- #1 Hoco Poco
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Hoco Poco is a harry potter duel style free-4-all local multiplayer.
Why similar: Action 49.5%, Indie 36.8%, Local Multiplayer 13.7%
- #2 B.C.E.
97% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Blue Drop Games
Windows
Before Common Era (B.C.E.) is a top-down multiplayer action game set in the Stone Age. Brandish prehistoric weapons and face off against your enemies across a variety of prehistoric environments. Smash, sock, and skewer your way to the top of the food chain in B.C.E.!
Why similar: Action 42.5%, Indie 31%, Local Multiplayer 26.5%
- #3 Stabby Cats
94% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2020
Dev: Mad Hose Games
Windows
Fighting your fellow kitties with your incredible agility and arsenal of sharp weaponry in this 2D action game! Toss knives, climb around mansions, and stab your friends to see who will be rewarded the coveted golden yarn!
Why similar: Action 49.1%, Indie 36.5%, Local Multiplayer 14.4%
- #4 ChargeShot
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2015
Dev: Cowboy Color
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Shoot, reflect, and jetpack your way through ChargeShot -- a local-multiplayer, space-bounty-hunter, deathmatch game with a focus on fast-paced, twitch gameplay. Prove to your friends that you are the greatest warrior in the galaxy. No friends? No problem.
Why similar: Local Multiplayer 37.4%, Action 35.7%, Indie 26.9%
- #5 Gentlemen!
96% matchMixed41% of 141 reviews2013
Dev: Lucky FramePub: Blazing Griffin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Local multiplayer! Play your friends. Crush their dreams. Smell their fear. Destroy them with a thousand pigeons.
Why similar: Local Multiplayer 38.5%, Action 34%, Indie 27.5%
- #6 Scrap
94% matchMixed51% of 75 reviews2017
Dev: Top Shelf StudiosPub: None
Windows
Shoot, kick, and detonate your way through a post tech apocalyptic wasteland where robots reign terror upon the resourceful Scrappers. Scrap foes, unlock weapons, play alone or with friends and take back the world in this free, 3D, action, twin stick, shooter.
Why similar: Action 43.1%, Indie 31.3%, Local Multiplayer 25.6%
- #7 Paparazzi
93% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2015
Dev: Pringo Dingo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Catch the celebrity.Avoid the paparazzi.Paparazzi is a local multiplayer game of cat-and-mouse. The celebrity runs, dashes, and hides while the paparazzi tries to take constant photos of them. It's a simple yet competitive arcade-action game with a Where's Waldo feel.
Why similar: Indie 38.3%, Action 34.4%, Local Multiplayer 27.3%
- #8 The Weaponographist
92% matchMostly Positive71% of 85 reviews2015
Dev: Puuba
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Play as Doug McGrave, famous demon hunter for hire. Highest level, bestest gear, ruggedly handsome, and unrepentant jerk. For refusing to aid one stinking demon-infested town, you are immediately – and deservedly – cursed. Your powers, your wealth, and your weapons… Poof! Gone.
Why similar: Action 57.4%, Indie 42.6%
- #9 Sym
91% matchPositive86% of 37 reviews2015
Dev: Atrax GamesPub: Mastertronic
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Sym is a puzzle-platformer that explores social anxiety disorder. Play as Josh, a teenage boy trying to reconcile a maze of two contrasting worlds that coexist within the blank spaces of each other - his perception of reality, and the world he created to avoid his fears.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #10 Bot Colony
91% matchMixed66% of 97 reviews2014
Dev: North Side Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Bot Colony is the only game controlled by speaking or typing. You command robots to move and manipulate objects. The right questions unlock videos of the events they witnessed. No dialogue trees - the game unfolds 100% based on what you say, taking interactivity and immersion to a new level.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #11 Treasure Stack
88% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: PIXELAKES LLC
Windows
Catering to solo and multiplayer puzzle fans, Treasure Stack features a wide variety of modes, whether you're testing your skills in Challenge Mode, partying up with friends in 4-Player Local Versus, or taking on the rest of the world in Online Versus.
Why similar: Action 39.8%, Local Multiplayer 30.1%, Indie 30%
- #12 UnSummoning: the Spectral Horde
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 38 reviews2015
Dev: Roaming Ground Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A nefarious necromancer summoned an army of vengeful spirits to wreak havoc upon the world. Unfortunately, they only wanted to wreak havoc upon HIM! Now he must undo what he has done by drawing upon the power of magic sigils to blast the ghouls back to the netherworld.
