- #1 Super Puzzle Sisters
97% matchMixed40% of 20 reviews2016
Dev: Super Puzzle Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 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 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #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: Puzzle Platformer 50.1%, Indie 49.9%
- #3 Lanterns
93% 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 40.7%, Local Co-Op 33.2%, Puzzle Platformer 26.1%
- #4 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%
- #5 Brain Booster
95% matchMostly Positive73% of 41 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%
- #6 ZIQ
94% 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%
- #7 Moe Mekuri SP
94% 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%
- #8 The Rabbit and The Owl
91% 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 43.2%, Indie 30.4%, Puzzle Platformer 26.5%
- #9 Recourse
92% 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 48%, Local Co-Op 33.6%, Indie 18.4%
- #10 Ongaku
91% 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%
- #11 Coated
90% 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%, Puzzle Platformer 46%
- #12 Everything is Black and White
89% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2015
Dev: Thomas Gwaltney
Windows
Everything is Black and White is a minimalist puzzle-platformer developed by Thomas Gwaltney.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 55.5%, Indie 44.5%
- #13 Javva Juice
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Super Games Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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%
- #14 Levers & Buttons
86% 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 40.8%, Indie 30%, Puzzle Platformer 29.2%
- #15 Graviton
84% 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%, Puzzle Platformer 46%
- #16 DYO
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,913 reviews2018
Dev: Josia RoncancioPub: Team DYO
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.7 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 47.7%, Puzzle Platformer 31.4%, Indie 20.9%
- #17 XO-Planets
74% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: myradann
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 99%
An old-school, frantic roguelike action platformer with tower defense gameplay and light RPG elements.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 100%
- #18 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 57.8%, Indie 42.2%
- #19 Handy Dandy
81% matchVery Positive96% of 375 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 46.2%, Indie 33.4%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%
- #20 Veer
82% 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 51.4%, Puzzle Platformer 48.6%
- #21 Ethereal Legends
84% 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%
- #22 Push and Pull
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Angel_Light
Windows
The Push and Pull is a couch co-op only puzzle platformer about playing as two dualistic bunnies looking for a home.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 57.1%, Puzzle Platformer 35.8%, Indie 7.1%
- #23 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 56.2%, Indie 43.8%
- #24 Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: QED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dive into a top-down, turn-based strategy game with 80's sci-fi flair. Command elite soldiers in multiplayer duels on 24 maps, local hot-seat mode, or a thrilling singleplayer campaign. Master teleportation and gridless movement on the mysterious planet Anthracite.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Mitch: Berry Challenge
81% matchPositive82% of 22 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%
- #26 Mallow Drops
80% 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 54.5%, Indie 45.5%
- #27 Brazed
79% matchMixed52% of 63 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%
- #28 Hollow Halls
79% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Broken Code Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Hollow Halls is a short indie horror game, focusing on story and atmosphere over combat and action.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 BoyandBox
75% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Gustav Almström
Windows · Linux
Boyandbox is a game about a boy and his teleporting box.
Why similar: Indie 72.7%, Puzzle Platformer 27.3%
- #30 Selatria: Advent of the Dakk'rian Empire
78% matchMixed64% of 22 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%
- #31 Let's Find a Way
68% 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 54.8%, Puzzle Platformer 45.2%
- #32 Rocket Ski Racing
77% matchMixed67% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: nocanwin
Windows
Median: 3.3 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%
- #33 SCORE Soccer
78% matchMixed43% of 49 reviews2016
Dev: TecEh! Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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%
- #34 Bestseller: Curse of the Golden Owl
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: ECC GAMES SP. Z O.O.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Young writer Jane Harrison, a daughter of the famous detective, is going through a creative crisis. Her father vanished while working on his last case two years ago. Jane sets off on a journey through the United States and gets involved in a dangerous intrigue. The key to the mystery might be a cursed item…
- #35 Lotion samurai
70% matchVery Positive98% of 123 reviews2020
Dev: Retsu Teikoku
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Manipulate a lotion-covered samurai, defeat the ninjas who are blocking them, and aim for escape from the ninja castle! Further ranking function supported! Compete with rival samurai all over the world for clear time!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Nuclear Wipeout
72% matchPositive91% of 23 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 68.4%, Puzzle Platformer 31.6%
- #37 PASVAN
72% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: AchaemenesPub: Achaemenes Games
Windows · Mac
You can't get away from 'GAMAN' !
Why similar: Indie 70%, Puzzle Platformer 30%
- #38 SolarGun
73% matchVery Positive84% of 209 reviews2017
Dev: Mechanical BossPub: GGtech Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.3 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 51.6%, Puzzle Platformer 48.4%
- #39 Doodle WHAT?!
60% 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%
- #40 Race & Destroy
76% matchMostly Negative33% of 21 reviews2016
Dev: AngryAngelGamesPub: IceTorch Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Race&Destroy is an alternative view of racing genre in total. Earn money, upgrade and repair your car or buy a better car.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 God Simulator
75% matchMostly Negative35% of 34 reviews2016
Dev: Mateusz Kulis
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Take on the role of God and create your own world as you see it!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 Stickman Zombie Shooting 3D
57% matchMostly Positive78% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: Yurii NikshychPub: TheGamesFortress
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
The city has been infected! Shoot and kill the zombie stickmen. Fast-paced arcade gameplay through dozens of bespoke levels. The stickman world needs your help - or at least for you not to die too quickly.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 Alter World
73% matchMixed69% of 595 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 56.7%, Puzzle Platformer 43.3%
- #44 Akuto: Showdown
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 30 reviews2019
Dev: Hut 90
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Akuto: Showdown is an award-nominated, isometric, fast-paced action game where players compete with swords and guns in intense versus matches.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 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%
- #46 PANIC at Multiverse High!
71% 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%
- #47 PURGE - Three vs Blood
64% matchMixed59% of 32 reviews2022
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
PURGE - THREE VS BLOOD offers an exciting arena zombie apocalypse. Fight zombie waves with up to 3 players, unlock ranks, maps, characters, as well as weapons and traps.
- #48 Pid
71% matchVery Positive83% of 2,431 reviews2012
Dev: Might and Delight
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 29.8 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 51.1%, Indie 25%, Local Co-Op 23.8%
- #49 Block Tower TD
59% matchVery Positive84% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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.
- #50 Meaty McSkinBones
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 112 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 59%, Indie 41%
- #51 Retool
71% 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%
- #52 Alchemy Frogs
55% matchVery Positive82% of 87 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 37.1%, Indie 12.9%
- #53 Magnetized
69% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2016
Dev: Rocky Hong
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Magnetized is a minimal action game, let's active the power of magnets and escape from the the pixel maze!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 Arelite Core
68% matchPositive85% of 46 reviews2017
Dev: Dragon SlumberPub: My Way Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The age of heroes is passed, yet an ancient evil rises again. Follow the adventures of Karden, a blacksmith on the path to mastering his craft, forced to take a stand against Talameq, an ageless entity bent on devouring the world.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Pitfall Planet
67% matchVery Positive99% of 99 reviews2016
Dev: Bonfire GamesPub: adamgryu
Windows · Mac
Pitfall Planet is a couch co-op puzzle-solving adventure game set on a distant planet, where you'll need to use teamwork to complete levels and explore the caverns below! Pitfall Planet will put your friendship to the test; will both of you make it out alive?
Why similar: Local Co-Op 71.5%, Indie 28.5%
- #56 Epanalepsis
69% matchMixed71% of 34 reviews2015
Dev: Cameron Kunzelman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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%