- #1 Squirbs
97% matchMixed67% of 445 reviews2016
Dev: Team Indev
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Squirbs is a challenging puzzle-platformer in which you control two cute blue Squirbs simultaneously with one set of controls. Looking for an awesomely difficult game? That's Squirbs.
Why similar: Action 42.5%, Adventure 20.5%, Difficult 19.9%, Indie 17.2%
- #2 Kautic - The Bald Wizard
96% matchVery Positive83% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: Bad Coffee Games
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Kautic is an action platform game where villagers from a little Town have been petrified and now Kautic, the Bald Wizard, has the hard mission of saving them, but he will need to venture into a world controlled by evil creatures.
Why similar: Action 50.6%, Adventure 21.3%, Indie 16.5%, Difficult 11.7%
- #3 Garbanzo Quest
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 682 reviews2024
Dev: zagawee
Windows · Mac · Linux
GARBANZO QUEST! The crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Bring a friend! Hand-crafted challenges, secrets, and branching paths galore!
Why similar: Difficult 41.1%, Action 39.4%, Indie 19.6%
- #4 Mr. Bree+
96% matchVery Positive85% of 230 reviews2014
Dev: TawStudio Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Mr. Bree+ is a hardcore sidescrolling adventure platformer, enriched with great visual and musical aspects. It's about 60 levels of pure challenge, revealing along the progress, the dark past events which tells the story of our hero, a householding family pig, Mr. Bree.
Why similar: Action 53.5%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 22%
- #5 Dispersio
95% matchVery Positive89% of 91 reviews2016
Dev: Achpile
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Dispersio is a retro-style action platformer. As you progress through the game, you will have to use and combine special abilities, such as dashing, wall-jumping and more. There's even a hard mode for hardcore players.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Difficult 35.9%, Indie 27.3%
- #6 Through the Mirror
94% matchVery Positive82% of 124 reviews2017
Dev: Cleiton OliveiraPub: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A hard, mind bending platformer based on imagination and quick reflexes.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Difficult 26.4%, Indie 17.1%
- #7 Sponchies
93% matchVery Positive86% of 66 reviews2017
Dev: TrerPlayPub: Edco Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to the Sponchies tryouts, The Sponchies are an ELITE TEAM created by the government to do special, secret, impossible missions; Only the best are able to get into the program. In order to become a Sponchie you have to complete a set of 50 incredibly difficult hand crafted levels.
Why similar: Action 43.7%, Difficult 39.5%, Indie 11.8%, Adventure 5%
- #8 Stonerid
92% matchMixed66% of 218 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 76.6%, Indie 23.4%
- #9 VolChaos
91% matchMixed68% of 59 reviews2015
Dev: Fun Infused Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Volchaos is an ultra-challenging old school platformer.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Adventure 23.1%, Difficult 13.3%, Indie 8.3%
- #10 Hoppup!
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 80 reviews2020
Dev: Stephen Damm Boeaas
Windows
Attempt to jump to the top of the world in this short, yet difficult platforming adventure. Meet strange friends along the way and make sure not to fall!
Why similar: Difficult 28.2%, Action 27.3%, Adventure 25.4%, Indie 19.1%
- #11 Hikikomori No Chuunibyou
91% matchMixed64% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Blaze Epic
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou is a pseudo 8-bit platform-adventure game with beat-em-up, puzzle, and stealth elements. With its storytelling directing the player through open-ended levels, progression through each stage requires usage of parkour-like abilities and martial-arts techniques.
Why similar: Action 58%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 17.6%
- #12 The Crown of Wu
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: Red MountainPub: Meridiem Games
Windows
Unravel the mystery behind the stolen crown of Wu. Run, jump, fight, explore, master the elements of fire, air, earth and lightning, cross through chasms and solve puzzles, in this action and adventure-packed game, with a high level of difficulty as well as a narrative full of mythology.
Why similar: Action 39.8%, Difficult 33%, Adventure 15.2%, Indie 11.9%
- #13 Blaite
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 559 reviews2017
Dev: Dosane GamesPub: Akim Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A platform game so difficult and at the same time, so addictive that you will enjoy having to repeat a levels dozens of times until complete them.
Why similar: Action 44.3%, Indie 21.4%, Difficult 18.3%, Adventure 16%
- #14 Knight's Try
85% matchVery Positive94% of 246 reviews2022
Dev: Modus Interactive
Windows
Knight's Try is a tough platformer with retro 64 bit 3D graphics. Take on the role of an honorable Knight of Trye attempting to complete their sacred trial by leaping through a world full of perilous pitfalls and dangerous traps!
