- #1 Darwin's Test
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2018
Dev: Wolfalone Studio
Windows
Darwin’s Test is a first-person action and puzzle game that immerses you into a futuristic universe. You play as an amnesic patient following an experimental care protocol. Who are you ? Where are you ? So many questions to solve to discover the truth !
Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Action 35.5%, Indie 28.3%
- #2 Inch by Inch
96% matchVery Positive97% of 66 reviews2018
Dev: LevelXProjectPub: Dare Looks
Windows
You play a shrinking scientist in a race against time: Can you find all necessary formulas and ingredients to produce the antidote and stop shrinking, before you are too small to operate the life-saving lab equipment?
Why similar: Action 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #3 Combat Tested
96% matchMixed66% of 104 reviews2018
Dev: Buckethead Entertainment
Windows
In Combat Tested, you must escape from the lab where you are being held after being experimented on. Luckily, these experiments have left you with special powers that will aid you in your escape.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #4 AnimalLaboratory
95% matchMixed43% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: 独立摇滚
Windows
In the distant outer space, there's an exp base. Aliens turn humans into animals with a catalyst for their needs. Different catalysts cause different forms. You're a human who escaped. While exploring and fleeing, you reveal the truth in the lab.
Why similar: Adventure 65.6%, Action 19.6%, Indie 14.8%
- #5 ChronoBreach
94% matchVery Positive97% of 262 reviews2019
Dev: UpsilonGames
Windows
A deadly factory surrounds you. The manipulation of time is necessary to escape this underground facility. Use your wit, your laser blaster, and your time-warping abilities to face your demise head-on and triumph!
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #6 Tested on Humans: Escape Room
93% matchVery Positive86% of 498 reviews2021
Dev: mc2games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You are the test subject. In this dark environment escape room, you have to solve various puzzles to escape from the research center where you are trapped. Can you find out how you got there and escape???
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #7 The Experiment: Escape Room
94% matchMixed54% of 270 reviews2018
Dev: OnSkull Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
"The Experiment" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! You took part in an experiment that went out of control, can you escape the facilities before it's too late?
Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Indie 43.9%
- #8 Volt
92% matchMixed69% of 454 reviews2014
Dev: Quantized Bit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You were on the way to a recycling process when fortunately for you - and unfortunately for the environment - you accidentally ran off. Now your goal is to escape from the facility, which is an extremely difficult task due to the fact that you are a battery without legs.
Why similar: Action 50%, Indie 50%
- #9 The Growth Journey
91% matchMixed59% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: Cleverweek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A game about tactical growth, where growth is irreversible.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Adventure 25%, Indie 19.9%
- #10 Unusual and not safe experiments
89% matchVery Positive89% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: Galactic Geckon
Windows
Unusual and NOT Safe Experiments is an action-puzzle game where you control a robot trying to escape from an abandoned complex, overcoming traps and solving puzzles.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #11 Robotex
91% matchMostly Negative38% of 986 reviews2014
Dev: YFYX GAMESPub: My Way Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Life on Earth is unsustainable. Humanity must seek a new home but the only planet found is very hostile. You were sent on a expedition to slay the monsters inhabiting the surface of this planet. In this adventure you end up being the villain. Game contains two basic controls, many puzzles and lots of guns and enemies.
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 33%, Indie 30%
- #12 Find Out
90% matchMixed58% of 160 reviews2016
Dev: Vorobiov VadymPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Find Out - this is an adventure game in which you will have to escape from an unknown location, surrounded by a large maze.
Why similar: Indie 46.3%, Adventure 27.1%, Action 26.6%
- #13 10 Seconds
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: ithinknotM8!
Windows
Time loop puzzle horror, where you're stuck in a failed experiment and must escape or face being eaten for eternity.
Why similar: Indie 52.7%, Adventure 47.3%
- #14 Face The Abyss
89% matchMostly Negative38% of 373 reviews2024
Dev: Team KGD
Windows
The experiment has failed. The facility that was supposed to control the monster has stopped working, and now your only hope is to escape the facility before the monster hunts you down.
Why similar: Action 76%, Indie 24%
- #15 Ex Vitro
85% matchVery Positive94% of 146 reviews2024
Dev: Evolver Dynamics
Windows
EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within. Whether machine, creature, or something else entirely, you’ll face the violent legacy of the last survivors of humanity.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Adventure 44.8%
- #16 The Glitch Prison
86% matchMostly Negative34% of 61 reviews2024
Dev: rentaka
Windows
Use the glitch you have discovered to break out of jail!
