Challenges

Many challenges are created and passed on by our fellow community heroes, longterm players.

Disclaimer about verifying challenges for platforms:

Since challenges are tough, not everything could be verified for all platforms. A video is proof that it works at least on the platform where the video was taken.

Most challenges here are verified for PS3/4 and PC version, not verified is the symbol take from outside the pipe.

Challenges can be:

 * "Mini Games"
 * Need a new challenge, after the Trophies? This article is about something really hard to achieve!
 * Something to achieve for yourself or with your companion, something "to do in Journey" or a harder trick (or even glitch) OR
 * A companion challenges you: shows you a (fancy flying) route and wants you to repeat it, stands on a statue, faceplant jumps onto a little rock etc. Accept the challenge and try your best!

Note: An experienced player probably will not challenge a newcomer, since its hard for them to get what they are supposed to do, depending on the difficulty of the challenge.

If two experienced players meet the will test each other a bit to see what each is capable of doing.

Example: Flying challenge in BB. Both are standing on top of the bridge, one will start flying to show the route, the other is watching. After the first returned, the other one tries to copy. Its hard to follow a flying route when you dont know where to go next, so it helps to just watch. Its up to you, how you handle it.

Tips & Hints
Will be given in spoiler tags, to give you the chance to find out on your own. Maybe you will even find new ways!

Challenges become easier, the more often you do them. They are useful to gain muscle memory for certain things.

General Challenges
These are things that many regular players do. They might "pause" their Journey and enjoy some time, playing "silly games".


 * Faceplant (FP) to get a fancy position or FPing so you slide off a platform and such things
 * Zen Jumping or if that seems too easy, trying to Faceplant Jump (FPJ) on those things:
 * Gravestones at the Shrine (the small ones)
 * Head of the Statue, some statue heads seem to be more slippery then others
 * Banner to activate them
 * Flying Challenges


 * List to be expanded

Video: FPJ on the Shrine in Tower
(done by Apn0)

Video: Faceplant Jump onto a gravestone
This is especially difficult, since those stones are bigger then the regular gravestones:

Hard-SMALL-75x43.gif Visiting Nick
This is not an actualy challenge, more a thing to do.

You know the Journeyer that you see at the end of the corridor, leading to the BB level? He is Nick. It will need many tries (the CB-method might be the easiest one), but you can get to him.

Speedrunners don't find it challenging anymore, they trained it hundreds times.

Broken Bridge
Broken Bridge is THE level for flying challenges.


 * Flying in a certain route from the bridge and up again, without landing. This can include infinite boosting, making it possible to boost through the arches of the bridge, around pillars and back to the starting point.
 * Flying from ground up to the bridge, with specific boosting techniques or with the help of flyers.
 * A combination of both. From ground up to the bridge, through an arch (or dropshooting around the statue etc.), down again and up again. The possibilities seems endless.



Images showing the places for challenges
You can use those images, to tell someone wich rock you mean. Sometimes an image is better then a whole video.

Hard-SMALL-75x43.gif Harder ones:
Tried the rather easy Carpet Chase? Now get chased by two carpets:

Diabolito's challenge : Chased by two carpets in the Pink Desert
(done by Nico Buis)

Easy-SMALL-75x43.gif Easy ones:

 * Save the golden scarves from being eaten.

There are two times where the flyers can be attacked.

The first is via normal in-game mechanics when the war machine loops around when you exit the hallway. The second, if you save the Golden Flyers the first time, will happen when you continue further into the UG. The war machine will come toward you before the second war machine activates and will attack the flyers if they are still around.

Hard-SMALL-75x43.gif Harder ones:
The first Symbol and the Symbol in the Algae Room can be taken "from outside" the pipe.

Tips on how to do it! For now there is only Atens video for the first Symbol.

Easy-SMALL-75x43.gif Easy ones:

 * Found the flow creature in the middle of the tower? Try to see it in the whale room. This is actually just part of knowing the Ancestors-trophy. Either look up information, or try to find out by yourself, under which circumstances the Mysterious Creature appears and where.
 * While you are in the Whale Room, find out how to sit in the tower goo. Another challenge is to teach Companions to sit on the top of the Tower and be pushed off. If they stay seated while falling down, they will slowly slide, while sitting on the ground of the Tower.


 * Climb the tower, without activating the Glyphs

Atens 8 jumps challenge
Dry climb the Tower. Then fly down while circling around the Tower, fly through the "balcony" at each room (one, not both per room).

Then boost up again, all with only 8 jumps/flaps.

(video shows aravshetikolava doing it)Same challenge done, by Seki Albatross: 8 jumps challenge