Why similar: Action 59.2%, Indie 40.8%
- #13 Luminoso
89% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2015
Dev: blizzy Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Luminoso is a puzzle game with laser beams. The goal of each puzzle is to make all laser beams hit the receiver pieces of their respective color.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #14 Ossuary
87% matchPositive93% of 40 reviews2015
Dev: Gregory Avery-WeirPub: Future Proof Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Fall into the place of bones. Urge on the stagnant residents who are lost to corrupt virtue. Use sins as your tools to improve their existence. Expose the cabbages pretending to be people. Learn about the razor blades hidden in your walls.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #15 Toy Wars Invasion
86% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2015
Dev: Web Interactive Solutions
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The neglected and despised toys of the world are angry and have escaped their forgotten toy box prisons and are seeking revenge. Fight 21 enemy from the beach to the model train store with an arsenal of 13 weapons and armed vehicles.
Why similar: Action 55.9%, Indie 44.1%
- #16 At the Mountains of Madness
86% matchMostly Negative34% of 65 reviews2016
Dev: Team Clockworks
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Play the role of Professor Dyer, a geologist at Miskatonic University who travelled to Antarctica in 1930 as the leader of a research expedition, in this 3D first-person horror survival adventure game.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #17 Dark Forester
82% matchMixed65% of 63 reviews2018
Dev: Morozov Sergey
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Feel like a lord. Build and decorate your own forest. Place guardians, own heroes, lay traps and protect livestock from enemy hordes in this hardcore RPG strategy, Dark Forester.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #18 Dungeon Highway
84% matchPositive81% of 32 reviews2015
Dev: Substantial
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dungeon Highway drops you into a delightfully stylized fantasy world filled to the brim with dastardly monsters. Heart-pounding action, nostalgic graphics and an enchanting chiptune soundtrack bring a new milestone to the genre of endless arcade racing.
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #19 Toricky
84% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Atelier Melon-Kissa
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Toricky is an old-school Action-Adventure game featuring unique mechanics based on fast-flying and physics. Explore immense 2D Zones, and defeat gigantic Bosses, to save the Crystar Palace!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #20 The Makeshifter
83% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2015
Dev: Squirrel Physics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A platformer full of mutants and cyborgs, and whatever objects you can find along the way.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #21 The Grave Digger
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2015
Dev: Home Groan Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Take control of shovel-master Fagus in this curious blend of whimsical English comedy and grim Dickensian horror.
Why similar: Action 52.1%, Indie 47.9%
- #22 Venture Forth
80% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Arclight WorldsPub: Indie Voyage
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Venture Forth is an extremely challenging adventure game with a retro 90s shooter vibe. Forge your own path within its labyrinthine caves but beware the danger lurking around every corner.
Why similar: Action 58.1%, Indie 41.9%
- #23 Slow Down, Bull
81% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2015
Dev: Insomniac Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Slow Down, Bull is an action collecting game. Steer Esteban, a stressed-out overachieving bull, to collect as many crafty pieces as you can, but be careful! Every time you steer him, he gets a little more stressed out, and you DON'T want to stress him out!
Why similar: Action 61.6%, Indie 38.4%
- #24 Tenshu General
81% matchMixed66% of 32 reviews2015
Dev: SmartArt Game StudioPub: Tenshu General
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Tenshu General, is a simple, elegant, Real Time Strategy (RTS) game for those who favor short play sessions over long sessions. Quick casual game play combined with the challenge of continuously adapting enemies allow for a surprisingly challenging exercise in strategy. It is a cross breed between a board game and a classic RTS.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Goscurry
78% matchPositive100% of 41 reviews2015
Dev: Demigiant
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Relax, don't panic, be brave. Reach as many cities as you can by piloting a ship on a perpetually assembling road suspended over a stylized and surreal landscape, while taking sharp corners, evading hazards and rushing through speedfreak modes. A hard electro-beat game.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #26 Epanalepsis
79% matchMixed70% of 33 reviews2015
Dev: Cameron Kunzelman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Epanalepsis is a narrative-focused adventure game that tells a story about those connections across sixty years and beyond that pays equal homage to New Wave science fiction, cyberpunk dystopian stories, and the art cinema of the early 1990s.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #27 The Counting Kingdom
77% matchVery Positive97% of 118 reviews2014
Dev: Little Worlds Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Get your spellbook ready! It’s time to protect The Counting Kingdom in this tactical math puzzler featuring strategic tower defense gameplay and a colorful cast of characters. Banish monsters and save the day!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #28 Spectrum: First Light
78% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2015
Dev: Mido Basim
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
It's the comic book platformer you have been waiting for! Phase between colors to solve puzzles and uncover the story of Tadashi and Saki. Inspired by the classic game Comix Zone™.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 Void 21
76% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2016
Dev: Taranasus Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Void 21 is a procedurally generated, arcade style, fast-paced runner and shooter. You are a pilot training with the highly maneuverable and lethal Void ship. Your objective is to reach the end of the level, either as quickly or as violently as possible (or both?).
