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AWAY: Journey to the Unexpected
Developer Aurelien Regard Games
Away: Journey to the Unexpected is a 2019 action-adventure video game developed by Aurélien Regard Games and published by Dear Villagers. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
205 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
54
Mixed
75 positive · 64 negative
95% range 46–62%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 75 | 64 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 1 | 0 | 64 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
80 of 147 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
At a glance
AWAY: Journey to the Unexpected is a 2019 adventure indie video game, from Aurelien Regard Games.
- 201 people have posted about this game on Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon
- posts span Feb 13, 2019 to Nov 4, 2026
- 54% of 139 Steam reviewers recommend it (their own thumbs)
- Steam reviewers had played a median of 4 h when they wrote
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AWAY: Journey to the Unexpected sits at 54% positive across 139 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
On Metacritic, Away: Journey to the Unexpected received mixed reviews for all platforms except for the PlayStation 4, which received unfavorable reviews. Reviews praised the art style but criticized the dialogue system, combat, and level design. Nintendo World Report praised the unique aspects of the art and gameplay but said the roguelite elements make it feel repetitive.
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Reactions
60 of 205 · most liked firstONE. WIN. AWAY. The Blue Jays take Game 5 in L.A. and head back to Toronto with the chance to claim their first World Series title since 1993.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shigeru Miyamoto on the Evil Boulder: "A delayed game will eventually be good, but a rushed game will be--*sees the boulder rolling down his path* SHIT I GOTTA RUN AWAY FUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKK
neutral · AI labelView post →I've got no idea why this thing has a negative rating. It's definitely not amazing, but it's far from being bad. This is a cutesy story that lasts 3 or 4 hours, as it blatantly says on the store page, where you try to save your parents from an evil construction company. You recruit other characters by meeting them in the game world and they've all got their own abilities. It's got shooting, melee and more defensive characters. Visuals are appealing, performance is smooth enough only thing is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I first saw the reveal trailer, I thought, "WOW. This is a game I'm really going to be digging--i mean, look at that ART THO." Alas, here we are. Make no mistake, though it may have seem like I booted AWAY up and wrote a review straight away, I bought the switch version several days before the PC version launched because I was just so excited, and this is what I want to say: I really wanted to like this game. It's visually stunning, but the combat--which is pretty much the entire…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The third one has music from the credits singer on Spirited Away. No Really. The silly fishing game has spirited away music. youtu.be/on7ToS3PMAs
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok, so after playing more of Away I have to change my rating to Not Recommended, and I'll say why. The melee combat in this game is literally the worst first person melee combat I've ever played. Even Breakdown on the OG Xbox was much better. Even the First Person FMV game Supreme Warrior had better melee combat than this. This game is not bad when you get a "friend" with a ranged weapon (all of whoms energy drains quite fast), but your main who has melee only is nigh unplayable. The game is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MOMENTS BEFORE SOPHIA WILSON TAKES A PENALTY THEY CUT AWAY TO THE NORTH CAROLINA GAME FOR ANOTHER INTERVIEW
neutral · AI labelView post →I wish steam had a "It's okay" not just a binary yes or no answer, I only give this a yes because it's right up my alley, I can't get enough of games with this kind of charm to it. However, until it gets more updates or something, it's just not $16.99 nice. If you can pick this up for about $5 I say absolutely go for it because it isn't a bad game in the slightest, but you'll complete this game in under 4 hours. I like it, I like the charm and personality it has, I like the wholesome writing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really cute, really charming, well made, hour and a half long game padded and bloated with tedium and bad gameplay. I hate to tear into this game, I really wanted to like it. And I can tell that a ton of effort went into this game. But oh my god. This game has a semi permadeath mechanic which typically I don't really mind, but this game really doesn't feel good for it because... The gameplay itself is kinda lame, beyond a pretty unique "team-based" mechanic you don't do much else besides…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really sad case of excellent assets and characters full of graphical personality locked behind an utter mess of gameplay and a completely irrelevant story. The gameplay would be done in 15 minutes if not due to artificial length caused by gating progress behind several repetitions of the same zones. Can't reccomend in any way.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →KICKING THE BALL AWAY? ARE YOU SERIOUS? TWO DELAYING THE RESTART YELLOWS? AND MACNAUGHTON ENDS THIS GAME WITHOUT A SINGLE BOOKING? ST. LOUIS AS A WHOLE ENDS THIS GAME WITHOUT A YELLOW? COME ON #RCTID
neutral · AI labelView post →Fuck your "game plan." It's a proven loser and it literally is moving AWAY from the goal of protecting existing human rights.
