- #1 Nightmare on Azathoth
97% matchMixed57% of 30 reviews2015
Dev: Modesto RabenaPub: Divergent Game Studio
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nightmare on Azathoth is a dark game, in which you might not want to find the truth. Manage your base, scavenge, collect memory fragments, and collect resources to power up your spaceship to escape this planet. Death only brings an endless time loop, that restarts everything on the 4th day.
Why similar: Action 25.5%, Survival 25.1%, Indie 19.1%, Difficult 17.4%, Simulation 12.9%
- #2 Evolution
96% matchMixed47% of 105 reviews2016
Dev: Alex WilliamsPub: Grubby Monster Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Evolution is a real time simulation of the evolutionary process. Creatures have DNA that defines their structure, traits, how they see the world around them, and how they react to it. Each creature is unique, most die quickly, some die a little slower, and others survive (some just like rocks, they usually die too).
Why similar: Simulation 66.1%, Indie 33.9%
- #3 stratO
96% matchVery Positive87% of 60 reviews2015
Dev: Mark Chong
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Glide, swoop, tuck, dive, magnetize, grind, walldrive, and burn your way through rings to advance the difficulty of the vast, procedurally-generated environment while avoiding the fog and getting stranded! This game demands a great deal of skill and is not suited for casual players or people susceptible to motion sickness.
Why similar: Simulation 50.4%, Action 27.1%, Indie 22.5%
- #4 Toilet Tycoon
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 222 reviews2015
Dev: Anvil-Soft
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Toilet Tycoon is an unusual economic simulation in which you can prove your skills as a leader of the sanitarian installations of a whole town! On your way to the top, you have calculate wisely and should always keep an eye on your opponents - else you simply will be flushed...
Why similar: Simulation 70.7%, Indie 29.3%
- #5 TRANSIT
93% matchMostly Negative23% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: SPLR Studio
Windows
You are not the chosen one who will save the world. You are just a person who is hoping for salvation.
Why similar: Simulation 40.1%, Action 23.2%, Survival 18.8%, Indie 17.9%
- #6 Death Tractor
94% matchMixed70% of 92 reviews2015
Dev: Exato Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
This totally serious, 100% accurate to life corn harvesting simulation experience will get your adrenaline pumping and nerves excited. You'll never be able to farm for corn in the same light again! How much corn will YOU harvest before your eventual death by tractor?
Why similar: Simulation 49.2%, Action 29.7%, Indie 21.1%
- #7 Uncanny Islands
94% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Qucheza
Windows
You crash on a small island, where you need to get your first food and build shelter. Beware, there are many dangers on the islands. Build, explore, and survive.
Why similar: Simulation 38.4%, Action 22.3%, Survival 22.1%, Indie 17.2%
- #8 Ensign-1
92% matchMostly Negative26% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: Only Human Studios
Windows
Ensign-1 is a space combat game that gives players the freedom to leave their fighter to board ships, man turrets, and hijack alien fighters.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #9 The Employee
91% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Parallelogram Software
Windows
You are the employee. You applied for a job offer as a web developer in a big company. What could go wrong? Do you think you would make a good employee? Not ready to work and show motivation? Then you can stay unemployed, punk!
Why similar: Simulation 44.5%, Action 26.2%, Indie 20.2%, Survival 9.1%
- #10 Proyecto Flamingo X1
89% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Flamingo Simulation Systems
Windows · Mac
Play this game if you want to exit the simulation. The first of seven clues designed as videogames to find your way back to reality. Only you know when the time is right to call it quits and go back home. In the meantime,go on and play games within games if you'd like. Fortune favours the curious.
Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, Action 22.7%, Difficult 21.6%, Indie 17.4%
- #11 Arctic alive
90% matchMixed54% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: TortPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Arctic alive - a simulator with elements of survival horror. The action takes place in Siberia on the research station "Arctic". There was something in what is necessary to understand the player. The world is open for exploration.
Why similar: Simulation 39.7%, Survival 28.5%, Action 18%, Indie 13.8%
- #12 THORNYWAY
89% matchMixed50% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Intelligent Systems
Windows
This game is for fans of hardcore gameplay. The aim of the game is to get THORNYWAY's album, but you won't get it.