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #30 Voxel Blast
77% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2015
Dev: Ceiba Software and Arts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Voxel Blast is a game where you control a spaceship traveling across complex 3D environments to fight enemies in cages set to trap them with you. Navigate as fast as you can through the level to reach the beacons or risk facing squads of enemies already waiting for you; then use your weapons and evasive maneuvers to take them down in...
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #31 RUMP! - It's a Jump and Rump!
74% matchPositive91% of 43 reviews2017
Dev: Dedication Labs
Windows
RUMP! It's a crazy and challenging 3D jump and run game with the most funny multiplayer racemode for you and your friends!
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #32 Welkin Road
75% 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: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #33 OBEY
67% matchVery Positive85% of 439 reviews2020
Dev: DezPub: The Lo-Fi Apocalypse, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
OBEY is an asymmetrical multiplayer game. In many games you send commands to teammates or AI units. In OBEY you command your (human) opponents, or are commanded by them. Players are always free to obey/disobey. And everyone deals with the consequences of their own decisions.
Why similar: Action 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #34 The Empty Inn
76% matchMostly Negative27% of 11 reviews2015
Dev: Candlelight Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The Empty Inn is a 2D, exploration game with 8-bit, NES-style, pixel art and puzzle gameplay. With only a small lamp in hand, the player is required to solve puzzles and explore the vacant inn, ensuring they keep their lamp lit along the way.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Square Arena
73% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Hepta Games
Windows
Square Arena is a multiplayer arena game where each player controls a Ku-Bot and tries to defeat his opponent using one of the various weapons in the Arena. But the main characteristic of Square Arena is it's RANDOMNESS: Players will face random rule changes every 30 seconds.
Why similar: Action 58.1%, Indie 41.9%
- #36 People Eater
72% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Perfect Square Studios LLC
Windows
A vicious, man-eating monster has escaped. And that monster is you! Rampage, devour, and dodge your way through endless procedurally generated levels. Overcome harrowing boss fights, unlock new monsters and upgrades, and compete for first place in the leaderboards. Sate your hunger or die trying.
Why similar: Action 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #37 Blackfaun
73% matchMixed62% of 29 reviews2016
Dev: Wild Guess Software
Windows · Mac
Blackfaun is a fast paced roguelike with RPG elements, featuring challenging combat and replayability. Players join a faun tasked with a mysterious quest to prove her worth as heiress to the crown. Vibrant colors and a rich soundtrack bring dungeons to life for a fully immersive experience.
Why similar: Action 58.1%, Indie 41.9%
- #38 Blasted Fortress
75% matchMostly Negative29% of 14 reviews2015
Dev: Wrench Laboratories
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Use voodoo magic and a big cannon to crush fortresses. It's a blend of physics decimation, hoarding resources, and RPG style enhancements.
Why similar: Action 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #39 Devouring Stars
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 40 reviews2015
Dev: NerialPub: BulkyPix
Windows · Mac · Linux
What if you could unhook the stars and fight your battles with black holes? With its mix of adaptative unit combination, space resource harvesting as well as visual and audio refinement, Devouring Stars aspires to bring a different scope to the RTS genre.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 Auralux: Constellations
71% matchVery Positive81% of 176 reviews2016
Dev: Grove Street Games
Windows
Auralux: Constellations is the awaited sequel to Auralux, the critically acclaimed minimalistic Real Time Strategy game. Explore a dozen new gameplay mechanics through each constellation, one new feature at a time. It's Real-Time Strategy, deconstructed.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 Phantom Halls
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 45 reviews2018
Dev: Incendium LLCPub: Incendium LTD
Windows
Phantom Halls is a squad-based side-scrolling comedy-horror game. Play as a group of teens as they attempt to survive the night in a haunted mansion. Single-player and local co-op supported!
