- #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 38%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #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 37.4%, Action 36.6%, Indie 26%
- #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 37.7%, Action 35.7%, Indie 26.7%
- #6 BioMech
93% 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 38.7%, Adventure 34.9%, Indie 26.4%
- #7 Lair of the Titans
92% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #8 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #9 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 36.5%, Action 35.7%, Indie 27.9%
- #10 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #11 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 36%, Action 35.2%, Indie 28.8%
- #12 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #13 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 36.4%, Adventure 36.4%, Indie 27.2%
- #14 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #15 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #16 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #17 Afandas Survival
78% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #18 Above
76% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #19 Guardian of The Demon Valley
85% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #20 One Bit
84% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #21 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
84% 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 37.2%, Adventure 36.3%, Indie 26.5%
- #22 Solmec: Hollow Planet
83% 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 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #23 Flight 732
82% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #24 Welkin Road
82% 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 38%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #25 Beyond Dimensions
81% 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 36.7%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #26 Pep-Pel
69% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #27 Questria: Rise of the Robot Skullfaces
81% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #28 Always Higher
79% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2016
Dev: AntiAnti
Windows
Always Higher is a single-player sci-fi adventure shooter VR game. Play as a secret agent, collect data modules, avoid enemy soldiers and escape underground facility!
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #29 Rogues or Heroes
79% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: M.BonKov
Windows
Rogues or Heroes is a dungeon crawler where the difficulty depends on your choices. With procedurally generated levels and fearsomes bosses, Rogues or Heroes is a top-down dungeon crawler with fast paced action proposing a certain challenge. Play alone or with a friend, in lan or online co-op.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #30 COSMONAUT
77% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2018
Dev: Neon Chasm, LLC
Windows
Unravel the mystery surrounding the lost vessel Diogenes. A story-driven retro platformer with elements of horror. Use the zero-g suit to explore the eerie corridors of a derelict ship filled with unknown lifeforms and dark secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #31 Slug Slasher
68% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #32 FriendZoned Archer
77% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Centipede Game Studios
Windows
FriendZoned Archer is an action adventure game inspired by the classic NES Zelda. There is complete freedom of exploration, hidden Areas, hidden dungeons and key items to help you ease through the open world.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #33 Fractal
78% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Phosphene Designs LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Fractal brings first-person real-time combat to beautiful stylized VR vistas. Enter a dazzling dimension where color is the lifeblood of all beings. Wielding a mysterious brush, you are granted the power to reshape the world and fate of its denizens.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #34 A Rip In Time
67% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #35 Beyond Arm's Reach
67% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #36 PRE:ONE
75% matchMixed67% of 30 reviews2018
Dev: PDDSPub: PDDS ENT
Windows
There’s always more than one path to victory. Use your own strategy to defeat Peyton, the mastermind of the Second Generation, and claim your freedom
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #37 Big Blue - Memory
76% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Studio RO
Windows
Become a killer whale and join a great journey to the endless sea. Join the great story of breaking through the harsh environments of ever-changing seas and overcoming the mighty storms.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #38 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YitYat Studios
Windows · Mac
The galaxy is in peril. Equipped with the latest military tech, pilot your heavily armed space fighter through 5 exotic planets to destroy the evil Dr Grag and save the Life Spark. Joining you on your journey is The Engineer, a silicon being capable of building anything you need. Unfortunately, he's a jackass...
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #39 Zarvot
64% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #40 Black Mist
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Nyan_Fort
Windows
Black Mist is a 2D, roguelike action game. All stages are covered by darkness, thus it is necessary to shoot shiny bullets to the darkness and move carefully. Bullets and your life are shared as "Energy", and the enemy's power and ferocity will be increase with the passage of time.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #41 The Warrior Of Treasures
73% matchMixed63% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: VS ResolutionPub: My Way Games
Windows
Be the only knight, defeat skeleton army and find treasure
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #42 Alien Planet
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Falkrus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Avoid the aliens and bandits in this skill testing game. Keep your cool as you work your way towards freedom on this planet of relentless enemies. Alien planet uses the simplicity and feel of an 80's style game to create an addictive and challenging experience.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #43 Vanquish: The Adventures of Lady Exton
74% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Runestone StudiosPub: Tasaa Software Services Pvt. Ltd.
Windows
Vanquish: The Adventures of Lady Exton is a 2D platformer set in a quirky steampunk inspired world. Steamscience has altered things in recent times. It’s now become a fight for survival. Kidnapped, escaped and armed with only a parasol, Lady Exton must bring back peace to the human strongholds!
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #44 RECHARGE COMPLETE
62% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #45 PROJECT AZRIEL
73% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: CurriculaWorks
Windows · Mac
That's right, zombies can make you think better. PROJECT AZRIEL is the least boring brain trainer in the world and has been shown to increase fluid intelligence. It’s a ton of fun to play so get it soon and have a blast taking down zombies while training your brain to work better.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #46 I_AM.exe
62% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #47 Rainbow Step
71% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #48 Lost Borderline
71% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2018
Dev: PigeonCube Studios
Windows
Lost Borderline is a retro pixel-art, hack & slash puzzle-crawler where the boundaries of reality are broken, giving you creative control over the sides of the screen to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #49 To Hell With Dave
62% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #50 Flurius
73% matchMostly Negative21% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: One Buck
Windows
This is what happens when you do not brush your teeth.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #51 Stickman World
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dilmer ValecillosPub: Dilmer Games
Windows · Mac
Stickman World takes place in an underground world after the hero "Stickman" awakes in an unknown world. Play through an amazing story where Stickman has to solve puzzles in hopes to discover a way out of this world. The goals for each level are simple and require collecting all the hidden items through Stickman's journey.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #52 Production Sound / 产声
72% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Aemaeth Monster
Windows
A fairy tale of growing up alone
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #53 Adventure of Great Wolf
70% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #54 Trinity
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Maelstrom Rabbit
Windows
Trinity is a challenging fps/puzzle set in a surrealistic universe.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #55 Mage VR: The Lost Memories
69% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Baptiste DegrysePub: DBloke SPRL
Windows
Maybe you don't remember, but some of us do remember that we are Mages. Try a gesture, see if it starts fire in your hands, maybe you are one of us. Use this power and please save the world from this new malediction.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #56 Chicken with Chainguns
71% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Nuts and Volts Electronics
Windows
The big bad fox crushed your hen's eggs and you aren't having it...take up arms and show him who is boss! Use your chainguns to get revenge.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #57 VR INTERACTIVE TRAILER: Runes
68% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: StormBorn Studio
Windows
Experience this VR trailer in full immersion inside your headset and get a sneak peek of Runes, a single player, story-driven VR adventure game in which you are Leth, a renegade wizard fighting for survival in a virtual fantasy world.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%