- #1 Haeven
97% matchMixed64% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Cleril Calamity Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Explore fantastical interpretations of different parts of the mind including the Hippocampus, Ego, and more! Battle against your oppressive Subconscious as you struggle for control of your mind.
Why similar: RPG 74.2%, Indie 25.8%
- #2 iTownGamePlay UNIVERSE
96% matchMixed51% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: Undermax Games
Windows
Warning: This Game is only available on Spanish. Acompaña al YouTuber ITownGamePlay en está increíble aventura junto a sus suscriptores para restaurar la paz en su mundo!
Why similar: RPG 73.4%, Indie 26.6%
- #3 Phobos
96% matchMixed64% of 197 reviews2020
Dev: Myth Entertainment
Windows
Discover an expansive online multiplayer world of battle, stories, and intrigue. Wield great weapons or conjure terrifying magics. Explore the world, solve quests, and slay great beasts and players alike.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #4 Soulscape
95% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: Samu
Windows
Explore a bizarre world and defeat eldritch demons in your stylish wheelchair.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #5 Project "Fire"
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 111 reviews2016
Dev: Distant AlliancePub: ElvenNeko
Windows
Welcome to "Project Fire" - free adventure\role-playing game! This game is for the people who love good stories, fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk universes, and tactical combat in jrpg style. And yes, it's free for everyone, and let no one be left behind!
Why similar: RPG 76.4%, Indie 23.6%
- #6 FAREWELL SEN
93% matchVery Positive94% of 167 reviews2022
Dev: amoxy
Windows
MAKE FRIENDS WITH GHOSTS
Why similar: RPG 79.3%, Indie 20.7%
- #7 Lunacid - Tears of the Moon
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 773 reviews2025
Dev: KIRA LLC
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Lunacid: Tears of the Moon is a First Person Dungeon Crawler made with the Sword of Moonlight - King’s Field making tool from 2000. Explore various dungeons for powerful weapons and spells to forestall the previsioned end of the world.
Why similar: RPG 83.9%, Indie 16.1%
- #8 Nick Beard: The Fedora of Destiny
92% matchVery Positive85% of 255 reviews2018
Dev: dhamster
Windows
The fedora: a mark of a true gentleman...
Why similar: RPG 75%, Indie 25%
- #9 Dark Fear
91% matchVery Positive94% of 232 reviews2016
Dev: Arif Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Dark Fear is a pixel horror game with RPG and adventure game elements. Explore a diverse landscape filled with forests, mountains, lakes and deserts. Make allies in the local village, upgrade your weapon and armor, go hunting/fishing and fight your way to the truth by slaying your foes, solving puzzles and helping people with their...
Why similar: RPG 75.6%, Indie 24.4%
- #10 The Land of Dasthir
90% matchMixed46% of 133 reviews2017
Dev: RPG VideoPub: Back To Basics Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Join Terret in his small, but dangerous adventure through a mysterious and forgotten land of Dasthir
Why similar: RPG 73.3%, Indie 26.7%
- #11 The Lar
88% matchVery Positive95% of 1,091 reviews2019
Dev: MarvelSushi
Windows
Become an experiment and flee with friends from this chaotic and amazing place. And as the exploration deepens, the truth gradually emerges...
Why similar: RPG 58.9%, Indie 41.1%
- #12 The Fog Knows Your Name
89% matchVery Positive87% of 79 reviews2019
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the fog to confront your terror: the evil that hides within. Unravel the fog's mysteries before you become its next victim. Or join us, instead.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 46.7%, RPG 37.9%, Indie 15.4%
- #13 DarkEnd
89% matchMixed52% of 355 reviews2014
Dev: Kodots Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Conquer the ever changing dungeons of DarkEnd and save the fall of humanity! Choose your heroes and venture into a world filled with numerous treasures, mysterious secrets and discover a haunting past in this 10+ hours of retro 2D Dungeon-Crawling!
Why similar: RPG 76.9%, Indie 23.1%
- #14 Team Four Star RPG
87% matchVery Positive83% of 92 reviews2017
Dev: Shadow Blade Productions
Windows
Join Lanipator, Master Wugglez, and LordMoonStone. Also known as Nick, Grant and Kirran, as they venture through worlds based on games they once played.
