- #1 Flem
97% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2015
Dev: Henchman & Goon
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Try, die, cry, repeat. Flem is an old school hard-as-nails platformer about a sentient snot ball, with a nose-stalgia inducing soundtrack.
Why similar: Indie 37.8%, Action 37%, Platformer 25.2%
- #2 Ghost in the Machine
96% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2015
Dev: Michael J. Moffitt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ghost in the Machine is about the player's escape from a run-down factory following a large explosion. In the dark factory there are many dangerous machines that must be minded in order to not be crushed or mechanically separated.
Why similar: Indie 38.3%, Action 34%, Platformer 27.7%
- #3 Slip
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 108 reviews2014
Dev: Handsome Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Slip is a fast paced side scrolling platformer featuring a two color, swap mechanic. Using your two colors flee from Steve and his wretched purple beam through a multitude of obstacles and enemies. Slip combines the elegant simplicity of platforming with a polarity mechanic to create an easy to learn, but extremely difficult to master...
Why similar: Indie 37.7%, Action 33.7%, Platformer 28.6%
- #4 The Flesh God
93% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: Nuberu Games
Windows
The Flesh God is a tough action platformer where you shoot a massive gun to fly through deadly levels infested with mutant flesh.
Why similar: Indie 36.4%, Action 35.2%, Platformer 28.5%
- #5 Wake
96% matchMostly Negative27% of 195 reviews
Dev: Boss Baddie
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Wake is the story of an engineer trapped on a sinking ship. Navigate through the ship however you want to find your way to the surface above, but avoid the ship's corrupted security system!Key Features Run and swim to escape a sinking ship Dodge bullets, fire, electricity and LASERS - but most of all avoid drowning!
Why similar: Indie 44.4%, Platformer 28.2%, Action 27.3%
- #6 Concursion
94% matchMixed56% of 84 reviews2014
Dev: Puuba
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Concursion is a multi-genre game played on the boundaries between worlds. Steer your hero through a dangerous interdimensional universe, switching between different genres on the fly, pulling off feats of tight aerial acrobatics otherwise unattainable in one genre alone.
Why similar: Indie 38.3%, Action 35.7%, Platformer 26%
- #7 Demon Hearts
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 73 reviews2015
Dev: Jon Harwood Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Demon Hearts is a 2D platformer game that will leave you feeling blood thirsty for victory every time you play! Take the winged and dangerously swift Vampiress Snow through many challenging silhouette environments while withstanding the many divergent demons, evil forces, and bosses!
Why similar: Indie 37.7%, Action 36.5%, Platformer 25.8%
- #8 Leilani's Island
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ishisoft
Windows
Leilani has got to roll, jump, and smash things to take back her island from mechanical invasion! A tropical 2D platformer in the making for PC.
Why similar: Indie 39.3%, Action 39.2%, Platformer 21.5%
- #9 Farjob
89% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Simon Kaley
Windows · Mac
Delve into a boundless realm of twisting pathways and absurd bosses.
Why similar: Indie 34.4%, Action 33.3%, Platformer 32.3%
- #10 Ember Kaboom
90% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2016
Dev: Josh Koenig Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Ember's a fox who loves adventure. Run, jump, and ride through 30+ colorful, fast-paced obstacle courses in a quest to get your missing soul back!
Why similar: Action 36.8%, Indie 36.6%, Platformer 26.5%
- #11 Stonerid
91% matchMixed66% of 213 reviews2014
Dev: Enitvare
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Stonerid is a challenging 2D platformer, which the most important feature are two parallel, different worlds. Over 30 different levels to complete, unconventional game style and lots of dangerous traps and monsters make it extremely difficult to rise to the challenge.
Why similar: Action 36.3%, Indie 36.2%, Platformer 27.5%
- #12 BlubBlub: Quest of the Blob
87% 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: Indie 51.9%, Action 48.1%
- #13 Galacatraz: Eject Equip Escape
91% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Summer Bear Studio
Windows
Escape Galacatraz, the universe's most secure detainment facility, in this side scrolling twin stick shooter! GAMEPAD REQUIRED!
Why similar: Indie 35.4%, Action 34.2%, Platformer 30.5%
- #14 Colette's Sugar Madness
86% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Mark Hill
Windows
Colette's Sugar Madness is a retro platformer designed to be completed in a single sitting. Use the powers from multiple costumes to save Halloween candy from falling into the wrong hands. Hone your skills with each play through to make each play better than the last. How much candy can you get?
