- #1 Don't Kill the Cow
97% matchVery Positive84% of 112 reviews2019
Dev: James Earl Cox III
Windows
Please don't kill the cow.
Why similar: Experience 21.5% ★, Indie 17.2%, Experimental 12% ★, Dark Comedy 11.4%, Dark Humor 10.1%
- #2 3 Blind Mice: A Remediation Game for Improper Children
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 141 reviews2019
Dev: James Earl Cox III
Windows
A remediation game designed for last attempt corrections for particularly troubled youth. Failure to complete this game may result in removal from society. Please do not attempt to find the surveillance units. They are only present for monitoring your progress. Have a pleasant day.
Why similar: Experience 23.8% ★, Software 15.3% ★, Indie 14.9%, Experimental 13.3% ★, Dark Humor 9.3%
- #3 Highlight
96% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Sven NagelPub: Project Highlight
Windows
Six transmedial designers and storytellers decided to take the innovative transmedia theory to the game industry. The gameplay of this Indie puzzler is something players probably haven't seen before. The experiment and goal was to create a transmedial game and Highlight is the proof of concept.
Why similar: Experience 42.1% ★, Indie 28.8%, Experimental 23.5% ★, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
- #4 Cosmic Flow: A Relaxing VR Experience
95% matchVery Positive96% of 203 reviews2020
Dev: vedev
Windows
Cosmic Flow is a relaxing visual experience, an audio-visual massage for the mind, a kaleidoscopic meditation.
Why similar: Indie 37.7%, Experience 36.1% ★, Experimental 18.6% ★, Relaxing 7.6%
- #5 kamer
94% matchMixed64% of 25 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Sokpop S02: kamer - a short game about daydreaming. Come home, walk around your room, and let your thoughts flow freely...
Why similar: Indie 71.5%, Experimental 21.4% ★, Relaxing 7.1%
- #6 Post Cards
94% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A collection of three small games. Catch fish on an ocean, solve a riddle in a desert, and make stew in a grove - all within 3 post card sized games.
Why similar: Indie 44.3%, Experimental 36.2% ★, Relaxing 11.9%, Atmospheric 7.6%
- #7 -KLAUS-
93% matchVery Positive86% of 116 reviews2019
Dev: La Cosa
Windows
Klaus is lost and alone. Who? Where? Why? He doesn't know anything. Only you can help him find the truth. Join Klaus and K1 - a friendly brute - as you explore this puzzle platform game, through a geometric kaleidoscopic world with high contrast and pop art.
Why similar: Experience 31.4% ★, Indie 17.9%, Experimental 16.2% ★, Dark Comedy 15.5%, Dark Humor 12.2%
- #8 Bundle Kitt
92% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2019
Dev: James Earl Cox III
Windows
Enjoy Bundle Kitt; love Bundle Kitt. What sort of trouble will Bundle Kitt get into today?
Why similar: Experience 29.1% ★, Indie 21.2%, Experimental 19.2% ★, Emotional 8.5%, Funny 5.5%
- #9 Tengami
91% matchVery Positive81% of 1,816 reviews2015
Dev: Nyamyam
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.
Why similar: Experience 38.9% ★, Experimental 22.2% ★, Indie 12.8%, Stylized 7.2%, Relaxing 6.9%
- #10 Temporality
90% matchVery Positive88% of 146 reviews2018
Dev: James Earl Cox III
Windows
Short reflective music game set in the Great War.
Why similar: Experience 30.7% ★, Indie 17.8%, Experimental 15.8% ★, Emotional 8.3%, Dark 6.1%
- #11 Memoir En Code: Reissue
91% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Kalopsia GamesPub: N/A
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Memoir En Code: Reissue is an autobiographical game album. Designed to be experienced similarly to a music album, this short experimental game explores different bits of the author's life as a series of interactive tracks.
Why similar: Indie 55.1%, Experimental 44.9% ★
- #12 Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm -
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 898 reviews2018
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Banyu Lintar Angin is a series of experimental illustrations about three siblings, living together independently in a rural Indonesian environment.
