PC (Microsoft Windows)2021

Journey On

Experience a world of life and death in this exploration focused, anime style JRPG. Will you choose the path of light, or of darkness?

Storyline

Two adventurers, two paths. As darkness rises, two young adventurers went on a journey to save their village. Play as two sisters with different personalities and skill sets. Will you choose the path of light, or of darkness? Different endings based on your decisions during the adventure!

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5 Steam reviews

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Steam User 7339STEAMRecommended

A fun, challenging rpg, though may have to play again to get the good ending, even though i resisted the darkness at every rest stage. Highly recommend.

Aug 27, 2025·18h·1·Verified

Steam User 4566STEAMRecommended

[h1]Story[/h1]

Selena and Shirley must journey to the fallen Kingdom of Askhar to defeat the source of the Darkness, or demons will eventually become too much for their village to handle. While Selena can receive blessings from the Goddess of Light, Shirley is a practitioner of dark magic and is disallowed from entering holy places. However, she can increase her powers by corrupting in soul in the Dark Sanctuary, a place that functions as a sort of shared spiritual world for all dark magic users.

The game is touted as having moral choices and soul corruption, but I found this to be very weak in comparison to games with similar plots. For one thing, the protagonists are silent, so it's very difficult to tell how the soul corruption affects Shirley's personality or her interactions with Selena. Additionally, there aren't that many opportunities to make moral choices, at least for mandatory events, though this may be due to the story's short length. The are two major moral choices concerning brainwashing and ironically enough, obtaining the final light power up.

The game has multiple endings depending on Shirley's corruption and a certain side path right before the final boss. Unsurprisingly, the ending is happier if Shirley isn't corrupted, but the no corruption and partial corruption paths only differ in small ways, which made the morality system feel underutilized. The full corruption route can branch in an interesting way that makes the player question if their choices were worth it and there is an interesting twist for the light power up.

[h1]Gameplay[/h1]

The game features a standard turn-based system, but bosses are heavily evented so that there's a puzzle aspect to their fight. While their gimmicks are fair and victory is fairly reproduceable once the player figures them out, it can take a bit of trial-and-error to realize what is going on in the first place. My least favorite boss is the Corrupted Assassin, since his gimmick has more of a luck factor compared to most other bosses. That may explain why there's a secret way to skip his fight.

Selena has no MP or magic, but she can learn physical skills that have their own cooldowns. While this made resource management simpler with her, I feel that her accuracy isn't high enough to make up for the cooldowns, especially for life-saving skills like Shield Bash. It's entirely possible to see an enemy charge a strong attack, use Shield Bash in an attempt to stun them, miss, and eat a ton of damage.

Shirley seems like a standard mage at first and her kit covers all offensive and support needs, but she has no MP growth, which means the player will have to use her MP carefully. Soul corruption can increase her max MP and give her more perks, which means the party doesn't have to spend as many turns using MP items, giving them better turn economy for difficult bosses.

Most enemy attacks are survivable and fair, so it's entirely possible to cheese even the no corruption route with a big bag of consumables. However, the 2100 Darkness Affinity achievement can make the resource management aspect of the game much harder. DA is accumulated for every point of MP spent by Shirley, which means to get the achievement, the player must minimize their MP usage. This can also make it more tedious to grind for resources, though the middle section of the game does mercifully have physical-vulnerable mobs that drop Toka Grass and Soul Essence.

There are occasionally campsites that the player can visit to cook healing food items and rest. Cooking requires ingredients, and only Toka Salad is infinitely farmable if you're a hoarder. Resting requires one party member to stand guard while the other one sleeps. The guard has a chance of having to fight an enemy, though I have yet to get into a situation where the enemy can be immune to one of the party members' attacks, so it seems to be balanced. If Shirley is the one who sleeps, she can visit the Dark Sanctuary, and the closer the party is to the final boss, the more corruption Shirley can gain, though it does require DA thresholds.

[h1]Verdict[/h1]

7/10

The gameplay is balanced enough that it's possible to beat the no corruption route even with sloppy gameplay, albeit with trial-and-error for some bosses. The story and morality system are lacking, but there are some interesting plot elements that could be made better if the protagonists had properly written dialogue, enough that it could have bumped the game to 7.5/10 or 8/10.

Nov 4, 2021·13h·4·Verified

Steam User 4026STEAMRecommended

[i]I'm not a native English speaker, forgive my bad English[/i].

Is worthwhile playing.
The boss battles are kinda hard for me, especially in the light path, but is acceptable for me. It needs tactics.
The story is nice, and the bgms for maps are chosen wisely.
It will be better if several languages support can be added.

Here are some personal thought in improvement:
·The control of riding boat is kinda uncomfortable[strike],or I'm just too weak to play[/strike].
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是个值得玩的好游戏。
战斗有点难，特别是想走光明路线时，但是对我来说可以接受[strike]，多s/l几次的事[/strike]。
故事很棒，音乐营造的氛围也很好。
如果能有其它语言的翻译版就更好了。

一些个人想法：
·控制船的手感不太好[strike]，或者就是我太菜[/strike]。

Oct 9, 2021·15h·4·Verified

Steam User 4293STEAMRecommended

This is a fun but short little adventure.

Pros:
+Some boss fights are challenging but fun to beat.
+This game is more fast paced than most turn-based JRPG.
+Charming style.

Cons:
-Not a lot of dialogues, simple story and silent protagonists.
-Short
-Minor technical issues. Such as stuttering or mouse target selection overriding keyboard.

Oct 9, 2021·7h·4·Verified

Steam User 8275STEAMNot recommended

Battles are as hard as rpg "Luka's adventure".

Oct 7, 2021·5h·1·Verified