Journey: Collector's Edition (2012) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Journey: Collector's Edition

Journey Collectors Edition is the first retail disc release for thatgamecompany. It features Journey as well as the studio's previously released flOw and Flower and more. It was released August 28th, 2012 for…

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What Journey: Collector's Edition is

Journey: Collector's Edition is an adventure game developed by ThatGameCompany and released in 2012. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. It runs on PhyreEngine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Journey: Journey is a wordless story told through gameplay and visual-only cutscenes. The player's character begins near a small sand dune in a vast desert. Walking to the top of the dune, the character can see looming in the far distance a large, mysterious mountain with a glowing crevice that splits its peak. As the character approaches the mountain, they find the remnants of a once-thriving civilization, eroded by sand over time. Scattered throughout the ruins at the end of each area are stones where the traveler rests and has visions of meeting a large, white-robed figure in a circular room. Art adorns the walls, describing the rise and fall of the player character's civilization, which…

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Journey: Collector's Edition holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Journey: Collector's Edition launched on 28 August 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Cheats and codes

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