Games like Journey to the West
If Journey to the West is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monster Train, Cat God Ranch and 天外武林 (Traveler of Wuxia) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its distinct character identities, high replayability and unique mythological setting. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Journey to the West: A challenging rogue-like deck building game about a legendary adventure in the Realm of Divinity. Lead your team, build your unique deck, gather powerful relics and consumables to confront legendary creatures and eventually discover the truth behind the omen of darkness.
Players who liked Journey to the West also play
Steam players who put hours into Journey to the West also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Top pick for Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Journey to the West.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Cat God Ranch
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Journey to the West.
Lead hundreds of "wise" little animals to pay tribute to the Cat God!! 7 animal families, 100+ animals, 10+ Cat Gods, 100+ items, and various animal combinations waiting for you to explore!
天外武林 (Traveler of Wuxia)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Journey to the West.
Third-strongest match for Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Journey to the West.
Traveler of Wuxia is a deck-building rogue-lite game that mixes with Wuxia story and card combination. You will play as a young hero exploring to a unknown martial arts world. Use card combos to unleash powerful techniques and team up with companions to overcome the challenges of the martial world.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Journey to the West.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Journey to the West.
Ranked #5 for Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Journey to the West.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Journey to the West.
Ranked #6 for Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Journey to the West.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Yao-Guai Hunter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Journey to the West.
Ranked #7 for Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Journey to the West.
Yao-Guai Hunter is a Wuxia roguelike deck-building game. In a world where Yao-Guai roam free, player battles with various evil beings, collecting cards and learn inner skills. Encountering various adventures in the martial world.
Monster Slayers
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Journey to the West.
Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle to become a true Monster Slayer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Journey to the West at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Journey to the West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Journey to the West.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Journey to the West on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Journey to the West.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Journey to the West on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Journey to the West.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Journey to the West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Journey to the West.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Journey to the West on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journey to the West.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Journey to the West on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Journey to the West.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Journey to the West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Journey to the West.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Journey to the West on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Journey to the West.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journey to the West.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journey to the West.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Journey to the West.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Journey to the West.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journey to the West.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journey to the West.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journey to the West.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
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Frequently asked about Journey to the West
- How much does Journey to the West cost?
- Journey to the West is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Journey to the West?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Journey to the West are Monster Train, Cat God Ranch, 天外武林 (Traveler of Wuxia).
- Who developed Journey to the West?
- Journey to the West was developed by Z Studio and published by Z Studio, Paras Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Journey to the West.
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