Why similar: Indie 44.2%, Platformer 28.2%, Action 27.6%
- #15 The Adventures of Clive McMulligan on Planet Zeta Four
85% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Broke Astronaut
Windows
Clive McMulligan is a 2D retro-inspired action/puzzle/platformer with challenging old school style gameplay. Over 70 levels with fast-paced gravity switching mechanics.
Why similar: Indie 39.2%, Action 37.9%, Platformer 22.9%
- #16 Wooden Sen'SeY
89% matchMixed54% of 137 reviews2013
Dev: Upper BytePub: Spawn Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Wooden Sen'SeY is an action-platformer, set in a unique "Japan Steam Rock" universe filled with humour. You follow Goro, a village chief, as he seeks revenge through a variety of levels. He will defeat his enemies using his axes to slice, dice, squash and grapple!
Why similar: Action 36.1%, Indie 34.4%, Platformer 29.5%
- #17 Eggggg
83% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Hyper Games
Windows · Mac
Eggggg is a ridiculous two-button platform game where you propel yourself around using your vomiting superpowers.
Why similar: Platformer 37.8%, Indie 33%, Action 29.2%
- #18 Swiftly
86% matchMixed51% of 142 reviews2016
Dev: Cleverweek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Swiftly is a very challenging platformer game. It has simple graphics and easy to understand rules, but you are going to have a hard time completing the levels.
Why similar: Action 43.5%, Indie 34.1%, Platformer 22.4%
- #19 ERI
82% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Mauri Republic
Windows
We control the ERI, this is self-learning artificial intelligence, which has to overcome 45 levels. The purpose of the test is to overcome obstacles and get to the portals, which will take us to more difficult levels.
Why similar: Indie 35.4%, Action 34.2%, Platformer 30.5%
- #20 Sacred Stones
82% matchVery Positive82% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: CFK Co., Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Retro sidescrolling action and adventure greet you in Sacred Stones! The indie atmosphere is easy to immerse yourself in. Have a great time as you explore, run/jump & fight your way to victory. This game is perfect for both hardcore and casual fans alike seeking that nostalgic-indie fix!
Why similar: Indie 41.9%, Action 39%, Platformer 19.1%
- #21 League of Evil
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 63 reviews2016
Dev: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
League of Evil is an action game where you, as a bionic super agent take on the mission to defeat the League of Evil. Use your acrobatic skills to punch your way through levels filled with deadly traps and defeat your enemies. The world is counting on you!
Why similar: Indie 37.7%, Action 35.5%, Platformer 26.8%
- #22 Down Ward
77% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Fisholith
Windows
Venture into the haunted wilds with Gable, a little owl, as she sets out to rekindle the dormant relics of a land long abandoned to ruin.
Why similar: Indie 42%, Action 38.3%, Platformer 19.7%
- #23 Noda
75% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2020
Dev: Coding Leap
Windows
Noda is a space to build and share 3D mental models – mind maps, storyboards, network or flow diagrams, project plans – to enhance productivity, understanding and awareness.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #24 Exoder
81% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: Fever Dream Gameworks
Windows
Exoder is a frantic, fast paced, 2D, action platformer that will test your skills of reflex, resilience, patience and determination.
Why similar: Indie 34%, Platformer 33.1%, Action 32.9%
- #25 Spartan
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: Sinister Cyclops Game Studio
Windows
Spartan is an epic 2d platformer powered by UE4. Featuring silky smooth animations, pixel perfect controls, challenging gameplay, huge non linear levels and an awesome original soundtrack , Spartan is taking classic platforming to the next level, UE4 Turbocharged style!
Why similar: Platformer 34.7%, Indie 33.2%, Action 32.1%
- #26 Kyklos Code
78% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: Cube Factory
Windows
Kyklos Code is a first person action puzzler where you are reset to your starting location every 10 seconds. You can toggle the reset state of other objects in the world to solve puzzles. By activating new reset locations you can advance through the game.
Why similar: Action 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #27 Navyblue and the Spectrum Killers
78% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Hyper Combo Studio
Windows
Jump, Shoot and Dash throughout the city, choosing which crisis to solve first as you gain new powers and fight your way through legions of evil robots and thugs as you try to save the world!
Why similar: Indie 36.9%, Action 35.7%, Platformer 27.4%
- #28 Neptunian Donut
76% matchVery Positive89% of 143 reviews2017
Dev: Alex's Granny
Windows
It is a platformer. A hard trip to the Neptune. Beware of sharks, barrels, UFO, hard sound and hard levels!
