Challenges
Because Journey is so short, but fans love it so much, players will often find new things and challenge other players to do them. This article is a list of various challenges - big and small - in the format of unofficial "trophies." If you want to add a "trophy" to your user page, use Template:Challenge trophy.
Note that these trophies count, even if you get them due to following someone in-game.
If you want to make an icon for a challenge that doesn't have one, feel free to use this background if you wish.
For the actual, basic, official challenges, see Trophies.
Refuse the Call[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Walk into a windwall until you're forced back
Mural +1[edit | edit source]
Level: Chapter Select
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Find the extra mural
Toasted[edit | edit source]
Level: Sunken City
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Cover a meditation circle before using it
Comet Catching[edit | edit source]
Level: Pink Desert
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Grab a symbol before it lands
Parkour[edit | edit source]
Level: Sunken City
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Land on a bridge during the final flide
Less-Than-Three[edit | edit source]
Level: Paradise
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Show your appreciation for your companion before you part
DO THE FLOP![edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderately easy
Description: Perform a faceplant
Perfect Mistakes[edit | edit source]
Level: Underground
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Find, and chirp at, Gary and Larry
Zen Master[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderately easy
Description: Perform a Zen Jump
Silent Run[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Complete a playthrough without Chirping
Ostrich[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Do a successful Dropshoot
Almost Scarfless[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Do a Red Cloak run from the beginning, without skipping to the hub or collecting any Symbols
Perfect Run[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Get all murals and symbols in a single playthrough
IT'S FULL OF STARS![edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Find a Starfield
My Head Hurts...[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Perform a charge boost
SuperFarer[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Perform a Super Boost
Heavy Sleeper[edit | edit source]
Level: Underground
Difficulty: Moderately easy
Description: Stand on the first active War Machine... before it activates
Sacrifice[edit | edit source]
Level: Underground
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Save the school of golden fish
Fallen 'Farer[edit | edit source]
Level: Underground
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Find the spot that turns your cloak black and red
EVERYBODY DO THE FLOP![edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: Be faceplanted with another player
Silent Run with Companion[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Difficult
Description: Complete a playthrough with another player, without either player chirping
Dry Tower[edit | edit source]
Level: Tower
Difficulty: Difficult
Description: Finish the Tower level without activating any prophecy murals
Bridges? Who Needs 'Em![edit | edit source]
Level: Broken Bridge
Difficulty: Difficult
Description: Get to the shrine in Broken Bridge by Flap Boosting from the ground
Can I Keep Him?[edit | edit source]
Level: Underground
Difficulty: Very Difficult
Description: Perform a War Machine Capture
Kiss the Dragons[edit | edit source]
Level: Underground
Difficulty:
Description: Touch the faces of the War Machines during the War Machine Slide
Miss the Dragons[edit | edit source]
Level: Underground
Difficulty:
Description: Avoid both War Machines' searchlights during the War Machine Slide
Lights Out[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Moderately Difficult
Description: Find the Blackness
70's Dance Floor[edit | edit source]
Levels: Underground, Snow, Paradise
Difficulty: Difficult
Description: Find a Disco Zone
Magician[edit | edit source]
Level: Underground
Difficulty:
Description: Grab a symbol through a barrier
Cold Resistant[edit | edit source]
Level: Snow
Difficulty:
Description: Get to the Final Climb by going through Snow OOB from the beginning
Hi![edit | edit source]
Level: Chapter Select
Difficulty: Very Difficult
Description: Meet Nick
You're It![edit | edit source]
Level:
Difficulty:
Description: Perform a successful Dolphin Tag
Skewered[edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Difficult
Description: Faceplant Jump onto a Gravestone
I'm a Hat![edit | edit source]
Difficulty: Very Difficult
Description: Dropshoot Faceplant Jump onto a shrine
Console Specific[edit | edit source]
I'd Rather Be SHINY![edit | edit source]
Consoles: PS4
Level: Sunken City (SC)
Difficulty: Medorately Easy
Description: Get the Zimcloak glitch
Paint the Sky[edit | edit source]
Consoles: PS4
Level:
Difficulty: Very Difficult
Description: Perform Sky Painting
References[edit | edit source]
"Refuse the Call" is based on the Hero's Journey concept that the Windwalls embody.
The names of the Faceplant-based challenges come from asdfmovie's EVERYBODY DO THE FLOP.
The name "Perfect Mistakes" comes from Apple's "The Secrets of Journey" article.
The name "I'd Rather Be SHINY!" is based on the song "Shiny" from the Disney movie Moana.
The name "Ostrich" is based on the idea that ostriches bury their heads in the sand (in order to hide themselves).
"Less-Than-Three" is a reference to the "<3" shape used to represent a heart.
"IT'S FULL OF STARS!" is a reference to a memetic quote from the novel version of 2001: A Space Oddesey" (often attributed to the movie).
The Wayfarer used in the icon for "70's Dance Floor" is Disco the Discofarer by Vandraris.
Some challenges are based on Journey Gamepedia's Challenge page.