- #1 ARC Raiders
57% matchVery Positive86% of 370,194 reviews2025
Dev: Embark Studios
Windows
Median: 40.1 hrsMean: 85.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
- #2 ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
58% matchVery Positive82% of 178,648 reviews2025
Dev: FromSoftware, Inc.
Windows
Median: 41.3 hrsMean: 88.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN is a standalone adventure within the ELDEN RING universe, crafted to offer players a new gaming experience by reimagining the game’s core design.
Why similar: Story Rich 100%
- #3 Black Myth: Wukong
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,196,527 reviews2024
Dev: Game Science
Windows
Median: 41.8 hrsMean: 53.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.
Why similar: Adventure 51.6%, Story Rich 48.4%
- #4 The Lighthouse | VR Escape Room
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shadow Knights Studio
Windows
You find yourself trapped in a room inside Wescott Manor, which has been abandoned for years. Use The Lighthouse light to guide your way out. Get out before the evil lurking on the other side of the door gets you.
Why similar: Adventure 60.9%, Indie 39.1%
- #5 Splitmind
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rendal StudioPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
You are Kaplan, an amnesic shadow awakening in Mnemosyn, « the land of memories ». Will you solve the mysteries of your mind ?
Why similar: Adventure 60.8%, Indie 39.2%
- #6 To Azimuth
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: [bracket]gamesPub: Digital Uppercut Productions
Windows · Mac
A surreal adventure game set against the humid haze of 1970s Alabama, To Azimuth follows Nate and Susannah Windham's search for their missing brother in two interweaving stories that explore mental health, war, and the paranormal.
Why similar: Adventure 60.8%, Indie 39.2%
- #7 AR-K: END GAME
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GATO STUDIO
Windows · Mac · Linux
AR-K: END GAME is the final episode in the classic point and click saga of AR-K. Help Alicia Van Volish to escape from District 8 and discover the source of the mysterious Golden Sphere through a great story...
Why similar: Adventure 60.8%, Indie 39.2%
- #8 DownWind
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jackson Clarke
Windows
Are you ready to leave your home? Join a Little Leaf on a Big Journey.
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #9 Airglow
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GuiiStudio
Windows
You play as a wolf who gets seperated from the pack. Get unexpected help to find your way. Explore the nature and find the unforseen history of your pack.
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #10 裁決者 -The White Butcher-
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erotes Studio
Windows
《裁決者》是款以極權島國為背景的冒險遊戲。遊戲中你將扮演調查局的副局長,並透過裁決案子替國家伸張正義。但在一次裁決中你意外地殺害了摯友「黃義雄」,使你首次對國家產生了疑惑。重重的危機,雨中,客廳等待著你的並不是虛無。而是屋外毫不知情的黃義雄獨生女「黃詠晴」......少女的笑容,開始了你的罪──
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #11 Nor'Easter
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Redi Games
Windows
Nor’easter is a classic point-and-click adventure game inspired by the lumberjack folklore of Northern America. As a brave jackalope befriend strange, magical creatures, help a lost man find his children and save the woodlands from endless winter!
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #12 Phenomenal Car Park Adventure: Digital Deluxe Edition
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Myshkin Entertainment
Windows · Mac
A walking simulator for cars - or "driving simulator" - about meaninglessness, car parks, and the end of the world. Or is it...?
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #13 The Keepers of Pages: Chevengur
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galitsyn Egor(GG)Pub: Gogol'Game
Windows
"The Keepers of Pages" is a puzzle-platformer, inspired by the novel of Russian writer A. Platonow "Chevengur". Find your way through a post-apocalyptic world and collect the lost pages in the realm where the reality of the future is tightly interlaced with the texts of the past.
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #14 Den vänstra handens stig
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Newmark Software
Windows · Mac
Den vänstra handens stig is a transcendental blackened narrative experience that focuses on courage, determination and sacrifice.
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #15 Buratino
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Semjon Uglev
Windows
Buratino is a 2D arcade game with light adventure elements for the ZX Spectrum 8-bit computer.
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #16 Dark Train: Coupe
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paperash Studio
Windows · Mac
Dark Train: Coupe is a steampunk visual novel made of paper, story prequel to Dark Train. Be a passenger, listen, discuss and decide what will happen next during your journey through the Border City. Meet Ann Tagrezbung; she is quite lovely, unmechanical and still human...
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #17 K'NOSSOS
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Svarun Entertainment
Windows
K'NOSSOS is a cold surreal adventure game about a man traveling the unknown reaches of the cosmos and the things he uncovers on his journey.
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #18 Ana The Game
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
If you answer that unknown number, you’re screwed... Are you willing to risk everything … ?
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #19 Inner Riddle
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Growfall Games
Windows
You have awoken in strange and unfamiliar place. Soon you realize that you are not simply locked up. But why? For what reason? In search of answers, you must follow the rules of this place. Puzzles and hard decisions are waiting for you. Will you perish never reaching the end or pass through all obstacles and understand what happened?