Why similar: RPG 74.8%, Indie 25.2%
- #15 Memories of a Vagabond
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,249 reviews2014
Dev: Darkelite Studio IncPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
You play as a young mercenary and travel from soul to soul to avenge your fiance and her family. While finding a way to change the flow of past events, you will encounter many obstacles and meet new allies. Will you be brave enough?
Why similar: RPG 84.1%, Indie 15.9%
- #16 non-binary
84% matchVery Positive93% of 291 reviews2022
Dev: owof games
Windows · Mac · Linux
"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 87.2%, RPG 12.8%
- #17 Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion
85% matchVery Positive86% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: SezhesPub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion is an old-school JRPG with a deep and mysterious storyline placed in a fictional dark city of Gris. Explore the story of four troubled souls and kill the abominations that threaten the existence of reality itself.
Why similar: RPG 71.3%, Indie 28.7%
- #18 Armored Suit Solgante
84% matchVery Positive84% of 193 reviews2024
Dev: GapTaxPub: Kagura Games
Windows
Play as a mech pilot battling against threats to your nation. But in your struggle to defeat the terrorist forces, you become implicated in one of the very schemes you're fighting against...
Why similar: RPG 88.6%, Indie 11.4%
- #19 Orogenesis
86% matchVery Positive83% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Samu
Windows
Orogenesis, an RPG with the twist of exploring a nightmarish and funky universe!
Why similar: RPG 76.7%, Indie 23.3%
- #20 Get In The Car, Loser!
83% matchVery Positive84% of 487 reviews2021
Dev: Love Conquers All Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A lesbian road trip RPG by the co-creator of Ladykiller in a Bind about fighting for love and justice in the face of indifference, inspired by choice-driven visual novels, and a battle system influenced by classic and modern JRPGs. WILL YOU STAND AND FIGHT IN THE FACE OF EVIL?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 56.7%, RPG 32.5%, Indie 10.8%
- #21 水母之夜
82% matchVery Positive99% of 137 reviews2023
Dev: 古早五花
Windows
一款剧情向角色扮演小游戏。
Why similar: RPG 51%, LGBTQ+ 37.6%, Indie 11.4%
- #22 Karisvale
81% matchVery Positive94% of 193 reviews2022
Dev: Brendan Tighe
Windows
Your next job awaits in Karisvale, detective. Will you fulfill your duty? Or become lost in the mystery... Explore a retro top-down world, question its citizens, and collect hidden items to uncover Karisvale's dark secret.
Why similar: RPG 83%, Indie 17%
- #23 DashBored
82% matchVery Positive81% of 335 reviews2016
Dev: Fading Club
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Enter a bizarre and idiosyncratic world! Adventure into the unknown, and defeat horrid monsters! A story of Love, Loss, and the end of the Multiverse.
Why similar: RPG 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #24 Mothlight
79% matchVery Positive94% of 420 reviews2017
Dev: Samu
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
In a world corrupted by Eldritch abominations, Enzo must climb out of the hellish depths of the universe. From the Black Sea to the Planes of Neethan, it is your job to make your pilgrimage back to the Worlds above. In the black hell of this world, only Moths and demons await you.
Why similar: RPG 76.2%, Indie 23.8%
- #25 Knights of Pen and Paper 2: Free Edition
81% matchMixed60% of 267 reviews2018
Dev: Kyy GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Join the retro RPG world of Paperos - become a Knight of Pen and Paper in the newly revamped "Free Edition"!
Why similar: RPG 75.9%, Indie 24.1%
- #26 Lethal RPG: War
80% matchMostly Positive80% of 228 reviews2015
Dev: EyeSpyda Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Journey on an epic quest with Lethal and his elite party of warriors through a huge fantasy land. Play as Lethal and his companions in exciting turn based battles against a variety of fantasy creatures.
Why similar: RPG 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #27 Bomber Bother
78% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2019
Dev: Dare Looks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight back against thieving Greyman Grifterham and his horde of beavery bullies and experience the thrill (and frustration) of herding low-poly beavers into a bottomless pit, retro-style!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #28 Sometimes Always Monsters
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 161 reviews2020
Dev: Vagabond Dog
Windows
Join a cross-country bus tour as a newlywed author, and combat vicious rumors that you're a plagiarist. Truth isn't important, when you control the narrative.