Why similar: Indie 72.7%, Platformer 27.3%
- #29 GunnRunner
63% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: pixelCast Games
Windows
Get your fingers warm with this twin-stick shooter. Balance finesse movement with one hand while shooting accurately with the other. Plow through each enemy in your path or skillfully dodge the onslaught of bullets. Venture into the constructed world of machines and halt annihilation.
Why similar: Indie 38.4%, Action 37.1%, Platformer 24.5%
- #30 B-12
73% matchPositive83% of 40 reviews2019
Dev: Brantisky Interactive
Windows
B-12 is a tough, third/first-person action-platformer with randomized levels and relentless robots with plasma cannons for hands.
Why similar: Indie 50.8%, Action 49.2%
- #31 BellyBots
62% matchMostly Positive78% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: Grumpy Company GmbHPub: GE-MU Systems UG
Windows
Ladies and gentlemen. Load your guns!Teleport into our roomscale reimagination of an 80s arcade action game. Warning:You will have to move... A LOT! :D
Why similar: Indie 86.1%, Action 13.9%
- #32 Shadowcrypt
79% matchMixed58% of 111 reviews2014
Dev: One-bit Punch
Windows · Mac
Shadowcrypt is an arcade-style dungeon crawler with tactical sword & shield combat. Find the Necromancer and defeat his horde of undead warriors through a series of labyrinthine rooms.
Why similar: Indie 34.9%, Action 34.7%, Platformer 30.3%
- #33 Kill Fun Yeah
80% matchMixed44% of 82 reviews2014
Dev: Arctic Anteater
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Kill Fun Yeah is an online 2D platform shooter. Murder and capture your way to the top, using an ever increasing arsenal of silly weaponry and items, the powers of deflect, attract and freeze, as well as various powerups.
Why similar: Indie 42%, Action 40.7%, Platformer 17.3%
- #34 Mula: The Cycle of Shadow
76% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Boozer Game Studios
Windows
Mula is the story of the protagonist Wave a survivor of the dark invasion on the land of Mula. Finds himself to be the next guardian that will prevent the invasion, at the cost of his existence. As it was always been done.
Why similar: Indie 46.5%, Platformer 34.6%, Action 18.9%
- #35 Dark: Frontier
75% matchMixed69% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: PotatoFaceGames
Windows
Have you just been dying to hear the satisfying crunch of skeleton bone give way under your sword? Does throwing a kunai into the face of an enemy give you tingles in a special place? Maybe you perfer to spell sling your way out of otherwise boring situations? VR crawl your way into the Dark.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #36 Curse of the Great Forest
74% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Cool Breeze Games
Windows
In this indie action game, you are a huntsman for hire who finds himself facing down terrifying creatures born from an ancient and mysterious curse. With bow in hand, take on the night and defend yourself and your elderly host from zombies, demons, sorcerers, and all manner of evil beings.
Why similar: Indie 50.8%, Action 49.2%
- #37 Miney Company: A Data Racket
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2020
Dev: Glass Temple Games
Windows
Data mining takes on a new dimension in Virtual Reality!
Why similar: Indie 50.8%, Action 49.2%
- #38 Mechanic Escape
73% matchVery Positive85% of 793 reviews2014
Dev: Slak GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
In a world oppressed by ruthless machines, a stronghold full of die-hard TV-sets resists the persecution. Your lost friends and the lack of resources drive you to take action against the extinction. Brave the dangers and go find your comrades to rescue your species!
Why similar: Platformer 37.8%, Indie 37.4%, Action 24.8%
- #39 Nightcrawler VR Bowling
74% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Nadya Primak
Windows
A bowling game for city slickers who like the night life vibes. Keeps track of your score adding extra points for strikes and spares. Reset at any time.
- #40 Infinite Vector
72% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: The Burning Red Design
Windows
As a "Time Traveling Assassin" you are tasked with going back in time to take out the bad guys who ruined the future as we know it. You wield powers such as super speed, teleportation, and the ability to use anything in your environment to your advantage, including incoming bullets!
Why similar: Indie 50.8%, Action 49.2%
- #41 Kitty Rescue
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 48 reviews2017
Dev: Mesmerise StudiosPub: Mesmerise Global
Windows
Oh dear, Kitty is always getting herself into a pickle. Luckily, you’re here to save the day. You must defy death to save our careless kitten from the dangers of a construction site, rescuing her from 3 perilous scenarios. Hope you don’t have a problem with heights!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #42 Light of Mine
72% matchPositive84% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: nP StudiosPub: nonPareil Institute
Windows
Light of Mine will leave your head spinning in terror. Experience 360 degrees of VR terror as you use your candle to explore an ancient temple with danger lurking in the darkness. Light of Mine is made by nonPareil Studios. We are a studio that provides better futures for adults on the autism spectrum. #PoweredbyAutism
Why similar: Indie 52%, Action 48%
- #43 City Monsters
64% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: NewGen
Windows
City Monsters is a game where you can control legendary monsters! Battle,police, army, tanks, helicopters and more! How much City can you SMASH?! Take control of a giant Monkey Ape, a Jurassic Dinosaur T-rex, Boxer, Celtic warrior and more !
