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Games like Josh Journey: Darkness Totems

If Josh Journey: Darkness Totems is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shing!, Hot Worlds and Party Mashup — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Josh Journey: Darkness Totems: Josh Journey: Darkness Totems is a hand drawn beat’em up game about four brave heroes, that use their skills to defeat the Nightmare Monsters using special combo attacks in a co-op gameplay.

2022ActionIndieAdventure13.99 USDWindowsby Provincia Studio
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  1. Shing!

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Josh Journey: Darkness Totems fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Hot Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Josh Journey: Darkness Totems fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    When all-star MMA fighter Valentina Rubio discovers a door to a shadow dimension, she goes on an adventure through the fabric of space to compete in HOT WORLDS; the biggest anything-goes fighting championship in the universe!

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Party Mashup

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Josh Journey: Darkness Totems fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Chase chickens, battle friends, and survive 11 chaotic minigames in a goofy local party game with bots, tournament mode, and Steam Remote Play Together.

    2020ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Battletoads

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Josh Journey: Darkness Totems fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    • Over-the-top combat with combos and hard-hitting morph attacks • Wild, varied gameplay sequences for all types of gamers • Hand-drawn animation feels like playing a cartoon • Drop-in couch co-op for three players

    2020ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Pulling No Punches

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Josh Journey: Darkness Totems fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    A classic 2D arcade action game animated frame by frame. Survive a fictional pandemic in a city filled with madness and denial.

    2022ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Absolum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Josh Journey: Darkness Totems fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Josh Journey: Darkness Totems fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    
Choose a side, master your moves, and embrace your destiny in an epic beat 'em up adventure inspired by the hit show. Take control of 8 playable characters with deep movesets, combos, progression, real-time character swaps, ultimate attacks, and much more!

    2021ActionAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Unruly Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Josh Journey: Darkness Totems fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Josh Journey: Darkness Totems at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Josh Journey: Darkness Totems on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Josh Journey: Darkness Totems on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Josh Journey: Darkness Totems on Steam right now. Shares Action with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Josh Journey: Darkness Totems on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~68% under Josh Journey: Darkness Totems on Steam right now. Shares Action with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Josh Journey: Darkness Totems on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Josh Journey: Darkness Totems on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Josh Journey: Darkness Totems on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Shing!

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Party Mashup

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Chase chickens, battle friends, and survive 11 chaotic minigames in a goofy local party game with bots, tournament mode, and Steam Remote Play Together.

    2020ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Battletoads

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    • Over-the-top combat with combos and hard-hitting morph attacks • Wild, varied gameplay sequences for all types of gamers • Hand-drawn animation feels like playing a cartoon • Drop-in couch co-op for three players

    2020ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    
Choose a side, master your moves, and embrace your destiny in an epic beat 'em up adventure inspired by the hit show. Take control of 8 playable characters with deep movesets, combos, progression, real-time character swaps, ultimate attacks, and much more!

    2021ActionAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Unruly Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Josh Journey: Darkness Totems

How much does Josh Journey: Darkness Totems cost?
Josh Journey: Darkness Totems is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Josh Journey: Darkness Totems have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Josh Journey: Darkness Totems supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Josh Journey: Darkness Totems are Shing!, Hot Worlds, Party Mashup.
Who developed Josh Journey: Darkness Totems?
Josh Journey: Darkness Totems was developed by Provincia Studio and published by QUByte Interactive.

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