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Games like The Journey: Bob's Story

If The Journey: Bob's Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Save The Queen, Dooblets and Water: Transformer — 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 The Journey: Bob's Story: The Journey: Bob's Story is an Exploration, Atmospheric and puzzle 2D platformer. Play as Bob, who goes on an adventure to find his best friend Neibag who left the village with a group of explorers through villages secret cave.

2017IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDWindowsby Tomas Gonzalez, Martin Pilaszek
The Journey: Bob's Story — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Journey: Bob's Story also play

Steam players who put hours into The Journey: Bob's Story 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. Save The Queen

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Journey: Bob's Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    In this short but very fun game, you have to do parkour in a dungeon to save the queen who was taken by the big bad guy but watch out for the dangerous lava that sends you back to the beginning no matter where you are. Hope to see you in paradise.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Dooblets

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Journey: Bob's Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    This adventure supports 2 - 4 players! Play through 4 unique worlds filled with challenges and puzzles with your friends!

    2024IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Water: Transformer

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Journey: Bob's Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    This is a platform jumping game, you can obtain different abilities by transforming between solid, liquid, and steam three forms, thus crossing obstacles and solving puzzles. The workshop allows you design and share their own created maps with the players all around the world.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Creaks

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Journey: Bob's Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Girl Blonde

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Journey: Bob's Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    Girl Blonde - It's a nice 3D platformer with a side view. In it you have to play for a girl-blonde and gather fruits, vegetables and other sweets! That would pass the level you must collect a certain number of items, but it is not easy to do because you will interfere with obstacles.

    2017IndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Semblance

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Journey: Bob's Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Hamilton's Great Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Journey: Bob's Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    All new DLC, Retro Fever, Now Available!

    2011IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TurnOn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Journey: Bob's Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    "TurnOn" tells the spellbinding tale of a brave alien creature and its striking journey through blackout world, in an incredibly colorful and detailed platformer without platforms.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Journey: Bob's Story at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Journey: Bob's Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Journey: Bob's Story on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Journey: Bob's Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Journey: Bob's Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Journey: Bob's Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Journey: Bob's Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Journey: Bob's Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Journey: Bob's Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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: Bob's Story.

    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 ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    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 ↗
  3. 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: Bob's Story.

    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 ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Creaks

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Semblance

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Hamilton's Great Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Journey: Bob's Story.

    All new DLC, Retro Fever, Now Available!

    2011IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Journey: Bob's Story

How much does The Journey: Bob's Story cost?
The Journey: Bob's Story is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Journey: Bob's Story?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Journey: Bob's Story are Save The Queen, Dooblets, Water: Transformer.
Who developed The Journey: Bob's Story?
The Journey: Bob's Story was developed by Tomas Gonzalez, Martin Pilaszek and published by Tomas Gonzalez.

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: Bob's Story.

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