: PlayStation 4
Developer: ERIK GAMES
Genre: Puzzle
Age Rating: PEGI: 3+
Release Date: 7th September 2023
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Reviewed by: Anthony Hayball (AQWBlaZer91)
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