- #1 Super Puzzle Sisters
97% matchMixed40% of 20 reviews2016
Dev: Super Puzzle Studios
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Super Puzzle Sisters is a brand new ‘Action Puzzle’ Designed like Old School 90 Arcade Puzzle Games but with a twist! Choose when you unleash your combos with the Punch Attacks and unleash devastating combos while battling in 4 player Local Multiplayer Battles!!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 53.9%, Indie 46.1%
- #2 Manipulated
96% matchPositive87% of 45 reviews2017
Dev: Wolfray Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Warning! This game does require an ability to think.
Why similar: Indie 50.5%, Puzzle Platformer 49.5%
- #3 The Empty Inn
96% 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%
- #4 Moe Mekuri SP
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: KoheiGallery
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The goal of this game is to turn all the panels to face up. You can choose the level stage from EASY, NORMAL, and HARD. However, in order to play the NORMAL stage, you need to have passed all the EASY stages, and to play the HARD stage, all the NORMAL stages.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #5 Lanterns
91% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Artefact Assembly
Windows
Lanterns is a co-operative platformer where two players must work together to solve a gauntlet of unique puzzles. Players control a red and blue character that are able to shine a ray of light, of like colour.
Why similar: Indie 41.2%, Local Co-Op 33%, Puzzle Platformer 25.8%
- #6 Brain Booster
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 40 reviews2016
Dev: AbsQual Studio
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Are you ready to pump up your brains? Then Brain Booster is for you! Unique intellectual tasks, several levels of difficulty will force your brains move. You will not just choose correct answers, you should create them by yourself! It seems challenging? Just try it!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #7 Recourse
94% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Clouds and Blue
Windows
Curiosity is a sign of intelligence. Will yours take you far enough to discover why Sleet and Floe are stuck on this beautiful desolate planet?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.7%, Local Co-Op 33.6%, Indie 18.7%
- #8 ZIQ
91% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Midnight Sea Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run, dodge, jump, pull pickups, switch polarity and die constantly! You get to do all this while being heckled for your constant mistakes! "ZIQ" is an arcade runner that features polarity-switching gameplay. Switch ZIQ's polarity to make it safely past obstacles or in some cases destroy them.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #9 Ongaku
92% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2015
Dev: SmashMouth Games Ltd
Windows
“Pop the bubbles to the music, to paint the perfect picture!” Ongaku is a uniquely addictive side-scrolling 2D rhythm action game with the infusion of original music and stylised artwork.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #10 The Rabbit and The Owl
90% matchPositive100% of 49 reviews2018
Dev: Formal Sheep, LLC
Windows · Mac
The Rabbit and The Owl is a cooperative puzzle-platformer where you (or you and a friend) journey through a fractured yet beautiful and hand-painted negative space landscape. The titular characters are confined to the realms of light and dark and are only able to progress through constant cooperation.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 43%, Indie 30.8%, Puzzle Platformer 26.2%
- #11 Coated
89% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2015
Dev: mamoniemPub: Vikong
Windows · Mac · Linux
Coated is a world made of colors, coat yourself to solve puzzles. It is a game, an adventure, and a lesson.
Why similar: Indie 54.7%, Puzzle Platformer 45.3%
- #12 Everything is Black and White
89% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2015
Dev: Thomas Gwaltney
Windows
Everything is Black and White is a minimalist puzzle-platformer developed by Thomas Gwaltney.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #13 Hollow Halls
87% 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%
- #14 Javva Juice
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Super Games Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Adventure little wizard named Javva, looking for his Coffee stolen by evil skeleton King. Enjoy challenging gameplay - then Javva Juice for you! Here you have to work hard to be like before you go through the next dungeon!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #15 DYO
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,840 reviews2018
Dev: Team DYO
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
DYO is a mind-bending cooperative platformer for one or two players where you can hop between two halves of a split screen.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 47.6%, Puzzle Platformer 31.2%, Indie 21.3%
- #16 Spectrum: First Light
86% 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: Puzzle Platformer 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #17 Graviton
83% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Richter Games
Windows · Mac
The Traykonians don't believe there's intelligent life on Earth, and it's up to you to prove them wrong. Manipulate gravity to solve their mind-bending puzzles... just try not to accidentally fling yourself into any lasers.