Why similar: Action 68.5%, Adventure 29.2%, Indie 2.3%
- #15 Crowman & Wolfboy
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 89 reviews2017
Dev: Wither StudiosPub: Wither Studios, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crowman & Wolfboy is a story driven, level based, action-platformer/runner hybrid. Join this unlikely pair of shadow creatures on a bizarre journey to escape their own nature and find the mysterious beings known as "humans".
Why similar: Action 53.4%, Adventure 23.6%, Indie 23%
- #16 Swiftly
86% 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 80.6%, Indie 19.4%
- #17 Button Button Up!
84% matchVery Positive95% of 181 reviews2019
Dev: Centrosphere GamesPub: Kunpan Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
"Button Button Up!" is a platformer party game. Players need to use limited resources to help their partner passing different laser obstacles. The bros are going share their weal and woe to complete a fantastic adventure by the lead of Mr. Bunny.
Why similar: Difficult 43.8%, Action 40.8%, Adventure 15.5%
- #18 Concursion
86% matchMixed55% 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 75.3%, Indie 24.7%
- #19 Genius Greedy Mouse
84% matchVery Positive83% of 119 reviews2016
Dev: Space Fractal
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
GENIUS GREEDY MOUSE is a clay based puzzle game featuring a host of fun and challenging levels.
Why similar: Action 57.6%, Adventure 24.7%, Indie 17.7%
- #20 SUPER Dungeon Muncher
79% matchMixed68% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: n_nexy
Windows
Avoid becoming Muncher's next meal in this fast-paced, brutally challenging adventure!
Why similar: Action 61.3%, Difficult 24.9%, Indie 13.8%
- #21 DarkMaus
82% matchVery Positive81% of 438 reviews2016
Dev: Daniel Wright
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 48%
DarkMaus is an indie action RPG with challenging, skill-based combat that punishes careless play.
Why similar: Action 50.9%, Difficult 32.4%, Indie 16.7%
- #22 Get Tilted! :)
78% matchVery Positive98% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Timebat Studio
Windows
Tilt and jump your way out of the depths of a grand city. A difficult game where falling is your biggest obstacle, get used to starting over. Don't get too tilted :)
Why similar: Difficult 55.3%, Action 41.7%, Adventure 3.1%
- #23 A Wizard's Lizard
83% matchMostly Positive70% of 445 reviews2014
Dev: Lost Decade Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Conquer the forces of Death in A Wizard’s Lizard, an action RPG for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Explore ever-changing dungeons, filled with powerful weapons and items. Battle back the hordes of evil. Rescue villagers to improve your town and increase your power for your next trek into the dungeon.
Why similar: Action 58.6%, Indie 20.5%, Difficult 13.8%, Adventure 7.1%
- #24 Mushroom Men: Truffle Trouble
82% matchMixed62% of 50 reviews2015
Dev: Red Fly Studio
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Truffle Trouble is a unique game featuring Pax, the hero of Mushroom Men, that combines classic platforming action with imaginative puzzle-solving as you must move, stack, and use objects to create new paths to jump and clamber on, all while the besotted Truffle Princess draws ever closer.
Why similar: Action 70.3%, Indie 29.7%
- #25 Talewind
81% matchMixed59% of 112 reviews2016
Dev: WindLimit Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Talewind is a whimsical platformer where you play as a young boy that is trying to save his village, but dont let its looks fool you, it will challenge even the most experienced platformer veterans. trailer music: bensound.com
Why similar: Action 56.8%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 18%
- #26 Box Maze
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 280 reviews2017
Dev: GamersHype ProductionsPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Join Cubert on his journey to reach his true love in Box Maze, a platforming adventure filled with challenging levels, dangerous enemies, hidden secrets, and powerful bosses.
Why similar: Action 49.7%, Indie 29.4%, Adventure 20.9%
- #27 Kitty's Hungry Adventure
74% matchVery Positive89% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: Galactic Geckon
Windows
Kitty's Hungry Adventure is a hardcore cozy platformer about Kitty’s adventures as she tries to cook the most delicious dishes while overcoming dangers and solving puzzles.
Why similar: Difficult 86.9%, Adventure 13.1%
- #28 Chamber of Darkness
81% matchMixed46% of 68 reviews2018
Dev: The Crow StudiosPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Play as a fearsome knight on a journey filled with challenges. Use a variety of abilities and powerups to take down enemies in an abandoned, torn by war castle.
Why similar: Adventure 42.9%, Indie 31.8%, Difficult 25.3%
- #29 LOST BUBBLES: Sweet mates
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 100 reviews2021
Dev: KIMIDORI SOFT
Windows
This is a hard action adventure game for the modern warrior who survives in a harsh society, depicting the smoothness of soap, the stubbornness of defying it while cutting yourself, and the sense of unity with like-minded friends you meet along the way.
