- #1 Cats are Liquid - A Better Place
96% matchVery Positive96% of 366 reviews2019
Dev: Last Quarter Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A better place. Made just for us. – A 2D platformer about a liquid cat and her friends.
Why similar: Adventure 36.3%, Cats 32.8%, Indie 26.7%, Story Rich 4.2%
- #2 Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars
97% matchMixed69% of 130 reviews2015
Dev: Digital Eel
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sea of Stars is a starship roguelike, a sandbox adventure game of interstellar exploration and combat. Travel from star to star, upgrade your ship with new systems and weapons, build up your flotilla with allies and mercenaries, and take on a variety of alien menaces.
Why similar: Adventure 44.8%, Indie 29.3%, Space 25.9%
- #3 Bucket Detective
96% matchVery Positive86% of 274 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 49.9%, Indie 34.7%, Story Rich 15.4%
- #4 Building the Universe: The Beginning of Time
95% match2 user reviews67% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: TheBeamer LLC
Windows
Building the Universe is a time travel and building game that starts at the Big Bang and progresses through time as players recreate the conditions that resulted in the very fire atoms being created.
Why similar: Adventure 52.3%, Indie 38.9%, Space 8.9%
- #5 Blank
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 34 reviews2019
Dev: Campus ADN 2018-2019Pub: Campus ADN
Windows
Dive in the metaphorical universe of Blank, a third-person puzzle-platformer game with stealth aspects. In a world filled with headless people, you must escape from the claws of the Metropolis, switch perspective to find the right path through this dystopian world and recover Blank’s true identity.
Why similar: Adventure 45.2%, Indie 33.3%, 3D Platformer 16%, Third Person 5.4%
- #6 Eclipse Edge of Light
94% matchMixed69% of 32 reviews2020
Dev: White Elk LLC
Windows
Explore an unknown world. Discover its past. Uncover its mystery. Eclipse is a first-person sci-fi adventure game. After crash-landing on a sentient planet, you awake to find a dreamscape world filled with discovery, wonder and the littered remains of a betrayed civilization.
Why similar: Adventure 52.6%, Indie 38.5%, Space 6.1%, Story Rich 2.8%
- #7 The Keepers of Pages: Chevengur
89% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #8 Game Breaker
92% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Breaker™
Windows
You are inside the event horizon where everything is possible unless get out of it. Legends say you have to Break the Game to manifest what is beyond the event horizon. What is beyond the event horizon is unknown. Use and improve variant types of pulse backwards jumps to try to Break the Game.
Why similar: Adventure 53%, Indie 39.4%, 3D Platformer 7.6%
- #9 Elliot and the Musical Journey
91% matchMixed67% of 42 reviews2020
Dev: Orchidstra EntertainmentPub: Ahlman Game Studio
Windows
The Evil Skeleton King has stolen the music from the world and without it the world is dying. You are the only one who can revive it. Elliot and the Musical Journey is a classic 3D platformer filled with music and puzzles. Can you save your friends, the Queen and the whole world?
Why similar: Adventure 45%, Indie 32.7%, 3D Platformer 13.1%, Third Person 9.2%
- #10 Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows
91% matchVery Positive93% of 701 reviews2016
Dev: Last Quarter Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
A minimalist 2D platformer about a liquid cat, locked in a world she doesn't quite understand, trying to get out.
Why similar: Cats 35.2%, Adventure 30.1%, Indie 27.7%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #11 Long Count
90% matchNo user reviews2020
Dev: Cunum Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sierra-style Point & Click Adventure
Why similar: Adventure 55.3%, Indie 40.3%, Story Rich 4.5%
- #12 The Adventures of Sam Carlisle: The Hunt for the Lost Treasure
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Givit Game Studios (Pty) Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
My name is Sam. Sam Carlisle. I have a normal life. A life that I really enjoy. It is simple really. I go to work, come home and work on a secret project. A project that will make me millions. A lost treasure. A treasure too big for one man, one man alone.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #13 DownWind
82% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #14 One Night In The House
88% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Hight Games
Windows
One Night In The House is a first-person game with an emphasis on plot.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #15 The Masked Mage
87% matchMostly Negative27% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
The Masked Mage is a slow paced, peaceful metroidvania game focusing on exploration, atmosphere and a story about friendship, mystery and of course magic. There are no bosses to fight. Think of this as a sort of 2D walking simulator.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #16 Lit the Torch
86% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Corn EntertainmentPub: IceSimba
Windows
Lit the Torch is challenging puzzle platformer with a twist! Players control a Night Watch as they light torches and navigate through a shattered timeline. The twist is that player's can burn a portal into a different time to navigate to new altars and burn a path through obstacles in their time to existing altars.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #17 Escape from the tomb tower
86% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Ivan Pichugin
Windows · Linux
Escape from the crypt tower, where spent hundreds of years. Dark atmosphere and riddles.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #18 K'NOSSOS
77% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #19 Midnight at the Celestial Palace: Part I
85% matchPositive94% of 31 reviews2017
Dev: Orrery Games
Windows
Midnight at the Celestial Palace: Chapter I is the first episode in an all new fantasy adventure series by Orrery Games and BlipHaus Design.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #20 The Lost And Forgotten: Part 1
84% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Abstract Games Studio
Windows
After a rough relationship you set for a trip to Monument Valley to rediscover the person you once were.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #21 Citadale - The Ancestral Strain
84% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
The gravest Citadale adventure yet breaks new ground... and buries you in it!