Why similar: Action 46.9%, Adventure 42.1%, Indie 11%
- #17 Distorted Reality
87% matchMostly Negative21% of 72 reviews2017
Dev: Berdochan
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 16%
Distorted Reality is a first-person survival horror, which takes place in the hospital of Alexandria. For mysterious reasons, the usual laws of physics in the hospital completely stopped working.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.2%, Indie 27%
- #18 DOCTOR VISCERA
82% matchVery Positive97% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Liminal RoadPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Trapped in an abandoned asylum with the sinister Doctor Viscera, who will stop at nothing to keep you there as his test subject for cruel experiments. Explore the old GrimmHaus Asylum in this PSX-style survival horror game.
Why similar: Adventure 50.9%, Indie 39.4%, Action 9.7%
- #19 TRY AGAIN
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,452 reviews2023
Dev: the Rejects
Windows
You're Benny, a test character trapped in an unfinished game by a figure called The Designer. She's up against a deadline for her publisher which means it's your last day as a test character. Navigate the facility, dodge game-dev chaos and defy expectations to become the main character.
Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, Indie 32.5%, Action 28.6%
- #20 Jelly Killer
83% matchVery Positive80% of 381 reviews2016
Dev: Immortal Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Jelly Killer - Retro Platformer The Adventures Of A Young Bioweapon. In this game you will act like the young bioweapon. You will encounter lots of traps and puzzles. You will have to possess human bodies to pass the game to the end. Good luck!
Why similar: Action 36.9%, Adventure 34.4%, Indie 28.6%
- #21 Synthesis of Corruption
80% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2026
Dev: VidyGames
Windows
Emergency Protocol activated: Dark Energy Particle Synthesis failed. Now you – late and alone – must navigate a facility where science and sanity have collapsed. Face entities born from the corruption of dark energy in this atmospheric FPS-horror hybrid, where human ambition meets primal terror.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #22 The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest
79% matchVery Positive89% of 60 reviews2026
Dev: Elden PixelsPub: Acclaim, Inc.
Windows · Mac
After a psychologist visit goes terribly wrong, you find yourself trapped in the mind of a game developer on the brink of physical and emotional burnout during the final stages of an intense project. Experience a metroidvania-lite drenched in anxiety and based on a very true story.
Why similar: Action 53.5%, Adventure 46.5%
- #23 Apartment 666
84% matchMostly Negative34% of 459 reviews2016
Dev: I Need Play
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 50.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
One day you wake up and realise that nobody is home. You try to exit the apartment only to wake up again in your room.You are stuck in an endless cycle of loops with only one way out.
Why similar: Action 72.3%, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 12.4%
- #24 SCP – Containment Breach
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 942 reviews2026
Dev: Undertow GamesPub: SCP-CB Community Preservation Project
Windows
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: Action 100%
- #25 Die Young: Prologue
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 431 reviews2019
Dev: IndieGala
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Die Young: Prologue narrates events that occurred a few hours before the main story of Die Young. You play as Nehir, a field agent on a mission to kill Brother No.1. The mission failed and now you have only one desperate attempt to reach the extraction point.
Why similar: Action 36.4%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #26 Dementium II HD
82% matchMixed50% of 1,276 reviews2013
Dev: Memetic GamesPub: Missing Link Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The visage of doctors and patients alike fade in and out of these nightmarish visions of tortured memories. This eggshell reality is fractured by experiments conducted in the ward. Blood, flesh and screams surround as you put together the pieces of your story and make your escape from the Bright Dawn Treatment Center while the dark...
Why similar: Action 38.9%, Adventure 36.5%, Indie 24.6%
- #27 OVERWRITE
77% matchVery Positive99% of 69 reviews2023
Dev: ツノウサギの家
Windows
Overwrite each other. A story-driven exploration adventure shaped by tragedy. ― I woke up in a research facility. And... someone was already inside me. (I initiated the experiment at this research facility.) (My first—and final—experiment for my sake. I staked everything on it.)
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #28 Madrobot X
78% matchVery Positive84% of 148 reviews2016
Dev: NetoXPub: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
MadRobot X is an old school shoot 'em up game. You control a robot trying to escape from the laboratory of a mad scientist, and to accomplish this, you'll need the help of GoboGobo, another robot who also wants to escape.
Why similar: Indie 54.4%, Action 45.6%
- #29 Escape From Tethys
78% matchMixed70% of 460 reviews2018
Dev: Whimsical
Windows · Mac
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
Why similar: Action 100%
- #30 Hard Place
79% matchMixed50% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Red twice potato
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 35%
You are stuck in a huge room and have no idea what to do. You only option is to survive.
