Old Man’s Journey is a rare achievement. It masterfully combines elegant hand-drawn art, inventive puzzles, and a touching narrative to create a game that’s part puzzle adventure game, part interactive storybook.

Your goal is to move through layered, sun-dappled scenery to tell the life story of an aging hero—his loves, his losses, and the wisdom he’s gained along the way. A sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholy soundtrack underpins it all.

To make your way through this world, manipulate the contours of the landscape, dragging hills and valleys up and down to create new paths forward. It’s a clever mechanism, but really it’s the story that makes this game linger long in the memory.

Old Man’s Journey speaks with touching sincerity. Once your voyage across land, sea, and air is complete, you’ll look back on this game as you would a sweet summer holiday: grateful to have experienced it, but a little sad that it’s all over.