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 32.9% ★, Great Soundtrack 20%, Relaxing 14.5%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This captures Journey's flow, visual wonder, and music-led serenity almost perfectly, just translated into a stunning underwater world.

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 23.4%, Exploration 20.9%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Adventure 12.8%, Stylized 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the clearest follow-up to Journey, built around graceful gliding, quiet multiplayer encounters, and a similarly uplifting sense of shared pilgrimage.

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 27.6%, Atmospheric 21.6%, Exploration 16.3%, Adventure 11.3%, Family Friendly 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: From the same studio lineage, it offers the same meditative movement and emotional atmosphere through simple, beautiful traversal.

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 65.7% ★, Great Soundtrack 14.7%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Relaxing 3.6%, Adventure 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like Journey, it uses minimal dialogue, evocative art, and a powerful score to tell an emotional story through elegant movement.

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 34.7%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Exploration 15.5%, Adventure 10.9%, Relaxing 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely ruins, environmental storytelling, and bittersweet sense of discovery strongly echo Journey's emotional adventure structure.

On the moon Europa, a lush terraformed paradise in Jupiter’s shadow, an android named Zee sets out in search of answers. Run, glide and fly across the landscape, solve mysteries in the ruins of a fallen utopia, and discover the story of the last human alive.

Why similar: Atmospheric 24.2%, Exploration 23.9%, Adventure 15.4%, Stylized 9.5%, Family Friendly 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its gentle gliding, expansive ruins, and peaceful exploratory tone make it one of the closest modern matches to Journey's feel.

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 21.9%, Relaxing 18.2%, Exploration 17.6%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Adventure 13%

Why You'll Like It: Its airy exploration and freeform flying through ancient fragmented landscapes scratch the same serene traversal itch as Journey.

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 22.9%, Exploration 20.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Stylized 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Journey was wandering beautiful desert spaces at your own pace, Sable delivers that in a larger open-ended form.

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 24.1%, Atmospheric 17.7%, Exploration 17.1%, Adventure 10.8%, Family Friendly 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Journey's exhilaration of movement across vast mystical landscapes, with an equally strong audiovisual sense of wonder.

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 28%, Atmospheric 26.2%, Exploration 22.6%, Adventure 13.9%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is another quiet, almost meditative ascent through a ruined world where traversal itself carries the emotional weight.

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

Why similar: Relaxing 24.7%, Atmospheric 20.7%, Exploration 19.3%, Adventure 12.2%, Stylized 8%

Why You'll Like It: It channels Journey's calm pacing and spiritual, solitary exploration with light puzzles and wonderfully fluid movement.

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 29.9% ★, Exploration 13.6%, Walking Simulator 11.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Great Soundtrack 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist storytelling and wonder-driven exploration make it a good pick if you loved Journey's sense of unfolding mystery.

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 37.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Relaxing 14%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter and cuter take on peaceful exploration, but it nails the same joyful freedom of movement and gentle discovery.

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 22.6%, Relaxing 18.1%, Atmospheric 16.8%, Exploration 14.5%, Adventure 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its word-light storytelling, gorgeous natural spaces, and contemplative tone make it a strong fit for Journey fans.

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: Beautiful 33.6% ★, Adventure 11.8%, Great Soundtrack 10.7%, Relaxing 9.8%, Walking Simulator 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is another mostly wordless, atmospheric journey through striking environments with a strong spiritual undercurrent.

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 41.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 21.8%, Exploration 11.6%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Adventure 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more systems-heavy, it matches Journey's sense of awe, ancient mystery, and solitary exploration better than almost any game.

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 55.8% ★, Atmospheric 21.9%, Adventure 10.9%, Exploration 5.4%, Multiplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its dialogue-free world, expressive traversal, and dreamy forests create a similarly immersive and mystical sense of place.

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 47.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 12.7%, Relaxing 8.9%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Exploration 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like Journey, it emphasizes immersion, scenery, and calm exploration over combat, just with more NPC interaction and quests.

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 30.5%, Exploration 24.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Story Rich 9.7%, Family Friendly 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same emotionally driven, visually expressive adventure feeling, with movement and scenery doing much of the storytelling.

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% ★, Atmospheric 16.2%, Great Soundtrack 12.7%, Adventure 12%, Story Rich 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Journey's wordless emotional storytelling and pilgrimage-like structure, even if it is more explicitly narrative.

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

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.7%, Atmospheric 19.8%, Relaxing 19.1%, Exploration 15.9%, Adventure 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its hypnotic momentum and awe-filled traversal across vast spaces recreate some of Journey's most transcendent movement-driven moments.

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 16.9%, Narrative 14.6% ★, Atmospheric 13.7%, Exploration 13.3%, Walking Simulator 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Though slower and more grounded, it shares Journey's reflective travelogue quality and focus on atmosphere, memory, and landscape.

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 27%, Atmospheric 24.8%, Adventure 15.9%, Family Friendly 9.5%, Story Rich 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs a gentle, melancholic atmosphere with light puzzle exploration in a way that feels emotionally adjacent to Journey.

