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Release Date 18 August 2010
Release Type Freeware
Content Advisory None | None | Strong
Operating System Windows
Setting Fantasy
Genre Comedy
Story Original
Play Length Medium Length Game
Language English
Graphics 320x240, 32-Bit Colour
Downloaded 37,628 All Time

About

Chapter one of the Journey Down follows our brave hero Bwana and his sidekick Kito as they, while struggling to make ends meet, suddenly get thrown into a twisting plot of Corruption and Adventure!

theo Story, art and implementation
kingstone Additional puzzles and story
ryanb84 Testing
! Testing
~airwave~ - I Fought the Law, and the Law One Testing
2034 A.C. (After Canada) (MAGS) Playtesting Cowhoser
Featherweight Testing, Additional scripting
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Remake FOG Module
Road Racer Everything - Programming, Art
The Journey of Iesir Demo Programming
Arj0n Testing
! Testing
~airwave~ - I Fought the Law, and the Law One Testing
A Night To Remember Play testing
A Place in the Sun Testing
A Punk with Wheels Testing and English correction
Adventure: All in the Game Beta-testing
Adventure: Welcome to the Genre Beta testing
All Pigs Deserve to Burn in Hell Play Testing
AMTAG: Another Medieval Themed Adventure Game Testing & Advising
Ancient Aliens - The Roots of Sound Additional Game Design and Testing
Arden's Vale Beta testing
Astron everything
Background Blitz Collection Screensaver All
Banana Racer Author
Barahir's Adventure: Askar's Castle Everything
Black Sect 2: The Cursed Crypt (PnC Remake) Everything
Black Sect Remake testing and additional graphics
Blockz [Demo] - A Slider Puzzle Game All
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Decisions of the Elders - A Space Quest Prequel - Complete Full Length Retro Game beta-testing
Deep Hope Beta-testing
Desolate Everything
Doc Apocalypse Beta Test & Help
Downfall (2016) Testing
DuzzQuest2 QA Testing
Featherweight Testing
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Grandad and The Quest for The Holey Vest coding, additional graphics & animations, redesign
Gray beta testing
Heed Testing
I Want Out! beta test, proof-reading
IWWHIIWWHITOMIROTPG: The Game! BETA tester
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Oceanspirit Dennis Gets Textual Testing
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Oz Orwell and the Crawling Chaos Beta Test & Help
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QN2 [Demo] Beta Test & Help
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SAW Deluxe (Remake) English translation
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Shadow Wars [DEMO] Help & English Translation
Sheep Quest Testing
SRAM 2 - Cinomeh's Revenge (demo) everything
THAT DAMN DOG! Testing
The Apotheosis Project Help & Beta Test
The Art of Dying Betatester
The Cat Lady Beta testing
The Far Corners of the World: Chapter 1 - The Book, the Box and the Key testing
The Journey of Iesir Demo Testing
The Lurking Horror [MAGS] Beta Testing
The McCarthy Chronicles: Episode 1 Testing
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The Visitor Testing
This City at Night Beta-testing
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[Into the series] Carrot Adventures PMQ Art style tutorial
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^_^ Game Design
<3 Game Design
~airwave~ - I Fought the Law, and the Law One Game design
2034: A.C. (After Canada) II [Bake Sale 2] Music
A Walk in the Park Beta-Tester
Aeronuts proof-reading
AGS Awards Ceremony 2008 Cursors and trophies
Anna's Quest Vol. 1: Winfriede's Tower Tester
Annie Android: Automated Affection Graphics, Story, Scripting
Awakener Graphics, Scripting, Story
Big Blue World Domination [MAGS] Testing
Blackwell Deception Sprite animation
Blackwell Epiphany Art (backgrounds & character sprites)
City (Demo) Graphics, Story, Scripting
Corner's Shiny (2013 edition) Awesome spritework
Dinner for Pigeons Testing
Eternally Us Graphics, Animation, Gameplay Design
Featherweight Graphics, Scripting, Story
Heed Graphics, Story, Scripting
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Remake Art Contributions
Hope Art
IWWHIIWWHITOMIROTPG: The Game! Artistry, puzzle design, testing
Man Boy vs Doctor Sock Graphics, scripting, story
Night of the Testicle Guest artwork
Oceanspirit Dennis 2
OceanSpirit Dennis: A Ray of Hope A victim of assets theft
Oceanspirit Dennis: Scourge of the Underworld test game & templet
OceanSpirit Dennis: Scourge of the underworld HD
Oceanspirit Dennis: The Full Name Of This Game Won't Fit In The Subject Line!!1 Art, Voice (Krusty)
OSD Archipelago Adventures 1 Australian Translations
OSD Moby GearWhaleDX Voice Acting
RAM Ghost Object Donation
Shardlight Backgrounds, Animation
Shifter's Box - Outside In Scripting, Graphics, Story, Design
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Spaceman in Space Creator
Technobabylon Graphics
The Art of Dying Betatester
The Charnel House Trilogy Graphics
The coming of age - a Lorna Bains whodunit Additional Coding
The Rebirth/The Reaper The Reaper
The Search for Oceanspirit Dennis Art for Dennis
This City at Night Story, artwork
This City at Night - DEMO Story, graphics
Towel Day - H2G2 Based Game Some Testing
Trance-Pacific Story, artwork and character animations
Unavowed Art
Crimson Wizard Testing
! Testing
A Christmas Nightmare Scripting
A Night in Berry - long version Double click module
AGS Cameras Tech Demo Script
AGS Rock, Paper, Scissors Scripting advice
All the Magical Things great beta testing
Blades of Passion: An Oceanspirit Dennis Adventure Voice acting
Camp 1 Testing
Draculator II: Byte of the Draculator background art
Ego in Planet of the Apes Technical help
Featherweight Testing
Fritz ChangeWeight Module
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok Additional coding
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers testing
Last & Furious Code
N.orth E.ast W.est S.outh scripting help
Night Witch Programming
One of a Kind [MAGS] Everything
Paper Planes Last & Furious source code
Pig in a poke ChangeWeight Module
Pub master quest Legends v3.0 debuging
Robo Quest v1.21 English Translation
Sheep Quest Testing
WOO - World of our own script
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Awards & Reviews