neutral · AI labelView post →WE'RE SENDING YOU TO PRISON GRUMMZ WE'RE RE-EDUCATING YOU IN TO A COMMUNIST GRUMMZ YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE YOUR INTERNET TAKEN AWAY AND BE FORCED TO FINISH YOUR GAME GRUMMZ YOU'RE GOING TO BE A MUSLIM, GRUMMZ bsky.app/profile/airb...
neutral · AI labelView post →Away game in D.C.📍 Gotham FC has arrived WAS vs GFC | 12:30 PM ET | CBS & Paramount+
neutral · AI labelView post →Picked this game up on PSN to pass around with my kids. I played for about 3 hours on my first playthrough. That time is what this review is based on. Although, I did play for about 20 minutes here on Steam so I could make sure everything was the same. I plan on keeping it here on Steam, even though I'll most likely be playing it on the PS4. It's worth a double purchase. So yeah, the review. Away is a pretty simple game with a simple gameplay loop. Make friends, get gold and bombs, then kill…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do think the title has given us confidence in those game states. Nil nil. Away from home. We have more belief and we’re calmer than we used to be.
neutral · AI labelView post →I really like this game, it great style and thumping sound track. But it is lacking in variety and so badly short https://youtu.be/fLvFc208S9U If this game get updates or improved content then I will be giving this a stamp of approval
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33025671-Missi-the-Achievement-Huntress/] Please see my curator page for more games that are well worth your time Approximate amount of time to 100%: 4-5h Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10 Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 Has it been in a bundle: Yes Is there a good guide available: Yes, [url=https://knoef.info/trophy-guides/ps4-guides/away-journey-to-the-unexpected-trophy-guide/] This guide from Knoef is wonderful, but you don't really…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been looking forward to Away for a while now, after first seeing the game at PAX a year or two ago. And I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in ages. The game is short. It's a total of about 3 hours. At this point I've done more or less everything there is to do, and have all but 2 achievements. Each of the four areas in the game has about 3 different enemies, and of those, there are really only 3 enemies with different behaviors. Finally, the bosses. There are 3 of them total.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →seems like a game made both by a really good artist and a really, really bad game dev
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No save game option kills this game, sadly because graphics are kinda cute...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The art style is absolutely adorable. Controls are straightforward and easy to understand. The game play is a little repetitive, though. Combat is a little bit more difficult than anticipated, leading to a lot of running the same section of the game over and over again(I'm watching the developer stream right now, and they are doing the same thing over and over and over again). All together, not a bad game. I'm enjoying it thus far.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an AWAY game for Milwaukee. Doesn’t sound like it. #WorldSeries #Rays #Brewers
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #Habs game day my BlueSky friends. This one’s gonna be a tough one. Away game against Washington is always a hard game for the #Habs to win but I’m confident that if they play as well as they did in their last 2 games that they can win it. Can’t be goalied 3 game in a row can they? #GoHabsGo!
neutral · AI labelView post →The sprites are good The gameplay feels sluggish and frustrating. Switching characters makes your screen go dark for a half second for no conceivable reason. The game is extremely repetitive. All of the enemies do the same thing. You cannot rebind controls. Dont do this to yourself.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The dislikes here are unreal. I encourage you to look though the reviews and see the trivial reasons why people are disliking this game. I personally really enjoyed playing and will continue to do so. a few minor bugs mainly with the interface but nothing that effected game play. Definatly worth the cash given that its so cheap and the art style is spot on.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another case where a neutral option would be perfect. Love the art style and character designs. Gameplay is decent, though hit detection could be better. Wish it was a more fully realized action RPG rather than a quick little rogue-lite. Definitely could have used more content. Not as bad as the current average of "mostly negative" would lead you to believe, but I feel that there isn't enough content for $15. Worth picking on sale though.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Away game on a cricket pitch in the Caribbean?
