- #1 Maui the Shapeshifter
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Play on Worlds
Windows
Restore harmony as shapeshifting demigod Maui on an adventure to save his island home from all-consuming darkness in this epic 2D open-world Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.2%, Action 26.2%, Adventure 23.8%, Indie 18.8%
- #2 Echo's Esker
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Connor FahrenwaldPub: Fahrenwald Games
Windows
You are lost in the catacombs and finding your way out won’t be easy, but upon reaching the surface you will find you are not the only one who is lost. The mysterious spirit hound Echo is far from home, but with her by your side, exploration is as simple as a game of fetch.
Why similar: Action 31.2%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 23.1%, Metroidvania 17.5%
- #3 Cookie Clicker
58% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 88,978 reviews2021
Dev: OrteilPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 89.4 hrsMean: 370.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #4 ReSetna
51% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: Today's GamesPub: Module16
Windows
What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.6%, Action 16.9%, Adventure 14%, Indie 12.5%
- #5 Vivid Spirit
53% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LucasMaxBrosPub: The Hidden Levels
Windows
Red, Yellow, Blue. It's Vivid Spirit! Their abilities are dictated by what color they are and it's up to you to figure out how to use them and when to swap. Guide Vivid and her dog, Spirit, on their many adventures through the world of Paper Craft!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.4%, Indie 24.8%, Action 22.3%, Adventure 18.4%
- #6 Megabonk
44% matchVery Positive95% of 99,114 reviews2025
Dev: vedinad
Windows · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!
Why similar: Action 53.4%, Indie 46.6%
- #7 HomeGrove
52% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FlipswitchX
Windows
Wander a whimsical world full of danger and surprise. Outsmart your environment as you punch, grab, and throw enemies and objects in this action-puzzle adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.2%, Action 24.9%, Adventure 23.3%, Indie 19.6%
- #8 Baldur's Gate 3
48% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 831,011 reviews2023
Dev: Larian Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 77.7 hrsMean: 130.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #9 Realm of Virtuals
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Runners
Windows
Realm of Virtuals is an adventure story-driven game with slasher elements in a low-poly graphics style. The main character is artificial intelligence, which travels around the virtual world and tries to find the reason for its slow collapse.
Why similar: Action 39.5%, Adventure 32.6%, Indie 27.9%
- #10 Patchman vs. Blue Squares
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Naturally Intelligent
Windows · Mac · Linux
More Sheeple need rescuing - this time from Office World - and Patchman is on the case! But now there are sinister Blue Squares to contend with... and a boss EIGHT TIMES more powerful than the last one! Grow, sneak, and battle your way to the truth!
Why similar: Action 38.5%, Adventure 32.9%, Indie 28.6%
- #11 Space Crawl
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hyperfine Studio
Windows
Built exclusively for VR, Space Crawl launches you aboard an abandoned space station. Handle weapons with real-life movements, dodge space aliens, move in zero-gravity, and put your survival skills to the test. Truly an immersive first person zero-gravity experience.
Why similar: Action 38.4%, Adventure 33.2%, Indie 28.4%
- #12 It's about The Journey
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MortMort
Windows
it's About The Journey A game spawned from a game jam about making a challenging Platformer game. A "short and sweet" game about making it to the top, patience, planning ahead and skills will need to be on your side.
Why similar: Action 38.4%, Adventure 33.2%, Indie 28.4%
- #13 Mortido
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BigGame StudioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
This is an action-adventure game, the story about sinful soul in search of redemption. Your whole purpose is to redeem yourself by saving souls of people whose lives you ones ruined.
Why similar: Action 39.9%, Adventure 33.1%, Indie 27%
- #14 Super Navecitas 2
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZYX Studio
Windows
This video game is a space shooter in which all the elements are made in cardboard. The game tells the story of Cafard a Martian cockroach on his journey to Silcon Valley where the fate of his race and humanity will be decided.
Why similar: Action 40%, Adventure 33%, Indie 27%
- #15 The Legend of Excalipurr
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wisp Entertainment
Windows
With magical cats as your weapons, you will never fight alone!
Why similar: Action 40.8%, Adventure 32.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #16 Elementals
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Round Squares Studios LTD
Windows
Mental Elementals is a 1 – 4 player twin stick shooter game. Player must use their element to fight through the level and reach the end as quickly as possible. Player’s can combine elements to create interesting effects.
Why similar: Action 37.8%, Adventure 33.2%, Indie 28.9%
- #17 Don't Move
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STVR
Windows · Mac · Linux
Don't Move is an experimental puzzle platformer with a focus on ludonarrative dissonance and player investment manipulation.
