# Journey by thatgamecompany

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Journey by thatgamecompany and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a masterpiece of game storytelling and emotional design, one that left at least one player nearly in tears.

## Why people recommend it

- Cited as a video game masterpiece (3 comments): "All masterpieces that take various approaches to Diegetic, Non-Diegetic and meta-Diegetic storytelling" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768140)) "Ikaruga and Journey should be mentioned in the same conversation" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293095)) "consider Journey and probably a list of others" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293103))
- Beautiful world and emotional impact (2 comments): "a beautiful landscape that you traversed with other nameless ones" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778516)) "Journey nearly made me weep with joy and sadness" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635786))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Helldivers 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/helldivers-2.md): 50 recommend
- [Triple-A Minesweeper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/triple-a-minesweeper.md): 40 recommend
- [Quake II](https://hackerapproved.com/p/quake-2.md): 33 recommend
- [Red Dead Redemption 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/red-dead-redemption-2.md): 28 recommend
- [Grand Theft Auto (1997)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grand-theft-auto.md): 28 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Journey by thatgamecompany", https://hackerapproved.com/p/journey/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).