- #1 Koya Rift
97% matchMostly Negative30% of 43 reviews2014
Dev: Zach Kehs (SunnyKatt)
Windows
Koya Rift is a roguelike 2D shooter-platformer. Each run, the player is dropped off at the surface of a hostile planet and must venture into procedurally generated caves, earning upgrades and buying units as they progress. The difficulty is subtly tuned between runs automatically.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #2 Crystal Catacombs
96% matchMixed44% of 88 reviews2015
Dev: Levels or LivesPub: Crescent Moon Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Crystal Catacombs is a challenging, retro inspired “Megavanian” love letter that utilizes Rogue-like procedurally generated levels/enemies/items with a heavy emphasis on classic 2D platforming.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #3 Derrick the Deathfin
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 34 reviews2014
Dev: different cloth
Windows · Mac · Linux
The world's very first underwater papercraft adventure starring a goofy shark named Derrick.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #4 inSynch
95% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2015
Dev: Them Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An art-music-arcade game, inSynch is handcrafted and animated in stop motion. The game jumps and hops between meditative compositions and devilishly hard time-attack challenges!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #5 B.U.T.T.O.N. (Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now)
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 48 reviews2011
Dev: Copenhagen Game Collective
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
B.U.T.T.O.N. is a physical party game for 2-8 players. Step back away from the computer, race to the keyboard/controllers through physical space, and do whatever it takes to win (or to avoid losing). Act like a monkey, jump up and down, wrestle over the keyboard/controllers, cheat your competitors, and above all, expect the unexpected.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #6 Triblaster
94% matchMostly Negative32% of 34 reviews2014
Dev: oeFun, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pew pew pew RETRO STYLE! Shoot enemies, survive, gain lives and achieve the highest scores possible all in an old school vector style game.
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- #7 ROGUS - Kingdom of The Lost Souls
93% matchMixed40% of 35 reviews2015
Dev: IronDrop Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
"ROGUS - Kingdom of The Lost Souls" is the first Run'Em'Up: A minimalist, yet, epic, beat'em'up where your skills will be put to the test as you jump, aim, dodge, shield and cast spells, all at the same time. Guide an insanely powerful wizard in his hardcore and infinite quest for love & redemption.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #8 TesserAct
92% matchMostly Negative31% of 16 reviews2014
Dev: Propelled Bird Software
Windows
Sam Tanner finds herself inside a strange facility, where she discovers a device that can bend physics: the Catalyst. With the Catalyst, she must navigate the ruins of the facility, and hopefully find a way back home.
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- #9 Axel & Pixel
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 101 reviews2010
Dev: Silver Wish GamesPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Axel and Pixel are trapped in a beautiful but dangerous dream world. If they plan to get out they must solve its mysteries. Drawn by hand and rendered in full high-definition, Axel & Pixel is a unique journey through an artist's dream.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #10 Cheesecake Cool Conrad
91% matchMixed69% of 36 reviews2014
Dev: Reload Games StudioPub: Strategy First
Windows
Collect all the Ice Cream Crystals and marry Princess Cheesecake!
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- #11 Visibility
90% matchMixed61% of 95 reviews2015
Dev: Zeritum
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Visibility is a platformer that is completely dark until you place your lights. Each level has a limited set of lights which you must strategically place around the level in order to illuminate your path to the exit.
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- #12 Dodge
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 82 reviews2015
Dev: Yokcos
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Dodge is a minimalist arcade-style game originally made for Ludum Dare 26. Your aim is simple: To dodge the incoming squares for as long as possible.
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- #13 Sym
87% matchPositive86% of 37 reviews2015
Dev: Atrax GamesPub: Mastertronic
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Sym is a puzzle-platformer that explores social anxiety disorder. Play as Josh, a teenage boy trying to reconcile a maze of two contrasting worlds that coexist within the blank spaces of each other - his perception of reality, and the world he created to avoid his fears.
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- #14 Half Past Disaster
86% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Golden Age Creative
Windows · Mac
Dive into the beautiful cartoon world of Half Past Disaster with either Greg or Meg and platform your way through time, evil creatures, epic bosses and the legal department to save time. Prepare for a challenge, but remember, time only moves when you do.
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- #15 Flippt
86% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Luetso, LLC
Windows
Flippt is a highly addictive, casual puzzle game. A sequence of colored gems are briefly shown, then you have to repeat that pattern on the tiles below. Simple, right? Not so fast! It's easy to learn, yet difficult to master.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #16 Unlimited Escape
85% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2015
Dev: Carlo D'Apostoli ProjectsPub: Strategy First
Windows
'Unlimited escape' is an action / strategy game with unpredictable dynamics. The protagonist of the game will walk and explore endless mazes procedurally generated and will have a single mission: to save the prisoners scattered in the path leading them to the point of rescue.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #17 Let There Be Life
84% matchMixed63% of 32 reviews2015
Dev: Backward pieS
Windows · Mac
Let There Be Life is an award-winning relaxing and creative experience that allows you to build trees and play with wildlife...just don't put too much shadow on the plants below!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #18 Forgotten Ball
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: littleGigantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
A classically inspired modern ball simulation platformer. Control a singular ball through a cubic towering labyrinth. Overcome challenging platforms and puzzles whilst ascending a seamless connected huge world.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #19 Way to Go!
