Games like Dark Journey to the West
If Dark Journey to the West is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bones and Coins, Path of Idle: Old Gods Rising and Orbsmith — 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 Dark Journey to the West: A dark-themed idle loot game. Gather and train minions and artifacts with distinct abilities — then pit your builds against legendary bosses. Lead your monster squad through the Heavenly Palace, the Underworld, the sacred mountains, and beyond, all in search of the true scriptures.
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Bones and Coins
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Top pick for Dark Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dark Journey to the West.
An incremental auto battler dungeon crawler where you build a synergized hero party to slay enemies and loot items. Unlock weapons with unique attack styles. Gear up your hero team and explore new dungeon rooms filled with enemies and legendary drops.
Path of Idle: Old Gods Rising
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Second-strongest match for Dark Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Journey to the West.
A Lovecraftian idle RPG with auto-battles, loot farming, chests, team strategy, town building, gear crafting, Runewords, stages, towers, realms, and seasons. Serve the Old Gods, build your town, corrupt the chosen, and fight for their awakening!
Orbsmith
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Third-strongest match for Dark Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Journey to the West.
Your weapons fight. You forge the legend. Orbsmith is an idle auto-battler where you gamble magic orbs to craft god-roll gear, chase impossible rolls, and let your build do the killing. One more orb. One more run. One more legend.
LazyLegions
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Ranked #4 for Dark Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Journey to the West.
Desktop idle loot-grinder RPG, now with online co-op. Auto-battle rains down gear from Common to Mythic. Idle with up to 8 friends, chat while you farm, and roll the dice for the rarest drops. Leave it running, glance back — your squad has ascended into gods.
Camp & Conquer
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Ranked #5 for Dark Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Journey to the West.
A fantasy idle RPG. Manage your camp, recruit heroes, and let auto-battles fight for you. Farm gear and materials from every fight, then strengthen, enchant, and customize affixes to forge your own powerful equipment as you conquer the frontier stage by stage!
Absolute Legend
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Ranked #6 for Dark Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Journey to the West.
本游戏是一个自动化的挂机刷宝放置游戏，支持装备属性范围，随机词条，强化，升阶，附魔！你需要在11个角色中组建一个3人小队，探索各种主题的挑战刷取装备，强化自己。直至打倒最终的敌人。
Idle Demon Lord
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Ranked #7 for Dark Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Journey to the West.
【Idle Demon Lord】 is a dark idle loot game. Leave it running to farm endless drops — 6 rarities, gems, runes, relics, legendary affixes and sets. Craft hundreds of builds via skill trees. Online, offline and ascension loops. Codex, trials, pets, dailies. Pure number-go-up bliss
Touhou Infinite Nocturne
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Ranked #8 for Dark Journey to the West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Journey to the West.
"Touhou Infinite Nocturne"is a role-playing Touhou fan game.A terrible crisis has swept through the whole Gensokyo.Someone must stop this...! Assemble a team brave enough to traverse darkness,defeat enemies,uncover the truth behind this incident.May the Gensokyo finally embrace the dawn...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Journey to the West.
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?
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 Dark Journey to the West.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Journey to the West.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Journey to the West.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Journey to the West.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Journey to the West.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Journey to the West.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Journey to the West.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Frequently asked about Dark Journey to the West
- What games are most similar to Dark Journey to the West?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Journey to the West are Bones and Coins, Path of Idle: Old Gods Rising, Orbsmith.
- Who developed Dark Journey to the West?
- Dark Journey to the West was developed by QingHe Games.
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 Dark Journey to the West.
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