- #1 Quantum Flux
97% matchMostly Negative28% of 18 reviews2015
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows · Mac
Quantum Flux is an old school style rogue-like following the Artemis. A prototype vessel aiming to save humanity from destruction, to do so it must find a way through a difficult and hostile universe to create a new home for the human race.
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #2 Tower Offence! たわーおふぇんす!
96% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: Daisessen
Windows
"Attacks aggressively by build a lot of towers"It's a consept of this game. You can stack friend units any number of people,without limitation. "Strength in numbers" is the key to victory!
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #3 Cecconoid
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 28 reviews2019
Dev: Triple Eh? Ltd
Windows · Linux
Cecconoid is an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate dimension where the pixels are still chunky, and the bad guys are black and white. Except for their red dangly bits...
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #4 Cosmic Leap
96% matchMixed68% of 146 reviews2016
Dev: Michael Hall
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Time your jumps from planet to planet, avoid the obstacles thrown in your path and blast off to safety with your rocketship!
Why similar: Action 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #5 Blood Scrolls
94% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Adrien E. BrownPub: Sirbrownie_Games
Windows
Eleven Fighters, Ten Blood Scrolls, and one throne at victory! Battle for your chance to become the new Sun God or the universe!
Why similar: Action 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #6 Respawn Man
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 46 reviews2015
Dev: Evan (Solidplasma) PeiperlPub: Solidplasma Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
What kills you makes you stronger! Use your extra lives to solve puzzles in this delightfully morbid puzzle platformer with a soundtrack by VVVVVV's composer, Souleye!
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #7 The Wendigo
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: warkaPub: Warka Development
Windows
The Wendigo - is a first person investigation horror game set in a Victorian era mansion, located in the heart of a forest. You must rely on your instinct and intuition to survive the horrors that lie within. With tools to aid you, you will seek answers, but will you survive?
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #8 Clean'Em Up
92% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2016
Dev: Cheesy Holes
Windows
Clean’Em Up is a fast paced, arcade-style Top Down Shooter with neon graphics. You play as an Upgradable Antivirus. You seek and destroy tremendous viruses and threats, collect and protect files and survive huge Bosses. The story is simple: Your Computer has been hacked... Dozens of viruses and other threats have penetrated your System...
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #9 ICARUS.1
91% matchMixed69% of 67 reviews2016
Dev: electrolyte
Windows
The ICARUS.1 Abandoned for decades, crew M.I.A.
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #10 Bomber Bother
89% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2019
Dev: Dare Looks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight back against thieving Greyman Grifterham and his horde of beavery bullies and experience the thrill (and frustration) of herding low-poly beavers into a bottomless pit, retro-style!
Why similar: Action 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #11 Random Access Murder
91% matchMostly Negative23% of 161 reviews2016
Dev: Team Murder
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 12%
You're a robot. Shoot other robots with your data-destroying weapons and create a stack of dismantled enemies. Be the last heap standing and DO NOT RUN OUT OF MEMORY!
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #12 Paperbound
89% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2015
Dev: Dissident Logic
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Run with scissors and walk on walls in this award-winning local-multiplayer gravity battle arena game from the mind of a former Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare developer. Enter the pages of old books where you will find strange environments and a cabal of playable characters.
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #13 Pineapple Smash Crew
90% matchVery Positive80% of 123 reviews2012
Dev: RichMakeGame
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Winner of the 2011 Eurogamer Indie Arcade award, Pineapple Smash Crew is a fast-paced, tactical blast-em-up with a unique modern-retro feel!
Why similar: Action 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #14 Caelus Trident
88% matchMostly Negative32% of 201 reviews2019
Dev: Fractured Rogue Studios LLC
Windows
Caelus Trident is the debut game from Fractured Rogue Studios LLC. Paying homage to the classic arcade shooters, you take on the role of the last ship of your armada trying to survive wave after wave of addictive space combat action.
