- #1 Skeleton Boomerang
97% matchVery Positive96% of 186 reviews2017
Dev: Skeleboom ProjectPub: Artisano
Windows
Skeleton Boomerang is a platformer where the hero, Hunter, must use an enchanted boomerang to put an end to an army of bony soldiers led by the voodoo master Mr. Saturday. Get high scores, collect upgrades, find secrets, and overcome many skeletal challenges!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.1%, Action 28.5%, Indie 20.3%, Platformer 14.2%
- #2 LOVE 2: kuso
96% matchVery Positive96% of 216 reviews2017
Dev: Fred Wood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
kuso is the sequel to LOVE, and is a challenging yet fair platformer with a simple aesthetic. You have the ability to run, jump, and leave your own checkpoint. Make your way through acid, long jumps, disappearing platforms, bouncers, giant saws, and much more in this dreadful mechanical world.
Why similar: Action 30.5%, Great Soundtrack 28.5%, Indie 26.3%, Platformer 14.8%
- #3 Plant Revenge
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: David Jenni
Windows
Take revenge for what scientists made with your girlfriend.
Why similar: Action 34.7%, Indie 26.7%, Gore 24.5%, Platformer 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
- #4 Life Lessons
94% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Ben Busby
Windows · Mac
A fetus in a simulation is taught a series of lessons about life by a primitive, overly literal artificial intelligence. There's 30 different "lessons" to get through, but you probably won't survive.
Why similar: Action 32%, Indie 24.6%, Great Soundtrack 21.8%, Platformer 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
- #5 Grey Phobia
95% matchMixed50% of 64 reviews2016
Dev: Blackturn Ltd
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Grey Phobia is a Hack and Slash, third person shooter game, which is based on post apocalyptic, sci-fi, comix scenario.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.3%, Action 26.1%, Great Soundtrack 25.2%, Indie 18.4%
- #6 Flem
94% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2015
Dev: Henchman & Goon
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Try, die, cry, repeat. Flem is an old school hard-as-nails platformer about a sentient snot ball, with a nose-stalgia inducing soundtrack.
Why similar: Action 38.6%, Indie 29.3%, Platformer 18.1%, Great Soundtrack 14%
- #7 BLEAK: Welcome to Glimmer
93% matchVery Positive89% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: Novelline, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A super high difficulty, fantastical 2D action platformer complete with an expansive original soundtrack. 20+ Levels. Multiple playable characters. Rich lore. BLEAK: Welcome to Glimmer is Act One in a timeless tale of loss and redemption.
Why similar: Action 43.7%, Indie 33.2%, Great Soundtrack 14.5%, Platformer 8.6%
- #8 Down Ward
91% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Fisholith
Windows
Venture into the haunted wilds with Gable, a little owl, as she sets out to rekindle the dormant relics of a land long abandoned to ruin.
Why similar: Action 41%, Indie 33.5%, Platformer 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%
- #9 JunkerBot
92% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2017
Dev: RedNukem
Windows
JunkerBot is a Single-Player Car Combat game, where you destroy, recycle, and replicate vehicles. But why? to Decontaminate!
Why similar: Action 38.2%, Post-apocalyptic 34.9%, Indie 26.9%
- #10 League of Evil
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 63 reviews2016
Dev: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
League of Evil is an action game where you, as a bionic super agent take on the mission to defeat the League of Evil. Use your acrobatic skills to punch your way through levels filled with deadly traps and defeat your enemies. The world is counting on you!
Why similar: Action 38.8%, Indie 30.7%, Platformer 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%
- #11 Blitz Breaker
90% matchVery Positive88% of 152 reviews2016
Dev: Boncho Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A simple, fast paced platformer with one small change: Your character can't run. Play as an adorable robot named Blitz and help it escape the factory it was built in. The only problem is, it seems like everything is trying to break you!
Why similar: Action 26.4%, Great Soundtrack 25.5%, Indie 20.9%, Platformer 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
- #12 Ninjapple
87% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Gamebringer
Windows
Ninjapple is a crazy 2D platformer in which you need to collect the five elemental medalions to bring peace back to the world ! Take part in this adventure throughout many levels !
Why similar: Action 45.8%, Indie 35.2%, Great Soundtrack 19%
- #13 The Sun and Moon
89% matchVery Positive87% of 185 reviews2014
Dev: Daniel Linssen
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%
The Sun and Moon, the winner of Ludum Dare 29, is a platformer with a unique mechanic: you can dive into the ground. Momentum is conserved but gravity is reversed, letting you fling yourself high into the air or deep beneath the surface.
Why similar: Action 28.3%, Indie 27.9%, Platformer 22.2%, Great Soundtrack 21.6%
- #14 The Other Side Of The Screen
89% matchMixed59% of 66 reviews2018
Dev: VaNyuHa
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
The game has 5 main characters that participate in a deadly show called "The Other Side of the Screen" . Each player has to find a way out of his location. The levels and their difficulty are completely different. You are given an opportunity to play for any of the mentioned characters.
