- #1 Pep-Pel
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #2 Grumpy Witch
52% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Constructor LLC
Windows
A 2.5D Action-Platformer with wit and charm, follow the adventures of Emilia as she Flies, Slaps, and Puzzles her way through the world of Galice! Built with love, it's a modern take on a classic genre.
Why similar: Indie 29.6%, Action 27.2%, 2.5D 23.3%, Adventure 19.9%
- #3 Realm of Virtuals
51% 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 42.3%, Indie 29.7%, Adventure 28%
- #4 The Legend of Excalipurr
51% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wisp Entertainment
Windows
With magical cats as your weapons, you will never fight alone!
Why similar: Action 43.7%, Indie 28.3%, Adventure 28%
- #5 Patchman vs. Blue Squares
51% 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 41.3%, Indie 30.4%, Adventure 28.3%
- #6 Super Navecitas 2
51% 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 42.9%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 28.4%
- #7 Mortido
51% 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 42.8%, Indie 28.8%, Adventure 28.5%
- #8 Space Crawl
51% 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 41.1%, Indie 30.3%, Adventure 28.6%
- #9 It's about The Journey
51% 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 41.1%, Indie 30.3%, Adventure 28.6%
- #10 Elementals
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 30.8%, Adventure 28.6%
- #11 Don't Move
51% 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 43.2%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #12 ProtoDungeon: Episode III
51% 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 39.4%, Indie 31.8%, Adventure 28.8%
- #13 Armoured Engines
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #14 Star Surveyor
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #15 DUSTWUN
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #16 Captain's Tail
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #17 To Hell With Dave
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #18 Beyond Arm's Reach
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #19 Departure
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #20 Afandas Survival
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #21 Nachzehrer
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #22 Slug Slasher
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #23 Above
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #24 Zarvot
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #25 A Rip In Time
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #26 RECHARGE COMPLETE
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #27 I_AM.exe
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #28 Stickman World
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #29 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #30 HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #31 Into the Ice
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #32 What the Dark Keeps
51% matchNo user reviews
Dev: yazaa.works
Windows
Top-down roguelike shooter. Kill, survive, repeat.
Why similar: Action 38.5%, Indie 32.1%, Adventure 29.4%
- #33 Holobunnies: The Bittersweet Adventure
51% 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 40.5%, Adventure 30.9%, Indie 28.5%
- #34 Univers
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #35 Spartrack VR - Firos
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #36 Spheroids
62% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: Eclipse GamesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Spheroids is a 2D sidescroller that mixes mechanics from classic platformers such as Super Mario Bros or Umihara Kawase with 'combat' sections inspired in Pang! (or Buster Brothers), within a comical science-fiction setting inspired by films and series such as Futurama, Rick & Morty, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future or Spaceballs.
Why similar: Action 42.1%, Adventure 29.5%, Indie 28.4%
- #37 VELVETIST: The City of Machine Guns
51% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #38 Bullet Blade
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Liv Games
Windows
Bullet Age is a 2D co-op action-platformer, where players can team up with another player in an intuitive mix of sword-and-gun gameplay. Bullet Age a mix of classic action platforming with a host of unique upgradable weapons and a charming cartoon art style.
Why similar: Action 40.2%, Adventure 30.3%, Indie 29.6%
- #39 Echo's Esker
50% 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 40.5%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 29.6%
- #40 Soul Rebellion
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spellsoft
Windows · Mac
In the lands of Armelia, 10 people have been possessed by the soul of ancient heroes to participate in a evil game. Release your own soul in this Action-Adventure game.
Why similar: Action 41.4%, Indie 29.4%, Adventure 29.2%
- #41 Poopdie
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bulbware
Windows · Mac
Dungeon crawler from PewDiePie & Bulbware.
Why similar: Action 40.3%, Adventure 30%, Indie 29.7%
- #42 The Body Changer
62% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2015
Dev: TheShortAndTheTall
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A single player metroidvania 3D game with cooperative gameplay. Find out what's going on by taking control of distinct characters and change between them whenever you want. An unique mix of 3rd person shooter and challenging puzzles!
Why similar: Action 38.7%, Indie 30.8%, Adventure 30.5%
- #43 SinaRun
43% matchMostly Positive79% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: Princesseuh
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
SinaRun is a momentum-based platforming and speedrunning game. Find a level you love, play it hundreds of times and try to become the best on the leaderboard!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 Tales of ARISE
42% matchVery Positive87% of 36,276 reviews2023
Dev: Bandai Namco Studios Inc.Pub: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Windows
Median: 16.1 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
300 years of tyranny. A mysterious mask. Lost pain and memories. Wield the Blazing Sword and join a mysterious, untouchable girl to fight your oppressors. Experience a tale of liberation, featuring characters with next-gen graphical expressiveness!
Why similar: Action 67.1%, Adventure 32.9%
- #45 Swiss Knife
51% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Norman Collonville
Windows
It's been 2042 years since the "Great Disappearing", on Earth, humans & animals are no more. The planet is now inhabited by Swiss Knives, little robots created by humans before the disaster. In reality, that is because humans created Swiss Knives that the Great Disappearing occured.