Why similar: Action 73.8%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 3.3%
- #30 Fluffy Creatures VS The World
79% matchMixed44% of 306 reviews2017
Dev: Amaterasu Software
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Fluffy Creatures VS The World is a simple platforming indie game that puts the player in control of Fluffy McCuddleston, a member of a peaceful, intellectual race. Can you save yourself and the entire Fluffyland?
Why similar: Action 43%, Indie 39.4%, Adventure 17.6%
- #31 Venture Kid
76% matchVery Positive84% of 230 reviews2018
Dev: Snikkabo ASPub: FDG Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes
Why similar: Action 77.8%, Indie 22.2%
- #32 Peppy's Adventure
75% matchVery Positive83% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Pepite Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Peppy’s Adventure is a challenging 1-screen, tile-based, action-puzzle game controlled with directional inputs only. Help Peppy progress through unique levels and worlds to save his family from the Hooded Fox. Precise timing, fast thinking and trickery will be key to advance and unveil mysteries.
Why similar: Action 43.7%, Difficult 36.5%, Adventure 19.8%
- #33 Squirreltopia
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 284 reviews2015
Dev: SD
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Squirrel-based 2D platformer
Why similar: Difficult 37.4%, Action 35.3%, Adventure 14.9%, Indie 12.4%
- #34 Bob Was Hungry
75% matchVery Positive88% of 626 reviews2015
Dev: Shorebound Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Bob Was Hungry is a challenging precision platformer with many levels designed to truly test your platforming skills. Play alone or online with 2-8 player co-op and make your way through countless perils to feed your bob!
Why similar: Difficult 65.4%, Indie 34.6%
- #35 Dog Adventure
73% matchVery Positive81% of 113 reviews2022
Dev: Quarlellle
Windows
Dog Adventure is an incredibly challenging side-scrolling game. If you like challenging platformers, then this game is definitely for you. In this game you play as a funny dog that needs to get into its house. Complete all the hardest levels of this game with funny music!
Why similar: Adventure 40.7%, Indie 30.2%, Difficult 29%
- #36 Hardcore and Death
68% matchVery Positive82% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: ZERO5GAMES
Windows
Run through huge multi-level locations, avoiding spikes, falling platforms, and flying blades, use double jumps, and choose your route to reach the Heart before the lights go out.
Why similar: Adventure 52.6%, Action 32.9%, Indie 14.4%
- #37 Yury
76% matchMixed56% of 608 reviews2014
Dev: Cubic Pie
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
For those of you who cannot live without old-style hardcore platformer challenges, Yury brings the ultimate spikes-lava-monsters experience.
Why similar: Action 38.5%, Difficult 23.4%, Indie 20.3%, Adventure 17.8%
- #38 Super Dungeon Boy
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 212 reviews2017
Dev: Tower Up Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 27%
2D platform game focused on intense combat against enemies and exploration of secret areas in dark dungeons full of dangers.
Why similar: Action 46.2%, Difficult 24.7%, Indie 15.5%, Adventure 13.5%
- #39 REZ PLZ
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2020
Dev: Long Neck GamesPub: Graffiti Games
Windows
A puzzle platformer with a new twist on co-op and single player gameplay. Solve puzzles, platforming challenges, and encounter dangerous monsters and traps that require you to KILL and resurrect your brother to advance! Death is just part of the adventure.
Why similar: Action 42.5%, Difficult 41.9%, Adventure 15.6%
- #40 TetherGeist
64% matchVery Positive98% of 343 reviews2026
Dev: O. and Co. Games
Windows · Mac
TetherGeist is a challenging precision platformer that rewards practice and perseverance. Guide Mae and her axolotl spirit, Bao, on a wholesome coming-of-age pilgrimage while mastering Astral Projection, a tether that links Mae to her spirit and is the source of her strength.
Why similar: Action 38.9%, Difficult 33.1%, Adventure 16.5%, Indie 11.5%
- #41 Stewart The Fox
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 251 reviews2023
Dev: DeadEaglePub: Spitfire-Games
Windows
Join Stewart the Fox on an epic adventure through four challenging levels filled with obstacles, enemies, and two boss battles. As you collect hidden items to help Stewart emerge victorious in this action-packed platformer game.
Why similar: Action 69.6%, Adventure 30.4%
- #42 Super Switch
73% 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.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 Wires And Whiskers
62% matchVery Positive95% of 1,736 reviews2025
Dev: Yohann BlanchardPub: ISART DIGITAL
Windows
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
Why similar: Action 68.9%, Adventure 31.1%
- #44 Splodey
66% matchVery Positive91% of 253 reviews2024
Dev: Send It StudiosPub: Mad Mushroom
Windows
The platformer without a jump button! Master the art of potion propulsion in this fast-paced adventure where strategy, precision, and creativity meet explosive fun.
