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

Your goal is to move through the layered, sun-dappled scenery to tell the incredible life story of an aging hero, including his loves, his losses and the wisdom he’s gained along the way. The sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholy soundtrack underpins every moment to perfection.

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 powerful story arc awaiting your discovery that makes this game, linger well beyond just one journey.

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 fondly as you would an idyllic summer holiday: grateful to have experienced it, but a little sad that it’s concluded.