- #1 Kindled Cavern
97% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Pretty Okay Games
Windows
Kindled Cavern is a cave exploration adventure for Virtual Reality filled with sights to behold. Waterfalls, bamboo forests, giant turtles, abandoned bridges and scaffolding, subterranian lakes, and ancient arches fill this explorable cavern. Not to mention the ghosts!
Why similar: Adventure 37.9%, Action 35.4%, Indie 26.7%
- #2 Ghostie Quest
96% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Random Thoughts Enterainment
Windows
Ghostie Quest is back! Can you master the pyramid of 100 levels? Tons of secrets and multiple ghosts to unlock across 4 game modes. Insanely cute! Insanely hard!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #3 After Rain: Phoenix Rise
96% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: DV8GamesPub: DV9DESIGN
Windows
The Rain fell, and washed away all that was good. Ancestors of the survivors face a world plagued by deadly disease, hostile landscapes that offer no safe haven, and brutal warlords beholden to a malevolent A.I. that seeks to enslave mankind and control the natural world. This is life After Rain.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #4 D.F.R.: The Light
94% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Nothing Rhymes With Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Unprepared and helpless, you are taken to a dark place where a mysterious light hunts you. In this relentlessly terrifying survival horror game, you must use your wits to stay alive long enough to extinguish the light, or perish trying. The light is crafty and observant, so this won't be an easy challenge.
Why similar: Adventure 37.3%, Action 36.5%, Indie 26.2%
- #5 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
95% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2015
Dev: CS Squared Games
Windows
Gremlin Invasion: Survivor is a co-op overhead action shooter. With 8 different levels to choose from and up to 8 players, you'll play together in a survival-style mission to blast away hordes of gremlins that have come to take you out.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.8%
- #6 Lair of the Titans
94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Team 21 Studio
Windows
Lair of the Titans offers a unique way for players to enjoy VR together. Play in the same room, hunting one another, choosing the right moment to strike and scare the other player.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #7 BioMech
92% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
BioMech is a classic Metroid-like with carefully structured gameplay. No rogue elements, no random content, everything is handcrafted and deliberately designed. Backtracking is not a dirty word.
Why similar: Action 38.6%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 26.5%
- #8 Saving Harmony
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2016
Dev: Daniel MercierPub: Mercier Games
Windows
It is March 15, 1920 and the town of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur has been overrun by mad men killing and burning everything in sight. You are the last survivor of the Japanese expeditionary force in Siberia. You must fight to survive and in the end find a way to save Harmony.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #9 Hallowed Encounter
91% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Alpha Pack StudiosPub: Handle Consolidated, LLC.
Windows
Trick-or-Treat! Or so you thought? Halloween night, last year, Weston Norris lost his daughter. This year, he plans on avoiding the night as the Trick or Treaters come knocking. But, once you sit alone in the screamingly silent darkness on Halloween night, you’ll truly learn what goes bump in the night.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #10 Monkey Land 3D: Reaper Rush
91% matchNegative17% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Full Metal Jacket Games
Windows
Monkey Land 3D: Reaper Rush is 100% full of gameplay! There's bananas, treasure coins, Piggys in need of saving, locked treasure chests and thats just in the first 10 seconds! Find new abilities like the butt-stompy by finding the precious Dinosaur Feathers!
Why similar: Adventure 36.4%, Action 35.6%, Indie 28%
- #11 Super Bugman Extreme Ultra
90% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: SyKoHPaTh
Windows
A unique 2D platformer with puzzle elements where you can jump, pick stuff up, place it down, throw onions, and use special abilities on enemies. Play through the Story Mode, have fun in Creative Mode, tackle the Procedural generated Chaos levels, and even design your own levels in the level editor.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #12 The Royal Cosmonautical Society
89% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Chromosphere Games
Windows · Mac
Enjoy the rewarding challenge of becoming a qualified Cosmonaut. Gracefully pilot your ship through multitudes of challenges, finding the perfect trajectory all the way to the top of the leaderboards.
Why similar: Adventure 35.9%, Action 35.1%, Indie 29%
- #13 Save her, from dreams
89% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Ziyi Zhang
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter the dream, save the one you love.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #14 Skelittle: A Giant Party!!
