LEGO Builder's Journey Review: A Charming Puzzle Game
It's strange to think about it, but LEGO has been seeing video game adaptations for over 25 years. The iconic toy company had a suite of creation-focused and adventure games in the 1990s, as well as other spin-offs like LEGO Racers, but then really kicked off with video games with the growth of licensed properties such as LEGO Star Wars. That's not to say that games based on the core LEGO experience have stopped appearing, such as LEGO Builder's Journey from developer Light Brick Studio.
LEGO Builder's Journey was initially released for Apple Arcade in 2019, before seeing numerous ports including PS4 and PS5 versions that have just released. The game is a geometric puzzler, with the player hopping from puzzle to puzzle, using LEGO blocks to solve a route to an end point. Along the way, the player will move through a warming, abstract narrative.
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The key element that LEGO Builder's Journey manages to create is a true sense of calm. This is a wonderful game to pick up for a pocket of relaxation, with short, cute puzzles to solve and the fantastic ability to lower the player's heart rate. It's a similar atmosphere to other relaxing puzzle games, and together with its isometric camera angle the game gives off the same vibe as Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.
LEGO Builder's Journey is a different kind of LEGO experience to the most popular LEGO games on the market, but nonetheless it manages to correctly create a sense of what LEGO is. This is a game that makes sense for people who know LEGO as a nurturing toy of creativity, rather than the wacky hijinks of the more recent cross-brand leviathans that LEGO has been putting out.
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