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Games like Ghost Hunting Journal

If Ghost Hunting Journal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gluck, Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi and Big Ear Detective — 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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About Ghost Hunting Journal: Ghost Hunting Journal is an anime-style narrative adventure game. The duo partners of self-proclaimed "Spirit Agent" accept various supernatural commissions, use a full set of ghost-hunting techniques to tackle urban myths caused by lingering ghosts in the city of Riverrun.

IndieAdventureRPGWindowsby 麻辣工作室 Spicy Games
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Steam players who put hours into Ghost Hunting Journal 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.

  1. Gluck

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Ghost Hunting Journal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    A short 2D excavation adventure game set in a mining company.

    2023IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Ghost Hunting Journal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    Four students find themselves trapped in the restroom of an abandoned school; the door is locked. Without a way of escaping, they can only cling to their remaining shreds of hope or come face to face with their inevitable ruin.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Big Ear Detective

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Ghost Hunting Journal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Weirdo

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Ghost Hunting Journal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG4.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Dark Prophecy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Ghost Hunting Journal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    The Dark Prophecy is a 2D pixel-art Point&Click adventure inspired by the best retro games of the 90s. Welcome to a peaceful medieval village, where life is safe and calm. But one fateful night, everything changes.

    2022IndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Ghost Hunting Journal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?

    2019IndieAdventureCasual15.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Murder Is Game Over

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Ghost Hunting Journal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?

    2022IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Earth Must Die

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Ghost Hunting Journal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.

    2026AdventureRPG15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Hunting Journal.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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 Ghost Hunting Journal.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Ghost Hunting Journal.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ghost Hunting Journal

What games are most similar to Ghost Hunting Journal?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ghost Hunting Journal are Gluck, Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi, Big Ear Detective.
Who developed Ghost Hunting Journal?
Ghost Hunting Journal was developed by 麻辣工作室 Spicy Games and published by Okasan's Recipe.

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 Ghost Hunting Journal.

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