83% matchPositive90% of 31 reviews2015
Dev: Makivision Games
Windows · Mac
Over 400 tricky puzzles, intuitive controls and cute heroes guarantee hours of fun.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 Vintage Hero
81% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Frog the Door Games
Windows
Action, platforming, and everything you love about the 8-bit gaming era brought back to the modern world with a classic chip tune soundtrack and a gripping story. It's the year 198X... you know what to do.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #21 DEUS EX MACHINA 2
82% matchMixed57% of 112 reviews2015
Dev: Automata Source
Windows · Mac
The legendary video game is reborn, Deus Ex Machina 2 is a darkly comic cradle-to-grave roller-coaster of your entire life. A surreal journey from before your birth, through the temptations and dangers of your life, and beyond your own death.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #22 this was for you.
78% matchVery Positive87% of 127 reviews2019
Dev: Watercress
Windows · Mac · Linux
After the crash, I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. Even now, I haven’t found my way forward. I keep going back to that place. These memories are all that's left. this was for you. is an interactive visual novel, originally created for NaNoRenO2019.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 Back To Life 2
82% matchMostly Negative36% of 11 reviews2014
Dev: Carlo D'Apostoli ProjectsPub: Strategy First
Windows
The adventure of the little beneficial cell continues!
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- #24 Crash Landing
81% matchMostly Negative25% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Claws of LorekPub: Strategy First
Windows
Crash Landing is a simple sci-fi top-down shooter game, that follows in footsteps of games like Alien Breed or Shadowgrounds. With a little more focus on the story. Multiple enemies, different weapons, changing environments and action, all is designed to keep the game fun and interesting.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Just One Color
79% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Mask
Windows
A hard puzzle game.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 Rooftop Cop
80% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2015
Dev: Lawra Suits ClarkPub: Independent
Windows · Mac
A world of Police that have forgotten what, and why, they are policing. Rooftop Cop is a collection of five endless vignette games and a 7-track album. The games are set on a loose metaphysical timeline in which the Cops slowly lose their way.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #27 The General Retreats
78% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Incandescent Workshop LLC
Windows
The General Retreats is a puzzle game. Steer your vehicle through a dangerous battlefield, avoiding bombs, artillery, and enemy tanks. Every attempt plays out exactly the same way, so you can learn the fastest safe path to the goal. The game has ten levels and five unique vehicles to drive.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #28 Back To Life 3
79% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2014
Dev: Carlo D'Apostoli ProjectsPub: Strategy First
Windows
The journey of the small beneficial cell reaches its final chapter!
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- #29 City Escaper
77% matchMostly Negative27% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: PatatEj
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
City escaper is a game based on a gangster escaping from police. City Escaper is a 2D game, dodge the obstacles, run away as long as you can and beat your own highscore!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #30 TrivaTune
76% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Muttley1968Pub: Dragon Tech Soloutions
Windows
TrivaTune is a music Trivia game where users compete in a multiplayer world to prove they are the music king, you will be asked questions with multiple choice options and possibly even get an audio question where a track is played to you and you have to guess who the artist is or what the title or album are and maybe even the release year
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 Knife Hit Dash
76% matchMixed47% of 72 reviews2018
Dev: D1ONE
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 75.1 hrs≥1hr: 14%
Knife Hit Dash is an interesting simulation that allows you to sharpen knife throwing skills. Try to become the best in this matter, actively practice in throwing knives, upgrading weapons and setting a personal record.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #32 Town
77% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: 牛学者
Windows
Tianmin town because of what has changed, Tianmin town villagers one after another death behind what hidden secret. The protagonist because the country's reform into the town of Heaven, what will happen?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #33 Miner Mike
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RedRoket Games
Windows
Miner Mike is a 2D mining game, where Mike has to gather enough resources to buy a rocket. With that rocket, Mike can finally figure out what is really going on up on the Moon.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 Oika
64% 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%
- #35 Let's Go There And Wander Nowhere
74% matchMixed57% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Polychroma Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Going home isn't easy.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 The Puppet Master
75% matchPositive83% of 48 reviews2016
Dev: AMS Game Development Association
Windows · Mac · Linux
Deadly rotating blades. Bottomless ditches of death. And a demented woman with an unfortunate affinity for bad puns at the most inappropriate times gunning for your death. As if that wasn't bad enough, your soul has been trapped in a doll courtesy of the aforementioned psycho-lunatic lady.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #37 8-in-1 IQ Scale Bundle
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 107 reviews2018
Dev: ALEKSANDER CHEPAIKIN
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 51%
We transform science into delightful gamesFor decades, researchers have created tasks that measure cognitive abilities. We’ve adapted some of these tasks and made some of our own, creating cognitive games. It makes you smarter!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #38 Skinny
73% matchMixed57% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: lol
Windows
Skinny is a weak horror game.