Why similar: Action 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #42 Trap House
72% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2016
Dev: Hive Mind Studios
Windows
Leave your friends behind in this 1-8 player 2D brawler. Attempt to escape the Trap House while navigating through traps, monsters, and other players.
Why similar: Action 57.8%, Indie 42.2%
- #43 Beyond Dimensions
71% 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 57%, Indie 43%
- #44 Kitten Rampage
69% matchMixed59% of 97 reviews2017
Dev: Dexmes
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Kitten Rampage is a silly, fun, destructive all-in-one kind of game. Destruction is a must, destroy as much as possible! Roam, hunt, explore and explode everything as an adorable Kitten in a third person view. Conquer the world from humans and other enemies as the deadliest kitten alive!
Why similar: Action 59%, Indie 41%
- #45 Escape Lizards
69% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Egodystonic StudiosPub: Independent
Windows
Escape Lizards is simple: Tilt the platforms to roll your lizard egg from the start point to the finishing bell at the end of the level. However, things are never as simple as they seem...
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #46 Piloteer
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 reviews2015
Dev: Fixpoint Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In Piloteer, a whimsical and serenely challenging physics-based game about learning to fly, a renowned inventor is determined to overcome the stigma associated with flying a jetpack and convince the world that jetpacks should be revered by all.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #47 Throbax TD
55% matchMostly Positive74% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Unterrainer Informatik OG
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Throbax TD is the "Tower Defense" game you are looking for: Help Ughlar fight his way through 50 levels, buy over 100 upgrades and get all of the 50+ achievements.
Why similar: Action 50.5%, Indie 49.5%
- #48 Caketomino
70% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: Smoketree Studios
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A puzzle game about cakes. Build all 30 cake Pentomino (and other Polyomino) puzzles! Can you solve them all?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Death Pirate
70% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2015
Dev: Singe Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Death Pirate is a new mix of shoot'em up and RPG with a gripping story and an original soundtrack. Fly through the city of South Town to unravel the mystery of the Death Pirate. The game features 7 playable characters and 26 unique stages.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #50 We Slay Monsters
65% matchVery Positive93% of 94 reviews2017
Dev: Furiously Inactive Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
We Slay Monsters streamlines traditional roguelike RPG gameplay and introduces a unique poker-esque card based combat mechanic. Each class (Wizard, Rogue, Warrior) has a unique deck of cards; using this deck you will guide your hero through the dungeon.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 SinaRun
50% matchMostly Positive78% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: Princesseuh
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
SinaRun is a momentum-based platforming and speedrunning game. Find a level you love, play it hundreds of times and try to become the best on the leaderboard!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 Knight & Damsel
69% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2015
Dev: MK-ULTRA Games
Windows
Knight & Damsel is a two-player "uncooperative" multiplayer game set on a papercraft stage that subverts the age-old tale of knights saving damsels, with the knight and damsel competing to rescue the other!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #53 Ruin of the Reckless
66% matchVery Positive81% of 75 reviews2017
Dev: Faux-Operative GamesPub: Poppy Works
Windows
Ruin of the Reckless is a breakneck-paced, melee-focused roguelike brawler with very light persistent progression elements and a punishing difficulty curve. Play with a friend!
Why similar: Action 57.7%, Indie 42.3%
- #54 Welcome to Boon Hill
67% matchPositive89% of 37 reviews2015
Dev: Matthew RitterPub: 14 Hours Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A graveyard simulator, a story of epitaphs, a tale of ghosts that haunt, a game with no goal— all valid descriptions of Boon Hill.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Gran Vitreous
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 34 reviews2015
Dev: Heliocentric Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Gran Vitreous is a PC shmup that combines classic arena shooter gameplay with the mechanics of a loot driven action RPG. Upgrade your ships equipment and level up as you battle through a galaxy filled with randomly generated encounters.
Why similar: Action 60.3%, Indie 39.7%