Why similar: Simulation 51.6%, Indie 25.3%, Difficult 23.1%
- #13 Pirates of corsairs
87% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Plan B
Windows
Pirate – это игра, которая даст вам почувствовать себя в шкуре молодого капитана – Криса Уоркета – капера на службе у Англии. По воле судьбы и короля ему предстоит выполнить важное поручение на благо Англии, за этим он отправляется в Новый Свет...
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.6%
- #14 Reverence: The Ultimate Combat Experience
88% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Mantis Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience real sword fighting in Reverence.With total control over your body, you carve your own destiny in this first and third person, multiplayer, combat experience. With the Muscle Memory System you can intuitively control all your limbs and even tweak your muscle memory to create a unique style.
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.6%
- #15 Plague Squad
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EncoderX
Windows
It's time to war! Call friends for help and go! Long battles, different missions, a lot of enemies and zombies are waiting for you!
Why similar: Simulation 48.5%, Action 29.1%, Indie 22.4%
- #16 Flip the Table
86% matchMixed64% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: Barracuda Disaster
Windows
Flip the Table is a physics-based, ultimate stress relieving virtual reality game where your objective is to Flip the Table and break as much stuff as you can. After a long day or just for fun you can now destroy things without getting a huge bill!
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.6%
- #17 Fury's Sky
85% matchPositive76% of 20 reviews2019
Dev: Proud Cipher Media Group
Windows
Fly, fight, and survive in a flight action game like no other using the GZDoom engine!
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.6%
- #18 Ship Rescue
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: dev4play
Windows
The aim of the game is saving from the sinking ship. The player is represented as two passengers who should cooperate in order to save themselves. He will face numerous obstacles that he has to overcome: from fires, locked doors to flooded rooms, broken electronics and parkouring.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #19 Strange Space
86% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2015
Dev: Mayhem Games USA
Windows
Space just got a whole lot stranger. In this first person physics platformer, you manipulate objects in your environment and ride platforms while dodging asteroids, giant Monolithics, saw blades and other things that want to hurt you.
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.6%
- #20 The Tower: Last Stand
84% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2016
Dev: Martin BammesPub: d/dx Labs
Windows
You are alone in a medieval tower that you must defend against a large onslaught of demonic enemies. Inspired by the, “Tower,” Tarot Card, and the Graphic Novel series, “Heavy Metal,” enjoy your attempts to stay alive in this great HTC Vive game.
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.6%
- #21 SE VR World Demo
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: Sektan
Windows
This game is a playable technology showcase that introduces game mechanics which will be in a new game.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #22 Dante's Forest
84% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2016
Dev: zale15droidPub: Zale Bush
Windows
Dante's Forest is an immersive VR action horror game built for the HTC Vive. Alone in a haunted forest you find yourself surrounded by wave after wave of ghostly creatures. By pure chance you discover that the beam of your flashlight will vaporize the sinister specters... for a while.
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.6%
- #23 The Last Sorcerer
83% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Adam RadziszewskiPub: rcadeVR, LLC.
Windows
You are The Last Sorcerer. Equipped with two awesomely dangerous weapons, exploding fireballs, and long-range fire arrows, you have to defend the Tree of Life from the waves of super scary monsters. You can teleport to special locations in your village to cover all attack areas.
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.6%
- #24 Hard Lander
79% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Soulareus InteractivePub: Kidware Software
Windows · Mac
HardLander is a tough-as-nails "Rocket Wrestling" arena designed for up to 4 players. Invite three of your friends to compete for bragging rights and couch cred in what might be the most advanced rocket wrestling simulation ever created!
Why similar: Simulation 47.5%, Action 30.3%, Indie 22.2%
- #25 BreakTube
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jacob Galam
Windows
Do you want to take out your aggressions after a hard work day or school? if yes, this is the game for you. You basically play "Rage room" but with a twist that you need to managing a YouTube channel for earning money for the sake of keeping breaking things.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #26 Empires Of Creation
82% matchMixed47% of 32 reviews2015
Dev: Bundle Of Sticks Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Take on the role of fleet commander and lead your empire to victory. Conquer enemies in high octane battles to upgrade your ships and gain credits for use on the galactic market. Exploit your relations with friends and foes to establish a monopoly over your corner of the universe.