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- #39 The Haunting of Billy
74% matchMixed47% of 43 reviews2018
Dev: Targon Studios
Windows
It’s Halloween night and your girlfriend is missing! Play as Billy, fighting through the procedurally generated halls of an old, haunted mansion. Fight zombies, ghosts, goblins, and more with over 1 million costume combinations and more than 60 unique weapons to use!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 PICNIC
73% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: A.D. Klumpp
Linux
PICNIC is a surreal digital labyrinth - an anti-game - a nightmare (including very loud noises, falling off the map, nightmarish slow walking speed) - an essay about the surrealist Raymond Roussel - an avant-garde composition - a text labyrinth - a noise labyrinth (depending on the game play).
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 A2Be - A Science-Fiction Narrative
61% 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%
- #42 Ultra Pig
71% matchMixed56% of 27 reviews2018
Dev: LillyWelland inc.Pub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
This is a fun and mobile pixel pig platformer. The task of the pig is picking up coins at levels, passing extermination of biting dogs and trying not to fall from the ledge down.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 Puzzle Blocks
72% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Lemon Jam Studio
Windows
Puzzle Blocks is a creative puzzle game with beautiful minimalistic presentation.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 Burn, Clown, Burn!
71% matchMixed63% of 40 reviews2017
Dev: Gameplay Ltd.Pub: KuKo
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Everybody knows that killer clowns dwell in the depths of hell. But what happens when an ordinary clown is thrown into hell by accident? Perform insane stunts and help the clown to avoid the fiery furnace of hell! The crowning achievement of human civilization. Period.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 Blinky - Rise to the Top
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Banana Pillar Studios
Windows
Speedrunning 3D Platforming game, learn to traverse short yet challenging levels, then try climbing up the Leaderboard!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #46 Siam Twinstick
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Matchup-GamedesignPub: Tobias Gaertner
Windows
A badass, adrenaline pumping twinstick-shooter!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #47 Splash Bash
72% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2016
Dev: Rovio Sweden ABPub: War Child Gaming
Windows
Splash Bash is a hectic local multiplayer brawler, where up to 4 players tries to bash each other into the water using physics based gameplay!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Trials of the Gauntlet
71% matchMixed53% of 59 reviews2018
Dev: Patrick O'ConnorPub: Broken Dinosaur Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 29%
In Trials of the Gauntlet, You wake up in the courtyard of a Steampunk mansion, your arm replaced with an electric grappling hook. You use your new arm to solve puzzles, traverse the mansion and fight your way to the top of the clock tower where you confront the mad scientist who did this to you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Dimetrosaur
69% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2018
Dev: Grade 9 Games
Windows
Sneak around dinosaurs and enemy soldiers in a single player story. Explore the island, find the hidden laboratory, rescue the Doctor and avoid becoming lunch in Dimetrosaur. Similar to retro games.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 Initiation
70% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: Alexandre RousseauPub: Share Dreams Family
Windows
Lost for far too long, he’s drowning in his loneliness looking for a lean comfort by remaining close to the same rock. His feelings elude leaving him in oppressive despair. How to find the spark to lit the darkness? In which form will it come to you?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Save Them
69% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Black Void Media
Windows
A Minimalist horror-themed Platformer. Guide your way through increasingly twisted landscapes as the mysterious narrative unfolds. Not everything is as it seems - your journey to Save Them begins here.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 You Have 10 Seconds 3
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 38 reviews2018
Dev: tamationgames
Windows
The official third installment in the You Have 10 Seconds series! Dodge spikes, lasers and solve puzzles to make it to the exit before time runs out! Over 300 new levels, brand new gameplay mechanics and more!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Repel Aliens 3D
68% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Tonye Amienyo
Windows
Shoot down the aliens dropping from the skies and ensure that none reaches the earth's surface
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 Block Dodge Challenge
66% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Nectarian
Windows
Addictive arcade game
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 COLOR
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dual Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
COLOR invites you to tackle the physics of light by using additive color theory to solve over 100 solo and co-op puzzles, each designed to challenge you with deep, intertwining puzzle mechanics and skill-based gameplay, all presented in a sleek, minimalistic art style.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Pound of Flesh
56% 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.
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- #57 Why is the Princess in a Magic Forest?!
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Fat Walrus Games
Windows
Max is on an epic quest to save the legendary princess in the fabled magic forest where anything is possible. The twist? Max is the weakest hero ever to exist! Help Max reach the goal through a legion of levels, all the while having to deal with magic experiments, explosive sheep, friendzoned specters, black-holes and much much more! Why?
Why similar: Indie 100%
