Games like Journey Up
If Journey Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unification, Firefighters Together and Outta Hand — 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 Journey Up: Gain sentience and climb up out of the mines and beyond on your own or online with up to 4 players. Play with checkpoints or without for a more tense experience. Supports VR and desktop monitor mode. Can you reach the top?
Players who liked Journey Up also play
Steam players who put hours into Journey Up 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.
Unification
WHY THIS
Top pick for Journey Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
Unification is about a cat chasing its own laser pointer into an ancient black hole engine. Unleash your cat instincts as Gumbot, tackling physics and critters alike! Leap and scramble up ledges, zoom with rocket parkour, shift gravity at will, and wield curious artifacts and dreamlike powers.
Firefighters Together
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Journey Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Journey Up.
Firefighters Together is a chaotic co-op action platformer where 1-4 players work together to rescue kittens from dangerous, fire-filled maps. Overcome challenging obstacles, extinguish flames, and save those kittens!
Outta Hand
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Journey Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
Outta Hand lets you embody one of the Hand-People, wide-eyed, hop-happy lab experiments with the power to jump great heights, leap impossible lengths, and shake hands from… really, really far away. Like a whole big dining room away.
Only Up: SKIBIDI
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Journey Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
Only Up: Skibidi is an exciting multiplayer 3D platformer. Overcome challenging obstacles and climb higher and higher. Attention and focus will help you reach new heights, and this rule applies both in the game and in life.
Human Fall Flat VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Journey Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
Experience the blockbuster physics platformer, now in VR! Human Fall Flat VR features an intuitive 3rd-person view designed especially for VR headsets.
The Break-In
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Journey Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
Steal everything. Even the people. The Break-In lets you take whatever you want, from TVs to fridges to toilets. And all in 1-4 player co-op, VR and non VR. Select your getaway vehicle, anything from a bicycle to a stolen police van, and load up with gear like hammers and rocket boosters, and steal.
No More Rainbows
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Journey Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Journey Up.
YOU ARE THE BEAST! Rampage through colorful worlds to reclaim your desecrated Underworld from parasitic beings of joy. Use intuitive locomotion mechanics to run, jump, claw, and climb using only your hands in an adventure that will remind you of your favorite platformers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Journey Up at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Journey Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Journey Up.
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 ~44% under Journey Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Journey Up on Steam right now. Shares Action with Journey Up.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Journey Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Journey Up.
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 ~44% under Journey Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Journey Up.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Journey Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Journey Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Journey Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Journey Up.
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 Action and Adventure with Journey Up.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Journey Up.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Journey Up.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journey Up.
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 and Simulation with Journey Up.
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 Action and Indie with Journey Up.
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.
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Frequently asked about Journey Up
- Does Journey Up run on Steam Deck?
- Journey Up is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Journey Up cost?
- Journey Up is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Journey Up have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Journey Up supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Journey Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Journey Up are Unification, Firefighters Together, Outta Hand.
- Who developed Journey Up?
- Journey Up was developed by Mechabit.
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 Up.
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