Why similar: Action 40.3%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 26.1%
- #18 Slug Slasher
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Slapped Silly Studios
Windows
Save the world from an onslaught of giant slugs in Slug Slasher! Using only your trusty bucket of salt, smash, dash, and slash through ridiculous enemies and crazy bosses as you fight your way to the slugs' homeland.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #19 Star Surveyor
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: slimefriend
Windows · Mac
Star Surveyor is an exploration game about discovering a foreign planet, and observing the lives of its alien inhabitants. You're sent to Maya-247 with a simple mission: use your scanner to gather data about all of the flora and fauna you can, and send that data back to Earth.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #20 Armoured Engines
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bounder Games
Windows · Mac
Armoured Engines is a steam punk western epic featuring train conductor Dusty Beats and her partner in crime, the ancient living engine Billy Wylam, as they search for El Dorado. Protect your train and shoot, fling, slice, and blow up hordes of enemies, using an arsenal of weaponry and passengers.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #21 DUSTWUN
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goon Studios
Windows
Fight to survive in an alien frontier full of beauty and danger on your quest to locate a missing starfighter.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #22 Captain's Tail
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Biting Mascot
Windows
Dash into action as the fluffiest pirate of the Seven Seas! Take on platforming challenges and explore a variety of islands.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #23 Beyond Arm's Reach
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Round Squares Studios
Windows
Beyond Arm’s Reach is an action adventure game, set in a 1950’s steampunk universe. You have to use the physics based grappling hook, to navigate around the world, defeat enemies and solve puzzles along the way.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #24 Afandas Survival
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SchmidtGames
Windows
Afandas Survival is an open world survival game. After a plague wipes out most of the population, you're one of the few survivors on an island called Afanda. Already at the beginning you realize that surviving isn´t easy. To stay alive, you must search for equipment and provisions.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #25 Nachzehrer
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eric Sauer
Windows
[h1]Nachzehrer[/h1]Your fear of being in the dark comes true in this short single player horror game. You find yourself stuck at a power plant at night, when suddenly the lights begin shutting off. However, attempting to turn them back on may cause you to meet your fears.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #26 To Hell With Dave
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pretzel Bros Studios
Windows
'To Hell With Dave' is a narrative-driven adventure platformer for the connoisseur of the absurd. Explore a world full of charming characters and twisted humor. If you're a fan of challenging action, wacky puzzles and foul language, this game is for you!
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #27 Departure
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RG CrewPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Departure is a first-person perspective action adventure game with sci-fi and horror elements. Try to survive in a vast zone full of dangerous anomalies that alter your surroundings, and monsters that hunt you down at night.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #28 Above
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mighty Moth
Windows · Mac
Above is an aeronautic action-adventure game, in which you fly around exploring islands scattered in a vast ocean, upgrade and modify your aeroplane to progress, in order to find your lost brother and uncover the mystery behind the abominations that dwell beneath the waves.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #29 Into the Ice
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Homegrown GamesPub: Intr Studio Pty Ltd
Windows
4 years in the making, finally coming to your PC: Into the Ice - Nazis of Neuschwabenland - the official sequel to the multiple GOTY and award winner "Into the Dark". Adventure, Shooter, Trash, Comedy, Politics and Nudity. You. Have. Been. Warned!
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #30 Zarvot
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: by Sam Eng
Windows · Mac
Two things: a charming co-op adventure and a cutthroat competitive party game. Be a tiny, adorable cube with hopes, dreams, unrequited loves… and unlimited destructive power.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #31 Stickman World
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dilmer ValecillosPub: Dilmer Games
Windows · Mac
Stickman World takes place in an underground world after the hero "Stickman" awakes in an unknown world. Play through an amazing story where Stickman has to solve puzzles in hopes to discover a way out of this world. The goals for each level are simple and require collecting all the hidden items through Stickman's journey.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #32 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YitYat Studios
Windows · Mac
The galaxy is in peril. Equipped with the latest military tech, pilot your heavily armed space fighter through 5 exotic planets to destroy the evil Dr Grag and save the Life Spark. Joining you on your journey is The Engineer, a silicon being capable of building anything you need. Unfortunately, he's a jackass...
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #33 HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NEO FUTURE LABS
Windows
"HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER" is a first-person metroidvania with physics-based combat built in Unreal Engine 4. Explore mysterious dimensions, unlock new abilities, and fight back against evil with your hammer friend!
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #34 I_AM.exe
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paulo P. NetoPub: Indie
Windows
I_AM.exe is a first person action game with a focus on exploration. You wake up inside a vat on a strange place full of robots trying to kill you. Explore, solve puzzles and fight your way through different areas as you try to find a way out and understand what is going on and just who are you.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #35 RECHARGE COMPLETE
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rechargecomplete
Windows
RECHARGE COMPLETE is a third/first person shooter featuring a hard-strutting jet-packing android created to destroy job-stealing robots! Blast enemies with homing missiles, lasers and EMP grenades! Jet pack, boost and skii your way through peril. Be the robohero you were made to be!
