Last Voyage

What is Last Voyage?

Last Voyage is a mind-bending game app full of abstract puzzles players, or voyagers, complete through a series of trial and error.

Ten chapters of moving IQ quizzes, set to Vangelis-esque synthesized electronic music, makes Last Voyage a trippy, sensory experience.

To be certain, Last Voyage is best experienced with headphones, as the music is composed to coincide directly with the movements of the game. To describe Last Voyager as mind-bending is an understatement.

An exercise in geometry, each chapter in Last Voyage is themed -- Astro, Void, Mind, Beyond, Light -- and presents players with a series of shapes. What is unique about Last Voyage is that the game does not come with instructions.

Much like an IQ test, Last Voyage players must take the information presented and figure out what the abstract puzzle is asking of them. The result in Last Voyage gameplay is learning how to proceed through the puzzles and games by trial and error, devizing different ways to approach the given information and trying different configurations until the puzzle is solved.

In terms of aesthetic, each puzzle or challenge in Last Voyage is made up of beautiful, clean lines. With no objective, other than to figure out abstract puzzles and take in the sensory details of pleasing geometric images and electronic music, the Last Voyager app is almost like a spa for the mind, allowing it to unwind.

With a simple color palette of reds, whites, blacks, greys, players enter each chapter or puzzle or game by being treated to an image. Users must first figure out what it is, exactly, that they’re looking at.

From there, players must then work out how the puzzle is to be solved or how the game or challenge is to be navigated, completely without instruction. And while these games are incredibly simplistic, just the simple push of presenting a game without instructions is a break from the norm.