Why similar: Gore 39.7%, Action 22.7%, Great Soundtrack 19.5%, Indie 18%
- #15 Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation
86% matchVery Positive89% of 792 reviews2016
Dev: FreakZone GamesPub: Retroware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!
Why similar: Action 26%, Indie 18.6%, Gore 18.1%, Great Soundtrack 17.4%, Platformer 13.9%
- #16 Leilani's Island
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ishisoft
Windows
Leilani has got to roll, jump, and smash things to take back her island from mechanical invasion! A tropical 2D platformer in the making for PC.
Why similar: Action 47%, Indie 35.1%, Platformer 17.9%
- #17 Shadowcrypt
88% matchMixed58% of 111 reviews2014
Dev: One-bit Punch
Windows · Mac
Shadowcrypt is an arcade-style dungeon crawler with tactical sword & shield combat. Find the Necromancer and defeat his horde of undead warriors through a series of labyrinthine rooms.
Why similar: Action 38%, Indie 28.5%, Platformer 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%
- #18 People Eater
85% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Perfect Square Studios LLC
Windows
A vicious, man-eating monster has escaped. And that monster is you! Rampage, devour, and dodge your way through endless procedurally generated levels. Overcome harrowing boss fights, unlock new monsters and upgrades, and compete for first place in the leaderboards. Sate your hunger or die trying.
Why similar: Action 57.7%, Indie 42.3%
- #19 Atomik: RunGunJumpGun
84% matchVery Positive86% of 326 reviews2016
Dev: ThirtyThreePub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.
Why similar: Action 32.3%, Indie 24.9%, Great Soundtrack 17.1%, Platformer 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%
- #20 Mos Speedrun 2
84% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2015
Dev: Physmo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mos is back, in her biggest and most exciting adventure ever! Wall-jump to victory through 30 mysterious, action packed levels!
Why similar: Action 43.6%, Indie 32%, Platformer 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
- #21 Ember Kaboom
81% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2016
Dev: Josh Koenig Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Ember's a fox who loves adventure. Run, jump, and ride through 30+ colorful, fast-paced obstacle courses in a quest to get your missing soul back!
Why similar: Action 44.7%, Indie 33.1%, Platformer 22.2%
- #22 Demon Hearts
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 73 reviews2015
Dev: Jon Harwood Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Demon Hearts is a 2D platformer game that will leave you feeling blood thirsty for victory every time you play! Take the winged and dangerously swift Vampiress Snow through many challenging silhouette environments while withstanding the many divergent demons, evil forces, and bosses!
Why similar: Action 44.3%, Indie 34.1%, Platformer 21.7%
- #23 The Flesh God
78% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: Nuberu Games
Windows
The Flesh God is a tough action platformer where you shoot a massive gun to fly through deadly levels infested with mutant flesh.
Why similar: Action 42.9%, Indie 33%, Platformer 24%
- #24 Lizard
77% matchPositive94% of 32 reviews2018
Dev: Brad Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
Put on a lizard and go for an adventure! Six different ones are scattered across the land, each with a special ability. Carefully hop your way to the top of an active volcano. Surf down a surging river. Swim an underwater lake. Ascend a snowy mountaintop. Can you unravel the mysteries of Lizard?
Why similar: Action 29%, Indie 22.3%, Great Soundtrack 21.1%, Platformer 17%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%
- #25 Bugspeed Collider
79% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2016
Dev: Skelefactor
Windows · Mac
Destroy your friends. Destroy the world. In Bugspeed Collider, you are a super-powered beetle, and there is only war.Unlimited flight, high-impact melee, long-ranged fireball throwing, and fully destructible worlds. That's right, burn it all.Full support for 1-4 players. we're sure there's a deadly scenario to match any taste.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #26 Concursion
81% matchMixed56% of 84 reviews2014
Dev: Puuba
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Concursion is a multi-genre game played on the boundaries between worlds. Steer your hero through a dangerous interdimensional universe, switching between different genres on the fly, pulling off feats of tight aerial acrobatics otherwise unattainable in one genre alone.
Why similar: Action 43.5%, Indie 34.7%, Platformer 21.9%
- #27 Stonerid
80% matchMixed66% of 213 reviews2014
Dev: Enitvare
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Stonerid is a challenging 2D platformer, which the most important feature are two parallel, different worlds. Over 30 different levels to complete, unconventional game style and lots of dangerous traps and monsters make it extremely difficult to rise to the challenge.
Why similar: Action 44.2%, Indie 32.7%, Platformer 23.1%
- #28 Ghost in the Machine
79% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2015
Dev: Michael J. Moffitt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ghost in the Machine is about the player's escape from a run-down factory following a large explosion. In the dark factory there are many dangerous machines that must be minded in order to not be crushed or mechanically separated.
