Games like The Longest Journey
If The Longest Journey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, The Book of Unwritten Tales and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its engaging puzzles, memorable characters and rich storytelling. 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 →The Longest Journey is a point-and-click adventure set across two parallel universes, following protagonist April Ryan as she navigates a story rich in both fantasy and science-fiction elements. Released in 2007 by Funcom, the game blends dialogue-driven interaction, puzzle-solving, and world exploration with full voice acting. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive, highlighting engaging puzzles, memorable characters, and rich storytelling as key draws. Reviewers note the quality of the voice acting as a standout feature. The game runs on normal difficulty, offers a long play session suitable for sitting down, and supports solo play only. It holds a 90% positive rating from over 1,300 Steam reviews and is not supported on Steam Deck. It is available for $9.99.
About The Longest Journey: The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
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Steam players who put hours into The Longest Journey 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.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Top pick for The Longest Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Longest Journey.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.
The Book of Unwritten Tales
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Second-strongest match for The Longest Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and puzzle solving with The Longest Journey.
Third-strongest match for The Longest Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
A New Beginning - Final Cut
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Ranked #4 for The Longest Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Ranked #5 for The Longest Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
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Ranked #6 for The Longest Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Ranked #7 for The Longest Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
Lumino City
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Ranked #8 for The Longest Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
The BAFTA award winning handmade puzzle adventure game made entirely by hand. Explore the city and use your ingenuity to piece together puzzling mechanisms and bring back power to this unique world. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.
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Sea of Stars
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Reviewers of The Longest Journey cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Longest Journey.
Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.
Persona 5 Royal
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Reviewers of The Longest Journey cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Longest Journey.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
Metaphor: ReFantazio
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Reviewers of The Longest Journey cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
After his assassination, the will of the late king decrees the next monarch to be elected by the people. Forge bonds and win over a kingdom divided in this award-winning fantasy RPG with turn-based and action combat, party customization with powerful Archetypes, and hours of exploration.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Longest Journey at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under The Longest Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with The Longest Journey.
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 ~55% under The Longest Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Longest Journey.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Longest Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
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 ~70% under The Longest Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Longest Journey.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under The Longest Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with The Longest Journey.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under The Longest Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Longest Journey.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Longest Journey on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Longest Journey on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Longest Journey.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 The Longest Journey.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Longest Journey.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with The Longest Journey.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Longest Journey.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Funcom, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Conan Exiles
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Another title from Funcom, the studio behind The Longest Journey. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind The Longest Journey. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Secret World Legends
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind The Longest Journey. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.
The Park®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind The Longest Journey. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Longest Journey.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind The Longest Journey. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Longest Journey.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.
Hide and Shriek
WHY THIS
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind The Longest Journey. Shares Action with The Longest Journey.
Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!
Age of Conan: Unchained
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Longest Journey.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind The Longest Journey. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest fantasy hero of all time, and explore the vast reaches of Hyboria.
Anarchy Online
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Longest Journey.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind The Longest Journey. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Anarchy Online – the first ever science fiction MMO – is now on Steam! Compete and cooperate with thousands of players simultaneously on a vast, alien world. Join humanity nearly 30,000 years in the future in a world of perpetual conflict and scientific marvel.
Frequently asked about The Longest Journey
- Does The Longest Journey work on Steam Deck?
- The Longest Journey is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The Longest Journey cost?
- The Longest Journey is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Longest Journey?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Longest Journey are Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
- Who developed The Longest Journey?
- The Longest Journey was developed by Funcom.
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