The Longest Journey similar games & best alternatives

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The Longest Journey

PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS • 2007

Should you play it?

The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.

What works

  • Engaging and rich story
  • Memorable characters and voice acting
  • Deep exploration of two contrasting worlds
  • Challenging and logical puzzles
  • Long playtime with replay value

Things to keep in mind

  • Dated graphics and animations
  • Some obtuse puzzle design
  • Slow pacing and walking speed
  • Lack of modern ui conveniences
  • Technical issues on modern systems without mods

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Foolish Mortals

  • Grim Fandango Remastered

  • Planet of Lana II

  • Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse

  • Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition

  • An English Haunting

More expressive

Games that feels like The Longest Journey but with more self-expression and customization

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

  • Whispers of a Machine

  • Beyond Good & Evil - 20th Anniversary Edition

  • Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

  • Yesterday Origins

  • The Norwood Suite

More intimate

Games that feels like The Longest Journey but with more focus on close relationships

  • Syberia: The World Before

  • Old Skies

  • The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

  • The Dark Eye: Memoria

  • King's Quest

  • Gray Matter

More violent

Games that feels like The Longest Journey but with more combat and destruction

  • Still Life

  • Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered

  • Alone in the Dark

  • In Sound Mind

  • GYLT

  • Gemini Rue

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

  • Hide and Shriek

  • Anarchy Online

  • Dune: Awakening

  • Conan Exiles Enhanced

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with The Longest 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 The Longest Journey. These titles are not in What to play next.

The Longest Journey: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026