Why similar: Action 41.7%, Indie 34.9%, Platformer 23.4%
- #29 Space Jammers
77% matchMixed53% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Spread Shot Studios LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Space Jammers is a 1-4 player Sci-Fi rogue-ish top-down shooter. Guide an alien rock band of space kitten pirates through a fractured multi-verse. Fly starfighters, board space ships and loot local populations to fund your musical tour.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #30 Slip
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 108 reviews2014
Dev: Handsome Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Slip is a fast paced side scrolling platformer featuring a two color, swap mechanic. Using your two colors flee from Steve and his wretched purple beam through a multitude of obstacles and enemies. Slip combines the elegant simplicity of platforming with a polarity mechanic to create an easy to learn, but extremely difficult to master...
Why similar: Action 41.3%, Indie 34.4%, Platformer 24.2%
- #31 Gambol
74% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2018
Dev: Mike Pickering
Windows
Gambol is a wall-hopping, ceiling-slapping jaunt of a platformer with straight forward controls, and buttery smooth movement. You control the Gambol Gumball through a gauntlet of levels designed with flow and rhythm in mind to test your platforming grit.
Why similar: Indie 38.9%, Action 37.6%, Platformer 23.5%
- #32 16bit vs Reality
67% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: Weird Stuff Studio
Windows
Retro-style platformer inspired by the 16bit classics. Jump and shoot your way through challenging levels. Watch two distinct visual styles collide. Enjoy the awesome rocking music. In the name of all that is childhood!
Why similar: Indie 26.2%, Great Soundtrack 26.2%, Action 21.7%, Platformer 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%
- #33 Deadly Edge
76% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Bison Kings Game Studios
Windows
Featuring complex fighting moves and a rich story set in a dark grey fantasy world, Deadly Edge is an homage to 16 bit side-scrolling action adventures (and even fighting!) games from the 1990s. Every battle encountered is a one-on-one duel to the death dripping with lore and mystery.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #34 Monumental Failure
74% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2017
Dev: Scary Wizard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Monumental Failure is a historically (in)accurate physics-based monument construction simulator. The game empowers you to recreate some of the world's most impressive architectural feats using incredible, and hard-to-believe, construction techniques.
Why similar: Action 57.7%, Indie 42.3%
- #35 Valfaris
68% matchVery Positive83% of 2,694 reviews2019
Dev: Steel MantisPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
Why similar: Gore 23.6%, Action 21.5%, Great Soundtrack 18.8%, Platformer 15.2%, Indie 12%
- #36 Deep Dark Dungeon
73% matchMixed60% of 50 reviews2018
Dev: GlassCats
Windows · Mac
Deep Dark Dungeon is a rogue-lite action game in which the player dives into the deep, dark depths of various dungeons filled with bad-tempered monsters that will attack them on sight.
Why similar: Action 57.4%, Indie 42.6%
- #37 Escape Lizards
73% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Egodystonic StudiosPub: Independent
Windows
Escape Lizards is simple: Tilt the platforms to roll your lizard egg from the start point to the finishing bell at the end of the level. However, things are never as simple as they seem...
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #38 Hyper Gods
57% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Ground Control Studios
Windows
Hyper Gods is a 2D cinematic 80's-influenced shoot'em up that places you in frantically fast 1v1 battles against the Gods. Dodge, boost and shoot your way to protect Mankind and prevent its extinction!
Why similar: Action 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #39 Super Skull Smash GO! 2 Turbo
71% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: TACS GamesPub: Poppy Works
Windows · Mac
The Kingdom of Bones needs you! Purify the land and stop Evil King once and for all. Take the skull-smashing puzzle platformer in a new direction with TURBO action, TURBO puzzles and TURBO boss battles.
Why similar: Action 32.2%, Great Soundtrack 27.6%, Indie 24.8%, Platformer 15.4%
- #40 Swiftly
76% matchMixed51% of 142 reviews2016
Dev: Cleverweek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Swiftly is a very challenging platformer game. It has simple graphics and easy to understand rules, but you are going to have a hard time completing the levels.
Why similar: Action 51.6%, Indie 30.1%, Platformer 18.3%
- #41 Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
69% matchVery Positive94% of 485 reviews2017
Dev: Yacht Club Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Take control of Specter Knight, servant to the Enchantress, in a quest to recruit a cadre of knights and create the Order of No Quarter. Experience perfect platforming, world-class visuals, impeccable stage design, incredible music, and even meet a friend or two in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment!
Why similar: Action 31%, Indie 23.1%, Platformer 20.9%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%
- #42 Farjob
70% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Simon Kaley
Windows · Mac
Delve into a boundless realm of twisting pathways and absurd bosses.