neutral · AI labelView post →I really wanted to like this game. It's clear the developers are very creative and imaginative! However, the combat just sucks. Enemies can peel away at your health from behind or glitch into you without warning. Multiple times, enemies just straight up glitched through the floors while I was trying to fight them. Also, the filters over the friends' vision made them a lot harder to use to the point that they felt like a power down in some regards. TL;DR Great design and concept spoiled by…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disclaimer: played with an Xbox One gamepad. This is the moment, when I'm sad that Steam still doesn't have Informational (not good, not bad) reviews. But since they still do not exist I have to use what I can. And I'd rather not recommend this game, than recommend it, to be honest. So, there's that. I wishlisted and started to look after that game pretty long time ago. I really liked the visual style, so that was basically the main thing that peaked my interest in it. And now I finally…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Valkyries Are Now One Win Away From Winning Their First WNBA Championship, And The Warriors Won Their First Game of the Year, FINALLY! Tonight Was A Good Night! #BayAreaSports #GoldenStateWarriors #GoldenStateValkyries #NBASky #WNBASky
neutral · AI labelView post →YOSHI FIX MY FUCKING GAME, YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY MY VIDEO GAME LIKE THIS YOSHI!!!!! YOSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Craziest part of Hellraiser game was the sudden and unannounced use of a remix of Fuck the Pain Away by Peaches Cool game, but what a pull for the soundtrack!
neutral · AI labelView post →I truly wanted to give this game a positive review when I first saw and bought AWAY: Journey to the Unexpected, I really do. But sadly, I can't due to the lack of content for such a price. :( There isn't that much dungeons, allies, bosses, and areas to explore, thus making the game-play quite weak. What makes it even weaker are the keys you get for certain areas which instantaneously unlocks the boss areas ( e.g. Labiworks ) via levelling up. If you happen to be a skilled player, then…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NOT JUST THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE THE CODE FOR GIVING THINGS AWAY FOR FREE ON THE ESHOP IF YOU OWN A CERTAIN GAME SO EVEN THOUGH THEYRE TOO LAZY FOR A LAUNCHER THEY COULD LITERALLY JUST A FLIPPED A SWITCH TO MAKE ALL LANGUAGE VERSIONS FREE IF YOU BOUGHT ONE
neutral · AI labelView post →Away game for the 76ers, home game for LeBron
neutral · AI labelView post →The game looks gorgeous while providing incredibly shallow and monotonous gameplay. This is the kind of gameplay and artstyle that could lend itself to a fascinating open world game with differently themed areas and characters, using different characters' abilities to gain access to new areas or getting certain advantages against certain bosses/enemies or traversal in the world. Unfortunately every ally ends up being used to spam attacks on bosses without worrying about death and that's about…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is neither really good nor bad. It is very repetitive after 1-2 runs. To get to the final "boss" you have to collect all 8 stars. You get stars by collecting companions. You only get them if you choose the correct dialog option and if you choose the wrong one you have to start the run from the beginning. The final boss fight is very easy and anticlimactic. Overall, the beginning is quite good and entertaining and the rest is bad. For 17€ it is not recommendable as it has neither real…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really needs some polish + clean-up work. The title screen n opening is hype af, but the combat fails to follow through. Hitboxes aren't where you'd expect them to be, and while you can adjust, it varies by mob so you're forced to memorize attack ranges for ea mob type, because you can't trust your eyes. Idk if it gets better later, but you take rather a lot of damage compared to what you dish out, so this sort of punishing "restart in your bedroom when you run out of hearts"…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As people said this game sucks. Super repetitive, as all you do is spam attack with a stick against the same few enemies. To fight bosses you need to unlock switches and if you die you have to repeat all that stuff again which is just boring and pointless. The combat is deadful as you get hurt from distances away and can never tell if someone will be in this imaginary range where your stick will reach or they will reach you. IF youre going to be a first person melee fighter u need to actually…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a lot better than most reviews say when it comes to game-play, it's priced a little high for it's length and replay value however, but it is definitely worth buying when it's on sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As the world's biggest Pinobee: Wings of Adventure fan, almost good really is the best definition of all of their catalog lol. Away: Shuffle Dungeon on DS is also a genuinely very interesting game that only gets good 8 hours in, but is held back by the combat being weirdly very laggy the whole time
neutral · AI labelView post →COMET SLOW DOWN IF U KEEP BEATING THE GAME IT WILL GO AWAY FOREVER