Why similar: Action 55.1%, Indie 44.9%
- #15 Nowhere Station
86% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Other Side Worlds
Windows
Crazy Rogue-like top-down shooter with innovative movement mechanic, insane robo-cults, and lots of bullets to ensure your destruction before you grow a big bad robot!
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #16 Violet Cycle
87% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2018
Dev: Weckr IndustriesPub: Digerati
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hyperkinetic neopoly roguecade action game with procedural generation at its core. Order within chaos. Feeling inside polygons!
Why similar: Action 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #17 Super Knockoff! VS
85% matchMixed55% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Action PanelPub: T.F.S. Entertainment, LLC
Windows
KNOCK IT OFF! It's an all-out clash between the greatest manga icons of 1999! Use your magic, energy, sporting goods, ninja tools, and more to destroy the ground beneath your friends and foes! Featuring a fully-voiced and star-studded roster, this is the battle of the millennium!
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #18 Circuit Warz
84% matchMixed52% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: Arttu TuovinenPub: Michael Callaghan
Windows
The hardest electronics game you will ever play, only good engineers need apply. Test your understanding of electronic circuits to save the planet in a desperate race against time. The laser protection system has been sabotaged…You have minutes to fix the circuits, repair the generator by solving the circuits correctly, fire the laser...
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #19 Ice Cream Surfer
86% matchMostly Negative24% of 50 reviews2015
Dev: Dolores Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 10%
The evil Broccoli, irritated by the fact that kids hate vegetables and love ice creams, has created an army of vegetables to destroy the flavor galaxy. Only the Ice Cream Surfer with the help of his 4 super tasty friends can prevent that.
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #20 GentleMoon 2
83% matchVery Positive86% of 92 reviews2016
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
GentleMoon 2 is a second game in GentleMoon series, an action game, filled with jokes and unlogical funny things to make you smile. The objective is to fly to the Moon and get away from the zombies this way. Before your trip to the Moon you collect the things that helps you to survive, like food, a weapon, good music, tv...
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #21 PooShooter: Toilet Invaders
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: FergaTroid Studios
Windows
Pooshooter: Toilet Invaders is a 2D action comedy game packed with explosions and fun gameplay. Reminiscent of arcade classics like Space Invaders, PooShooter lets you take control of a Bum fighting against vengeful Toilets.
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #22 BlubBlub: Quest of the Blob
81% matchPositive82% of 44 reviews2018
Dev: Girls Make Games
Windows · Mac
BlubBlub is too cute! Escape through a trial of deadly traps to save all the blub friends!
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #23 Oblivion's Edge
82% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2016
Dev: Odd EmuPub: MMOVentures
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Oblivion’s Edge is an arcade and bullet hell inspired twin stick shooter with multiple game modes and difficulty levels. You are the last pilot on Earth, tasked with slowing down the invasion and giving survivors enough time to escape.
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #24 McRogue
81% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Snare Games
Windows
It's man versus machine in this action roguelite from Snare Games. Explore procedural worlds, collect power-ups, and use McRogue's devastating robot fists to destroy all that stand in his way. But don't take too long about it - the robots only get stronger.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #25 Strike Force: Desert Thunder
84% matchMostly Negative20% of 35 reviews2016
Dev: West Forest Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Strike Force: Desert Thunder is a small First-Person-Shooter game in the style of old, classic Delta Force games. You join 10 intense, large scale missions to prevent terrorist attacks. Customize your loadout, choose between 12 weapons and jump right into the action. Each Mission is large scale (2km²) and open to your tactical strategy.
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #26 The Gameshow
80% matchMostly Negative24% of 25 reviews2019
Dev: Biscuit Play
Windows
The Gameshow is an FPS game where you participate in a dangerous survival game. This is not your game. You, together with other players, have been kidnapped and brought to a forest. Now, surviving is your only objective.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #27 Brazilian Root®
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 98 reviews2018
Dev: Patria Games®
Windows
Brazilian Root® is an indie action game in first person perspectve. Benjamin, a former special ops soldier, was running for governor, but 30 days before voting day his daughter was mysteriously kidnapped. He will relive his fighter days and You will help him find his daughter and get his revenge.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #28 900
78% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Barnaque
Windows · Mac · Linux
900 is a minimalist action score attack game in which the player controls an entity that must absorb universes in order to grow endlessly.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #29 Ripped Pants at Work
77% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2018
Dev: Scott Ethington
Windows · Mac
Ripped Pants at Work is a frantic stealth game about searching for new pants!