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 24.1%, Walking Simulator 19.6%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Relaxing 13.4%, Exploration 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly dreamy, low-pressure experience centered on wandering through a beautiful transforming landscape.

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 28.9%, Beautiful 21.7% ★, Exploration 17%, Adventure 12.6%, Atmospheric 7%

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 18.1%, Atmospheric 5.3%, Exploration 4%, Adventure 3.2%

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: Walking Simulator 19.8%, Great Soundtrack 19.3%, Atmospheric 16.8%, Relaxing 12.5%, Exploration 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This offers another short, reflective exploration game that leans on scenery, music, and emotion more than traditional mechanics.

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 16.1%, Exploration 14.8%, Co-op 12.8%, Music 11.1%, Atmospheric 11%

Why You'll Like It: If gliding peacefully through beautiful spaces was your favorite part of Journey, this strips that sensation down to its purest form.

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 24.3%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 9%, Story Rich 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a similar feeling of lonely forward motion through beautiful desolation, with atmosphere carrying the experience.

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% ★, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Relaxing 12.8%, Exploration 11.4%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its combat-free exploration of a hauntingly beautiful ruined world makes it a natural pick for players who loved Journey's tranquility.

Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.

Why similar: Atmospheric 26.4%, Great Soundtrack 24.2%, Co-op 15.2%, Adventure 12.2%, Indie 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative-friendly, culture-rich adventure and understated emotional tone make it a good fit for Journey's quieter strengths.

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 24.2%, Great Soundtrack 19.2%, Atmospheric 17%, Exploration 10.2%, Story Rich 8.9%

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% ★, Exploration 12.9%, Adventure 12.5%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Great Soundtrack 9.4%

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 19.2%, Atmospheric 17.1%, Exploration 10.5%, Adventure 9.4%

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% ★, Great Soundtrack 16.4%, Adventure 8.4%, Relaxing 8.2%, Exploration 6.5%

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 56.4% ★, Atmospheric 10.2%, Great Soundtrack 9.4%, Walking Simulator 7.5%, Adventure 7.5%

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% ★, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Relaxing 13.8%, Exploration 12.5%, Great Soundtrack 7%

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 27.4% ★, Great Soundtrack 17.9%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Relaxing 8.9%, Atmospheric 8.1%

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 26.9% ★, Adventure 15.1%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Atmospheric 11.4%

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 64.4% ★, Atmospheric 12.3%, Exploration 9.6%, Adventure 7.6%, Mystery 2.6%

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

Why similar: Beautiful 56.3% ★, Relaxing 10.1%, Adventure 7.7%, Atmospheric 7.1%, Exploration 6.9%

“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 44.3%, Beautiful 20.8% ★, Atmospheric 19.1%, Adventure 7.1%, Story Rich 4.3%

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 20.3%, Exploration 15.5%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Indie 11.6%

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 40.5% ★, Atmospheric 13.7%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Co-op 11%, Adventure 10.2%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.4%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 20%, Relaxing 14.1%, Casual 2.8%

“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 57.7%, Atmospheric 19%, Adventure 8.2%, Exploration 5.2%, Story Rich 5%

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 34.1%, Great Soundtrack 29.2%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Exploration 6.5%, Adventure 5.2%

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 32.8%, Walking Simulator 20.8%, Adventure 14.9%, Atmospheric 14.7%, Indie 6.1%

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 45.4% ★, Great Soundtrack 15.8%, Adventure 9.8%, Relaxing 7.3%, Atmospheric 6.4%

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 20.6%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Relaxing 13.3%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Exploration 7.7%

Boat, climb, interact and explore in the beautiful ruins of a sunken world.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Relaxing 20.5%, Exploration 17%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Family Friendly 7.4%

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 26.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.8%, Exploration 15.2%, Relaxing 13.6%, Atmospheric 10.2%

Discover illusionary pathways and delightful puzzles as you learn the secrets of The Sacred Geometry. Follow the heart warming story of Ro in her journey through motherhood. Rediscover independence through manipulating monuments and evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

Why similar: Exploration 24.5%, Atmospheric 23.8%, Relaxing 22.1%, Mystery 8.9%, Casual 8.1%

NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Why similar: Beautiful 25% ★, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Exploration 18%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Great Soundtrack 7.9%

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

Why similar: Beautiful 48.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 12.2%, Relaxing 10.5%, Music 8.6%, Atmospheric 5.6%

A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?

Why similar: Beautiful 37.5% ★, Great Soundtrack 19.1%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Walking Simulator 7.1%, Adventure 7%

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 15.2%, Great Soundtrack 11%, Relaxing 10.2%, Adventure 9.8%

Soar through virgin skies and dive into lost oceans as you hunt for the ancient gods of the Inverse, a forsaken realm of inside-out planets. Created by a small team of seven developers and originally funded on Kickstarter, InnerSpace is a bright, colorful exploration flying game with no horizons.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 18.2%, Exploration 16.6%, Relaxing 16.3%, Adventure 10%, Atmospheric 9.5%

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 33.8% ★, Adventure 12.8%, Great Soundtrack 11.3%, Narrative 9.4% ★, Indie 8.1%