- #1 The Blame
97% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2018
Dev: Basic Sloth
Windows
Попробуй себя в роли следователя. Ищи зацепки, расследуй преступления, обращай внимание на мелочи, но помни, ты пришел сюда со своей целью.
Why similar: Indie 47%, Detective 43.6%, 2D 9.4%
- #2 Death Mark Vol.1 - 死印之迷雾
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 43 reviews2018
Dev: 朵游社
Windows
Yuri Detective Adventure Game created by Cloud Studio.
Why similar: Indie 50.5%, Detective 49.5%
- #3 You are next
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2020
Dev: Sara Quenel
Windows
"You are next" is a murder mystery for Virtual Reality. Gather your detective instinct and identify the killer!
Why similar: Indie 59.3%, Detective 30.5%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #4 A Detective's Novel
95% matchMixed68% of 890 reviews2016
Dev: Amaterasu Software
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
On a cold November night in a desolate estate deep in the mountains an innocent life has prematurely perished and its up to the player to find out who did it.
Why similar: Indie 73.1%, Detective 26.9%
- #5 Fingered
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,016 reviews2015
Dev: Edmund McMillen
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!
Why similar: Detective 60.3%, Indie 35%, 2D 4.7%
- #6 Dissonance: An Interactive Novelette
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2015
Dev: Philip Royer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Dissonance follows the story of Bartholomew Brittle (a movie theater projectionist) and Clementine Cleu (an inquisitive theater patron) in a thought provoking discussion of the meaning of life.
Why similar: Indie 68.4%, Story Rich 31.6%
- #7 4004-022
93% matchMixed41% of 36 reviews2019
Dev: Aaron D.
Windows
In the year 2040 you and the 12 billion inhabitants of the Earth fled from the Earth after being attacked by extraterrestrials, you took refuge on a planet named 4004-022, but this planet is also being attacked by aliens.
Why similar: Indie 83.4%, 2D 16.6%
- #8 Evidence of Life
92% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: JustWallWireHead Games
Windows
You are a Space Traveler searching out alien DNA on distant planets. Harvest the minerals and flora of endlessly generated worlds. Destroy inhabitants you encounter. This game is a retro 2d side scrolling action game with an addictive mix of alien fighting and planet mining.
Why similar: Indie 83.4%, 2D 16.6%
- #9 Bird Watcher
91% matchMixed69% of 64 reviews2018
Dev: First Game Studio
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Bird Watcher is a short story about a girl whose name is Claire that after her parent's death was made to live with her gloomy vicious aunt. Her life in the new house becomes similar to the life in the cage which is full of stringent prohibitions and rules. And every day is absolutely the same as previous one.
Why similar: Indie 64.5%, Story Rich 35.5%
- #10 무연
91% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Nano Studio
Windows · Mac
고립된 섬에서 진행되는 6일 간의 추리 카페 정기모임에 당신을 초대합니다! 8명의 캐릭터들의 이야기가 얽힌 추리 어드벤처 게임을 즐겨보세요!
Why similar: Detective 66.9%, Indie 33.1%
- #11 山贼
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tushuo
Windows
某朝末年,烽烟四起。楚郡内生灵涂炭,青壮被逼无奈大多数只能进入深山落草为寇。在这几乎死境的楚郡内,想活下去,只有比别人更残忍。
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #12 Memory
90% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Soft Paw Studio
Windows
The little country town of Woodland Park is your home for the summer. Explore the town. Meet its inhabitants. Things long forgotten resurface and history is questioned. A beautiful young girl may be the key to untangling the truth, but will you solve the mystery?
Why similar: Indie 85.2%, Story Rich 14.8%
- #13 Volume Up
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 9 Game
Windows
VR shoot'em up where the enemies come to you on the rhythm of the music.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #14 DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
89% matchVery Positive93% of 12,692 reviews2015
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
Why similar: Indie 96.1%, Story Rich 2.1%, 2D 1.8%
- #15 A2Be - A Science-Fiction Narrative
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vagabond Dog
Windows
In the far future, the invention of instantaneous and waste-free transportation has brought a new age of utopia for humanity. Explore this brave vision of our destiny, and see its many wonders.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #16 Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2018
Dev: Pavel KostinPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 31%
What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.
Why similar: Indie 98.8%, 2D 0.6%, Story Rich 0.6%
- #17 Hexile
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dystrophic LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hexile is a first-person, narrative puzzle platformer game tin which players confront the consequences of manipulating their environments.. It takes place in a beautiful, surreal landscape where the player progresses by manipulating the environment to solve puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #18 阿比斯的宝藏 - Treasure of abyss
88% matchVery Positive84% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: 心之初
Windows
《阿比斯的宝藏》是一款超长篇的海贼冒险剧情式RPG游戏,并结合半沙盒与半硬核的传统玩法。游戏背景与故事建立在拥有大面积海洋的幻想世界,海洋将各个岛屿连接起来,海路也成为了游戏唯一的交通方法。四大海域成为了海贼们冒险与战斗的舞台,进行着各种各样精彩演绎。
Why similar: Indie 99.5%, Story Rich 0.5%
- #19 Oika
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Omniscopic
Windows
Oika tells the story of the living cosmos as a personal story through a series of first-person scientific experiences.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 Data Hacker: Reboot
87% matchMixed61% of 222 reviews2015
Dev: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Time, Space and Parallel Universes collapse and merge, tethered to threads of reality and sustained by a paradoxical power source. Nothing is impossible - it is time to become a Data Hacker.