Why similar: Indie 54.7%, Puzzle Platformer 45.3%
- #18 Mitch: Berry Challenge
85% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2016
Dev: Boidae Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Mitch: Berry Challenge is a Lighthearted Retro inspired 2D Platformer with classic and simple controls, challenging levels, hand drawn animations and a fully composed soundtrack.You'll play as a Green Iguana from the Goain Tribe.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #19 Levers & Buttons
84% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: 5 Hours of Sleep
Windows
You are one of a kind. The best of all cleaning clones! But you can't clean a broken spaceship, so you need to save it first.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 40.7%, Indie 30.4%, Puzzle Platformer 28.9%
- #20 Handy Dandy
79% matchVery Positive96% of 365 reviews2020
Dev: Yellow Boot Games
Windows · Mac
The two adventurers Handy and Dandy have caused a dimensional tear which is now separating them and the entire cave where they have to solve platforming puzzles to reunite again in this 2D co-op game.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 46%, Indie 33.9%, Puzzle Platformer 20.1%
- #21 Veer
80% matchPositive92% of 38 reviews2019
Dev: Some-Fish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Use relative teleportation and the ability to change the direction of gravity to progress through the temple, where everything revolves around the core experience of puzzle solving. Do you have what it takes?
Why similar: Indie 52.1%, Puzzle Platformer 47.9%
- #22 Duplexer
82% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Vantage Games
Windows
Duplexer is a challenging single-player puzzle platformer game. The player can push or pull the walls, floor and ceiling around them to overcome many puzzling, platforming and physics based trials.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #23 Doodle WHAT?!
68% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Binx.tv
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Stream your canvas on Twitch and turn your chat into a guessing game! Fully integrated with Twitch, this social drawing game lets your viewers compete in real time to guess what you're drawing! Featuring a persistent leaderboard, customizable word bank, and multiple gameplay modes!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #24 Rocket Ski Racing
81% matchMixed67% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: nocanwin
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hold the line as your booster rocket pushes you to increasingly insane speeds after every lap in this high speed, unforgiving, 3rd person racer! Watch out for blocks of ice and the edge of the track or you'll explode into a scattered pile of parts. Drift off the fast line and an opponent will edge their way to 1st!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Ethereal Legends
81% matchMostly Negative28% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Soverance Studios
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
A powerful foe has descended upon the world of Arcadia. The Ethereal Knights, protectors of the realm, have nearly all been destroyed. Only you remain. Enter the portal and defend the Ethereal Realms from the evil which plagues them.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 BoyandBox
75% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2020
Dev: Gustav Almström
Windows · Linux
Boyandbox is a game about a boy and his teleporting box.
Why similar: Indie 73.2%, Puzzle Platformer 26.8%
- #27 Calico & Co.
77% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Green Moss Game
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Help Calico in her quest to rescue her lost kittens and unravel the mysteries surrounding the culprit.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #28 Pulse Shift
79% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: 3 Core Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Crazy physics toy with various of abilities such as gravity and time manipulation in many abstract levels.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 The Sorceress
78% matchNegative19% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Karabas_Studio
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 99%
In a fairy-tale kingdom evil forces are attacking citizens. The monsters appear suddenly and nobody knows from where they are and who leads them. The best knights of the kingdom fell in this war. Castles are destroyed, and people survive as they can.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #30 Trapped Summoner
77% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Trapped Team
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Trapped Summoner - a fascinating indie game in retro style with elements of RPG.You have to get out of the underground of Taigren`s Castle, bypassing all clever traps and fighting with various monsters that live there.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 Let's Find a Way
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ThinkOfGames
Windows
A game that every age can play! While the game acts as a calming break for the grown-ups, the game teaches children about cooperation and problem solving.
Why similar: Indie 55.4%, Puzzle Platformer 44.6%
- #32 Mallow Drops
76% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2016
Dev: GritfishPub: Green Stripe Snake
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Mallow Drops is a gravity puzzle where two kiwis try to rescue their lost eggs in a shattered world. Getting to where you need to go is half the fun - just be sure to look before you leap!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 53.9%, Indie 46.1%
- #33 Selatria: Advent of the Dakk'rian Empire
76% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: Whim Independent Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Selatria: Advent of the Dakk'rian Empire follows the story main characters Mage and Melanie, whose home of Availia is threatened by an invading imperial army. These two soon find themselves on the run, recruiting friends in unlikely places to protect their home… and eventually the world.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 Orc Slayer
78% matchMostly Negative39% of 23 reviews2015
Dev: Cooply Solutions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Armed with a revolutionary new weapon of mass Orc Slaying, your mission is one of pure revenge. Using your new crossbow and an array of special bolts, Slay your way across the land on a frenzied rampage towards the heart of the Orc Invasion
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Dolphin Up
74% matchPositive100% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: Rawkins Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A fun, vibrant, 2-minute game with surprising depth, Dolphin Up lets you do amazing tricks with a porpoise. Successful flips, spins and tailslides build speed, allowing you to jump higher and soar into the stars.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Nuclear Wipeout
71% matchPositive91% of 22 reviews2020
Dev: Palikkapeli EntertainmentPub: Ahlman Game Studio
Windows
Classic Wipeout but with bigger destructive stakes. Play 31 challenging 3D platforming levels where you are testing the new kind of Nuclear weapons. This game is a short school project of Ahlman Institute students.
Why similar: Indie 68.9%, Puzzle Platformer 31.1%
- #37 PASVAN
71% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: AchaemenesPub: Achaemenes Games
Windows · Mac
You can't get away from 'GAMAN' !
