- #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.
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- #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.
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- #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.
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- #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!
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- #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.
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- #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.
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- #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 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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- #10 Axel & Pixel
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 99 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.
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- #11 Visibility
90% matchMixed61% of 95 reviews2015
Dev: Zeritum
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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: 64%
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.
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- #16 Let There Be Life
85% 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!
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- #17 Unlimited Escape
84% 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.
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- #18 Crash Landing
84% 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.
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- #19 Frogvale
73% 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.
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- #20 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.
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- #21 Vintage Hero
82% 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.
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- #22 山贼
71% 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。
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- #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 John's Wizard Dungeon
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Tres SimsPub: Self Published
Windows
John's Wizard dungeon is a VR escape room, where the player will have 5 minutes to collect clues, decipher a code, and steal the elixir of life.
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- #25 Mines of Mars
79% matchMixed61% of 71 reviews2018
Dev: Wickey WarePub: Crescent Moon Games
Windows · Mac
Some suspected that Mars once harbored life. There was a reason that it wasn't ever found.
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- #26 Forgotten Ball
81% 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.
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- #27 Back To Life 3
81% 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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- #28 A2Be - A Science-Fiction Narrative
69% 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.
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- #29 Arevoatl Seven Coins
78% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2018
Dev: Arevoatl Games
Windows
Arevoatl Seven Coins is a first-person puzzle/hidden object game that takes place in an old estate. You receive a cryptic letter from your grandfather, when you come to him, you do not find him at home. Carefully study the letter and follow its clues. You need to collect objects and solve quests, passing room by room.
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- #30 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.
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- #31 Bamboo EP
77% matchVery Positive83% of 72 reviews2016
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows
A collection of bamboo themed games.
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- #32 出门
78% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: likang
Windows
RPG
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- #33 SoM Soul Of Mask
76% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Alain Perrin
Windows · Linux
Soul of Mask (SoM) is a labyrinth game where the spirit tries to collect Demon eyes to leave the underworld. Controllers: Touch Screen, Keyboard, Joystick. Support of Afrikaan language in game
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- #34 SIMPLE GAME
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Roman RyzhikovPub: Сool pepper
Windows
Simple platformer with simple and minimalistic design.
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- #35 Moe Mekuri SP
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: KoheiGallery
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The goal of this game is to turn all the panels to face up. You can choose the level stage from EASY, NORMAL, and HARD. However, in order to play the NORMAL stage, you need to have passed all the EASY stages, and to play the HARD stage, all the NORMAL stages.
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- #36 Box Looter 2018
74% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: Ludo Land
Windows
A dumb joke game in which loot boxes are the loot. Poke fun at loot boxes while poking at loot boxes. Climb the mountain and find the loot box of unknown riches that the prophecy foretold! The 2,018th game in the wildly popular Box Looter series.
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- #37 Towers
63% 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.
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- #38 Repel Aliens 3D
74% 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
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- #39 Suspended Workshops
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Suspended Reality
Windows
Suspended Workshop is a VR Puzzle/Crafting game with hints of tower defense, in which you will encounter multiple different worlds where you will setup remote workshops to gather resources to protect and update the time clock and your arsenal.
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- #40 Pulses - Crystal Journeys
73% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Ventura Science
Windows
Match 3 is so 2016. Pulses - Crystal Journeys is a lascivious love letter to Tetris and Lumines, but with bombs. Crush your last candy, and come explore the wonderful, fast-paced world of Match-X
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- #41 Flandre's dream. - 36000 ft deep -
70% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2019
Dev: KAWASAKI-BUPub: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
Windows
Save Flandre who is caught in deep sleep and can not wake up. Gently evolving Touhou secondary creation RPG which gently raises and challenges the monsters of the deformed Touhou project. Follow the story with more than 130 articles of Flandre and characters!
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- #42 Knife Hit Dash
72% matchMixed47% of 72 reviews2018
Dev: D1ONE
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 76.3 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.
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- #43 Mazeglaser
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Peter Fuleki
Windows
Mazeglaser is a 2d room-based platformer. Evade ghosts, jump above lava-pits, climb ropes to reach the end of the level. Collect coins, extra lives and keys to open barriers. You can find secret rooms or even a secret level.
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- #44 Magnetized
71% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2016
Dev: Rocky Hong
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Magnetized is a minimal action game, let's active the power of magnets and escape from the the pixel maze!
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- #45 You Have 10 Seconds 3
69% 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!
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- #46 The Puppet Master
71% 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.
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- #47 四之石
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HUANGYIJIE
Windows
四种不同的宝石技能：时间停止、空间封锁、重力改变、瞬间移动。四个有不同技能和特性的人物，以及数十种特效不同的道具，通过它们來开发属于你的独特的通关体验吧！游戏中的移动速度、跳跃高度都会受人物和道具的影响，共有20个关卡以及30个BOSS等待挑战，带着四个宝石“外挂”去挑战更高的难度吧！
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- #48 Fruit Hoop
70% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Teeter Games
Windows
Oh no! Fruit is falling from the sky!!! Catch the fruit in your hoop!!
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- #49 Guildmaster Story
68% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: WZOGI
Windows · Mac
A puzzle-match comedy about fame, misfortune, and working for nothing.
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- #50 Canyon Capers
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crazy Moo GamesPub: Kiss Ltd
Windows
Remember fondly playing old style platformers, where you didn't have to learn a hundred button combos to play it successfully? Canyon Capers is just for you if that's the case.Canyon Capers is a retro style arcade platformer for all ages, created by the authors of the 1992 original.
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- #51 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.
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- #52 Slabs
68% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: PotatoIndustries
Windows
Looking for something that will help kill time? The game "Slabs" is an excellent option. Operate the slabs by clicking with only the left mouse button. Try to make the highest tower out of them.
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- #53 ED-IT
66% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: TilephonePub: Git Together
Windows
You are a robot named Ed with the ability to dream. Use your abilities to platform through levels and dream your way around obstacles.
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- #54 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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- #55 Freshman Year
70% matchMixed63% of 216 reviews2015
Dev: Nina FreemanPub: N/A
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Freshman Year is a vignette game about an ordinary night in the life a college freshman named Nina. Nina's best friend Jenna invites her to meet up at a local bar with some classmates. Jenna is sort of flaky though, so Nina has to navigate the party by herself.
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- #56 Pilgrimage
68% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Robbin Leung
Windows
Bring devoutness to a faraway place, where is the place of the Buddha,No worries, no fear, no controversy, quiet, settling down and quietly feeling the beauty of pilgrimage.Life is a spiritual practice, born in nature, and gratitude.It's a spiritual journey ...It's pilgrimage ...
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