Why similar: Indie 98%, Story Rich 2%
- #21 inSynch
86% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2015
Dev: Them Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An art-music-arcade game, inSynch is handcrafted and animated in stop motion. The game jumps and hops between meditative compositions and devilishly hard time-attack challenges!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #22 Surge
85% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: MatchBox Studio
Windows
Endless waves, and slender like game mode. Multiple weapons and armor to combat enemies. Survive for as long as you can and get as far as possible.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 Knossos
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Knossos Software
Windows
Knossos is a game about mazes, offering true 3D mazes, not just 2D ones with 3D graphics. You can design your own mazes to share with others, or play in randomly generated ones. Mazes can be 2D, 3D, and even 4 dimensional or higher.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #24 Daddy
82% matchMixed56% of 185 reviews2018
Dev: Pudding
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 607.0 hrs≥1hr: 15%
You have to find your daddy.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 The Under
81% matchMixed56% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Iconic Games
Windows
In a place unknown to the living, a young boy must navigate The Under so he may return to the world above.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 In The Bag
80% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Lukas Kolesar
Windows
Find out, if you can become an employee of the month in small supermarket. Your job is to pack as many customers bags as you can. You will have to work fast and smart and also be able to deal with randomly generated events, which may make your life harder.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #27 Mogh
79% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Beastudio Ltd
Windows
Mages are as powerful as their imagination.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #28 Please Knock on My Door
78% matchVery Positive94% of 254 reviews2017
Dev: Levall Games AB
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A summary of every emotion you'd rather lock away and forget.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 Box Looter 2018
78% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: Ludo Land
Windows
A dumb joke game in which loot boxes are the loot. Poke fun at loot boxes while poking at loot boxes. Climb the mountain and find the loot box of unknown riches that the prophecy foretold! The 2,018th game in the wildly popular Box Looter series.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #30 Rapid Racing
77% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Soft Loft Studios
Windows
Rapid Racing is a top-down 2D arcade style racing game - try to beat your best times on the many included levels in singleplayer, or race against friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 Vampires: Guide Them to Safety!
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 49 reviews2014
Dev: CBE software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Guide bobble-headed ignoramuses through a labyrinth before dawn. Puzzle game filled with bobble-headed non-glittering lemming-like vampires, traps, crazy music and a real challenge for serious players.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #32 PipeWorks
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Vedak the Dev
Windows
A short and semi-sweet 2D platformer to recover precious coffee and fix the leaks in Coffee Co factory! Endure the crazed coffee-highs of the critters infesting throughout and the nagging feeling that all of your work is disregarded by your corporate overlords!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #33 Buffy Stole Your Sandwich
77% match4 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Xivek's Toybox
Windows
Buffy Stole your Sandwich is an arcade rage game with non-physics based barrels. If you die, you are sent all the way back to level one.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 Trundle
76% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Tyler Paulley
Windows
Trundle is a simplistic 3-D platformer where you must navigate a ball through a world of floating platforms.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Gunk
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 27 reviews2019
Dev: Electric Boogaloo Productions
Windows
Gunk is a 2D Platformer inspired by games and it is quite possibly the best game ever made. From the creators of absolutely nothing comes 2019s biggest hit! In this game you play as a snail in a French restaurant.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Expedition Oregon
74% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Your Friends Upstairs
Windows
Oregon Industries has tasked with leading the colonization of the last frontier: Space. Fill spaceships with resources then blast them off into the great unknown, seeking fortune while battling calamites that try to defeat you at every turn.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #37 RollingBall
75% matchMostly Negative21% of 39 reviews2018
Dev: PotatoIndustries
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 441.3 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Easy control and insanely exciting passing obstacles with a rolling ball. Go around and jump over obstacles using only a mouse. RollingBall will let you relax and rest.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #38 Patternis
73% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Oddscure
Windows · Linux
Put your mind into matching patterns, swiftly traveling your way.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #39 Towers
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bunzosteele
Windows
Towers is a VR-only puzzle game. Find your way through 3D tower mazes by twisting floors into place.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 Hollow Halls
75% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Broken Code Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Hollow Halls is a short indie horror game, focusing on story and atmosphere over combat and action.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 Captain Curve's Intergalactic Space Adventure
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: CDPPub: SEGA
Windows
Captain Curve’s Intergalactic Space Adventure is a fast-paced endless runner based on daydreams, featuring exciting minigames and different environments.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 Hidden