Why similar: Experience 39.6% ★, Indie 24.6%, Experimental 20.9% ★, Relaxing 15%
- #13 NiGHT SIGNAL
87% matchVery Positive80% of 101 reviews2022
Dev: Night Signal Entertainment
Windows
NiGHT SIGNAL is a short first-person horror experience that sees you breaking in a new television set, only to find that it picks up strange signals after dark. Hand crafted from flesh and clay.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.7%, Experimental 21.5% ★, Dark Humor 14.2%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Indie 12.2%
- #14 Evergreen Blues
89% matchVery Positive90% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: David SuPub: MIT Media Lab
Windows · Mac
Evergreen Blues is a suite of interactive songs by David Su and Dominique Star. All the world's a stage 🎶🎭
Why similar: Indie 43.8%, Experience 19.8% ★, Emotional 11.6%, Experimental 11.1% ★, Relaxing 7.6%
- #15 Flowers for You: a pleasant walk
86% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: Day Art's Games
Windows
It's your mother's birthday. Walk through a beautiful stylized nature and colect the most beautiful flowers to prepare a gift to her.
Why similar: Experience 38% ★, Experimental 26.9% ★, Emotional 12.4%, Indie 8.5%, Relaxing 8.1%
- #16 Laser Paddles
88% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: TracFacSam, LLC
Windows
Laser Paddles is a pong game where you can destroy your opponent's paddle or have your own paddle destroyed. Lasers fly, power ups are activated, balls go crazy.
Why similar: Indie 64.8%, Local Multiplayer 35.2%
- #17 Indecision.
86% matchVery Positive84% of 636 reviews2018
Dev: bilge
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Experience 42.5% ★, Experimental 23% ★, Dark Humor 13.3%, Emotional 11%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #18 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
85% matchVery Positive91% of 56 reviews2019
Dev: James Earl Cox III
Windows
A short wordless adaptation of a Civil War story.
Why similar: Experience 31.1% ★, Indie 23.4%, Experimental 17.3% ★, Emotional 9.1%, Dark 6.7%
- #19 Heal
83% matchVery Positive84% of 794 reviews2020
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Why similar: Experience 36.3% ★, Indie 18%, Experimental 17.6% ★, Emotional 10.1%, Stylized 5.9%
- #20 Quiplash 2 InterLASHional
82% matchVery Positive91% of 381 reviews2020
Dev: Jackbox Games, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The "say anything" party game is going international! All the hilarious content from Quiplash 2, now in French, Italian, German, and Spanish! With 100 NEW prompts in each language! (And you can still play in boring old English.) Get this QUINTILINGUAL Quiplash now, and take your next party global!
Why similar: Indie 45.5%, Party Game 28.3% ★, Local Multiplayer 19%, Funny 7.2%
- #21 Yi and the Thousand Moons
84% matchVery Positive82% of 209 reviews2017
Dev: David Su
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 9%
Yi and the Thousand Moons is a short video game musical written and developed by David Su. Through the course of several original interactive songs, featuring a full cast and live band, the game weaves a story of the archer Yi's journey to save her village.
Why similar: Experience 33.9% ★, Experimental 21.6% ★, Indie 17.2%, Emotional 10.4%, Relaxing 7.1%
- #22 EnviroGolf
84% matchMixed63% of 48 reviews2019
Dev: Seemingly Pointless
Windows
A short environmentally savvy text-based golf game.
Why similar: Indie 25.7%, Experience 20.8% ★, Experimental 11.6% ★, Dark Comedy 11%, Dark Humor 8.1%
- #23 Virtual Exhibition
81% matchVery Positive94% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: Kersten Glaser
Windows · Mac
The Virtual Exhibition makes it possible to visit a gallery from the comfort of your own home and behaves like a real curated gallery. New features and photographers will be added regularly.
Why similar: Experience 43.4% ★, Experimental 24% ★, Indie 12%, Realistic 8.3%, Stylized 6.5%
- #24 DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
81% 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 92.6%, Pixel Graphics 2%, Dark 1.4%, Dark Humor 1.1%, 2D 1%
- #25 RŌA
82% matchMixed52% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: ARQUOIA
Windows
Chasing colors in the void. A game we made to Zen you.