Why similar: Action 40.9%, Indie 30.2%, Adventure 28.9%
- #46 Kamodo Steve: Janitor on Fire!
54% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Matthew BoardPub: SleekTiki Interactive LLC
Windows
Kamodo Steve is an 2.5D action sidescroller where you play as Steve, an unwilling hero with unrealized power. Steve and his friend Shiloh team up to disrupt the sinister plans of the Robber Barons, a kabal of industrialists whose only motivations are success, power and greed.
Why similar: Action 33.8%, Indie 24.9%, Adventure 23.9%, Side Scroller 17.5%
- #47 Crypt Stalker
51% matchVery Positive85% of 105 reviews2020
Dev: Sinclair Strange
Windows
Whip your way through nostalgia fuelled kinky demon slaying. From hidden desert temples to floating ruins, this will take you back to the golden days of gaming, where there was only 4 buttons on a controller and VHS ruled the world.
Why similar: Action 43.7%, Indie 28.3%, Adventure 28%
- #48 Cornflake Crisis
51% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2020
Dev: Mike Laraman
Windows · Mac
Swap between a variety of playable flakes with unique abilities to embark on a colourful, hand-drawn 2D platforming adventure!
Why similar: Action 40.5%, Indie 31.3%, Adventure 28.2%
- #49 Path of the Sramana
52% matchMixed65% of 31 reviews2020
Dev: SpiritElder
Windows
‘Path of the Sramana’ is a fantasy platformer game, following a young shaman journeying through the spirit realm, as she searches for her father’s soul.
Why similar: Action 39.1%, Indie 29.7%, Side Scroller 22%, Adventure 9.2%
- #50 Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti
45% matchVery Positive88% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: Team Monkey
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fan made Retro-RPG developed with the Source Engine. Explore Orio Island, gain the trust of the elemental god fairies and wield their magical powers to save the Divine Tree from the Relics of Gan-Ti.
Why similar: Indie 47.8%, Action 27%, Adventure 25.2%
- #51 A Blind Legend
57% matchMostly Positive73% of 334 reviews2016
Dev: DowinoPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A Blind Legend is the first-ever action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes! Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound.
Why similar: Action 40.5%, Adventure 30.9%, Indie 28.6%
- #52 Mega Hasan
50% matchVery Positive91% of 410 reviews2020
Dev: Tameem HamouiPub: Cold And Old
Windows · Mac
32 levels of platforming awesomeness.
Why similar: Action 40.3%, Indie 30.4%, Adventure 29.4%
- #53 Majestic-12
52% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Exis Games
Windows
A game about weird little people defending the universe. Aside from being incredibly stupid-fun, Majestic-12 is a 3d action side-scroller where you take control of an elite MJ-12 commando and battle your way through secret installations and strange alien environments with your friends.
Why similar: Action 36.5%, Indie 26.9%, Adventure 26.2%, Side Scroller 10.5%
- #54 Bombini
51% matchPositive83% of 29 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A game about bees trying to survive, collect pollen, sustain your hive, and watch out for scary spiders!
Why similar: Action 36.1%, Indie 26.6%, Adventure 25.9%, Side Scroller 11.4%
- #55 The Legend of Dark Witch Renovation
51% matchPositive87% of 46 reviews2019
Dev: INSIDE SYSTEM
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The Legend of Dark Witch is a 2D platform action game. Zizou can learn new attacks by defeating bosses. She will need every one of those attacks if she is going to save the world.
Why similar: Action 41.6%, Indie 30.7%, Adventure 27.7%
- #56 トトのおもちゃばこ
51% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2020
Dev: Toto World GamesPub: Vantan Game Academy
Windows
さあ、おもちゃの世界を冒険しよう!! このゲームは、仕掛けがいっぱいの子ども部屋を冒険して、様々なキャラクターとわちゃわちゃしながらゴールを目指すアクションアドベンチャーゲームです。
Why similar: Action 40.8%, Indie 29.7%, Adventure 29.4%
- #57 Wraithslayer
51% matchVery Positive95% of 78 reviews2019
Dev: Devin ColePub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
An intense and challenging boss battle in an abstract horror world.
Why similar: Action 42.6%, Indie 30.1%, Adventure 27.2%
- #58 Pilots Of Darsalon
50% matchMostly Positive79% of 43 reviews2020
Dev: Dr. Kucho! Games
Windows · Mac
Your job is to locate and transport the containers to your base avoiding enemies on your way. Your ship is equipped with a hook to carry the containers. This is a physics based arcade game, inspired on the very early classics and with a strong Commodore 64 feel on it.
Why similar: Action 46.1%, Indie 30.7%, 2.5D 10.1%, Side Scroller 9%, Adventure 4.1%
- #59 Chrono Project
51% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Ward Dehairs
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Chrono project is a 2.5D side scroller game, set in a fantasy world, with the magical Chrono and the technological Robo. The game features a powerful time rewinding mechanic. Use it to explore different timelines and eventually save or damn the world.
Why similar: Action 40.5%, Indie 30.2%, Adventure 29.2%