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AGS Awards 2010 Winner

AGS Awards 2010 Winner

Best Animation
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Game Created with AGS for 2010
Best Gameplay
Best Music
Best Non Player Character
Best Original Story
Best Player Character
Best Puzzles
Best Sound Effects
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AGS Awards 2010 Nominee

AGS Awards 2010 Nominee

Best Dialogue Writing

AGS Panel Rating

The Journey Down is a beautifully crafted adventure with a unique character style and a level of polish rarely seen in freeware games, though the sometimes rough animations and overscaling issues (as well as an odd lack of sounds) stand out simply because everything else looks so great. If you can get past a few flaws in the surface and a relatively short play time, The Journey Down will no doubt be a gem to add to your game collection.

Rated on 27 April 2022

Pick of the Month

September 2010

How could I not pick this one? The Journey Down: Over the Edge has been hotly anticipated despite only being announced weeks before it's release and rightly so. …

Selected by: Calin Leafshade

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By Racoon on 28 February 2022

Good game with very likeable characters and a lot of humor

By CaptainD on 27 September 2017

With Chapter 3 of the commercial release launched this week, I'm going to write about this game as the "Golden Oldie" in this month's MAGSAN edition. Still remember this original game with immense fondness.

By lanchong on 10 February 2015

I look forward to Chapter 2!

By hillaryj on 11 November 2012

Enjoyed it! Waiting for the next installment. :) Wish there could have been voice acting though.

By CosmoQueen on 21 May 2012

I've played so many games in my lifetime and I would without a doubt put this in my top 10. Everything was perfect! Puzzles were the right balance of not too hard or easy, graphics were AMAZING and the dialog was funny and engaging. I can not wait for part two!

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