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #20 LETHE: Broken memories
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cuatro Monos Games
Windows
Enter into the mind of Alan Zane, a loving husband and father, who is on the brink of losing his memories. Alzheimer's disease is trying to block your way, will you be able to remember your own life?
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #21 Hermina Lumen is Only Human
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bad chalk
Windows · Mac
A really miserable story-driven adventure game about small-town 80's witches and a fairly disastrous funeral.
Why similar: Adventure 59%, Indie 41%
- #22 Drifted Tales - Ancestor's Isle
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Course Interactive
Windows
An exploration driven adventure with survival and crafting mechanics but no fighting. Explore a uniquely designed islands in a point and click fashion, gather resources, craft tools and build much needed shelter. Uncover long lost places with a distinct background story and finally manage to escape the island.
Why similar: Adventure 59%, Indie 41%
- #23 How Mosquito Became Human
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SaintHeiserPub: Half-Face Games
Windows
This game is about a brave mosquito who wants to become a human. The main idea is that if you eat something, you become it.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #24 King's Tower
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Liang
Windows
shoot enemy. defend your tower
Why similar: Adventure 59.5%, Indie 40.5%
- #25 Lunar Manor
55% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starr DustPub: StellaPolaris Creative Labs
Windows
An illness strikes Hollow Falls, and only the best witches can save the town from it. Lunar Manor is the story of a young witch named Scarlet, a girl doing her best to become independent and reliable. Join her in this journey across beautiful scenery as she grows in friendship, love, family, and magic.
Why similar: Adventure 48.8%, Indie 32.8%, Female Protagonist 18.4%
- #26 Stellar Blade™
50% matchVery Positive94% of 84,027 reviews2025
Dev: SHIFT UP CorporationPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC (excluding China)
Windows
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 40.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Save humanity from extinction in post-apocalyptic action-adventure Stellar Blade™. Experience blistering combat and a twisting storyline as you unravel the mysteries of Earth’s downfall.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 56.3%, Adventure 29.2%, Story Rich 14.5%
- #27 Pan-Pan
65% matchVery Positive87% of 248 reviews2016
Dev: SpelkraftPub: Might and Delight
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Fix your downed spaceship and find your way home. Explore a lush and colourful world littered with riddles and sprinkled with memorable characters. Pan-Pan is an adventure game with environmental narrative storytelling, exploration elements and puzzle solving.
Why similar: Adventure 61.8%, Indie 38.2%
- #28 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
49% 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: Story Rich 55.3%, Adventure 44.7%
- #29 Subnautica
60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 343,340 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Adventure 69.6%, Indie 30.4%
- #30 Split Fiction
49% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 116,529 reviews2025
Dev: Hazelight StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 43.3%, Adventure 33.5%, Story Rich 23.1%
- #31 R.E.P.O.
48% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 368,800 reviews2025
Dev: semiwork
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
- #32 Battlefield™ 6
49% matchMixed66% of 329,060 reviews2025
Dev: Battlefield StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 50.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The ultimate all-out warfare experience. In a war of tanks, fighter jets, and massive combat arsenals, your squad is the deadliest weapon.
- #33 Ira Act 1: Pilgrimage
53% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ore LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A child reaches for the stars, burdened by circumstance. Folks chained by debt, indentured to the powers at large. Mankind thrust to the stars following after a signal spanning the void of space and time itself.
Why similar: Adventure 60.5%, Indie 39.5%
- #34 Nobody Wants to Die
52% matchVery Positive84% of 6,457 reviews2024
Dev: Critical Hit GamesPub: PLAION
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Why similar: Story Rich 100%
- #35 Subnautica: Below Zero
57% matchVery Positive90% of 102,203 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Adventure 46.8%, Indie 32%, Story Rich 21.2%
- #36 Wuthering Waves
48% matchVery Positive90% of 42,598 reviews2025
Dev: KURO GAMES
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Wuthering Waves is a story-rich open-world action RPG with a high degree of freedom. You wake from your slumber as Rover, joined by a vibrant cast of Resonators on a journey to reclaim your lost memories and change the world.
Why similar: Adventure 62.3%, Story Rich 37.7%
- #37 Syn
52% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andrew KentPub: Recursive Gaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
The way must be revealed. Truth must be undone. Ancient wounds are healed when two are joined as one.
Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 37.4%, Story Rich 7%
- #38 Firewatch
61% matchVery Positive91% of 96,788 reviews2016
Dev: Campo SantoPub: Panic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Why similar: Adventure 51.2%, Story Rich 31.7%, Indie 17%
- #39 Blue Prince
49% matchVery Positive87% of 17,330 reviews2025
Dev: DogubombPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Why similar: Adventure 40.8%, Story Rich 30.1%, Indie 29.1%
- #40 The Invincible
52% matchVery Positive89% of 9,147 reviews2023
Dev: Starward IndustriesPub: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.