Why similar: Indie 50.8%, Action 49.2%
- #44 Faceted Flight
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 35 reviews2016
Dev: The Department of Silly Stuff
Windows
Faceted Flight is a stylized stunt flight game designed to deliver the thrill of flight. Take control of the Hover Jet and challenge ghost racers in Ring Attack or just relax and explore Free Flight....or you could always hop into the cockpit of the Jump Seat and give Target Practice a try. What are you waiting for? Do a barrel roll.
Why similar: Indie 50.8%, Action 49.2%
- #45 Supermarket VR and mini-games
71% matchMostly Negative36% of 25 reviews2018
Dev: Vicente Rosell Roig
Windows
With this games you can go shopping! You will feel for the first time what future purchases will be like from your home or workplace. You will have to buy the products from a shopping list, with money and a limited time. And you will also have to avoid colliding with the other people who are buying.
- #46 Shinobi Bad Buddies
67% matchPositive88% of 26 reviews2018
Dev: Corbak Games
Windows
Shinobi Bad Buddies will reveal the mischievous ninja in you, as you make your way through the story and the co-op missions or challenge your friends into a local battle!
Why similar: Action 36.7%, Indie 35.7%, Platformer 27.6%
- #47 The Blue Box
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 39 reviews2018
Dev: ejew.in
Windows
The Blue Box is a compilation of games by where you can: Dunk the world, Discuss GNU/Linux on the moon, Do enough drugs to achieve space flight, Earn minimum wage, Existential Dread, & Travel back in time and take some sweet pics of creatures!
Why similar: Indie 66.4%, Action 33.6%
- #48 Tori
67% matchPositive87% of 38 reviews2018
Dev: Team Tori, LLC
Windows · Mac
Explore spirits of sound by flying as a bird through the mystical floating islands of Otokai.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Orc Hunter VR
71% matchMixed44% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Orc Hunter Developer Team
Windows
In the roomscale VR wavegame Orc Hunter you have to defend yourself against endless hordes of orcs. To do so you can either use swords in close combat or fight them with a bow or magic staff from a distance.
Why similar: Action 50.3%, Indie 49.7%
- #50 Lumberjack VR
69% matchMixed70% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Erik BrunnströmPub: Erik Brunström
Windows
Experience the thrilling life of a Lumberjack in virtual reality with Lumberjack VR, an arcade action game for the HTC Vive. Fight your way through waves of logs, lumber and bombs with nothing but an axe in your hand.
Why similar: Indie 50.8%, Action 49.2%
- #51 Outbreak in Space VR - Free
68% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Soyhan Yazgan
Windows
Simple, solid, old school, 3D, challenging, intense Virtual Reality game.
Why similar: Indie 50.4%, Action 49.6%
- #52 Clarent Saga: Tactics
67% matchVery Positive84% of 61 reviews2017
Dev: David Nguyen
Windows
A straightforward SRPG inspired by 16-bit classics and made with SRPG Studio. The storyline follows the armies of Prince Abel of Meyr as he battles Pherrelios who invade them. The third entry of Clarent Saga.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Mayas' Virtual Brush
69% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Broken Dreams Studio
Windows
Mayas' Virtual Brush is as 3D Painting and Sculpting tool with a friendly interface and simple controls that allows you to create whole new worlds, achieving breath-taking results with just a few simple strokes.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 Booster Trooper
77% matchMixed47% of 197 reviews2010
Dev: DnS Development
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Booster Trooper is the future of multiplayer platform shooters. It provides tons of fun with its fast paced action and larger-than-life weapons. You can run or fly around the map, blasting your enemies to bits with bullets, rockets, grenades, magma and other weapons from your arsenal.
Why similar: Action 39.5%, Indie 33.6%, Platformer 26.9%
- #55 SWAM
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Paul O'BarPub: ArcadeSheep
Windows
SWAM is a Story based Platformer. Experience action packed, fast flowing platformer. Play as Blob and escape the evil clutches of a robotic mom. Find new friends, explore an expansive environment, fight terrifying enemies...
Why similar: Indie 50.8%, Action 49.2%