Why similar: Action 41%, Indie 31.5%, Platformer 27.5%
- #43 AquaNimble
73% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: DrinkingNails, LLC
Windows
AquaNimble is about crazy intense shooter action with big quirky guns against underwater snake dragons, cybernetic sharks, swirling skeletons, submarines and so much more. It's a dynamic game that makes every play through different and lets you set your own challenge beyond a difficulty setting.
Why similar: Action 35.5%, Indie 27.3%, Great Soundtrack 25.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%
- #44 Cataegis : The White Wind
71% matchMixed78% of 556 reviews2015
Dev: Acido CinzaPub: KISS ltd
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Welcome to Cataegis - The White Wind: Ziggurat Chapter, a frantic 2D arcade action retro-style game that pays homage to the glory days of 8-bit side scrolling gaming.
Why similar: Action 43.9%, Indie 28.9%, Platformer 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 11%
- #45 Wooden Sen'SeY
75% matchMixed54% of 137 reviews2013
Dev: Upper BytePub: Spawn Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Wooden Sen'SeY is an action-platformer, set in a unique "Japan Steam Rock" universe filled with humour. You follow Goro, a village chief, as he seeks revenge through a variety of levels. He will defeat his enemies using his axes to slice, dice, squash and grapple!
Why similar: Action 44%, Indie 31.2%, Platformer 24.8%
- #46 Terrarium Land
72% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Layer games
Windows · Linux
Do explore the world`s levels, find secret places, unique artifacts and bonuses. In the Terrarium Land world, destroy enemies and solve the puzzles in different levels. This colorful 3D arcade game has tons of adventure in store for you. Let it begin!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #47 Frizzy
72% matchMixed57% of 21 reviews2015
Dev: Team Frizz
Windows
Frizzy is a platformer filled with awesome action. The main plot is that you are a frizzy ball of fur who can latch onto static balls launch himself around the levels.
Why similar: Action 34.7%, Indie 25.9%, Great Soundtrack 22.2%, Platformer 17.3%
- #48 Volvox
71% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2015
Dev: Neotenia
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Trimoebas are unicellular rolling animals that populate the primordial soup. Their dream is to build the first multicellular creatures. To succeed they will have to dig tunnels, build towers, and construct bridges, having no tools but their triangular bodies and their special abilities!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Galacatraz: Eject Equip Escape
75% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Summer Bear Studio
Windows
Escape Galacatraz, the universe's most secure detainment facility, in this side scrolling twin stick shooter! GAMEPAD REQUIRED!
Why similar: Action 41.9%, Indie 32.3%, Platformer 25.8%
- #50 FEIST
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 537 reviews2015
Dev: Bits & BeastsPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A desperate, savage survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack.
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Indie 28.6%, Platformer 22.5%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%
- #51 Gutwhale
60% matchVery Positive93% of 142 reviews2020
Dev: Stuffed Wombat
Windows
Gutwhale is a roguelite about managing the space between you and your ammo, while fighting your way through a digestive system!
Why similar: Action 38.9%, Indie 29.4%, Gore 14.2%, Platformer 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
- #52 Last Stitch Goodnight
68% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: Well Bred Rhino
Windows · Mac · Linux
Last Stitch Goodnight is a side scrolling action adventure that embraces a new mythology. After a near-death experience, you are kidnapped by a doctor who is experimenting on people who satisfy certain criteria. Escape will require new weapons, powers, and a strong stomach for bad science.
Why similar: Indie 41.2%, Action 40.8%, Platformer 18%
- #53 Game of Dragons
56% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: 14Dimension Enterprise
Windows
Card deck building full 3D RPG game. Collect materials to craft gears. Assembles seals that can be mounted on equipment.
- #54 The Adventures of Clive McMulligan on Planet Zeta Four
66% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Broke Astronaut
Windows
Clive McMulligan is a 2D retro-inspired action/puzzle/platformer with challenging old school style gameplay. Over 70 levels with fast-paced gravity switching mechanics.
Why similar: Action 45.7%, Indie 35.2%, Platformer 19.1%
- #55 Melon Simulator™
50% matchVery Positive88% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: Delirious & Co.
Windows
Melon Simulator™ is a chaotic, co-op (1 - 4 players), first person melee combat game. Almost anything that isn't nailed down can be used to whack, slice, and throw at the oncoming melon hoard...
Why similar: Gore 51.7%, Action 29.2%, Indie 19.1%
- #56 Ouroboros: Prelude
68% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Dreamverse Entertainment
Windows
Trapped. Hunted. Haunted. Can you survive the darkness or will madness take you?
Why similar: Gore 70.1%, Indie 29.9%
- #57 Rumpus
66% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Polyraptor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hosted by the ever-charismatic Mr. Rumpus and inspired by the golden age of couch multiplayer, Rumpus is a fast-paced arcade action game for up to 4 players!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%