Games Like Journey

From the art director of Journey®, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant hidden world bursting with color and life as you descend into the heart of the ocean. But beware as you swim deeper as dangers lurk in the depths.

Why similar: Beautiful 33.3% ★, Great Soundtrack 20.4%, Relaxing 14%, Atmospheric 11%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers Journey's meditative, wordless sense of wonder through a beautiful underwater pilgrimage with soaring movement and an expressive soundtrack.

A breathtaking open-world adventure awaits! Explore magical realms, restore lost light, and form wordless bonds with players worldwide. Complete quests and solve puzzles in seasonal events that celebrate kindness, discovery, and heartfelt connection.

Why similar: Atmospheric 23.5%, Exploration 21%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Adventure 13.3%, Family Friendly 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Made by Journey's studio, it expands the same gentle social connection, flying, exploration, and emotional visual storytelling into an ongoing shared world.

Experience award-winning Flower, now available on PC. Flower lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments.

Why similar: Relaxing 27.3%, Atmospheric 21.6%, Exploration 16.3%, Adventure 11.8%, Family Friendly 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Another thatgamecompany game, it offers a serene, music-led journey built around effortless movement through lush, dreamlike landscapes.

A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.4%, Atmospheric 16.4%, Exploration 15.3%, Adventure 11.1%, Relaxing 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: RiME pairs lonely island exploration, ancient ruins, light puzzle solving, and a moving wordless narrative with the same melancholic sense of discovery.

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.

Why similar: Beautiful 65.8% ★, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Relaxing 3.5%, Adventure 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its gorgeous visual evolution, emotional score, and nearly wordless tale make it an ideal choice for Journey players seeking a compact artistic experience.

From the creators of What Remains of Edith Finch. Enter the surreal world of The Unfinished Swan and explore a mysterious, hidden kingdom by splatting paint to reveal the world around you.

Why similar: Beautiful 30.1% ★, Exploration 13.5%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, Adventure 8.9%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: From the creators of Journey, this imaginative first-person fable uses exploration and visual discovery to tell an emotional story with minimal conventional structure.

Enjoy meditative vibes in Jusant, an action-puzzle climbing game. Scale an immeasurably tall tower and ascend to new heights alongside your watery companion. Master your climbing tools, find your way up through diverse biomes, and piece together the tower’s past.

Why similar: Relaxing 27.4%, Atmospheric 26.3%, Exploration 22.7%, Adventure 14.4%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This quiet climbing pilgrimage emphasizes tactile traversal, ancient environmental storytelling, and awe-inspiring landscapes without overwhelming the player with exposition.

From the creators of ABZÛ, The Pathless is the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. Become the Hunter, a master of archery who travels to a mystical island to dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world.

Why similar: Music 24.2%, Atmospheric 17.8%, Exploration 17.2%, Adventure 11.2%, Family Friendly 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its vast mythic ruins, painterly vistas, soaring eagle traversal, and minimal dialogue create a more action-oriented but similarly spiritual adventure.

Transform into a bird and fly to explore and experience a vibrant world of floating islands in the sky. Venture down into lost ancient ruins where each step leads you closer to the end of the world.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.4%, Relaxing 17.7%, Exploration 17.5%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Adventure 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Freely transforming into a bird to explore floating islands gives it the airy freedom and peaceful exploration that make Journey so memorable.

A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.

Why similar: Relaxing 24.3%, Atmospheric 20.8%, Exploration 19.5%, Adventure 12.6%, Stylized 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: OMNO is a calm, colorful, largely wordless trek through fantastical biomes, centered on wonder, gentle puzzles, and a wistful tone.

A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a son reconnecting with his estranged father in Alaska. Uncover artifacts from the son's life as he becomes intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 19.8%, Walking Simulator 19.8%, Atmospheric 16.7%, Relaxing 12.2%, Exploration 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its fox-centered journey through symbolic landscapes tells a simple emotional story through exploration, music, and atmosphere rather than complex mechanics.

