Games like The Journey Home
If The Journey Home is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Dream Machine - The Definitive Edition, Deer & Boy and SPHEROCIOUS — 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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The Dream Machine - The Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
An award-winning point & click adventure about exploring other people’s dreams. Uncover dark secrets in a strange apartment building and wander through a surreal, hand-crafted dreamscape built from clay, cardboard & broccoli.
Deer & Boy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
In this poetic cinematic platformer, a runaway boy meets a fawn. As their bond grows, so do their abilities and the emotional weight of their journey, where silence speaks louder than words.
SPHEROCIOUS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Journey Home.
Play a mutant sloth fighting to reclaim the rainforest in this atmospheric 2.5D puzzle platformer. Roll, bounce, and climb through the uncharted Amazon jungle as you drive out a greedy corporate logging operation!
Stalhart
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
Play as a deer in a cinematic platforming adventure where nature isn't what it seems. Leap across danger, evade relentless machines, and venture beyond the forest as a greater tale unfolds.
In The Drift
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
A game about fixing the internet in space. Travel the asteroid belt and restore connections in a dreamy narrative platformer from one half of the creators of Sable.
Keeper
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Journey Home.
From Lee Petty and Double Fine Productions, Keeper is an atmospheric puzzle adventure in which a long-forgotten lighthouse is awakened and, joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening tale of unlikely companionship, and an unexpected journey into realms beyond understanding
INSIDE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Eternal Hope
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Journey Home.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Journey Home.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Journey Home.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Journey Home.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 The Journey Home.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Deer & Boy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
In this poetic cinematic platformer, a runaway boy meets a fawn. As their bond grows, so do their abilities and the emotional weight of their journey, where silence speaks louder than words.
INSIDE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Eternal Hope
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey Home.
Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.
Frequently asked about The Journey Home
- What games are most similar to The Journey Home?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Journey Home are The Dream Machine - The Definitive Edition, Deer & Boy, SPHEROCIOUS.
- Who developed The Journey Home?
- The Journey Home was developed by Joey's Entertainment.
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 The Journey Home.
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