86% 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 36.3%, Adventure 36.3%, Indie 27.4%
- #15 Code Name: Origin
87% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Aurora Games Studio
Windows
Code Name: Origin is a top down action adventure inspired by the classics in the 80's and 90's. You’re dispatched alone with a laser shotgun and the wits to uncover what transpired just days before you arrive.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #16 Domino Effect
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: GoshFather
Windows
Pick up an entire building and use it as a weapon. Go supernova and send everything flying in an outward direction. Use gravity in a way that has never been used before.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #17 Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2015
Dev: GG-Works
Windows
Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut is an action/adventure platformer, based off of old school platforming games of the 90s. The main objective here is you guide the agile reptile through over 60 levels spanned over six areas of traps, puzzles, and the occasional nasties who get in your way,
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #18 Jobous the alien R
85% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: Veibyn
Windows
Jobous and his wife is living the dream in outer space. When suddenly ( dramatic music ) his wife want some new shoes. Oh no she is going to use all their space money (jup she is kinda a money spender). Jobous Immediately panics. What should he do? Jobous takes his ship and travel after her.
Why similar: Action 36.7%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 27.6%
- #19 Beyond Arm's Reach
78% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #20 Afandas Survival
77% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #21 Dragon Drop
84% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Squish Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
Dragon Drop is a puzzle-platformer where you can drag and drop platforms, trampolines, stones, dynamite and candles into the game world. Journey across 30 colorful levels and battle fearsome bosses using your drag and drop ability to solve puzzles and save Stickland!
Why similar: Action 36.2%, Adventure 35.2%, Indie 28.6%
- #22 Captain's Tail
76% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #23 Flight 732
84% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Ghere Games
Windows
Explore the island to find the missing jetliner. Once found, can you find a way to help you and your captain off of the island?
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #24 One Bit
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Veibyn
Windows
This is the story of Onebit, a poor, cute character that is continious searching for a pixel someone has stolen from him. He simply can`t go on with his life knowing that he is missin a pixel. Your task will be to go tro a long and exciting adventure, on his search for the one that have stolen his pixel and retaliation.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #25 Slug Slasher
74% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #26 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
82% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Muggle
Windows
To be immortal, The most important thing is to have a long life.Our hero wants to be immortal, so he came to this island to find the secret of longevity in frogs.
Why similar: Action 37.1%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #27 Guardian of The Demon Valley
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Lily GamesPub: Himi Games
Windows
This is an exciting shooting game.The game is set in a dark canyon, you’ll play a warrior who swears to defend the saint ice crystal that seals the devil with his life. would you be able to complete the mission of defending the sealing ice crystal against the horrible monsters’ continuous offensive?!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #28 Solmec: Hollow Planet
81% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Octopus 8 Studios
Windows
Solmec: Hollow Planet is an adventure game where you play as Soledad, a lone Solmec warrior exploring an ancient, lost planet. His task is to find a cure for the Rot that is killing the Ankazil – spacefaring beasts that are home to the Solmec.
Why similar: Action 36.7%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 27.6%
- #29 NickProject
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Velaris Studio
Windows
This game transfers you in the universe,where you`ll bring role of doctor Nick Johnson.He is a excentrie alien traveler with a great mind.His main aim is to right in justice travelling in time and space.
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #30 I_AM.exe
71% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #31 Welkin Road
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: Gregor PaničPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Armed only with your grappling hooks and fearless nature, run, leap and swing your way across a dreamy skyscape to reach the pillar of light. Welkin Road is an elegant, first-person puzzle-platformer that combines parkour and grappling-hook-powered aerobatics.
Why similar: Adventure 37.9%, Action 35.4%, Indie 26.7%
- #32 SQUAREHEAD
78% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Pixel Fun Games Production
Windows
Squarehead is a pixelart-action-jump & run game set in a comic style. You need to shoot, jump & teleport through more than 40 levels. Search forests, caves, deserts and snowy landscapes, to refuel your ship with diamonds.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #33 Beyond Dimensions
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 reviews2016
Dev: Cool Frogs Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Beyond Dimensions is a quirky action-adventure roguelike shooter.Adapt your playstyle to the randomized spells, evolutions, and levels, to obtain multiple levels.Customize your play session with different game modes, classes, and skills.