Embark on an unique and unforgettable journey and guide Sable through her Gliding; a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and mesmerizing landscapes, capped by the remains of spaceships and ancient wonders.

Why similar: Atmospheric 23.9%, Relaxing 22.5%, Exploration 20.9%, Adventure 12.9%, Stylized 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its expansive desert, striking minimal art, gliding hoverbike travel, and contemplative coming-of-age premise closely echo Journey's nomadic feeling.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Why similar: Beautiful 37.5% ★, Great Soundtrack 16.5%, Relaxing 13.5%, Exploration 11.4%, Adventure 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Though more playful and cheerful, its open-ended climb, gliding, and rewarding conversations preserve Journey's joy of moving through a compact world.

A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Atmospheric 19.9%, Relaxing 18.8%, Exploration 16%, Adventure 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its fluid gravity-based movement and enormous otherworldly vistas provide a mesmerizing sense of momentum and solitary cosmic travel.

Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Relaxing 17.9%, Atmospheric 16.8%, Exploration 14.6%, Adventure 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Exploring beautiful landscapes through different animal forms creates a gentle, dialogue-light adventure driven by memory, nature, and emotional revelation.

In a ruined desert, a strange golden dust transforms a free-spirited bird into a determined young child, setting off a chain of events that will reshape the world itself.

Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Exploration 26.5%, Indie 21.3%, Casual 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal desert adventure captures Journey's mysterious ruins and solitary atmosphere while letting you transform into a bird to glide through its world.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Beautiful 41.3% ★, Great Soundtrack 22.3%, Exploration 11.4%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Adventure 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its solar system rewards curiosity and environmental observation with profound discoveries, offering a deeper and more puzzle-driven version of Journey's exploratory wonder.

Spirit of the North is a single-player 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. Play as an ordinary red fox whose story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.4%, Atmospheric 17.3%, Relaxing 15.8%, Exploration 14.6%, Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This quiet fox-led exploration game uses Nordic landscapes, environmental puzzles, and almost no dialogue to create a peaceful, mystical journey.

Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

Why similar: Relaxing 28.4%, Beautiful 22.1% ★, Exploration 17%, Adventure 13%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its elegant impossible architecture, gentle puzzles, and tranquil presentation offer a concise, visually poetic adventure.

Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.

Why similar: Beautiful 44.1% ★, Atmospheric 15.9%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Adventure 12.2%, Story Rich 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A largely wordless fantasy quest with beautiful environments and a powerful emotional conclusion, built around a distinctive cooperative control mechanic.

Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.

Why similar: Beautiful 33.7% ★, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Relaxing 13.5%, Exploration 12.4%, Great Soundtrack 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Proteus is a peaceful audiovisual walk through shifting natural islands where discovery and sound matter more than objectives or dialogue.

A serene first person exploration game in a surreal, organic world that reacts to your presence. Journey through a psychedelically colorful ecosystem of flourishing flora, rambling waterfalls, burgeoning mountains, glowing monoliths and graceful creatures. A 1-3 hour escape from work, anxiety and stress.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.7%, Walking Simulator 19.6%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Relaxing 13%, Exploration 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This abstract exploration experience is built around wandering through serene procedural landscapes that bloom into existence as you travel.

The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

Why similar: Relaxing 26.6%, Atmospheric 24.8%, Adventure 16.5%, Family Friendly 9.5%, Story Rich 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its gentle puzzles, lonely landscapes, and compassionate theme of guiding lost souls create an intimate, melancholic adventure.

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Atmospheric 34.6%, Exploration 24.1%, Adventure 17.1%, Story Rich 8.9%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Piloting a ramshackle landship across a desolate world creates a focused, atmospheric pilgrimage with environmental storytelling and a strong emotional payoff.

Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.

