- #1 Axel & Pixel
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 101 reviews2010
Dev: Silver Wish GamesPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Axel and Pixel are trapped in a beautiful but dangerous dream world. If they plan to get out they must solve its mysteries. Drawn by hand and rendered in full high-definition, Axel & Pixel is a unique journey through an artist's dream.
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- #2 Growing Pains
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 30 reviews2014
Dev: Smudged Cat Games Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Growing pains is a fast and furious platformer which gives the genre a shake up with psychedelic graphics, a thumping soundtrack and an ingenious twist. The "Vessel" continually grows and expands leaving you in a permanent race to escape the area before you find your butt wedged in a tight spot.
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- #3 Derrick the Deathfin
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 34 reviews2014
Dev: different cloth
Windows · Mac · Linux
The world's very first underwater papercraft adventure starring a goofy shark named Derrick.
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- #4 inSynch
95% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2015
Dev: Them Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An art-music-arcade game, inSynch is handcrafted and animated in stop motion. The game jumps and hops between meditative compositions and devilishly hard time-attack challenges!
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- #5 Triblaster
94% matchMostly Negative32% of 34 reviews2014
Dev: oeFun, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pew pew pew RETRO STYLE! Shoot enemies, survive, gain lives and achieve the highest scores possible all in an old school vector style game.
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- #6 Visibility
93% matchMixed61% of 95 reviews2015
Dev: Zeritum
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Visibility is a platformer that is completely dark until you place your lights. Each level has a limited set of lights which you must strategically place around the level in order to illuminate your path to the exit.
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- #7 Sym
92% matchPositive86% of 37 reviews2015
Dev: Atrax GamesPub: Mastertronic
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Sym is a puzzle-platformer that explores social anxiety disorder. Play as Josh, a teenage boy trying to reconcile a maze of two contrasting worlds that coexist within the blank spaces of each other - his perception of reality, and the world he created to avoid his fears.
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- #8 Hexile
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dystrophic LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hexile is a first-person, narrative puzzle platformer game tin which players confront the consequences of manipulating their environments.. It takes place in a beautiful, surreal landscape where the player progresses by manipulating the environment to solve puzzles.
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- #9 ROGUS - Kingdom of The Lost Souls
91% matchMixed40% of 35 reviews2015
Dev: IronDrop Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
"ROGUS - Kingdom of The Lost Souls" is the first Run'Em'Up: A minimalist, yet, epic, beat'em'up where your skills will be put to the test as you jump, aim, dodge, shield and cast spells, all at the same time. Guide an insanely powerful wizard in his hardcore and infinite quest for love & redemption.
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- #10 Bitslap
90% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2016
Dev: Comrex AG
Windows
Deep in the Andromeda galaxy, a lone warrior stands against an army of cubes. Due to quantum disturbances in the world line, cubes can only be destroyed in the order in which they appear.
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- #11 Box Looter 2018
89% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: Ludo Land
Windows
A dumb joke game in which loot boxes are the loot. Poke fun at loot boxes while poking at loot boxes. Climb the mountain and find the loot box of unknown riches that the prophecy foretold! The 2,018th game in the wildly popular Box Looter series.
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- #12 Gridrunner Revolution
89% matchVery Positive84% of 85 reviews2010
Dev: Llamasoft LTD
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 54 min≥1hr: 17%
Gridrunner Revolution is a game which has evolved over 27 years. The original Gridrunner games were created for the Commodore 64 and Vic-20 back in 1982. The company that made the games, Llamasoft, are now one of the longest established game developers in existence and over the intervening years have done pioneering work in the field of...
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- #13 Time
87% matchMixed70% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: David AE
Windows
Time is a musical experience designed for Virtual Reality where geometry and materials react to audio while using 3D sounds to increase the immersiveness.
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- #14 bead
88% matchMixed42% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: B.Bit
Windows
Physical puzzle. You need to deliver the ball to the exit. It's simple. Probably.
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- #15 Mogh
85% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Beastudio Ltd
Windows
Mages are as powerful as their imagination.
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- #16 The Under
86% matchMixed56% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Iconic Games
Windows
In a place unknown to the living, a young boy must navigate The Under so he may return to the world above.
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- #17 City Escaper
84% matchMostly Negative27% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: PatatEj
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
City escaper is a game based on a gangster escaping from police. City Escaper is a 2D game, dodge the obstacles, run away as long as you can and beat your own highscore!
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- #18 Propaganda Llama
83% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Space Wagon GamesPub: Electric Monk Media
Windows · Mac
Puzzling and adorable political intrigue. Journey through over 50 llevels of challenging puzzles populated with plenty of llamas.
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- #19 this was for you.
82% matchVery Positive87% of 127 reviews2019
Dev: Watercress
Windows · Mac · Linux
After the crash, I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. Even now, I haven’t found my way forward. I keep going back to that place. These memories are all that's left. this was for you. is an interactive visual novel, originally created for NaNoRenO2019.