Why similar: Simulation 48.2%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.5%
- #27 DAMAGE CONTROL
82% matchMixed43% of 30 reviews2016
Dev: Ross Edgar
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Control your squad of engineers and maintain your ship, and it's crew, until it reaches it's destination. Careful planning and timing will be required to tackle the dangers of deep space. Only your team stands between your sturdy ship and and certain doom. Take command!
Why similar: Simulation 48.2%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.5%
- #28 Post-Apo Machines
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Machine SharksPub: Hydra Games S.A.
Windows
Post-Apo Machines is a first person simulation tower defense game set in the devastated, post-war universe. Imagine that you are all alone, protected from hordes of zombies only by a wall around your ruined city.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #29 Killbox
80% matchMixed69% of 75 reviews2017
Dev: Biome Collective
Windows · Mac
KillboxKillbox is an online game and interactive installation that critically explores the nature of drone warfare, its complexities and consequences. It is an experience which explores the use of technology to transform and extend political and military power, and the abstraction of killing through virtualisation.
Why similar: Simulation 47.7%, Action 29%, Indie 23.3%
- #30 VIOLET: Space Mission
81% matchMixed53% of 19 reviews2016
Dev: Killer Lobster
Windows · Mac
Violet: Space Mission is a 2D precision action game in space, about dodging asteroids, data collection and space exploration. You are Candidate Alpha, sent on the Violet Programme for this mission. Good luck and godspeed.
Why similar: Simulation 48.2%, Action 29.3%, Indie 22.5%
- #31 911 FR
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SKYSTATION.RED
Windows
Protect law enforcement, provide medical aid and rescue from the clutches of fire! Police, EMS, Fire - choose your Department and go to the streets to do their duty!
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #32 Flatwaters: The Curse of Echita
78% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Lunarhellgames
Windows · Linux
Flatwaters: The Curse of Echita is an open world game in which we will have to conquer each island of the city "Echita" and loot all the treasures in it.
Why similar: Simulation 47%, Action 30%, Indie 23.1%
- #33 Your Principal
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AsmodevPub: Glob Games Studio
Windows
Do you see that old guy shouting and screaming? that's you the principal Being a Principal is not an easy task. you can be the meanest, sourest principal in history or not.
Why similar: Simulation 49.8%, Action 27.9%, Indie 22.2%
- #34 Cell HD: emergence
79% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2015
Dev: New Life Interactive, LLC
Windows
Based on a 3D version of mathematician John Conway's "Game of Life," the game puts the player in a biological world that is uncannily alive.
Why similar: Simulation 48.8%, Action 28.3%, Indie 22.8%
- #35 Elite Escape
75% matchMixed69% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: Przestraszeni
Windows
You've been accepted to Alpha-X, an elite special forces unit comprised of only the brightest analytical minds in the world. Pass the entry test and show that your selection was not a mistake. Test your problem-solving skills in this futuristic puzzle/escape room game!
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #36 Gladiators Of The Arena
77% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: CreativeOvenStudio
Windows
Hack and slash game
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #37 Shoot Loop VR
77% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: ARLOOPA Inc.
Windows
Experience the most realistic VR shooting range simulator now on HTC Vive!
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #38 DoubleTap
76% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: EasterEgg Workshop
Windows
Stylish pistol action for the movie hero/dapper spy/assassin with a dark past that you don't want to talk about/cool person in all of us.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #39 Atlantic Edge
75% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Art of The RushPub: Rush Games
Windows
Atlantic Edge is a strategic VR brawler for HTC VIVE in which you play a mech pilot tasked with defending a city from an endless onslaught of kaiju. Will you save the city? Or cause as much damage as the kaiju?
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #40 SinaRun
58% matchMostly Positive79% 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%
- #41 I Park on Earth
60% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: NewAtlantisGameStudio
Windows
Choose a suitable vehicle, use the four directional keys, and drive it into the designated parking area. That's it.
Why similar: Simulation 31.1%, Action 26.6%, Difficult 21.9%, Indie 20.5%
- #42 AddForce
74% matchMixed68% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: Attila VitezPub: Capiproducts
Windows
Dear fellow Players, Please do not purchase the game anymore because it will become free anytime soon! If you have already purchased it, thanks a million. I do hope you liked it!
