Completed with 100% of achievements unlocked (1,000G). Very different from most of the recent LEGO franchise games, LEGO: Builder's Journey uses LEGO for a puzzle mechanic that I'm surprised hasn't been seen much in the past. Playing out a gentle story told entirely by actions, without a word of dialog or narration, the game follows a pair of LEGO-built characters journeying through a range of contained environments. Of course, LEGO naturally lends itself to a great range of building-based puzzle mechanics and the few stages that make use of this in building structures/vehicles or similar are satisfying if unchallenging, but disappointingly most instead simply ask the player to build a path for one of the characters to follow. There is still some decent variety in this, but I'm still left feeling that there's a lot of missed potential here. More positively, environment design - of course, entirely with LEGO pieces - is impressive, especially when we see working, interactive machinery.

There's a relatively short playtime here, probably 3-4 hours at most - which is perhaps for the best given the similarity of most of the puzzles - but that again brings me back to the sense of missed potential, as a greater diversity of puzzles could have supported a significantly longer game.