Why similar: Adventure 45.9%, Female Protagonist 34%, Story Rich 20.1%
- #41 Life is Strange: Before the Storm
60% matchVery Positive93% of 37,668 reviews2017
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 26.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.7%, Story Rich 34%, Adventure 24%, Indie 6.3%
- #42 Limbus Company
53% matchVery Positive88% of 99,298 reviews2023
Dev: ProjectMoon
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 197.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Why similar: Story Rich 100%
- #43 KARMA: The Dark World
49% matchVery Positive92% of 4,125 reviews2025
Dev: POLLARD STUDIO LLCPub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
Why similar: Adventure 43.8%, Indie 28.4%, Story Rich 27.8%
- #44 WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
50% matchMixed55% of 101,301 reviews2025
Dev: LeenzeePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 23.4 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 49.5%, Adventure 31.7%, Story Rich 18.8%
- #45 DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
49% matchVery Positive88% of 69,668 reviews2024
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.Pub: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO takes the legendary gameplay of the Budokai Tenkaichi series and raises it to whole new levels. Make yours the destructive power of the strongest fighters ever to appear in Dragon Ball!
- #46 Bucket Detective
61% matchVery Positive86% of 273 reviews2017
Dev: the whale husband
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
A dark comedy/horror game by Jesse Barksdale, creator of the static speaks my name. Help a cult complete a ritual in exchange for divine inspiration to finish writing your terrible novel. A story-focused experience which takes around 45 minutes to complete.
Why similar: Adventure 52.2%, Indie 33.1%, Story Rich 14.7%
- #47 Divisadero
51% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team2Bit
Windows
Divisadero is a cli-fi, true crime narrative adventure that makes use of investigation and choice. It's a story driven game with adult themes and cinematic pixel art.
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #48 Land of Screens
56% matchVery Positive89% of 120 reviews2022
Dev: Serenity ForgePub: Way Down Deep
Windows · Mac
When Holland’s social media is lit ablaze by a recent breakup, she embarks on a new mission to ditch the social media saturation and discover some real-world relationships among a Land of Screens.
Why similar: Adventure 41.7%, Indie 25.7%, Female Protagonist 21.5%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #49 Jusant
51% matchVery Positive93% of 6,376 reviews2023
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Enjoy meditative vibes in Jusant, an action-puzzle climbing game. Scale an immeasurably tall tower and ascend to new heights alongside your watery companion. Master your climbing tools, find your way up through diverse biomes, and piece together the tower’s past.
Why similar: Adventure 63.3%, Indie 36.7%
- #50 Lake
55% matchVery Positive87% of 5,611 reviews2021
Dev: GamiousPub: Whitethorn Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 38.1%, Adventure 33.4%, Story Rich 28.5%
- #51 As If Dreaming When You're Wide Awake
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StoryTale Studios
Windows
As If is a narrative game portraying issues revolving around mental health. Experience the life of Matthew as he struggles to reach his dreams and wishes. Step into his shoes. Look from his eyes. Listen to the voices. Feel his frustrations. Packaged in artistic symbolisms and realistic grit.
Why similar: Adventure 49.5%, Indie 33.3%, Story Rich 17.2%
- #52 The voluntary chipping
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Roza A.
Windows
You have resieved an invitation from the "Greenhouse" corporation for free chipping. But you have a choice not to be enslaved! You have to fight back against cyber machines.
Why similar: Adventure 74.5%, Indie 25.5%
- #53 Lethal Company
49% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 503,608 reviews2023
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #54 FIND ALL 5: Vikings
48% matchVery Positive96% of 352 reviews2024
Dev: Very Very LITTLE Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Hey you, warrior! Do you want to go to MeowHalla? Then grab your axe and sail with us to new lands full of glorious battles and rich booty.
Why similar: Adventure 55.3%, Indie 31.4%, Story Rich 13.4%
- #55 Marvel's Midnight Suns
53% matchVery Positive82% of 23,497 reviews2022
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 35.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #56 Yuldigard's Fate
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shining Lizards
Windows · Mac
The capital of his native Yuldigard Alzia is torn apart by a civil war, in order to avoid death, the prince has to flee the city, pretending to be a wanderer. He has to find refuge in the provincial town of Torchbergen, but this visit is destined to drag on for a long time ...
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #57 Content Warning
48% matchVery Positive94% of 156,174 reviews2024
Dev: WilnylPub: Landfall
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #58 The Forgotten City
54% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,007 reviews2021
Dev: Modern StorytellerPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Why similar: Adventure 48.3%, Indie 26.3%, Story Rich 25.4%
- #59 INDIKA
49% matchVery Positive90% of 7,831 reviews2024
Dev: Odd MeterPub: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
Why similar: Adventure 34.8%, Story Rich 33.7%, Female Protagonist 31.5%
- #60 Life is Strange: True Colors
54% matchVery Positive89% of 16,448 reviews2021
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 43.7%, Story Rich 31.1%, Adventure 25.2%