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Locked Door Puzzle · 2014 · 78 % positive of 350

24 games that play like Journal and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Leila, Lost Words: Beyond the Page and Dordogne.

Player tags

  • Indie
  • Adventure
  • Female Protagonist
  • Hand-drawn
  • Walking Simulator
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Casual
  • Visual Novel

At a glance

What games like Journal have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Journal: Female Protagonist (18 of 24), Hand-drawn (14) and Visual Novel (7).
  • They came out between 2011 and 2025, 22 of them after Journal (2014).
  • Best rated by Steam players: GRIS (96 % positive of 83,448).
  • 5 games both play and look like Journal, among them Lost Words: Beyond the Page, looK INside - Chapter 1 and Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery.

By gameplay

Plays like Journal

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Matsuro Palette98 % positive of 194Shared: Hand-drawn · Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel
  2. Marie's Room93 % positive of 6,463Shared: Female Protagonist · Walking Simulator · Short
  3. Trauma68 % positive of 681Shared: Female Protagonist · Short · Point & Click
  4. The Star Named EOS96 % positive of 456Shared: Hand-drawn · Interactive Fiction · Short
  5. Inked: A Tale of Love84 % positive of 233Shared: Hand-drawn · Story Rich · Indie
  6. My Dream is a Lost Memory91 % positive of 224Shared: Hand-drawn · Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel
  7. SELF77 % positive of 261Shared: Story Rich · Indie · Adventure
  8. Epiphany City90 % positive of 257Shared: Female Protagonist · Hand-drawn · Visual Novel
  9. Hazy Mind87 % positive of 248Shared: Female Protagonist · Visual Novel · Story Rich
  10. Lilly Looking Through74 % positive of 697Shared: Female Protagonist · Short · Point & Click
  11. GRIS96 % positive of 83,448Shared: Female Protagonist · Hand-drawn · Walking Simulator
  12. 10373 % positive of 194Shared: Female Protagonist · Walking Simulator · Story Rich

By look

Looks like Journal

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. DAEMON MASQUERADE98 % positive of 164
  2. it's always monday78 % positive of 289
  3. Epics of Distant Realm: Holy Return84 % positive of 202
  4. Prison Boss VR86 % positive of 356
  5. Whateverland88 % positive of 159
  6. Fly in the House53 % positive of 192
  7. My Child Lebensborn Remastered96 % positive of 948
  8. Lost Words: Beyond the Page94 % positive of 766
  9. looK INside - Chapter 189 % positive of 413
  10. Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery94 % positive of 6,910
  11. The Star Named EOS96 % positive of 456
  12. Methods: The Detective Competition91 % positive of 604

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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