Journey similar games & best alternatives

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Journey

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One • 2020

Should you play it?

Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.

What works

  • Beautiful art and music
  • Unique anonymous co-op
  • Emotional and immersive experience
  • Exploration and discovery
  • Short and replayable

Things to keep in mind

  • Very short gameplay length
  • Limited communication options
  • Some technical issues in pc port
  • Lack of traditional gameplay depth
  • Low player population at times

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Voyagers of Nera

  • Child of Light

  • Trine 2: Complete Story

  • Greak: Memories of Azur

  • Aloft

  • Haven

More violent

Games that feels like Journey but with more combat and destruction

  • FlyKnight

  • Obama

  • The Last Hero of Nostalgaia

  • REANIMAL

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen

Less social

Games that feels like Journey but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Oxenfree

  • Omno

  • Sword of the Sea

  • The Last Campfire

  • Radiolight

  • Sable

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • SPORE™ Galactic Adventures

  • The Sims™ 4

  • The Sims

  • The Sims™ Legacy Collection

  • Realms of Magic

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Journey. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Journey. These titles are not in What to play next.

Journey: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Competition.

Last update: 21/08/2026