Why similar: RPG 66.8%, Indie 21.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%
- #29 Your Adventure
77% matchVery Positive90% of 101 reviews2021
Dev: Zachary Fox
Windows
Create a custom character, and be whoever you want to be! Enjoy traversing strange worlds, and mastering action command combat as you fight strange and odd and weird enemies and bosses! Remember, this is your adventure!
Why similar: RPG 61.2%, LGBTQ+ 28.7%, Indie 10.1%
- #30 Free Will
73% matchVery Positive97% of 323 reviews2024
Dev: Kipps In A BoxPub: Meowdy
Windows
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: RPG 77.7%, Indie 22.3%
- #31 缄默咖啡厅
75% matchVery Positive84% of 221 reviews2022
Dev: plasmafall
Windows
Silence Coffee Shop is a JRPG game inspired by SCP and 规则类怪谈(creepy rule).In this game,you'll act as a regular customer,unveil the truth of Silence Coffee Shop behind it conflicting rules.Of cause,you are not the only one attracted by this abnormal shop...
Why similar: RPG 88.9%, Indie 11.1%
- #32 Beloved Rapture
74% matchVery Positive84% of 256 reviews2024
Dev: Rapturous StudioPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Beloved Rapture is an indie jRPG inspired by the classics. Explore beautiful landscapes, fight in turn-based battles, and uncover many secrets. This mid-length adventure balances both an intimate coming of age story, and larger threats looming over the troubled kingdom.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 59.8%, RPG 28.6%, Indie 11.6%
- #33 Arevan
79% matchMixed48% of 66 reviews2015
Dev: Overcloud9Pub: Aldorlea Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Arevan is an adventure RPG with an original storyline, enjoyable features and interesting game play. Travel with Maurean as he makes his way through challenging puzzles, gut-wrenching monsters, and intriguing side quests.
Why similar: RPG 75.8%, Indie 24.2%
- #34 Project Oasis
76% matchVery Positive92% of 211 reviews2020
Dev: 大以巴狼艾斯Pub: 上海翎迹网络科技有限公司
Windows
Be the light.
Why similar: RPG 83.4%, Indie 16.6%
- #35 Remnants Of Isolation
77% matchVery Positive81% of 124 reviews2015
Dev: Team IsolationPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight horrific enemies and utilize powerful spell fusions to overcome the cruel fate of mages and see the light of freedom.
Why similar: RPG 75.9%, Indie 24.1%
- #36 Heroes de Peronia
75% matchVery Positive83% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: zadoch
Windows · Mac · Linux
Save the kingdom by fighting the rats and their cronies, restore the health of the people.
Why similar: RPG 96.1%, Indie 3.9%
- #37 Witch of Eclipse
72% matchVery Positive90% of 231 reviews2025
Dev: ONEONE1Pub: Kagura Games
Windows
Travel the world as a witch and help the people by defeating threats, going to dungeons in search of materials, and granting other special favors.
Why similar: RPG 88.8%, Indie 11.2%
- #38 Lenin - The Lion
74% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2019
Dev: Lornyon
Windows
Lenin – The Lion is a Puzzle RPG game about overcoming fears. Walk into chaos and find the claws of loneliness or carefully build your path and find the benefits of understanding and acceptance.
Why similar: RPG 63.2%, Indie 36.8%
- #39 You Doesn't Exist
76% matchMixed61% of 81 reviews2017
Dev: yo252yo
Windows · Linux
Set out on an adventure that challenges all the codes of the RPG genre, toying with its boundaries to create something unlike anything you've ever seen. In a world full of magic and adventure, a young boy starts his apprenticeship to become a knight... And it will change his life... and yours.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #40 Ms.Director
73% matchVery Positive97% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: SketchyNonsense
Windows
Cameras and heads are rolling in this noir inspired RPGmaker horror game. Save the spectral starlets trapped in the deadly director's mansion, and escape without joining them in their fate.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 86.9%, Indie 13.1%
- #41 Labyronia RPG
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,408 reviews2015
Dev: LabyrinthinePub: Senpai Industrial Studios
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Labyronia is an epic RPG. Only by defeating the gods can you, and your friends, save the world.
