- #1 Corridor Z
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 472 reviews2018
Dev: Mass CreationPub: We Dig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Be quick or be undead! Ordinary high school, zombie outbreak and the bunch of survivors in a run for life.
Why similar: Action 32.3%, Adventure 29.3%, Indie 24%, Runner 14.4%
- #2 RUNNER HEROES: The curse of night and day
83% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2020
Dev: IKIGAI PlayPub: Zerouno Games
Windows
RUNNER HEROES is a unique adventure in which you control two characters at the same time. Play in single mode or with a friend in two cooperative modes. Addiction and challenge at full speed through 47 levels. Do you accept the challenge?
Why similar: Adventure 32.7%, Action 32.6%, Indie 25.1%, Runner 9.6%
- #3 Clumsy Runners
78% matchMixed69% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: plaiko
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Learn how to successfully run while making qua-zillion mistakes. Run through 10 procedurally generated chapters. Die a lot. Buy upgrades. Unlock 5 characters with special abilities. Most importantly: keep your fingers healthy.
Why similar: Runner 33%, Action 24.7%, Adventure 23.3%, Indie 19%
- #4 Bubsy: Paws on Fire!
69% matchMixed62% of 102 reviews2019
Dev: Choice ProvisionsPub: Atari
Windows
From the developers of the BIT.TRIP series comes Bubsy: Paws on Fire!, the latest and greatest in bobcat-based gaming.
Why similar: Runner 38.2%, Action 27.7%, Adventure 25.9%, Indie 8.2%
- #5 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #6 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 36.8%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 28.4%
- #7 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 36.8%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 28.4%
- #8 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 37%, Adventure 34.6%, Indie 28.5%
- #9 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 36.3%, Adventure 34.9%, Indie 28.9%
- #10 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #11 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #12 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #13 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #14 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #15 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #16 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #17 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #19 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #20 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #21 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #22 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #23 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #24 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #25 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #26 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #27 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #28 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 36.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #29 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 37.9%, Adventure 34.2%, Indie 27.9%
- #30 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 35.2%, Adventure 35%, Indie 29.8%
- #31 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 38.3%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 27%
- #32 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 38.4%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 26.9%
- #33 What the Dark Keeps
49% matchNo user reviews
Dev: yazaa.works
Windows
Top-down roguelike shooter. Kill, survive, repeat.
Why similar: Adventure 35.6%, Action 34.4%, Indie 30%
- #34 Holobunnies: The Bittersweet Adventure
49% 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: Adventure 37.4%, Action 36%, Indie 26.5%
- #35 Don't Move
49% 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 38.7%, Adventure 35.2%, Indie 26.1%
- #36 Now or Later
49% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BRD Games
Windows
In Now Or Later, a Zelda-like adventure game, you can make any locked door, enemy, or even an entire dungeon disappear into thin air. But beware—every shortcut has its consequences.
Why similar: Action 34.5%, Adventure 29.2%, Indie 20.1%, Fantasy 16.2%
- #37 The Legend of Excalipurr
49% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wisp Entertainment
Windows
With magical cats as your weapons, you will never fight alone!
Why similar: Action 39.2%, Adventure 34.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #38 Swiss Knife
50% 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 36.6%, Adventure 35.2%, Indie 28.2%
- #39 Crypt Stalker
49% 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 39.2%, Adventure 34.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #40 Cornflake Crisis
50% 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 36.3%, Adventure 34.4%, Indie 29.3%
- #41 Shrine of the God-Ape
50% matchPositive98% of 40 reviews2019
Dev: Zachary Lee
Windows
Explore the legendary Shrine of the God-Ape! Fight wildlife! Dodge traps! Battle bosses! Pillage your way to the top of the island and conquer, or die trying.
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Adventure 35.2%, Indie 28.2%
- #42 The Legend of Dark Witch Renovation
50% 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 37.4%, Adventure 33.8%, Indie 28.8%
- #43 In Passing
50% matchMostly Positive79% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
A first-person 3D platforming experience through a broken mind turned against you.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 34.9%, Indie 28.5%
- #44 King rocket
50% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Kefir buildPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
Rocket launch is an indescribable experience that you will remember for a long time. In King rocket, you have the opportunity to independently launch a rocket into the sky, and moreover, control it.
