This is a sequel to Elena’s Journal – Unfinished Expedition, the story continues where that one left off. it is a good Time management game. No missable achievements, completion takes around 10h.
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 10h
Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: The one for selling ships is a little bit grindy
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No, you can play on the easiest difficulty and still unlock all the achievements.
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No
A little warning: “Elena’s Journal: To Atlantis” is a sequel to Elena’s Journal – Unfinished Expedition . You can play this one without having played the first one, but the story continues and it spoilers big plot twists, so it might be wise to first play “Elena’s Journal – Unfinished Expedition”.
Another great time management game by SQRT3 & Gamehouse! You continue the story of Elena who is an archeologist and this time the cast is searching for Atlantis. The story can be a bit confusing as you switch between the current time, flashbacks, and a dream world. Overall it is easy to follow, but I say this with knowledge from the story in the previous game. I had trouble getting into the story for this sequel because of a plot twist with one of the main characters, that felt so out of character. I would have loved it if that character got time to get a bit of a redemption story.
I played “Elena’s Journal: To Atlantis” on the steam deck, which worked well. I only had trouble with one mini-game (the one in the Atlantis area), but I’m not sure if this is because of the touch screen on the Steam deck or that it just is a mini-game that just was a bit annoying.
Overall I had a good time and just love this type of time management game. None of the achievements are missable and there is a nice system inside the game that will track how far you are with each achievement. I would advise trying to get all the diamonds of each level while playing through the game, this includes the bonus objective. There is an achievement for replaying 20 levels, but if you already unlocked almost everything you can also do that while being semi afk and just click replay when the time runs out.
This review for Elena’s Journal: To Atlantis was written on 25 April 2023, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 77 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.