Why similar: Experience 41.2% ★, Experimental 23% ★, Indie 14.1%, Relaxing 7.2%, Stylized 7%
- #26 Roast Party
79% matchPositive81% of 27 reviews2020
Dev: FraccasPub: DevFraccas
Windows
Roast Party is an online party game that you can play with your friends! The goal of Roast Party is to write creative roasts on the pictures submitted by other players. Join games for free through the web browser or the mobile app! Owning the Steam game unlocks additional features!
Why similar: Party Game 34.5% ★, Dark Comedy 20.1%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Indie 10.9%, Experimental 8% ★
- #27 Mosaic
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 532 reviews2019
Dev: Krillbite StudioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.
Why similar: Indie 44.3%, Experience 42.3% ★, Dark 7.4%, Atmospheric 6%
- #28 Another_World
80% 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 81.2%, Experimental 15.5% ★, Atmospheric 3.3%
- #29 Nifty Smashers Origins
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nifty LeaguePub: Nifty League Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Round up your friends and get smashing in Nifty Smashers, a silly, fast-paced party brawler full of laughs, wild matches, and just the right amount of mayhem, whether you're playing together on the couch or online.
Why similar: Party Game 51.7% ★, Local Multiplayer 14.4%, Funny 12%, Indie 9.9%, 2D 6.2%
- #30 Spacky's Nightshift
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 45 reviews2020
Dev: HawkSandwich
Windows
Survival horror adventure in a '90s restaurant.
Why similar: Indie 73.8%, Survival Horror 19.3%, Atmospheric 6.9%
- #31 Time to Fight
78% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: russpuppy
Windows · Mac
Funny fighting game where you beat the pizza outa strange foes
Why similar: Indie 32.7%, Dark Comedy 23.1%, Local Multiplayer 17.8%, Dark Humor 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
- #32 Patient Seven
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kumamaki
Windows · Mac
Revive seven sickly creatures in a short adventure through a surreal, vibrant world.
Why similar: Experience 44.6% ★, Experimental 23.6% ★, Stylized 8.8%, Relaxing 7.3%, Indie 6.7%
- #33 Devil's dream
77% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: Milkoi Games
Windows
In Devils's Dream you play as James, a student which want to examine an abandoned place. He and his girlfriend Sophie drove in the late of the Night to the place and get what they hadn't expected. Try to Survive Night. and dont forgot you cannot hide or run from him.
Why similar: Indie 73.8%, Survival Horror 19.3%, Atmospheric 6.9%
- #34 山贼
68% 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%
- #35 passenger seat
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
passenger seat - sit in the passenger seat on a midnight drive in the backcountry
Why similar: Indie 82.9%, Relaxing 10.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%
- #36 Amends VR
74% matchPositive83% of 29 reviews2020
Dev: Amends TeamPub: The Animation Workshop
Windows
A journey through the reflections of an upbringing with a now estranged mother.
Why similar: Indie 81.6%, Emotional 13.2%, Atmospheric 5.3%
- #37 Tumblestone
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,985 reviews2016
Dev: Ty TaylorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
Why similar: Indie 94.4%, Local Multiplayer 2.9%, Relaxing 1.1%, Funny 1%, 2D 0.6%
- #38 🔴 Circles
75% matchVery Positive90% of 262 reviews2017
Dev: Jeroen Wimmers
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Circles is an abstract puzzle game that takes your mind off things. No words, no distractions: an invitation to experiment. Relax, let your mind wander and discover the puzzling possibilities of circles.
Why similar: Experience 45.7% ★, Experimental 34.8% ★, Relaxing 10%, Atmospheric 4.9%, Indie 4.5%
- #39 Paparazzi
78% 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 58%, Local Multiplayer 28.7%, Funny 13.3%
- #40 MOLOCH (Zero)
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 39 reviews2018
Dev: Seemingly Pointless
Windows
Welcome to MOLOCH (Zero), the official interview simulation for MOLOCH Corporation. If you are reading this, you have been selected as a potential candidate for further screening for the position of [shift manager] within MOLOCH Corporation.