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #34 Project X
79% matchMostly Negative33% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Bulls Bros
Windows
Two teenagers were disappeared in the vicinity of the Grackham National Park. At night a roar is heard from the forest. Nearby, a group of archaeologists finds a cave and skull of an unknown creature.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #35 Above
69% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #36 Armoured Engines
68% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #37 To Hell With Dave
67% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #38 Dinosaur Hunter VR
77% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Gooners Game
Windows
Embark on a great adventure to hunt down some prehistoric beasts!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #39 Adventure of Great Wolf
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Claudius Keigfron
Windows
A PC Port of a classical v«kän (Vexen) game, Originally Developed by fäkhäßk II. It features an intriguing soundtrack and various fun puzzles!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #40 Star Surveyor
66% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #41 D.F.R.: The Light VR
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Nothing Rhymes With Entertainment
Windows
Unprepared and helpless, you are taken to a dark place where a mysterious light hunts you. In this relentlessly terrifying survival horror game, you must use your wits to stay alive and extinguish the light, or perish trying. But be warned: the light is crafty and observant, so this won't be easy.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #42 NO-GO
73% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: ATOMIC AGE CULTURE
Windows
A dark thriller in first-person perspective. We play as Charles Wood, who has the task of espacing a city taken over by a fanatic gang.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #43 INFINITY CHALLENGE
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Simple Gaming - JVJ
Windows · Mac
A 3D Rail Shooter game with high quality tracks! Take the challenge and choose one of the many maps and defeat vicious waves of enemies while traveling through mysterious worlds! Face fearsome machines and creatures that will do whatever it takes to destroy you and end your race to save the galaxy!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #44 Rainbow Step
72% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: AMG GAMES
Windows
Teru Teru Bouzu, with the mysterious ability to clear the rain, journeys though the world in this 3D adventure game. Why is it always raining in this magical world? Solve the mystery by using the mysterious ability to clear the rain while riding rainbows to explore this magical world.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #45 Zarvot
62% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #46 Questria: Rise of the Robot Skullfaces
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2015
Dev: AltImage Games
Windows · Mac
Questria is a multiplayer action dungeon crawler. Grab your pals and save Friendship from the evil Robot Skullfaces!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #47 Pep-Pel
58% matchPositive85% of 34 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #48 A Rip In Time
59% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #49 RECHARGE COMPLETE
59% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #50 LOST CAVE
68% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: SANBAE
Windows
At an old cave where ancient ruins lie, an unknown life slowly lurks beneath. Put on your gear, become an adventurer, and explore the caverns filled with many secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #51 Talewind
71% matchMixed59% of 111 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #52 DUSTWUN
59% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #53 Tom vs. The Armies of Hell
71% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Darkmire Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Meet Tom -- a software engineer turned reluctant half-demon hero who must fight his way out of Hell by turning souls into demon-searing weapons. Blast your way back to your 9-to-5 in this hilarious, isometric indie action-adventure game.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #54 Nachzehrer
58% 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: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #55 Zarya and the Cursed Skull
70% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Rodz
Windows
“Zarya and the Cursed Skull” is an action-adventure game that tells a story based on a fantastic novel. In addition, several dungeons filled with creatures and puzzles await you.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #56 Relativity
70% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: TomCGames
Windows
Relativity will turn your world upside down. Curved surfaces and stairs allow you to walk from the floor, up the walls and across ceilings, shifting gravity and giving you a whole new perspective! Landscape platforms can be moved and rotated using buttons and wheels to transform the landscape and form bridges.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #57 Necrolance
67% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Monsoon Studios
Windows
The Dark Necromancer has returned and is causing havoc in the Kingdom of Nangarth! He has sent his loyal servant, The Great Dark Warrior Thorg of Winstin, to resurrect 6 deadly foes in order to fulfill his mischievous plans! Play as both Thorg and our hero in this 2D action packed adventure!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #58 Production Sound / 产声
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Aemaeth Monster
Windows
A fairy tale of growing up alone
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%