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #30 Space Battlecruiser
76% matchVery Positive82% of 72 reviews2018
Dev: Less Describable Games
Windows
Space Battlecruiser is an arcade style, top down space shooter where you control a heavily armed capital ship. Battle against squadrons of fighters, fleets of warships, heavily defended space stations, and powerful command ships. Learn to master weaponry and special abilities like the Energy Shield.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #31 Lost Cosmonaut
79% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: Charlie Evans
Windows
Rejoice comrades! For you have survived the crash landing! Become lost on a randomly generated planet in Lost Cosmonaut, an action platformer with roguelike elements.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #32 Derelict Redux
79% matchMixed45% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Floor59Games
Windows
Derelict is a post-apocalyptic, top down, sandbox, rogue like(like). You have woken up from stasis long after the fall of humanity. Thousands of years of human colonization and war have left countless derelict space craft, abandoned space stations and settlements ripe for looting.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #33 Saint George | The Tree Of Secrets
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Obscure Cloud
Windows
Embark on a new breed of medieval-fantasy arcade plaformer and explore extensive worlds packed with loots, creatures and humongous boss
Why similar: Action 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #34 Automatum
75% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Old Point Games
Windows
Automatum is a 2D action and platform game with a dark pixel art style,in wich we take the role of an alien that must face a lot of adversities like platforming, combat and puzzles so he can regain his precious freedom.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #35 DIVE: Starpath
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 62 reviews2018
Dev: Gravity Well Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DIVE: Starpath is a third-person runner set in the stratosphere of massive planets. Guide yourself through the perils of interstellar space as you pursue a mysterious traveler. Fight gravity, gather the data canisters, and don't lose orbit!
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #36 Don't Look Back - VR
74% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: FoV
Windows
Your goal is to find 6 hearts within an underground maze. This is a remastered version of the original DK1 game released in 2014. Armed with only a torch, how quickly can you find the 6 hearts to escape the maze? And will you resist the urge to look back.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #37 Assault on Hyperion Base
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Julian Stables
Windows
After a distress call was received from Hyperion Base you have been sent out to secure and reclaim this advanced research facility. Discover what project A.N.D.R.O.I.D really is and what happened to the team that was stationed there.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #38 Xenia
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: Dimitrios FlorosPub: Loresoft
Windows
A Metroidvania in Ancient Greece. Take control of the blacksmith Ardas. Fight epic bosses, find secret rooms and treasures, spend your gold for upgrades, and choose your fate through alternative endings. All this for one purpose. To save queen Xenia.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #39 Grompula
71% matchPositive91% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: GreebPub: Greeb Games
Windows
Grompula is a high octane wave based survival game. Fight through endless waves of Grompuloids to save the Glorkon race, and banish Grompula back to limbo, where he belongs. With tons of weapons, items, and abilities at your disposal, you might just be able to claim back what's rightfully yours.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #40 Heavy load
70% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: SergeySmPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
HEAVY LOAD is a puzzle in which you have to solve the problem of how to move the boxes so that they fall into the right places.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #41 Pulstario
68% matchPositive97% of 36 reviews2019
Dev: Fred Wood
Windows · Linux
A small, challenging space game about collecting missing souls in the void.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #42 Mirror Angel's Paradise
71% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: Henez
Windows
Explore the remains of the tower Babil and encounter the terrible images left behind by those driven into madness. Rescue the artisan relics that reflect the old world and give you power as you explore the new.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #43 Slow.Bullet VR
70% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Marco S HampelPub: Firez Studios
Windows
Survive, Shoot, and Win! A co-op multiplayer zombie Survival Game, now in VR!