Why similar: Action 36.7%, Adventure 35%, Indie 28.3%
- #45 Space Climber
50% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Ferulox Studios
Windows
Two space exterminators prepared to clean the galaxy from vermin. Collect ammo for your rifle and oxygen tanks. Old school game, funny, difficult and addictive. Compatible with keyboard and controller. 1 or 2 players (Remote Play Together). Demo available.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Adventure 35.1%, Indie 27.7%
- #46 Voxel Scavenger
50% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: ZUGALU ENTERTAINMENT
Windows
Play as a space garbage man kidnapped and trapped aboard a derelict space station in the universe’s garbage dump. Forced to collect materials in order to repair the space station to fly yourself to safety.
Why similar: Action 36.5%, Adventure 35.4%, Indie 28.1%
- #47 Wraithslayer
49% 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 38.3%, Adventure 33.3%, Indie 28.3%
- #48 Vile Matter
50% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: Decoy Software
Windows
Trapped in a deteriorating world of mystery, navigate a series of challenges & deadly puzzles in pursuit of a mysterious figure that's always one step ahead. Can you outwit this prison of shadows and survive long enough to find an answer to the madness? Or, will you fail and be consumed by the darkness?
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Adventure 35.2%, Indie 28.2%
- #49 Skelittle: A Giant Party!!
50% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Bubble Studios
Windows
Get together & funk-up the house with this crazy party game! Choose your tiny mess-maker to turn your everyday environment into a huge playground. Challenge friends & family in a series of wicked local multiplayer minigames and get creative together in the sandbox mode.
Why similar: Action 36.5%, Adventure 35.4%, Indie 28.1%
- #50 Inside Grass
50% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: Prime Bit Games SA
Windows
Children have dug a magic medallion, as a result of which they shrink to the size of insects in their garden! One of them is kidnapped by ants. You need to find magical medallion and rescue your family!
Why similar: Action 36.8%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 28.4%
- #51 SmartyTale 2D
50% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Nifedow Games
Windows
Fascinating, full of mysteries, an adventure with a storyline unfolded in the style of good old games with Retro Consoles!
Why similar: Action 35.5%, Adventure 35.3%, Indie 29.2%
- #52 Sneaker
50% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Threebeak
Windows
ATTENTION, CITIZEN! The Castle is issuing an urgent warning. A dangerous interactive media experience gives you the power to stealthily creep our cities, thwack our guards with shoes, and even rewind time.
Why similar: Action 36.8%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 28.4%
- #53 Get Me Outta Here - Deluxe/Remastered Edition
50% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Rossman Bros Games
Windows
Get ready to fight your way through an alien abduction nightmare in this retro arena shooter!
Why similar: Action 36.8%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 28.4%
- #54 Glo Phlox
50% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: Justin Sennema
Windows
Glö Phlox is a top down twin stick shooter in a deep interconnected metroidvania world. Explore a unique narrative-based experience with easy to learn combat that’s difficult to master.
Why similar: Action 36.8%, Adventure 34.9%, Indie 28.4%
- #55 The Adventures of Sullivan
50% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Austin Marsh
Windows
A retired bounty hunter is on a path of destruction to get his stolen cat back from a menacing horde of cyborg bats, and a slew of other galactic villains.
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Adventure 35.2%, Indie 28.2%
- #56 Skywalk
50% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2019
Dev: Pickle Drugs
Windows
Skywalk is a 3D first-person platformer in which you will overcome floating platforms, traps and puzzles to reach the floating isle
Why similar: Action 36.8%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 28.4%
- #57 Legendary Arcane 2 Universe
50% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Maxime CôtéPub: Côté Brothers
Windows · Linux
Legendary Arcane 2 Universe is an adventure game with 32 Pieces of equipment, more than 20 spells., a levelling system, unlockable skills., over 40 secrets to discover and 8 unique bosses. There are four difficulty modes in the game.
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Adventure 35.2%, Indie 28.2%
- #58 Vanguard Knights
50% matchPositive88% of 34 reviews2019
Dev: Royal Skies LLC
Windows · Mac
Vanguard Knights is a high octane, 3D, arcade-style shooter. Engage waves of enemy squadrons, massive robotic bosses, and weave through obstacles in order to destroy the enemy and keep your squad alive.
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Adventure 35.2%, Indie 28.2%
- #59 FIREWORK
50% matchPositive93% of 44 reviews2018
Dev: Ivan Zanotti's MyMadnessWorks
Windows
Follow Yan the Defective One through his fight against the Fire Troops and let him unveil the Facility's mystery in this action platformer.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 27%