Games like Passing By - A Tailwind Journey
If Passing By - A Tailwind Journey is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Multi-Medium, The Pedestrian and Babushka's Glitch Dungeon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming exploration focused adventure, contemplative and cozy. 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 Passing By - A Tailwind Journey: Take to the skies in your balloon ship and explore a colorful world of floating islands. Befriend fellow travelers and quirky islanders, use your wits to solve immersive puzzles, and gather resources to continue your journey towards an unknown destination.

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The Multi-Medium
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Shares a whimsical mood with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Top pick for Passing By - A Tailwind Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.
The Pedestrian
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Shares a relaxing mood with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Second-strongest match for Passing By - A Tailwind Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
Babushka's Glitch Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Third-strongest match for Passing By - A Tailwind Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.
Puzzles For Clef
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Shares a cozy mood with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Ranked #4 for Passing By - A Tailwind Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Join Clef on an adventure set on a magical sky island where her family once lived. Solve puzzles, discover secrets, and experience a story of sisterly love – and something more, if you are willing to dig deeper…
Teslagrad Remastered
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Ranked #5 for Passing By - A Tailwind Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Return to the indie classic Teslagrad, recharged to provide the ultimate electromagnetic experience! Escape a tyrant king, master the art of Teslamancy, and uncover the secrets buried deep within the Tesla Tower in this puzzle-platforming adventure!
Hue
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Shares a cozy mood with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Ranked #6 for Passing By - A Tailwind Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
2D Neon Cube
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Shares a relaxing mood with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Ranked #7 for Passing By - A Tailwind Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
2D Neon Cube - it's beautiful and not difficult to pass the game. Exciting obstacles and graphical effects. Move the main character to the portal and try not to die!
Blue Wednesday
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Shares a contemplative mood with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Ranked #8 for Passing By - A Tailwind Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Blue Wednesday is a relaxing and lovely adventure game focused on story, music, and characters. Explore the city, meet various characters, and have conversations. Listen to their stories, play mini-games, collect music albums, and play music.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Passing By - A Tailwind Journey at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Passing By - A Tailwind Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
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
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Priced ~50% under Passing By - A Tailwind Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
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
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Priced ~50% under Passing By - A Tailwind Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
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
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Priced ~50% under Passing By - A Tailwind Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Passing By - A Tailwind Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Passing By - A Tailwind Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Passing By - A Tailwind Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Passing By - A Tailwind Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
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!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Pedestrian
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
Teslagrad Remastered
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Return to the indie classic Teslagrad, recharged to provide the ultimate electromagnetic experience! Escape a tyrant king, master the art of Teslamancy, and uncover the secrets buried deep within the Tesla Tower in this puzzle-platforming adventure!
Blue Wednesday
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Passing By - A Tailwind Journey.
Blue Wednesday is a relaxing and lovely adventure game focused on story, music, and characters. Explore the city, meet various characters, and have conversations. Listen to their stories, play mini-games, collect music albums, and play music.
Frequently asked about Passing By - A Tailwind Journey
- Is Passing By - A Tailwind Journey verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Passing By - A Tailwind Journey is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Passing By - A Tailwind Journey cost?
- Passing By - A Tailwind Journey is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Passing By - A Tailwind Journey?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Passing By - A Tailwind Journey are The Multi-Medium, The Pedestrian, Babushka's Glitch Dungeon.
- Who developed Passing By - A Tailwind Journey?
- Passing By - A Tailwind Journey was developed by Studio Windsocke and published by Dear Villagers.
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