- #1 Spacky's Nightshift
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 45 reviews2020
Dev: HawkSandwich
Windows
Survival horror adventure in a '90s restaurant.
Why similar: Indie 65.1%, Survival Horror 18.3%, Horror 10.7%, Atmospheric 5.9%
- #2 Sentenced
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Vitalij Kurjata
Windows
Sentenced combines the oppressive horror atmosphere and the complexity of survival, mixed with its stealth system and permadeath. In the depths of the labyrinth, a variety of monsters will not leave a place where you could relax in safety.
Why similar: Indie 56.3%, Survival Horror 26.6%, Horror 17%
- #3 Manor Maze
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fieldtenstein
Windows
Have you ever dreamed about being trapped in a manor where the architecture is a maze? Understandable, but unfortunately that will be happening. Where each maze has its own mechanic, will you be able to decipher them to free yourself from a place where it seems like you have no allies.
Why similar: Indie 40.4%, Survival Horror 29%, Horror 18.5%, First-Person 12.1%
- #4 Schizophrenia
96% matchMixed50% of 30 reviews2020
Dev: Indevelopment Productions
Windows
Schizophrenia is a indie horror game meant to be played at your own pace. Figure out the story of a child looking for her mom while experiencing her mental illnesses.
Why similar: Indie 71.6%, Horror 12%, First-Person 10.3%, Atmospheric 6.1%
- #5 Home Security
95% matchMixed52% of 75 reviews2018
Dev: Toshihiko Kikuchi
Windows
A story of a recluse's sister to protect her brother.Her room is bright, but the inside of the house is dim.She always feel like there’s someone watching her andneed to push herself to walk the house.
Why similar: Indie 54.8%, Survival Horror 25.9%, Horror 19.3%
- #6 Gone Astray
94% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Tom-Erik Nielsen
Windows
Gone Astray is a First-Person survival horror game which features rich atmosphere, believable interior and exterior environments.
Why similar: Indie 53.7%, Survival Horror 30%, Horror 16.3%
- #7 Despair
93% matchMostly Negative35% of 1,837 reviews2015
Dev: AGC
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.
Why similar: Indie 65.6%, Horror 16.8%, First-Person 11.6%, Atmospheric 6.1%
- #8 A Week of Circus Terror
92% matchMixed53% of 32 reviews2016
Dev: Richard Haraším
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 86.7 hrs≥1hr: 35%
A hand-drawn, point & click indie horror game about the haunted house and his owner. During the day, you have to search for some informations, but when the night comes, you have to understand, why are the possessed toys trying to kill you. You have to find a way to go through them and save your life!
Why similar: Indie 78.8%, Horror 21.2%
- #9 Grandpa
91% matchMixed49% of 325 reviews2018
Dev: PuddingPub: Cheesecake
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 22%
*Early access game* Grandpa is a survival horror game. You woke up in a house you never knew. Strange things happen in the house. You have to find a way to survive and get out of the house.
Why similar: Indie 77.3%, Horror 22.7%
- #10 Timore 5
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 125 reviews2016
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Timore 5 is an indie horror game, 5th one in Timore series. A scientist named Frank has done a lot inventing new things, but his experiments aren't without the consequences. In this game Frank will try to record his dreams and convert them to computer data, allowing him to review his dreams later, but the experiment might not go as...
Why similar: Indie 77%, Horror 23%
- #11 Mimic
90% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Mimic
Windows
If you're stuck in deep darkness, you need to make a sound. But something in the dark will follow you through your voice. In order to escape from the house, you have to find levers hidden all over the house.
Why similar: Indie 76.8%, Horror 23.2%
- #12 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 95.7%, Horror 3.3%, Atmospheric 1%
- #13 Lost Roads
88% match9 user reviews22% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: tRb
Windows
Lost Roads is a psychological horror game in a world where undecipherable mysteries hide, are you ready to start the game?
Why similar: Indie 77%, Horror 11.8%, First-Person 11.1%
- #14 A2Be - A Science-Fiction Narrative
82% 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%
- #15 1,000 Heads Among the Trees
89% matchMixed54% of 131 reviews2015
Dev: Aaron OldenburgPub: KISS ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Visit the real town of Cachiche, Peru, to spend your nights searching for spirits and taking photos. Discover a generative narrative as you show your photos to local people who describe what they see in them.
Why similar: Indie 76.2%, Horror 23.8%
- #16 Another_World
87% matchMostly Negative40% of 48 reviews2020
Dev: Wob Bob JonesPub: Salmon Slap Studios
Windows
Another_World is a Silent Hill/P.T. inspired psychological horror game. This is the first act for my first independently developed game made with Unreal Engine 4. Featuring an original soundtrack and story-line.
Why similar: Indie 84.9%, Horror 6.5%, First-Person 5.2%, Atmospheric 3.4%
- #17 Hexile
80% 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 Tommyknockers
86% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Gray Wolf Interactive
Windows
You have one job: Protect the gold and stay alive all night! Can you last the night against the onslaught of the cunning and creepy Tommyknockers? They come for you!
Why similar: Indie 56.8%, Survival Horror 43.2%
- #19 山贼
78% 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%
- #20 Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1
85% 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 99.6%, Atmospheric 0.4%
- #21 The Occupant
86% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Agency Principle
Windows
You've been sent to the 13th floor of a long abandoned hotel. Abandoned, that is, except for the Occupant
Why similar: Indie 52.5%, Horror 27.3%, First-Person 20.2%
- #22 Please Knock on My Door
84% 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%
- #23 Surge
83% 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%
- #24 Flying Slime!
84% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: SHB soft
Windows
A brief game description A. Flying Slime! is a 2D Platform that moves Slime to the target point in the stage. B. It consists of 4 stages in spring, summer, fall, winter. Each stage is made up of a total of 20 sectors. C. It only works with Window( XP and Up) and only supports Single play. D. It only supports mouse control.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Knossos
82% 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%
- #26 Sheaf - Together EP
79% 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%
- #27 Trundle
81% 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%
- #28 Live the Guitar
81% 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%
- #29 Daddy
79% 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%
- #30 PipeWorks
78% 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%
- #31 In The Bag
77% 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%
- #32 Mogh
77% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Beastudio Ltd
Windows
Mages are as powerful as their imagination.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #33 Gunk
74% 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%
- #34 Rapid Racing
75% 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%
- #35 Box Looter 2018
76% 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%
- #36 Vampires: Guide Them to Safety!
76% 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%
- #37 The Under
75% 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%
- #38 Hidden
72% 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%
- #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 Volume Up
61% 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%
- #41 Patternis
71% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Oddscure
Windows · Linux
Put your mind into matching patterns, swiftly traveling your way.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 Doodle Jamboree
71% 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%
- #43 Herman 2
71% 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%
- #44 Ataque Marino
74% 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%
- #45 Super Mixtape
72% 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%
- #46 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%
- #47 Beetle Hunter
69% 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 UFO Combat 2000
73% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Kleberson Toro
Windows
An arcade twin stick shooter
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Oika
58% 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%
- #50 Koya Rift
73% 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%
- #51 Escape: VR
69% 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%
- #52 Super Switch
70% 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%
- #53 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%
- #54 RollingBall
70% 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%
- #55 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%
- #56 ByLo
68% 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%
- #57 Expedition Oregon
68% 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%
- #58 Buffy Stole Your Sandwich
69% 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%
- #59 inSynch
70% 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%
- #60 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%