Why similar: Relaxing 16.8%, Narrative 14.3% ★, Atmospheric 13.9%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Exploration 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A contemplative cycling road trip through a beautiful world, it emphasizes observation, memory, music, and the feeling of passing through a vanishing place.

Guide a flock of birds on a playful journey across the sky.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34%, Adventure 30.4%, Indie 19.3%, Relaxing 13.6%, Casual 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Guiding flocks of birds across open skies makes for a brief, tranquil experience centered on movement, music, and visual calm.

From the creators of the award-winning Hyper Light Drifter comes the high-speed and gravity-bending world of Solar Ash.

Why similar: Exploration 34.2%, Atmospheric 29.5%, Adventure 26.8%, 3D 6.1%, Story Rich 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its stylish surreal worlds and exceptionally fluid skating traversal provide the exhilarating movement and visual spectacle that Journey fans may enjoy.

Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.

Why similar: Relaxing 30%, Exploration 24.5%, Adventure 12.3%, Story Rich 9.9%, Family Friendly 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This emotional platforming journey uses changing environments, music, and symbolic memories to tell a heartfelt story with little need for dialogue.

Create your own paths combining the different elements available in this uniquely crafted world. Immerse yourself in a relaxing experience where your actions shape not only your surroundings but also your fate.

Why similar: Beautiful 47.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 16.7%, Adventure 8.5%, Relaxing 8%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful desert ruins, light puzzles, and emphasis on a solitary spiritual trek make it one of the closest smaller-scale Journey-like adventures.

Play the critically acclaimed masterpiece. Embark on a new journey in a vast, exotic world where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to unravel Ori’s destiny.

Why similar: Beautiful 66% ★, Great Soundtrack 18.3%, Atmospheric 5.2%, Exploration 3.9%, Adventure 3.2%

Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure that takes you deep into our planet’s beating blue heart. Explore the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that exists within the world’s ocean.

Why similar: Exploration 27.6%, Great Soundtrack 19.7%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 9.9%, Atmospheric 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This relaxing ocean exploration game trades desert sands for deep-sea diving while retaining ABZU-like aquatic beauty, calm pacing, and environmental wonder.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Great Soundtrack 19.3%, Atmospheric 16.3%, Exploration 9.9%, Story Rich 8.7%

Journey into the forgotten world of Helix, where ancient powers awaken within you. Unlock and combine embodied abilities to unravel the mysteries of a lost civilization. Descend into a tale that will challenge your mind and soul, solving intricate puzzles as you ascend to the light of a new day.

Why similar: Beautiful 44.6% ★, Great Soundtrack 15.2%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Adventure 9.2%, Exploration 8%

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Great Soundtrack 19.7%, Atmospheric 17%, Exploration 10.4%, Adventure 9.6%

Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.

Why similar: Beautiful 57.3% ★, Atmospheric 10%, Great Soundtrack 9.7%, Adventure 7.3%, Walking Simulator 7.1%

You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Visit cities, scale summits, unearth mysteries, and discover forgotten places!

Why similar: Beautiful 49.4% ★, Great Soundtrack 12.8%, Relaxing 9.5%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Exploration 7.7%

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.8%, Beautiful 20.9% ★, Atmospheric 18.6%, Adventure 7.2%, Story Rich 4.3%

CRYNEGINE Indie Game of 2017. Featuring an incredibly detailed ancient world and a breathtaking soundtrack, Aporia: Beyond the Valley takes open world storytelling to new heights of adventure.

Why similar: Beautiful 28.3% ★, Adventure 14.9%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Great Soundtrack 12.5%, Atmospheric 11.1%

From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.

Why similar: Beautiful 39.3% ★, Exploration 12.9%, Adventure 12.8%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Great Soundtrack 9.6%

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 58.3%, Atmospheric 18.6%, Adventure 8.2%, Exploration 5.1%, Story Rich 5%

In Drizzlepath you are set on a journey to the top of the Mountain of Fire. It aims to be an atmospheric, relaxed and enigmatic experience. Downloadable soundtrack included.