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #22 TrapLand
83% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: TandemPub: Versus Studio
Windows
Completely new game experience in adventure games with a unique coop-mode.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #23 Den vänstra handens stig
73% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #24 Waking the Glares - Chapters I and II
82% matchMixed65% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Wisefool Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
How can a book change the universe? Dawnfall’s life has changed deeply, now he must travel and find his way back home.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #25 反现实症候群γ - Counterrealstic Syndrome γ
78% matchVery Positive93% of 191 reviews2019
Dev: Dr.LiaoPub: 迷糊的安安
Windows
高楼上的微风轻拂少女的脸庞,她似乎已经准备好去迎接自己的结局。 果然,她期待已久的【银河铁道】已经向她驶来。 奇妙的星空之旅即将展开……
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #26 Beyond Minimalism
81% matchMixed43% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: SaintHeiserPub: Half-Face Games
Windows
This small experimental first person minimalistic style game gives one and only quest for you. Walking around rooms of strange labyrinth look for clues to reach nature.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #27 DevilShaft: TheTower
81% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: SureCreatorPub: Metal Fox
Windows
DevilShaft: TheTower tells the story of the heroes who tried to fight evil from the very beginning of time. After the invasion of demonic forces on the ground, the heroes tried in every way to expel them from their land.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #28 Phenomenal Car Park Adventure: Digital Deluxe Edition
71% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #29 Ana The Game
70% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #30 Inner Riddle
70% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #31 Dunia: Masters
80% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Team Wood Block
Windows
Fill the shoes of Masters Mason-Northwood a ‘genius scientist’ who, after a failed assassination attempt, is left wandering in the dark, reading books, finding notes and listening to audio logs about the North Wood and himself, while also trying to escape his own barren lab.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #32 Occurrence at JCR Outpost
79% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Brandon Brizzi
Windows
A scientific mission in Antarctica goes awry when something is released from beneath the ice! Who is friend? Who is foe? Only you can solve the mystery of the Occurrence at JCR Outpost!
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #33 Slice of Life
78% matchMixed57% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: FurGoldGames
Windows
What to do when you are alone?
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #34 The Bears And The Bees
76% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2018
Dev: Damsel Stone
Windows
The Bears And The Bees is a debut adventure that follows the heroic exploits of Beesworth, a baby bee who hasn't got his wings yet. Bounce through a hand crafted world in which bears have kidnapped the queen bee, and everyone is relying on Beesworth to get her back!
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #35 Downloaded: Fragments of a Forgotten Soul
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: ThoseBros EntertainmentPub: ThoseBros Entertainment
Windows
In this rage worthy game help Keeli, a goddess of technology, find her redemption after falling from grace. Face 8 challenging levels, 3 bosses, and confront your own corruption. Includes Steam Achievements as well as in game side challenges and an amazing soundtrack. Formatted for Keyboard or Controller use.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #36 Potion Paws
73% matchMixed53% of 85 reviews2020
Dev: Bitten Toast Games
Windows
You’ve decided to take the risk and purchase a run down house in the middle of a spooky forest near a dungeon overrun with monsters.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #37 KALEIDO STELLA
74% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: CHARON
Windows
"Does your eye see the stars?" Visual Novel ADV "Kaleidoscope Stella" fighting with the fate of the stars Circle CHARON presents a large-scale latest work set in the universe. Peaceful lives of boys and girls are shattered by the invasion of one alien. In order to protect this blue planet, you have to fight.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #38 THE TEAR
74% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: Game Gestalt
Windows
An immersive VR adventure in a fantastic world.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #39 Drawn Story
77% matchMostly Negative33% of 15 reviews2016
Dev: Vitaly Rekubratskiy
Windows · Mac
Play as an artist looking at a painted world. You're able to create new items in this world by simply drawing them. Use your own imagination to lead a stickman character through a variety of puzzles by drawing things he can use. There’s always a few ways to solve each puzzle.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #40 Grimsfield
75% matchPositive91% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Adam Wells
Windows · Mac
Grimsfield is a short point & click story game. You take on the role of a deadbeat beatnik poet who lives in an absurdist market town somewhere in the north of England.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #41 Eternity's Child
79% matchMostly Negative22% of 77 reviews2008
Dev: Luc BernardPub: Silver Sphere Studios
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Eternity's Child, a quirky, hand drawn next generation 2D platformer is based on a fairy tale by Luc Bernard. It arrives on Steam with exclusive Steam Only levels and HD Resolution. Features: Beautiful 2D graphics with one of the most unique art direction done in a videogame Orchestral Soundtrack Game to be updated with new levels and...