Why similar: Software 22% ★, Indie 21.4%, Dark Comedy 16.6%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Survival Horror 10.3%
- #41 Evidence of Life
74% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: JustWallWireHead Games
Windows
You are a Space Traveler searching out alien DNA on distant planets. Harvest the minerals and flora of endlessly generated worlds. Destroy inhabitants you encounter. This game is a retro 2d side scrolling action game with an addictive mix of alien fighting and planet mining.
Why similar: Indie 89.3%, 2D 10.7%
- #42 LRRL or RLLR
72% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: talalilulalilula
Windows
LRRL or RLLR is a puzzle game in which you enjoy increasing your score by choosing left or right according to one recursive rule. You can enjoy it as long as you don't make the wrong choice. All choices are divided to the left or right when you start, and either contains all of your later choices.
Why similar: Indie 86.1%, Atmospheric 8.2%, 2D 5.7%
- #43 4004-022
73% matchMixed41% of 36 reviews2019
Dev: Aaron D.
Windows
In the year 2040 you and the 12 billion inhabitants of the Earth fled from the Earth after being attacked by extraterrestrials, you took refuge on a planet named 4004-022, but this planet is also being attacked by aliens.
Why similar: Indie 89.3%, 2D 10.7%
- #44 Hexile
63% 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%
- #45 Turbo Pug DX
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,834 reviews2016
Dev: SnowFlamePub: Back To Basics Gaming
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Turbo Pug is back and better than ever! In Turbo Pug DX you'll explore a variety of beautiful, passionately crafted environments. Collect treasures, score boosters, unlock other creatures to play as. Unlock secret mini games. Create custom level skins or enjoy skins created by other players.
Why similar: Indie 96.3%, Funny 1.8%, Pixel Graphics 1.7%, 2D 0.2%
- #46 Qvabllock
73% matchVery Positive81% of 118 reviews2018
Dev: NedoStudio
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 245.6 hrs≥1hr: 14%
«Qvabllock» — pixemalism game with elements of puzzle, with minimalistic gameplay. Collect all the colored squares to take the main green and go through all 30 levels.
Why similar: Indie 41.3%, Dark Humor 22.7%, Relaxing 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Atmospheric 8.4%
- #47 Ramiwo
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Bil Deerbuch
Windows
The trippy and wondrous exploration-walking simulator. Arty, surreal, different. Grant your brain some sweetmeat.
Why similar: Indie 55.1%, Experimental 44.9% ★
- #48 Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1
72% 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 98.3%, Pixel Graphics 0.5%, Funny 0.4%, Atmospheric 0.4%, 2D 0.4%
- #49 Towers
59% 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%
- #50 State of Anarchy
70% matchVery Positive85% of 1,088 reviews2016
Dev: LapovichPub: New Reality Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Simplistic top-down shooter that will put a smile on your face. Fulfill your inner sociopath as you mow down enemies with guns and cars alike, in a bid to pull off the world's largest heist!
Why similar: Indie 96.3%, Funny 2.9%, 2D 0.8%
- #51 Reset 1-1
71% matchMixed66% of 273 reviews2016
Dev: Panda Indie StudioPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The world has ended, Demons have risen to conquer the uninhabited and flourishing nature outside. It's your turn, with your unknown identity, to find your path for a new beginning. Let's not beat about the bush here. Reset 1-1 is everything you loved about the late 80's/early 90's. It's a blast from the past, with a fresh spin.
Why similar: Indie 94%, Pixel Graphics 6%
- #52 Surge
69% 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%
- #53 A2Be - A Science-Fiction Narrative
56% 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%
- #54 Oika
56% 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%
- #55 ByLo
67% 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%
- #56 Frogvale
55% 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%
- #57 Pound of Flesh
55% 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%
- #58 Live the Guitar
67% 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%
- #59 Gunk
65% 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%