Why similar: Action 36%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 28.3%
- #31 Mr. White
76% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: Miloš LužnjaninPub: Lorex Games
Windows
You're trapped inside Mr. White's huge dark creepy house. You have to find a way to escape without getting caught.
Why similar: Action 86.2%, Indie 13.8%
- #32 The Crow's Eye
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 198 reviews2017
Dev: 3D2 EntertainmentPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In an abandoned medical university, test your intellectual might as you unravel a 20-year-old mystery in this depraved first-person puzzle adventure, doing what it takes to escape your fate as a macabre scientist's human experiment. The ends justify the means in The Crow’s Eye.
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #33 ReX
75% matchVery Positive80% of 116 reviews2018
Dev: Ali AsfandPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Rex is a classic hardcore 2D platformer shooter, you play as a soldier to hunt down an evil scientist. Fight your way through with powerful weapons and put an end to his mad experiments.
Why similar: Action 37.9%, Adventure 36%, Indie 26.1%
- #34 BUTTON PRISON
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: daimaGAME
Windows
You find yourself trapped in a mysterious room upon awakening. Surrounding you are sparse pieces of furniture, mannequins, and countless buttons. Can you safely escape this room?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Exit: A Biodelic Adventure
73% matchVery Positive90% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: neurosaur
Windows
In the world of excessive biotechnologies, an epidemic is ravaging the human race, infecting people's neuronet implants and enslaving them to the mysterious Worm. Who are you: a fighter of the infection, or a hunter of new prey?
Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
- #36 Unalive
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 377 reviews2017
Dev: RandomSpinPub: RandomSpin
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Unalive is an action adventure roguelike game. Randomly generated laboratory rooms. Collect unique items to improve your abilities. Kill bosses and stay alive. You have only one chance!
Why similar: Indie 68.7%, Action 31.3%
- #37 Escape from Mutation Station
70% matchVery Positive97% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Jay Marksman
Windows
A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.
Why similar: Indie 67.4%, Adventure 32.6%
- #38 OPEN DOOR
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 117 reviews2023
Dev: BraveCat'Studios
Windows
A scientific experiment in which no one survives, in a first-person survival horror game made by one developer In the role of a random person who is trapped in an experiment, try to get out and find out what is happening in this abandoned place.
Why similar: Action 65%, Indie 35%
- #39 Access Denied: Escape
70% matchVery Positive91% of 281 reviews2023
Dev: Stately Snail
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Access Denied: Escape is a puzzle game where you have to hack data vaults and interact with various devices to escape.
Why similar: Adventure 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #40 Venge
71% matchVery Positive92% of 409 reviews2020
Dev: Costek Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get ready to explore a movie studio that vanished into thin air, only to find yourself trapped in a twisted, alternate dimension where creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to ensure you never see the light of day again...
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 36%, Indie 27%
- #41 DEFECTIVE
75% matchMostly Negative38% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Evil Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 29%
You must save the world, whatever the cost...
Why similar: Action 40.3%, Adventure 30.2%, Indie 29.5%
- #42 Rip Current
69% matchVery Positive83% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: Breaking Dimensions
Windows
Rip Current is a horror game set in a cryptic research facility where genetic experiments, in a bid to strengthen aquatic ecosystems, have spiraled out of control. Navigate flooded corridors, uncover the fate of the scientists, and survive the prehistoric apex predators stalking the depths.
Why similar: Action 47.1%, Adventure 42.1%, Indie 10.8%
- #43 Dungeons & Geese
73% matchMixed63% of 56 reviews2017
Dev: the Bratans
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Join the adventures of an old man as he embarks on a desperate quest. Stripped of his former fortune by a mysterious event, the protagonist is forced to seek out the truth as he hunts for one of the most valuable resources known to man.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Action 33.5%, Indie 28.4%
- #44 Kohate
71% matchVery Positive84% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: DarkStone Digital
Windows
Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.
Why similar: Action 46.6%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 19.8%
- #45 Deep Space Dash
74% matchMostly Negative33% of 364 reviews2016
Dev: Delusional GamesPub: Back To Basics Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Deep Space Dash is a third person futuristic space runner. You are a convict in an intergalactic high-security prison, at an unknown location. You have managed to escape your cell but you are lost in a huge maze.