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #42 裁決者 -The White Butcher-
62% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #43 LETHE: Broken memories
62% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #44 Bildo
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: DALESI
Windows
Bildo is a 2D platform game in which the player plays the role of Bildo, a boy who saw his homeland consumed and ravaged by The Darkness, and decided to start a quest around the world in search for The Colors. Guided by The Keeper and he will begin his mission to beat The Darkness and restore the Light to Nibiru.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #45 FALL 坠落之后
71% matchPositive90% of 31 reviews2018
Dev: 朵游社Pub: Fantasia Studio
Windows
小红和小蓝是一对要好的朋友,一次意外使她们从山崖坠落。再次醒来时,周围尽是恐怖的怪物、凄凉的白骨,到处都是危险的陷阱……她们能否成功逃离?
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #46 Escape Black Orion VR
72% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Pulse Studio LLC
Windows
In Escape Black Orion you are in a mysterious facility, Black Orion. Something has gone wrong and now you are locked in the engineering bay with gas pouring into the room. Using you wits and whatever tools you can find you must disengage the door locks to escape before your air runs out.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #47 Tesla Breaks the World!
75% matchMostly Negative22% of 63 reviews2014
Dev: Archetype Global
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Classic 2D platforming that blends elements of: Nikola Tesla, puzzles, inventions, 1800's-era undead and a sprinkling of the maniacal Thomas Edison. Throw in a dash of randomly generating level sectors, a zesty squeeze of items and a pinch of indie love... Tasty!
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #48 Dark Train: Coupe
60% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #49 La Aventura De Axel
71% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Tordrix GamesPub: Tordrix
Windows
this fantastic and spectacula adventure, Get on the skin of Axel, a young man who by strange and mysterious circumstances lost his sister and took a long and incredible way to try to rescue her. In a journey full of magic and strange creatures you will have to help achieve your goal.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #50 A-Escape VR
72% matchMixed55% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: CTN Design, LLCPub: A-Escape
Windows
A-Escape is an escape room game built from the ground up for VR. Will you escape in time?
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #51 Nor'Easter
59% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #52 Airglow
59% 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #53 Where The Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats
68% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Dim Bulb GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats is a free standalone experience which acts as a companion to Where The Water Tastes Like Wine.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #54 圣山ShenShan
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: lynchhead
Windows
Explore the holy mountain and use equipment and cards to defeat the enemy to discover the value of your existence
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #55 Castle Agony
69% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: The Pompous Pixel
Windows
Welcome to Agony. Inspired by the Resident Evil of old, the golden age of NES gaming and the Castlevania series, you play a local hero with a dog! Forced by your village to enter the crumbling castle filled with trickery, magic and monsters! Can you defeat The Vampire and live to see another dawn?
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #56 Buratino
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VoJackBoJack
Windows
Buratino is a 2D arcade game with light adventure elements for the ZX Spectrum 8-bit computer.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #57 Catsby
70% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: OOTOTGames
Windows · Mac
Catsby works in Happy Technology. He helps people to become happy. One day, he signed a big contract with Steven to make his master Doctor Philip become happy again. Unfortunately, during the task, he was turned into a cat. But he still has to finish his task, so here his "Cat Adventure" goes...
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #58 Super Chipflake Ü: Quest for the Uncooked Schnitzel
48% matchVery Positive96% of 412 reviews2026
Dev: SalsaShark Studios
Windows
You're hungry. For a schnitzel. The problem is: you have to get it!
Why similar: Cats 28.7%, Adventure 27.2%, 3D Platformer 26.4%, Third Person 10.6%, Indie 7%
- #59 Hermina Lumen is Only Human
56% 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 56.8%, Indie 43.2%