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The Journey Back

Erwin Wolf · MarWin Studios · 2015-08-12

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 12, 2015 (Mac), Aug 12, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 12, 2015 (Linux)

The Journey Back is a first person exploration experience. You gain consciousness after being involved in a car crash. Explore a colorful, stylized 3d world, solve puzzles and find out what happened along the way.

The Journey Back is a 2015 Adventure, Casual, Indie title priced at $2.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (59% of 34 reviews).

0
playing now
59%
positive of 34 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2019-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820152026Week of 2015-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.792015-08-132026-03-262015-08-13 — best price $1.992016-07-04 — best price $1.992017-07-05 — best price $1.992017-11-28 — best price $1.992018-01-04 — best price $1.992018-02-19 — best price $1.992018-07-05 — best price $1.992018-11-27 — best price $1.992019-01-03 — best price $1.992019-02-12 — best price $1.992019-07-10 — best price $1.992019-11-01 — best price $1.992019-12-03 — best price $1.992020-01-02 — best price $1.992020-07-09 — best price $1.992021-05-02 — best price $1.492021-06-24 — best price $1.492021-10-28 — best price $1.342021-11-24 — best price $1.342021-12-22 — best price $1.342022-01-27 — best price $1.342022-06-23 — best price $1.192022-11-22 — best price $1.492022-12-22 — best price $1.192023-03-16 — best price $1.492023-06-29 — best price $1.492023-12-21 — best price $2.092025-12-18 — best price $1.492026-03-19 — best price $1.492026-03-26 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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3 supported languages: English, Dutch, German

Player tags

3DIndieActionCasualPuzzleMysterySurrealRelaxingStylizedAdventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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