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #36 A Rip In Time
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: iV Games
Windows
Time travel in a new twisted way. The game’s antagonist will be pulling you through “Rips in Time”. The further you explore, the more intertwined the worlds become! Experience the early 1900’s and future all in one, thanks to the power of Unreal Engine 4.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #37 ProtoDungeon: Episode III
50% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Spacefarer
Windows · Mac
Jump, swim, and dash ahead to unlock your way out of the Third Nightmare: a lonely cove with lurking monsters, a strange shipwreck, and terrified villagers. Can you make it to the chapel to escape? Can you uncover the secrets of the nightmare prison?
Why similar: Action 36.8%, Adventure 33.4%, Indie 29.8%
- #38 What the Dark Keeps
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: yazaa.works
Windows
Top-down roguelike shooter. Kill, survive, repeat.
Why similar: Action 35.9%, Adventure 34%, Indie 30.1%
- #39 Holobunnies: The Bittersweet Adventure
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: q-bit GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
An action-exploration, retro sidescroller adventure game about holographic bunnies in space.
Why similar: Action 37.6%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 26.6%
- #40 Dispatch
41% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 167,325 reviews2025
Dev: AdHoc Studio
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Why similar: Action 47%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #41 Hollow Knight: Silksong
42% matchVery Positive89% of 399,080 reviews2025
Dev: Team Cherry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 35.2 hrsMean: 45.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Why similar: Metroidvania 66.5%, Indie 13.2%, Adventure 11.1%, Action 9.2%
- #42 Univers
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spartan IndustriesPub: Capitán_22
Windows
Survival in space. Explore, repair and build in an ancient spaceship that lost its way many, many years ago...
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #43 Spartrack VR - Firos
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TKorp
Windows
Mission Firos est un jeu multijoueur en réalité virtuelle, en déplacement libre, mélangeant énigmes et jeu de tir dans un environnement futuriste.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #44 VELVETIST: The City of Machine Guns
49% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SiCzech Arts
Windows
VELVETIST: The City of Machine Guns is a 3rd person open world action-adventure game. The story of the main character Luka Vollek takes place in an old, socialist occupied city. The game is divided into consecutive linear missions that tell the story of the main protagonist.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #45 Savior
49% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starsoft Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Savior is an action-adventure platformer. Dramatically change a vast open world. Parkour effortlessly with pain-free intuitive platforming. Engage a variety of opponents with strategic, precision melee combat. Discover a rich world full of quests, colorful characters and countless secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.7%, Action 19.4%, Adventure 17.6%, Indie 14.4%
- #46 Pep-Pel
50% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: SlugGlove
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run through each level as Pep-Pel! a goofy red goblin thing. In this beautifully hand drawn game. play through tons of fast-paced and difficult levels, each with there own challenge to master!
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28%
- #47 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
44% matchVery Positive83% of 204,097 reviews2024
Dev: Saber InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
Why similar: Action 59.1%, Adventure 40.9%
- #48 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
40% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 259,060 reviews2025
Dev: Sandfall InteractivePub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 31.9 hrsMean: 38.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
Why similar: Adventure 63.7%, Action 36.3%
- #49 Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
41% matchVery Positive87% of 892 reviews2025
Dev: Stormteller GamesPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Plunge into a living nightmare where every roll counts. Chain fluid combat with dice-fueled attacks, stack relics into ferocious synergies, and build unstoppable momentum. Slash through fate, bend chance to your will, and defeat the Black Die in this board-game inspired roguelite dungeon crawler.
Why similar: Action 46.1%, Adventure 27.4%, Indie 26.5%
- #50 Beholder: Conductor
40% matchVery Positive91% of 4,184 reviews2025
Dev: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Nine Sols
42% matchVery Positive95% of 38,609 reviews2024
Dev: RedCandleGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Why similar: Metroidvania 61%, Action 16.8%, Adventure 12%, Indie 10.2%
- #52 Metamorfose S
58% matchVery Positive81% of 282 reviews2017
Dev: Andre MonteiroPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Metamorfose S is a 2D action-adventure game with RPG elements.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, Action 25.3%, Adventure 21.6%, Indie 19.9%
- #53 Path of Exile 2
42% matchMostly Positive73% of 206,647 reviews2024
Dev: Grinding Gear Games
Windows
Median: 48.3 hrsMean: 139.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.
Why similar: Action 56.6%, Adventure 43.4%
- #54 彷徨之街 The Street of Adrift
44% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,324 reviews2024
Dev: Caramel-Mocha StudioPub: LoveStoryProject
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
大小姐与头牌花魁的羁绊、救赎与毁灭故事。
Why similar: Adventure 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #55 bobo robot
54% matchVery Positive89% of 79 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A wacky metroidvania. ⚡ Meet weird characters, unlock new abilities and complete a mysterious mission . . .
Why similar: Action 32.5%, Adventure 29.2%, Indie 24.3%, Metroidvania 13.9%