Games like The Long Journey Home
If The Long Journey Home is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trigon: Space Story, Void War and Deadnaut — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and diplomacy with alien civilizations. 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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Players who liked The Long Journey Home also play
Steam players who put hours into The Long Journey Home 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.
Trigon: Space Story
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Long Journey Home.
Top pick for The Long Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Long Journey Home.
Trigon: Space Story sees you take command of your very own spaceship. Carry out tactical battles, defend your vessel against space pirates, and escape from enemy territory. On your voyages, you’ll face a slew of tricky decisions in your quest to uncover the mystery of the galaxy.
Void War
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Long Journey Home.
Second-strongest match for The Long Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Deadnaut
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Long Journey Home.
Third-strongest match for The Long Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
Duskers
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Long Journey Home.
Ranked #4 for The Long Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
Shortest Trip to Earth
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Long Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Long Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and resource management with The Long Journey Home.
Ranked #7 for The Long Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
Void Tyrant
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with The Long Journey Home.
Ranked #8 for The Long Journey Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Long Journey Home.
Collect an intergalactic bounty of eccentric allies and deadly weapons, explore vibrant planets, and engage in risky turn-based battles to restore the Eyes of Chronos and save the galaxy in this strategic roguelike deckbuilder!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Long Journey Home at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Long Journey Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Journey Home.
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 ~50% under The Long Journey Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Long Journey Home.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Long Journey Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
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 ~50% under The Long Journey Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Long Journey Home.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Long Journey Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Long Journey Home.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Long Journey Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Long Journey Home.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Long Journey Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Journey Home.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Long Journey Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Long Journey Home.
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 with The Long 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.
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 Indie with The Long Journey Home.
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 The Long Journey Home.
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 with The Long 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 and Simulation with The Long 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 with The Long 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.
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Frequently asked about The Long Journey Home
- Is The Long Journey Home verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Long Journey Home 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 The Long Journey Home cost?
- The Long Journey Home is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Long Journey Home?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Long Journey Home are Trigon: Space Story, Void War, Deadnaut.
- Who developed The Long Journey Home?
- The Long Journey Home was developed by Daedalic Studio West and published by Daedalic 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 Long Journey Home.
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