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- #20 The General Retreats
84% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Incandescent Workshop LLC
Windows
The General Retreats is a puzzle game. Steer your vehicle through a dangerous battlefield, avoiding bombs, artillery, and enemy tanks. Every attempt plays out exactly the same way, so you can learn the fastest safe path to the goal. The game has ten levels and five unique vehicles to drive.
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- #21 MEGAMiX
81% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: Beatsie Boys
Windows
MEGAMiX is a rhythm-action-platform game. Move to the beat to clear platforms, fight enemies, and save the world! Did we mention it's free-to-play?
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- #22 RollingBall: Unlimited World
82% matchVery Negative21% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: PotatoIndustries
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 52%
And again you get into the world of a rolling ball. Only this time the level is just one, and it's unlimited. Easy control and insanely exciting passing obstacles with a rolling ball. Go around and jump over obstacles using only a mouse. RollingBall: Unlimited World will let you relax and rest.
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- #23 Rapid Racing
81% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Soft Loft Studios
Windows
Rapid Racing is a top-down 2D arcade style racing game - try to beat your best times on the many included levels in singleplayer, or race against friends in multiplayer.
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- #24 The Party of Demons
80% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Chensey Game
Windows
The Party of Demons is a high pace, competitive bullet hell game. It contains well-designed bullets and awesome background music. You can even compete against your friend in this game.
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- #25 Just One Color
79% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Mask
Windows
A hard puzzle game.
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- #26 山贼
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tushuo
Windows
某朝末年，烽烟四起。楚郡内生灵涂炭，青壮被逼无奈大多数只能进入深山落草为寇。在这几乎死境的楚郡内，想活下去，只有比别人更残忍。
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- #27 A2Be - A Science-Fiction Narrative
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vagabond Dog
Windows
In the far future, the invention of instantaneous and waste-free transportation has brought a new age of utopia for humanity. Explore this brave vision of our destiny, and see its many wonders.
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- #28 Save Them
78% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Black Void Media
Windows
A Minimalist horror-themed Platformer. Guide your way through increasingly twisted landscapes as the mysterious narrative unfolds. Not everything is as it seems - your journey to Save Them begins here.
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- #29 Towers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bunzosteele
Windows
Towers is a VR-only puzzle game. Find your way through 3D tower mazes by twisting floors into place.
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- #30 Vampires: Guide Them to Safety!
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 49 reviews2014
Dev: CBE software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Guide bobble-headed ignoramuses through a labyrinth before dawn. Puzzle game filled with bobble-headed non-glittering lemming-like vampires, traps, crazy music and a real challenge for serious players.
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- #31 TrivaTune
76% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Muttley1968Pub: Dragon Tech Soloutions
Windows
TrivaTune is a music Trivia game where users compete in a multiplayer world to prove they are the music king, you will be asked questions with multiple choice options and possibly even get an audio question where a track is played to you and you have to guess who the artist is or what the title or album are and maybe even the release year
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- #32 Dr. Fizzgigious' Fantabulous Carbon Dating Simulacrum
77% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Tanukitsune
Windows
Dr. Fizzgigious is a scholar fascinated by carbonated drinks and historical artifacts. His passions merged when his latest carbonated concoction brings artifacts to life! Dr. Fizzgigious' Fantabulous Carbon Dating Simulacrum is quasi-educational! Potentially Romantic! Incredibly Cute! Dr.
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- #33 Zipple World
78% matchMixed56% of 48 reviews2016
Dev: Alternative DreamsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
This is the story of Zipple, a frog warrior who must collect the objects scattered in his world of mazes and then bring them into the homes of her village.
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- #34 Town
77% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: 牛学者
Windows
Tianmin town because of what has changed, Tianmin town villagers one after another death behind what hidden secret. The protagonist because the country's reform into the town of Heaven, what will happen?
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- #35 Expedition Oregon
75% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Your Friends Upstairs
Windows
Oregon Industries has tasked with leading the colonization of the last frontier: Space. Fill spaceships with resources then blast them off into the great unknown, seeking fortune while battling calamites that try to defeat you at every turn.
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- #36 Moe Mekuri SP
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: KoheiGallery
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The goal of this game is to turn all the panels to face up. You can choose the level stage from EASY, NORMAL, and HARD. However, in order to play the NORMAL stage, you need to have passed all the EASY stages, and to play the HARD stage, all the NORMAL stages.
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- #37 Malkyrs
73% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Malkyrs Studio
Windows · Mac
Malkyrs est un jeu de cartes à collectionner connecté et évolutif ! Vos cartes s'améliorent à chaque partie. Construisez différentes stratégies avec les capacités de votre champion ! Utilisez vos cartes d'actions pour vaincre l'adversaire dans le temps imparti !
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- #38 Sketch! Run!
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 37 reviews2017
Dev: VI GAMES LLCPub: My Way Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Once upon a time the scribbles in a copy-book became alive. And Liny became alive together with them. He is eager to get to know more about the real world and visit it! But lots of difficulties are expecting him on his way. Help him to become free!