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #44 Children of Liberty
77% matchNegative13% of 22 reviews2014
Dev: Lantana Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When four spies are arrested infiltrating the mansion of Royal Governor Thomas Gage, the Patriots call upon their children to finish their mission, spring them from jail, and uncover the details of a conspiracy that could plunge the colonies into war...
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #45 Hypnocult
67% matchPositive96% of 47 reviews2019
Dev: increpare games
Windows · Mac
Fast action game - twist and weave your way through tunnels, collecting lines.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #46 Pixel bomb! bomb!!
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Uborm
Windows
Long time ago, there was a beautiful Queen in Leroy Forest. The Queen was very narcissistic. She dressed up splendid every day and thought she was the fairest woman in the Forest. Every beautiful girl in the kingdom would lose good looks by the Queen's curse.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #47 Pythagoras' Perpetual Motion Machine
69% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: MarudicePub: DLsite
Windows
Head to the top of the tower, guided by a mysterious voice... 40 stages that should leave you with a fulfilling sense of achievement. Play with your knowledge, cunning and sparks of brilliance as your only weapon. What do the messages mean? Who am I? What purpose does this tower serve...?
Why similar: Action 54.5%, Indie 45.5%
- #48 Action Legion
72% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: Aeonic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Action Legion is a mouse-controlled, single-player war game on the PC and Mac.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #49 Toy Wars Invasion
73% 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 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #50 Winter Warland
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2017
Dev: Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this free for all multiplayer battle, fight to be the last snowman standing. Use your snowballs to destroy your enemies from far away, or use your carrot as a sword and deal damage up close.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #51 THE HOUCHI PLAY -THE 放置プレイ-
69% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: KoheiGallery
Windows
The aim of this game is to maneuver Taro Heibon and get close to the cos-play girls without being noticed. It's the right time to get close to them when they are facing away, so try to move closer before they face round. After passing all the stages, you can register the girls in your Gallery.
Why similar: Action 54.5%, Indie 45.5%
- #52 Rise
71% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: New State
Windows
Rise is a first-person platformer combining casual gameplay mechanics with demanding challenges.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #53 The Executioner: Prologue
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LS
Windows
The Executioner: Prologue is a hardcore two-dimensional action platformer. The game serves as an introductory part of an epic story which narrates about an executioner’s adventures in hell. After the sudden and mysterious death you find yourself in hell. Try to escape from the world of the dead back into the normal world.
Why similar: Action 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #54 Desperate Times
68% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2016
Dev: Yokcos
Windows
Use a variety of wonderful weaponry to annihilate literally thousands of enemy ships while dodging the unfathomable curtain of bullets they hurl in your direction. Defeat five epic bosses to claim your ultimate victory.
Why similar: Action 54.5%, Indie 45.5%
- #55 Lux umbra
68% match8 user reviews22% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: UndeadTurtle
Windows
In "Lux Umbra" they explore a confused world. They do not know why you here are what all that has to mean and how they come here out. They are able to do themselves only ventures they gain an accident had and now strongly have headaches. But so properly also do not know it.
Why similar: Action 54.5%, Indie 45.5%
- #56 One minute of death
65% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Krzysztof Konopka
Windows
O.M.O.D. is pretty difficult platform game.
Why similar: Action 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #57 Anark.io
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Pinpin TeamPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Anark.io is a twin stick shooter taking place in the 80's
Why similar: Action 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #58 Lord of Djinn
72% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Lightray Games
Windows
Lord of Djinn is a two player shoot-em-up. Each player aims to destroy the lesser djinn of the opposite color faster than their opponent can slay their own to gain influence in the match. Collect coins dropped by slain enemies to increase the power of your djinn.
Why similar: Action 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #59 Blue Crystal
65% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Storm Signal
Windows
This game is a twin stick shooter with time attack elements. Clear the target time and collect crystals.
Why similar: Action 55.7%, Indie 44.3%