Games like Inverted Journey
If Inverted Journey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nijoaju, Clonefall and Mr. Mat Hematic — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Inverted Journey: Inverted Journey is a mind-bending puzzle platformer where you can enter the negative space of levels. Use this unique ability to solve strange puzzles, collect hidden treasures, and journey on a quest to save your little brother from a terrible fate.
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Nijoaju
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Top pick for Inverted Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
Two characters. One goal. Think as one. In Nijoaju, control a powerful stone creature and an agile water creature, combining their unique abilities to solve challenging puzzles, overcome obstacles, and prove that only by working together can you move forward.
Clonefall
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Second-strongest match for Inverted Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
A puzzle-platformer where every death matters. In Clonefall, your fallen clones remain in the world, becoming platforms, shields, and tools to solve challenges. Use failure as your greatest weapon and turn each attempt into progress.
Mr. Mat Hematic
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Third-strongest match for Inverted Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
Mr. Mat Hematic is a short, fun, 2D platformer puzzle game where you must use given mathematical operations to alter the environment so you can move around. To complete a level, you need to reach the black door.
Black Zen White
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Ranked #4 for Inverted Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
Black Zen White is a relaxing puzzle platformer where the world flips between two versions: black and white. Think, time your moves, bend time, and interact with strange creatures in this contemplative, hand-drawn journey inspired by East Asian ink paintings for 1 to 2 players.
Trace Elements
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Ranked #5 for Inverted Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
Trace Elements is an unorthodox puzzle game where the solution begins on a blank canvas. Discover and draw runes with which you can shape the spells you cast, realize surprising interactions and create novel solutions to every level.
IndieSteam ↗Eternal Bonds
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Ranked #6 for Inverted Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
Solve puzzles by switching between the perspective of an astronaut and their robot. Flip levers to deactivate lasers, send boxes through portals, and much more to get both characters to the exit doors!
InOut
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Ranked #7 for Inverted Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
A minimalist puzzle platformer where each level is more than they seem. Change your perspective on levels to discover new areas. Explore the world to unearth its hidden secrets.
Fail Fail Succeed
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Ranked #8 for Inverted Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
Logic driven puzzle platformer set in an uncomfortable dream world, where failures let you pave the way through a deadly environment. Fail, reflect and uncover the way out, while finding quiet comfort in your dog along the way.
Free alternatives
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Inverted 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 with Inverted 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 with Inverted 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 Inverted Journey.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Inverted Journey.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Inverted Journey
- What games are most similar to Inverted Journey?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Inverted Journey are Nijoaju, Clonefall, Mr. Mat Hematic.
- Who developed Inverted Journey?
- Inverted Journey was developed by Jimmy C.
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 Inverted Journey.
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