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- #39 Dimetrosaur
72% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2018
Dev: Grade 9 Games
Windows
Sneak around dinosaurs and enemy soldiers in a single player story. Explore the island, find the hidden laboratory, rescue the Doctor and avoid becoming lunch in Dimetrosaur. Similar to retro games.
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- #40 Freedom Poopie
74% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2015
Dev: Electroplasmatic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get the key to move forward! , Find the best way to achieve the level in the best time!, Dodge obstacles, enemies and survive to complete the level! Join Poopie on his adventure!
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- #41 Project G
74% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2016
Dev: Nebula Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
In this retro-styled side-scrolling shooter, you pilot a sleek submarine through earths oceans (25+ levels) fighting rogue cybernetic fishbots. The future's a difficult place and you must earn credits/ pick up materials as you progress, using them to upgrade/ change your ship to match your playing style.
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- #42 Lost Items
73% matchPositive80% of 40 reviews2017
Dev: ZoR Dev
Windows
You wake up lost in a maze and realize there are many items on the ground. They all seem high-valuable, so you decide to pick them all. But there are also many ghosts that don't really want you to pick the items. Not that they will try to kill you, but they'll steal and move the items...
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- #43 Herman 2
72% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Dirge Game Studio
Windows
"Herman 2" is a fast-paced, occasionally brutal, humorous and challenging platformer with cool music. The game has 50 levels, some very tricky digging and resource management puzzles, interesting & tough enemies, and many game mechanics. Climb, dig, throw, jump, kick, jetpack, duck, slide, and fall your way to salvation!
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- #44 Brain Booster
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 41 reviews2016
Dev: AbsQual Studio
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Are you ready to pump up your brains? Then Brain Booster is for you! Unique intellectual tasks, several levels of difficulty will force your brains move. You will not just choose correct answers, you should create them by yourself! It seems challenging? Just try it!
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- #45 Escape: VR
71% matchVery Positive80% of 175 reviews2017
Dev: JapanCoPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 99%
The main objective in this game is to find your way out.
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- #46 ByLo
70% matchMixed54% of 39 reviews2019
Dev: Mia Osterholm Sarceno
Windows
You wake up once again, but something has changed this time… Something is different… But everyone else is doing the same thing over and over again, just like they always do… You drift further and further into insanity with every action but you must escape… Don't go insane...
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- #47 Super Switch
71% matchVery Positive81% of 168 reviews2016
Dev: David MulderPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Super Switch is a difficult platformer in which you have to actively switch between 2 dimensions. It's tougher than iron and extremely rewarding.
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- #48 Let's Go There And Wander Nowhere
71% matchMixed57% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Polychroma Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Going home isn't easy.
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- #49 The Seven
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Innik Games LLC
Windows
The Seven is a simplistic, yet challenging indie platformer designed to test the player's skill and patience. With no saves, and seven trials to overcome, you must put your skill to the test to overcome the brutal challenges that lie ahead.
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- #50 Burn, Clown, Burn!
70% matchMixed63% of 40 reviews2017
Dev: Gameplay Ltd.Pub: KuKo
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Everybody knows that killer clowns dwell in the depths of hell. But what happens when an ordinary clown is thrown into hell by accident? Perform insane stunts and help the clown to avoid the fiery furnace of hell! The crowning achievement of human civilization. Period.
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- #51 Surge
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: MatchBox Studio
Windows
Endless waves, and slender like game mode. Multiple weapons and armor to combat enemies. Survive for as long as you can and get as far as possible.
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- #52 Patternis
68% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Oddscure
Windows · Linux
Put your mind into matching patterns, swiftly traveling your way.
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- #53 Pound of Flesh
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ryan Andrew
Windows
There are others in the house. It's been a long time since they have eaten, and they each have their favorite "foods". To survive, you may have to offer them parts of yourself. Your teeth, your hair. I hope you weren't too "attached" to them. You won't be for long.
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- #54 COLOR
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dual Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
COLOR invites you to tackle the physics of light by using additive color theory to solve over 100 solo and co-op puzzles, each designed to challenge you with deep, intertwining puzzle mechanics and skill-based gameplay, all presented in a sleek, minimalistic art style.
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- #55 Minako
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: ElliottPub: Hendojo
Windows
Minako is kind of like a tower defense game. The goal is to defend your castle for 30 nights. To do that you need to hire local villagers and assign them jobs. The key to victory is to keep in mind each villagers stats and skills and assign them accordingly.
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- #56 Ecio
66% matchMixed68% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: TeamDABPub: TNI Multimedia
Windows
Heartbroken man tries to change himself in order to reconcile with the girl he loves. He wants to be a better person, wants to be good enough for her. But changing has never been easy and who knows what he has to sacrifice.
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- #57 In The Bag
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Lukas Kolesar
Windows
Find out, if you can become an employee of the month in small supermarket. Your job is to pack as many customers bags as you can. You will have to work fast and smart and also be able to deal with randomly generated events, which may make your life harder.
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- #58 Agent X: Equation Rider
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Fred Ells
Windows
A bike game with an educational twist. Build and ride on algebraic equations!
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