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #43 MORDER
72% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Doc Rifou Productions
Windows
MORDER is a stealth-shooter game where you play either as a hired killer or a security agent. Be quick and sneaky, or deliver chaos and destroy the opposition, or maybe you will defend the innocent with your life. It's your choice.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #44 Eyestorm
74% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: 3Crew
Windows
Eyestorm is a helicopter simulator game which takes place on a vast archipelago through forty exhilarating missions. The player must undertake rescue operations for survivors of accidents and shipwrecks, find missing expeditionists or transport important cargos, all within a limited time frame.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #45 Critical Mess
73% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: DK VIP Lounge
Windows
Critical Mess puts you in the role of a newly minted waste management employee. Your main tool is the shovel, which you'll use to gather garbage into a designated hole.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #46 Woodcutter Survival
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Dmitry Kuzakov
Windows
Woodcutter survival is an interesting, sometimes hardcore game. Here you have only one goal - to survive! You have to get resources, create new weapons and tools to fight wolves and bears. Don't forget to eat on time or you'll die!
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #47 Handy
70% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Vladimir Fomenkov
Windows
The time has come to take matters into your own hand. Become Handy and learn that even the simplest of tasks might be really hard when you are just a hand.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #48 逮到你了!
73% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Silver Cow Studio
Windows
动漫女孩已被打上了马赛克!只有你有能力解放他们!但是爸爸也在注意你... 只需一个错误的举动就可以让你被逮到!一个让你坐立不安的生存点击游戏,试着在避开爸爸的同时,收集所有动漫图案!
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #49 RUN
72% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: POPSAUR
Windows
Run, hide or fly high Use the power of your mind to be the video game hero man or misses and experience the classic retro dream through the eyes Now get money and rek time
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Action 28.6%, Indie 22%
- #50 VR Aim Trainer
68% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: Aim VR Studios
Windows
The best way to improve your VR aim. VR Aim Trainer provides customizable training scenarios to improve your hand-eye coordination, accuracy, and your overall skill at VR shooters. Prove you're the best VR aimer by climbing to the top of our competitive leaderboards.
Why similar: Simulation 49.8%, Action 28.9%, Indie 21.2%
- #51 Starship Horizons: Bridge Simulator
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 33 reviews2020
Dev: Mythric Studios, LLC
Windows
Starship Horizons is a multi-player experience allowing 2-6 players commanding a Starship as the bridge officers in the roles of Captain, Flight, Tactical, Science, Operations, and Engineering.
Why similar: Simulation 50.1%, Action 28.2%, Indie 21.7%
- #52 Cold War Minister
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SupaGames
Windows
Become the leader of the USSR consumed by the vision of establishing a world-class superpower. Wage the Cold War brutally and without compromise, or through cunning politics and effective propaganda.
Why similar: Simulation 49.7%, Action 28.6%, Indie 21.8%
- #53 Freeze Climbing
69% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Bottino.Games
Windows
Freeze Climbing is a game about climbing an icy dreamscape to reach the top. Clamber, grab, and scramble your way up. Just don't fall. Oh, and it's got finger guns.
Why similar: Simulation 46.8%, Action 30%, Indie 23.1%
- #54 Math Combat Challenge
69% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Titan Deep Space Company
Windows · Mac
Math Combat Challenge is a Math game, but also a survival combat game. You win by solving the random math problems you'll find in the surface arenas, also in open space. You'll have to fight to survive. but the point of the game is clear: math problems are the key to win.
Why similar: Simulation 49.7%, Action 28.8%, Indie 21.5%
- #55 Prometheus: Omex Rising
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SmultarPub: Smultar Game Development
Windows
PROMΞTHΞUS is a singleplayer/cooperative game that takes place in the distant future, where humanity has taken an endeavor to a distant sci-fi planet, known as Orpheus.
Why similar: Simulation 37.2%, Robots 24.6%, Action 21.6%, Indie 16.6%
- #56 Climb With Wheelbarrow
65% matchVery Positive88% of 206 reviews2019
Dev: Pickle Drugs
Windows · Mac
Climb With Wheelbarrow is a game in which you will climb up with a wheelbarrow using the forces of a blue man
Why similar: Simulation 50.9%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%