71% matchMixed63% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: Soaring Games
Windows
Two orphans twin sisters, Yuna and Luna, were caught and placed separately in an unknown facility. The elder sister, Yuna tries to find Luna in the facility and rescue her. They aim to escape from the facility which is surrounded by a strange and mysterious atmosphere.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 ByLo
71% matchMixed54% of 39 reviews2019
Dev: Mia Osterholm Sarceno
Windows
You wake up once again, but something has changed this time… Something is different… But everyone else is doing the same thing over and over again, just like they always do… You drift further and further into insanity with every action but you must escape… Don't go insane...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 Sheaf - Together EP
68% matchVery Positive96% of 170 reviews2019
Dev: Stryde Games
Windows
Enter virtual reality to listen to the debut EP “Together” of synthwave producer Sheaf. No gameplay involved -- just sit back, relax, and enjoy the music while you drive through a retro low poly world.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 DEUS EX MACHINA 2
73% matchMixed57% of 112 reviews2015
Dev: Automata Source
Windows · Mac
The legendary video game is reborn, Deus Ex Machina 2 is a darkly comic cradle-to-grave roller-coaster of your entire life. A surreal journey from before your birth, through the temptations and dangers of your life, and beyond your own death.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #46 Herman 2
70% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Dirge Game Studio
Windows
"Herman 2" is a fast-paced, occasionally brutal, humorous and challenging platformer with cool music. The game has 50 levels, some very tricky digging and resource management puzzles, interesting & tough enemies, and many game mechanics. Climb, dig, throw, jump, kick, jetpack, duck, slide, and fall your way to salvation!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #47 Beetle Hunter
68% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2019
Dev: tinybugbot
Windows
BEETLE HUNTER is a simple first-person shooter. Beat various ferocious enemies, collect powerful weapons, explore the randomly generated complex steampunk stage, aim for the top floor and hunt the mighty beetle!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Live the Guitar
70% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Live the VR
Windows
A revolutionary VR game combining 3D 4K 360 real videos with guitar gameplay using controllers. If you ever wished to play in a rock band in front of a cheering crowd without a need to practice on an instrument every day then Live the Guitar is the game for you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Super Mixtape
70% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2016
Dev: Polygrammatic Limited
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Super Mixtape is a retro physics based rhythm-puzzle-platformer where you guide cassette tape ‘Mix’ across a fully reversible 2D world of A-Sides and B-Sides, completing puzzles as you progress to find the perfect beat.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 UFO Combat 2000
72% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Kleberson Toro
Windows
An arcade twin stick shooter
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Super Switch
69% matchVery Positive81% of 163 reviews2016
Dev: David MulderPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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%
- #52 Frogvale
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pablo Mendizábal
Windows
The same day that Marco was fired, he found out that he'll be a father. The only job he can get for the time being is as a bus driver. Manage his passengers, money and relationships to ensure his family's future.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Pound of Flesh
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ryan Andrew
Windows
There are others in the house. It's been a long time since they have eaten, and they each have their favorite "foods". To survive, you may have to offer them parts of yourself. Your teeth, your hair. I hope you weren't too "attached" to them. You won't be for long.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 Koya Rift
72% matchMostly Negative30% of 43 reviews2014
Dev: Zach Kehs (SunnyKatt)
Windows
Koya Rift is a roguelike 2D shooter-platformer. Each run, the player is dropped off at the surface of a hostile planet and must venture into procedurally generated caves, earning upgrades and buying units as they progress. The difficulty is subtly tuned between runs automatically.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Escape: VR
68% matchVery Positive80% of 175 reviews2017
Dev: JapanCoPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 99%
The main objective in this game is to find your way out.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Ataque Marino
71% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Play Indie México
Windows
A deliberate act or a fatal accident. Something has turned all forms of marine life into fierce monsters that attack everything that moves. Immerse yourself in this exciting adventure, where your mission is to discover the responsible for this disaster, and your priority is ... Survive!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #57 this was for you.
65% matchVery Positive87% of 126 reviews2019
Dev: Watercress
Windows · Mac · Linux
After the crash, I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. Even now, I haven’t found my way forward. I keep going back to that place. These memories are all that's left. this was for you. is an interactive visual novel, originally created for NaNoRenO2019.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #58 PING 1.5+™
69% matchPositive81% of 43 reviews2015
Dev: Nami Tentou
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
PING 1.5+™ is a new arcade style puzzle game with the objective of shooting the cube through over 100 stages to reach the orange.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #59 Ecio
66% matchMixed68% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: TeamDABPub: TNI Multimedia
Windows
Heartbroken man tries to change himself in order to reconcile with the girl he loves. He wants to be a better person, wants to be good enough for her. But changing has never been easy and who knows what he has to sacrifice.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #60 Doodle Jamboree
67% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Mike Laraman
Windows
Play as a drawing and explore a world of paper scraps and sketches in a quirky, delightful doodle extravaganza!
Why similar: Indie 100%