Why similar: Indie 70.6%, Puzzle Platformer 29.4%
- #38 SolarGun
72% matchVery Positive84% of 209 reviews2017
Dev: Mechanical BossPub: GGtech Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Discover SolarGun, a first-person puzzle game set in a aseptic factory. Use energy orbs, dodge lasers, and activate mechanisms to escape. With over 20 puzzles, hidden minigames, and a speedrun mode, every decision counts on your path to freedom.
Why similar: Indie 52.2%, Puzzle Platformer 47.8%
- #39 xoEl Empire
73% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Greyman Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
The Yabbies used to live in harmony, but everything changed... When the xoEl empire attacked. Now, they are trapped waiting his squared destiny and you, blessed by an unknown power, are the only one who can save them... Rotate, Match colours and solve tons of puzzles in your way to freedom.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 Dissonance: An Interactive Novelette
73% 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 100%
- #41 Globe Rush
73% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: Treetop Crew
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
READY, SET, TRAVEL!Roam the globe in this tricky rhythm-based platformer!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 SCORE
74% matchMixed42% of 48 reviews2016
Dev: TecEh! Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Score is an online football world where you create a player, join or build a club, compete through leagues and cups, and earn money to buy cars, apartments, houses, and furniture in a shared multiplayer city. A pure football game inspired by Pro Clubs , no missions, no crime, just the sport.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 Alter World
72% matchMixed68% of 579 reviews2015
Dev: Giorgi AbelashviliPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Inspired by Stephen King’s book - “The Dark Tower”, Alter World is a 2D platformer with interesting gameplay mechanics. Player can pass on an alternative universe anytime and use an alternative realms to move to another level. Levels are unique, with puzzles. player will have to react quickly and assess when to move between the Worlds.
Why similar: Indie 57.3%, Puzzle Platformer 42.7%
- #44 PANIC at Multiverse High!
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2016
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Join up to 18 possible best friends in an insane adventure through a bizarre high school in this parody visual novel! Celebrate weird holidays! Take strange classes! Face down your rival at Prom! (Also he is a literal monster.) And there’s a mystery, I guess! PANIC at Multiverse High!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 Brazed
71% matchMixed53% of 62 reviews2016
Dev: Vladimir Maslov
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Brazed is a game about escaping the unknown planet.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #46 Pid
70% matchVery Positive83% of 2,430 reviews2012
Dev: Might and Delight
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 32%
You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 50.7%, Indie 25.5%, Local Co-Op 23.8%
- #47 Block_Up
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Benjamin Jonas Hoffmann
Windows
An action-packed two-player local-coop 2D puzzle platformer with a focus on teamwork. Use one player's ability to place blocks and the other's ability to break them to create a path to your goal while escaping the rising lava from below!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 57.2%, Puzzle Platformer 35.7%, Indie 7.1%
- #48 Alchemy Frogs
54% matchVery Positive82% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: Gratitude Games
Windows
Alchemy Frogs is a local co-op puzzle platformer game with a 3D, isometric camera, in which Frog & Toad traverse a poisoned swamp to look for a cure that will help them save their family from being turned to stone. Frog & Toad will mix their potions to unleash powerful magical effects.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 50%, Puzzle Platformer 36.9%, Indie 13.1%
- #49 Meaty McSkinBones
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 111 reviews2019
Dev: Triplot Studio
Windows
Meaty McSkinBones is a single-player puzzle/platformer where the character is split into three separate bodies. They each have unique abilities or can work together to solve puzzles and traverse the environment. It's quirky, hilarious, and a ton of fun!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 58.4%, Indie 41.6%
- #50 Retool
69% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2016
Dev: Hut 90
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Retool is a 3D hacking puzzle game where you try to escape incomplete orbital stations by hacking into computers to rewire outputs of electronics.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Nano Project
68% matchMixed53% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Summer Media
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
You are the member of special detachment for bio weapons elimination. The main character separated from detachment that after some time is taken unawares and dismantled. The main character alone tries to destroy bio weapons called Nano Project that improves all human abilities and makes him insensible to get the perfect strike force.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 Piloteer
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 26 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%
- #53 Bebop and Tempo
67% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Dominguez
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
One hit and you are out. Bebop and Tempo's difficulty matches your play style. Take the easy route and carefully plan your next step to complete each level. On the other hand, master the mechanics of Bebop and Tempo to switch, dodge, and attack within a blink of an eye to earn the highest score.
- #54 Resilience Wave Survival
69% matchMixed58% of 184 reviews2015
Dev: Jimbob Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Resilience: Wave Survival is a physics based endless wave survival shooter. Explore to Search for Weapons and Ammo to help Defeat the Enemies, better find food and water too if you want to Survive for longer, but Beware of the Tripods stalking the lands.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Block Tower TD
54% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.