Why similar: RPG 88.3%, Indie 11.7%
- #42 Niramare Quest: Saving a World That Loves Hating Me
68% matchVery Positive90% of 150 reviews2026
Dev: SeguzecutePub: Kagura Games
Windows
Reincarnate as a man in a misandrist world in this classic turn-based RPG! Meet colorful characters, fight your way through many dungeons, and unravel the mysteries of a story that hides much more than meets the eye. Do you have what it takes to save a world where everybody hates you?
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #43 LUNA
71% matchVery Positive83% of 322 reviews2020
Dev: SimplePub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Play as a little girl named 'Luna', and survive from the dark being while discovering the secrets behind her. The more you traverse on her memory, the more you will discover dark truths that lie deep inside.
Why similar: RPG 86.3%, Indie 13.7%
- #44 The Endless Empty
70% matchVery Positive96% of 297 reviews2018
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: RPG 52.2%, LGBTQ+ 29.7%, Indie 18.2%
- #45 Markus Ritter - The Lost Family
69% matchVery Positive85% of 176 reviews2021
Dev: Flimmersoft
Windows · Linux
Play as Markus Ritter in this short full motion video game in the style of the famous 90's point-and-click adventures.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 100%
- #46 Finding Hope
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: Falling Star Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Discover a new world in this quirky RPG full of colorful characters - a story of love and madness filled with twists and surprises!
Why similar: RPG 74.2%, Indie 25.8%
- #47 Eternal Dreamers
68% matchVery Positive82% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Studio Biest
Windows
Eternal Dreamers is a battle-focused RPG offering deep tactical combat action. With a wide selection of classes and equipment pieces, the game puts much emphasis on customizability and player choice.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #48 Wooden Ocean
67% matchVery Positive97% of 226 reviews2020
Dev: Leif Ian AndersonPub: Self
Windows
Kill cosmic gods and their fascist sycophants in a post-entropy future. Become Violence. Become Romantic.
Why similar: RPG 75.2%, Indie 24.8%
- #49 The Dungeon of Lulu Farea
68% matchVery Positive90% of 192 reviews2019
Dev: Galaxy WarsPub: DLsite
Windows
The Dungeon of Lulu Farea is a puzzle dungeon spanning 60 underground levels. You are an adventurer who has come to take on the dungeon. Enemies, money, and items are all limited, so use your brain to find a way through!
Why similar: RPG 74.2%, Indie 25.8%
- #50 THANATOS
66% matchVery Positive85% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Angela NguyenPub: WahooCat Productions
Windows · Mac
THANATOS is a first-person psychological horror mystery game that involves finding clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets to prevent a friend from taking their own life.
- #51 BlightFog
66% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Zakroutil
Windows
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 54.1%, RPG 45.9%
- #52 Madness
70% matchMixed56% of 131 reviews2016
Dev: Indie Games StudioPub: Enoops
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You a hero, so have to explore a world full of dangers. overcome various difficulties, traps and demons.
Why similar: RPG 75.8%, Indie 24.2%
- #53 QuattroMan
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: natamigame
Windows
Escape from creepy and irrational enemies. Fight your fear!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 Franzen
65% matchVery Positive97% of 165 reviews2023
Dev: Scumhead
Windows
Franzen is a turn-based RPG set in a dystopian-steampunk world. Explore themes of empathy and politics as Franz and Lefsa Dellia work to uncover the truth of "The Scream". Meet a cast of colorful characters and fight bizarre creatures in your journey through the world of Branzen!
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #55 The Frosty Leaves 寒叶下的薄冰
69% matchVery Positive83% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: 凝冰剑斩
Windows
This is a tragedy cause by illegal plant collecting. The main character, Leng Xiaobing, was a normal shop keeper form a grocery store, but ever things changed after she met a strange man…
Why similar: RPG 46.8%, LGBTQ+ 35.9%, Indie 17.4%
- #56 Secret Of Magia
69% matchMixed53% of 986 reviews2015
Pub: Senpai Industrial Studios
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Secret of Magia is an action RPG. Explore a huge world and free your people from the tyranny of an evil, supernatural dictator.
Why similar: RPG 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #57 White Dove 白雀
67% matchVery Positive84% of 420 reviews2019
Dev: 不公开Pub: 0Cube
Windows
《白雀》是一款有轻度惊悚要素的解谜游戏,玩家需要扮演主角白雀,在陌生而诡异的异空间中找到逃离的方法,以及隐藏在这之下的故事……
Why similar: RPG 75.4%, Indie 24.6%