I'm just kidding, i really liked Journey, although this is definitely more engaging mechanically.

Jusant is a nice, short game about climbing a giant, cliff-like tower. You have to manually grip the wall at hand-holds, and can do a short jump/scramble for spots out of arm's reach. There's always a rope keeping you safe while you do this, but it's probably a good idea to place a new piton if that jump looks a bit sketchy

Various one-off mechanics are added in, and sometimes dropped, but they all work off the above fundamentals. Limiting your traversal is a stamina meter, with a slower degrading max that i thought was quite neat (stamina can be restored while climbing, but max stamina only once you fully stop). It felt like a good way of expressing the difference between short term recovery and long term rest

The game is clearly gorgeous (and knows it) with a lovely art style and lots of attention to detail. Get your screenshots ready (or browse the hundreds already uploaded). The setting seems like a dried up sea, with the tower previously populated, but all having left to find water some time ago. You can find notes that give a window into that past, but otherwise all you have is environmental storytelling and silence while climbing

Overall, a nice game (and completion!) to start the new cycle with