Why similar: Difficult 48%, Action 42.2%, Adventure 9.8%
- #45 Macrotis: A Mother's Journey
71% matchVery Positive92% of 181 reviews2019
Dev: Proud DinosaursPub: Orsam Information Technologies
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Help Mother Bilby, as she struggles underground to find her children, in this magical indie, 2.5D puzzle-platformer game. Macrotis: A Mother’s Journey is an unforgettable adventure for those who love being challenged.
Why similar: Adventure 43.6%, Indie 32.8%, Difficult 23.7%
- #46 Green Ember: Helmer in the Dragon Tomb
64% matchVery Positive96% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Brazen GamesPub: Longtreader Games
Windows · Mac
Swords up! Level up your character, solve puzzles, and defeat bosses in this Bunny Brawler Dungeon Crawler, set in the world of the best-selling Green Ember series.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #47 HackyZack
72% matchMixed66% of 258 reviews2017
Dev: Spaceboy Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Zack. Juggle balls with unique properties through platforming puzzles to a goal at the end of each stage. Help Zack fill his treasured book of stickers to unlock optional challenge levels, where you race against the timer to destroy targets as fast as possible.
Why similar: Action 63.5%, Indie 36.5%
- #48 Archibald's Adventures
71% matchVery Positive91% of 116 reviews2016
Dev: Rake in Grass
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A paranoid computer issued a lock down on a mad scientist's mansion after his experiments and security robots broke loose, and you are trapped inside! Overcome all the pitfalls of the mansion in this action puzzle game! Test your skills and wit in nearly 200 levels!
Why similar: Action 57.6%, Adventure 23.3%, Indie 19.1%
- #49 Windswept
61% matchVery Positive93% of 549 reviews2025
Dev: WeatherFellPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
🦆 Marbles and 🐢 Checkers need your help finding their way home after being swept away in a storm. In this 90s buddy-platformer there's a ton of stuff to do and even more to collect!
Why similar: Difficult 37.2%, Action 34%, Adventure 17.6%, Indie 11.2%
- #50 Soviet Bear Uni Adventure
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: J
Windows
Soviet Bear Uni Adventure is a painfully challenging physics-based action/adventure game. Pedal and lean to stay upright and overcome each crazy obstacle.
Why similar: Difficult 44.6%, Action 37.5%, Adventure 15.1%, Indie 2.8%
- #51 Mibibli's Quest
70% matchVery Positive95% of 119 reviews2016
Dev: resnijars
Windows · Mac
Mibibli's Quest is a retro-style surrealistic platformer game. Join Mibibli as it blasts its way through over 20 crazy and eclectic levels! Conquer caves, dance through raves, wander the suburbs, and blow up eggs... travel through time and explore your nightmares along the way!
Why similar: Action 75.9%, Indie 24.1%
- #52 Nolgorb's Ordeal
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Hard Meat
Windows · Linux
Now with barely functioning co-op features! A challenging 3D platformer with little room for error. Escape a dungeon, alone or with others jumping to the top, and sacrifice your collectables for items to aid in your ordeal.
Why similar: Difficult 78.9%, Adventure 21.1%
- #53 Little Jack's Adventures
71% matchMixed64% of 95 reviews2016
Dev: Mihai Morosanu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Join the adventures of Little Jack. You will need to solve many interconnected puzzles that involve finding keys, pushing crates in order to reach the exit door. The game will have 4 difficulty levels so that each person regardless of its skill level can enjoy this game.
Why similar: Action 55.5%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 20%
- #54 GIGASWORD
62% matchMostly Positive78% of 158 reviews2025
Dev: Studio HybridPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Balance the weight of the GIGASWORD, battling between brain and brawn. Solve intricate puzzles, discover covert chambers, and slash through foes as Ezra fights to reach the top of the Nestrium and recover the God Crystal within. Can he restore the world's coherency before it's too late?
Why similar: Action 69.9%, Adventure 30.1%
- #55 Rules & Rodents
62% matchVery Positive100% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Gravy Crew Games
Windows
A puzzling adventure where you abuse the Rules set by your Rat captors! 📜🐀 Manipulate enemies and environments with the commanding power of Rules to escape!
Why similar: Action 60.3%, Adventure 25.5%, Indie 14.2%
- #56 Eat Colors
66% matchVery Positive90% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: Icy Mountain StudiosPub: GoGo Games Interactive
Windows
Face extreme challenges in a precision platformer where every move is a daring jump! Use your skill to fling yourself and stick to surfaces, navigating adrenaline-filled scenes and unpredictable obstacles.
Why similar: Action 76.7%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 10%
- #57 Super Chipflake Ü: Quest for the Uncooked Schnitzel
58% matchVery Positive96% of 433 reviews2026
Dev: SalsaShark Studios
Windows
You're hungry. For a schnitzel. The problem is: you have to get it!
Why similar: Action 51.4%, Adventure 39%, Indie 9.6%