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Old Man's Journey
Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“An old man receives a letter, and upon reading it, he decides to head out, packing his belongings, and so it starts. This game leads the old man and us through his treasured memories, all in hopes of reaching his destination. We get to see his life in short images from his…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“A short and simple but beautiful wordless tale laced with sentiment. It includes an interesting casual puzzle mechanic that links movement access to manipulable terrain, somewhat like changing visual perspective. Pretty to look at and well supported by the lovely soundtrack, it…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Note that I played the game twice.....once several years ago, and once just last week with the addition of achievements, thus the long play time; in reality it will only take you ~2 hours to finish the game. Old Man's Journey is a charming, tender-hearted puzzle game where you…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Framerate, resolutions, physics & camera fixes
Hey you all! We fixed a few things that were bugging some of you and even caused you getting stuck. Sorry for introducing those in the first place and thanks for the patience! We addressed the followi
Incoming: Achievements and Steam Deck Fully Verified
Hey everyone! We have a new major update for Old Man's Journey. We heard you loud and clear and are finally bringing Achievements to our game. Sorry that it took so long but our latest game Gibbon: Be
A Journey to the Heart Bundle
Hey Everyone! Congratulations to our friends from As I Began to Dream who just released their game! 🎊 We have joined forces with them to present a very special bundle - A Journey to the Heart to you👇
Broken Rules' new game Gibbon: Beyond the Trees out May 18th!
Hello dear Broken Rules followers! In case you haven't seen yet we have something new coming up. Our ecological adventure Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is soon coming to Steam 🥳 Wishlist here! Gibbon: Beyo
Trading Cards added
Hi there! A lot of people have asked us for Trading Cards so Clemens sat down and created some beautiful collectibles including an emoticon of the old man. He even took the time and wrote back stories
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Casual · Indie · Puzzle · Atmospheric · Point & Click · Story Rich · Hand-drawn · Great Soundtrack · 2D · Stylized · Colorful (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Custom Volume Controls · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input · Save Anytime |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, S… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 13 |
| Official site | http://www.oldmansjourney.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP SP2+ Processor: SSE2 instruction set support Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities Storage: 2 GB available space