Why similar: Action 77.5%, Indie 22.5%
- #46 Captivity
73% matchMixed54% of 137 reviews2016
Dev: TraumaPub: New Worlds Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
You wake up to the smell of rotting flesh in what can only be described as someone's basement. Your memory is blank and your vision impaired, you have no idea where you are. The floors and walls are dirty, it appears there may be other people here as there are dirty sheets on the floor.
Why similar: Indie 48.4%, Action 25.9%, Adventure 25.7%
- #47 Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out
65% matchVery Positive85% of 3,238 reviews2025
Dev: Digital MelodyPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Too long in this prison, time to get out of here. Pull the carpet and start digging with a teaspoon. Watch out for the guard, sell him the junk you find. Trade toilet paper with the prisoners. Get better items and improve your stats. Expand the tunnel, use glow sticks and dynamite. Will you escape?
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Adventure 45.8%
- #48 Prison Loop
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Leakage Games
Windows
Embark on a journey of anomalies and repetition in "Prison Loop," a captivating indie puzzle game. Trapped in a mysterious temporal loop within a high-security prison, your objective is to observe anomalies throughout the environment.
Why similar: Action 50.7%, Adventure 49.3%
- #49 Subject 13
71% matchMixed58% of 320 reviews2015
Dev: Paul CuissetPub: Microids
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Play as Franklin Fargo, a quiet physics professor who has led a bitter existence ever since his fiancée died in a holdup in which he was supposed to be the victim. One morning, he wakes up in the middle of an abandoned scientific facility. His only link with the outside world is a voice that calls him "Subject 13".
Why similar: Adventure 62.7%, Indie 37.3%
- #50 Fracked
69% matchMixed66% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: nDreams
Windows
Stranded in a remote mountain facility, you play as a reluctant hero forced to defend the planet in a final stand against a legion of interdimensional enemies. Take aim and run head-first into explosive action as you shoot, ski, and climb your way across an extreme adventure.
Why similar: Action 53.1%, Adventure 46.9%
- #51 Changeover: Decisions
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: KHB-Soft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your character has lost his memory and finds himself in a godforsaken place. An adventure with a nonlinear storyline, lots of choices, and a unique combat system. Could he get out alive?
Why similar: Action 36.7%, Adventure 36.3%, Indie 27%
- #52 ECHOPLEX
69% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2018
Dev: Output Games
Windows · Mac
ECHOPLEX is a time-bending puzzle platformer with a full-motion video story. Trapped in a mysterious looping simulation, you are followed by an “Echo” -- a duplicate of yourself who repeats everything you do.
Why similar: Action 40.2%, Indie 31%, Adventure 28.7%
- #53 Trapped
68% matchVery Positive83% of 160 reviews2019
Dev: N4bA
Windows
You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible
Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Indie 43.9%
- #54 Size Matters
66% matchVery Positive87% of 512 reviews2021
Dev: Mazen GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
You play as a scientist who is shrinking every second in a race against time! Find all the ingredients and formulas scattered around the laboratory, which are necessary for producing the life-saving antidote. But beware, your time is very precious.
Why similar: Action 51.9%, Indie 48.1%
- #55 Cybernetic Fault
63% matchMostly Positive76% of 811 reviews2025
Dev: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Prove your ability to read names next to the big red buttons! Show your ability to fight for life in a science center that is falling apart from the consequences of an insane scientific experiment!
Why similar: Action 66.1%, Adventure 33.9%
- #56 Underwater
67% matchMixed68% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: Andreev WorldsPub: Gamesforfarm
Windows
Dive into a world of despair in the world of Underwater. Take the role of an unknown inmate entering the a deep sea prison where mutants roam and barely any traces of human life remain. You will have to use all your ingenuity to escape and avoid becoming the meal of the hideous denizens.
Why similar: Adventure 48.5%, Indie 29.1%, Action 22.4%
- #57 Intensive Exposure
67% matchVery Positive87% of 210 reviews2016
Dev: Intensive Exposure Team
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Intensive Exposure is a fast paced game in which you have to expose yourself as many times as possible without getting caught by security.
Why similar: Action 62.4%, Indie 37.6%
- #58 The Thing: Space X
68% matchMixed49% of 87 reviews2017
Dev: LillyWelland inc.Pub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
Median: 0 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 12%
At your disposal are a dozen of the best combat spacecraft equipped with death beams, machine guns and missiles. The sector is divided into several subsectors, which swarm with enemies. In the end, you will have an unbeatable boss - the "Thing".
Why similar: Action 36.5%, Adventure 35%, Indie 28.4%