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The Journey Down: Chapter One
The Journey Down is a point-and-click series with an Afro-Caribbean twist. Get ready to embark on a journey of exploration, mystery and grave danger - but also a journey of warmth, friendship and love.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Intro - About Find the parts you need for your old airplane for someone to help you get out of debt. This point and click adventure, has comedy and wonderful art and puzzles as you make progress. Play as what I can only assume “Tiki” people or as they call it “Afro-Caribbean…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Quite good, and even better now with the reduced price. I love the graphics, I love the music, and the gameplay is decent classic adventure fair. And the story is quite good, but really seemed to only give you a hint at what you will discover in episode 2.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“The Journey Down is a Point&Click game about Bwana who runs a gas station with his brother Kito, they've been struggling to run their business as they are in debt to the electric company and need to pay 4000 dollars in order to be able to resume their daily job. On that very…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2024-05 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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SkyGoblin has a dev page!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4399148/d19bc38f4aa5a0a091a1a66a7e3b90f1bca02864.png Dear Pointers & Clickers! We have finally put up a Steam dev page for our little
Entire trilogy is finally fully localized!
Heyo! We've finally text-localized the entire Journey Down Trilogy to German! So go find a German person somewhere who's in dire need of Point 'n' Click adventuring goodness. :D Also proud to announce
Entire trilogy is finally fully localized!
Heyo! We've finally text-localized the entire Journey Down Trilogy to German! So go find a German person somewhere who's in dire need of Point 'n' Click adventuring goodness. :D Also proud to announce
Chapter Three OUT NOW!!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/579760/The_Journey_Down_Chapter_Three/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz8e_18so4o The moment has come at last! The third and final chapter of The Journey Down is her
Chapter Three OUT NOW!!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/579760/The_Journey_Down_Chapter_Three/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz8e_18so4o The moment has come at last! The third and final chapter of The Journey Down is her
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Point & Click · Noir · Atmospheric · Indie · Surreal · Colorful · Comedy · Episodic · Fantasy · Linear · Mouse only (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , German * |
| Official site | http://www.thejourneydown.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP SP 2+, Windows Vista, Windows 7 Processor: 1.8 GHz CPU Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Direct X 9.0c compatible video card DirectX®: 9.0c Hard Drive: 1 GB HD space