neutral · AI labelView post →Not a review, just a recommendation.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+cool anime opening +art style +move speed +nice clean jumping -You can get stuck inside enemies, ends with the death of you or the enemy -things move during cutscenes but wont damage you, how i keep getting stuck inside them -the screen gets weird when you swap to other allies, most of them make it much harder to see or tell what's going on - things are 2d and turn with you but take up a 3d amount of space -most of the combat in the game is waiting for things to hop at you so you can wack…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Morning Fenians Away to Gothenburg today Will not be there for the Celtic game tho. Sadly I'll miss it!!!!!! (Woe is me) Any recommendations of sites to see? Ta
neutral · AI labelView post →Lotta game left but I gotta appreciate the Chiefs Not Getting Away With It
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's edition of Random Game Saturday is brought to you by Sickness. I dragged myself out of bed for this. Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Away to the Newtype for the Super Famicom. The sequel to Cross Dimension 0079. I thought this was a cool game. back to bed #randomgamesaturday
neutral · AI labelView post →Brewers get it done again! One. Game. Away. 😁 #ThisIsMyCrew #WinOurWay
neutral · AI labelView post →Alright, the game isn't bad...it's just weird. Gameplay makes me thinks of Vermintide, since you can only attack with a melee weapon, but the combat is not very good because your weapon range is really short and often you will take a hit trying to hit the enemy. Other attacks comes from friends you can party, up to 3 per run, and they have their own weapons. The part that really makes this a bad game is the fact that you need stars to open doors to new areas. That's ok. BUT... To get those…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just started this on PC hence the low game time. I've completed it 100% on Switch a couple of times and love the game. It's simple, cute, and super fun. It was made almost entirely by one guy. No one should be hating on this thing. It's awesome. It is oozing with care and attention to detail.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredibly underrated game, yes it's simple but the gameplay loop is flawless! Earthbound mood meets first person dungeoneering is an interesting mix that feels weird at first but ramps up pretty fast and in the end works really well! My only nitpick is that the game feels very barren for the first hour or so but after that it's smooth sailing. Pick this up, though!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A short and sweet game that took just over 3 hours to beat! Really good art style, though the gameplay isn't the most exciting, A bit too easy for me as I'm used to more difficult games, so I ended up having to die over and over again to get the last few achieves! Beat the game on my 3rd full run! Overall an enjoyable time, but once you've played the game through 1 time, there's no need to play it again!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This doesn't feel a game that is finished with any polish, this feels like a slightly improved game jam project or capstone project. It has charming characters and music but game-play isn't great. the extremely low health means you lose to the many enemies in the room you accidentally walked into since the 2d in 3d world makes it impossible to gauge hurt box distance. Past the basic moment and attack nothing is explained so so thing are happening, journal updated, etc without knowing how to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is a wonderful rogue-like that felt challenging to learn but relatively easy to master, by the end making you feel very powerful just through improvements at the combat. Pros: Amazing art style Satisfying skill curve Characters are pretty fun and unique Cons: Combat is a little simplistic though fun Game is probably worth <£5 since the experience is 3-4hrs long Story is quite simplistic
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I'll start by saying this, I got this in the Jingle Jam bundle (so technically not free, but I didn't buy it individually) I've played just over an hour as of writing this, so I may update this as I go on... TLDR, cute game, great aesthetic, nice change from a regular rogue-lite if you're looking for a slower pace. Gameplay was semi-challenging (so far) BUT there are definitely fixes and quality of life changes needed... - Make the 'hub' worlds smaller/get rid of them, far too big and empty…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game looks nice for an indie title made by a very small dev team, it plays well enough, but...it's just boring. Enemies are dumb and their attack patterns are predictable so the combat, which makes up 90% of the game, is super boring. There isn't anything exciting you can find in the game world and the story isn't great either. Didn't find a reason to keep playing. If you are desperate for a new game to play you can probably give it a try anyway, but in this day and age where most people…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not worth the price(not worth more than 99 cents) and the artstyle is not great, not funny, just weird. Might be fun for a few minutes but not more than that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fps roguelite (barony, delver, city of brass etc) with the cutest, charmingest, most amazingest graphic I've ever seen. It's so charming it can rot your teeth off. The gameplay is simple but solid, and the gimmick you recruit party member as your "weapon" but you also change into their pov when you change into them, for example someone might only see in monochrome, or someone have broken glasses ruining their pov. The length seems to be short and sweet, which is the kind of game I like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Back-to-back bagels for Jarry. Oilers with a 4-0 Victory. Extending their Away game streak to 6-0-0
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