Why similar: Beautiful 27.7% ★, Great Soundtrack 18.3%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Relaxing 8.7%, Atmospheric 8%

Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.

Why similar: Beautiful 39.9% ★, Atmospheric 13.7%, Great Soundtrack 12.6%, Co-op 11%, Adventure 10.2%

Sono is a 2D exploration game where players effortlessly glide through an abstract microcosm collecting lost fragments of sound.

Why similar: Beautiful 56.8% ★, Relaxing 9.8%, Adventure 7.8%, Atmospheric 7%, Exploration 6.9%

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

Why similar: Beautiful 64.6% ★, Atmospheric 12.2%, Exploration 9.4%, Adventure 7.8%, Mystery 2.5%

A mysterious trip to gorgeous and surreal lands, players explore the unknown and harness mystical powers which have been hidden in the valley for centuries.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.8%, Adventure 20.8%, Exploration 15.4%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Indie 11.3%

Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.4%, Walking Simulator 20.6%, Adventure 15.1%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Story Rich 6%

Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.

Why similar: Beautiful 24.4% ★, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Relaxing 12.4%, Exploration 11.4%, Atmospheric 9.2%

Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Exploration 15%, Relaxing 13.2%, Atmospheric 10.4%

A serene first-person 3D platformer where you use a magical rope to traverse the body of a dormant ancient colossus in order to heal its wounds and awaken it once again. Embark on a relaxing journey of melancholy to rekindle one of nature's long-lost wonders.

Why similar: Beautiful 49.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 17.4%, Adventure 10.7%, Atmospheric 6.8%, Indie 6.5%

Run, climb and glide your way through a dark Nordic forest and explore its living, breathing ecosystem filled with secrets and mystical creatures. Become Fe and discover a world that you will never want to leave.

Why similar: Beautiful 56.2% ★, Atmospheric 21.6%, Adventure 11.1%, Exploration 5.3%, Multiplayer 4%

Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.9%, Great Soundtrack 29.7%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Exploration 6.4%, Adventure 5.3%

The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 21.2%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Relaxing 13%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Exploration 7.7%

Feather is a multiplayer game about exploration, relaxation and immersion. Transform yourself into a bird, take flight, and enjoy a zen-like, picturesque landscape on your own terms. Swoop, glide, and backflip your way around mysterious locations to uncover hidden paths that only birds can follow!

Why similar: Relaxing 16%, Exploration 14.9%, Co-op 12.5%, Music 11.3%, Atmospheric 11.1%

A surreal first person walking sim about the end of humanity. Explore magnificent sky-bound ruins, and learn why they were built.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.2%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Great Soundtrack 11.2%, Adventure 10%, Relaxing 9.8%

Fancy a relaxing drift through magical waters? Enjoy this seafaring voyage in search of the sunset!

Why similar: Beautiful 48.6% ★, Great Soundtrack 12.4%, Relaxing 10.1%, Music 8.6%, Atmospheric 5.5%

I Am Dead is a charming puzzle adventure game from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot’s Warehouse about exploring the afterlife.

Why similar: Beautiful 33.9% ★, Adventure 13%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Narrative 8.9% ★, Indie 7.9%

Take on the role of a curious flying kite-like being and travel to colorful, curious worlds waiting to be discovered.

Why similar: Exploration 29.2%, Adventure 28.3%, Relaxing 21.8%, Family Friendly 8.8%, Indie 6.6%

Explore an unknown and abandoned world. Each step, each puzzle, brings you closer to discovering the history and secrets of a lost civilization. Can you find the light?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24%, Walking Simulator 20.3%, Relaxing 14.3%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Exploration 8.4%

Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.

Why similar: Beautiful 62.4% ★, Great Soundtrack 10.2%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Adventure 3.6%, Indie 3.4%