It’s a game I want to play again and again, exploring all the possible variations, behaving in different ways, experimenting with deliberately antagonising particular characters by purposefully playing bad hands. I want to make friends with those I lost before, and infuriate those I previously befriended. I want to live inside it for as long as I can, in as many ways as I can.

Signs of the Sojourner feels like life. It gets hard when you least expect it, sometimes returning home is a blessing and other times it feels like a burden. People change, life moves on and you just have to try to keep up. It takes something as impersonal as cards and creates an entire world full of personality.

This is a game of rare thematic consistency and mechanical brilliance. [Issue#347, p.102]

Signs Of the Sojourner is a colorful puzzle-game, with a rich cast, fitting OST and a good story. It mixes a card system with management and narrative choices, in a chill and exotic environment.

Despite of its certain lack of freedom, Signs of the Sojourner is the perfect metaphor in a card game about building relationships.

Signs of the Sojourner is one of the most cohesive narrative games I have ever played. The interplay between mechanics and storytelling is absolutely brilliant, which makes it a shame that it misses the mark in terms of actually being enjoyable to play. The inclusion of a frustrating "fatigue" mechanic is at odds with the general laid-back design approach to deckbuilding. There is something truly beautiful here that is worth experiencing, it's just a shame that the game seems to fight itself at every turn.

It's a worthwhile pickup for fans of the genre and those who go in with the expectation that it just isn't the same kind of replayable that they might otherwise become accustomed to in deckbuilding titles. It's also a beautiful story at its core, one that is accentuated by hit-or-miss drawings and a sparse, compelling world. Signs Of The Sojourner is worth your time - just don't expect it to take up too much of it.