- #1 D.F.R.: The Light
97% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Nothing Rhymes With Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Unprepared and helpless, you are taken to a dark place where a mysterious light hunts you. In this relentlessly terrifying survival horror game, you must use your wits to stay alive long enough to extinguish the light, or perish trying. The light is crafty and observant, so this won't be an easy challenge.
Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #2 One Bit
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Veibyn
Windows
This is the story of Onebit, a poor, cute character that is continious searching for a pixel someone has stolen from him. He simply can`t go on with his life knowing that he is missin a pixel. Your task will be to go tro a long and exciting adventure, on his search for the one that have stolen his pixel and retaliation.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #3 Kindled Cavern
96% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Pretty Okay Games
Windows
Kindled Cavern is a cave exploration adventure for Virtual Reality filled with sights to behold. Waterfalls, bamboo forests, giant turtles, abandoned bridges and scaffolding, subterranian lakes, and ancient arches fill this explorable cavern. Not to mention the ghosts!
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #4 Solmec: Hollow Planet
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Octopus 8 Studios
Windows
Solmec: Hollow Planet is an adventure game where you play as Soledad, a lone Solmec warrior exploring an ancient, lost planet. His task is to find a cure for the Rot that is killing the Ankazil – spacefaring beasts that are home to the Solmec.
Why similar: Action 36.4%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 28%
- #5 Code Name: Origin
94% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Latent Studios
Windows
Code Name: Origin is a top down action adventure inspired by the classics in the 80's and 90's. You’re dispatched alone with a laser shotgun and the wits to uncover what transpired just days before you arrive.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #6 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
94% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Muggle
Windows
To be immortal, The most important thing is to have a long life.Our hero wants to be immortal, so he came to this island to find the secret of longevity in frogs.
Why similar: Action 36.8%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 27.1%
- #7 The Royal Cosmonautical Society
93% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Chromosphere Games
Windows · Mac
Enjoy the rewarding challenge of becoming a qualified Cosmonaut. Gracefully pilot your ship through multitudes of challenges, finding the perfect trajectory all the way to the top of the leaderboards.
Why similar: Adventure 35.8%, Action 34.9%, Indie 29.4%
- #8 Ghostie Quest
92% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Random Thoughts Enterainment
Windows
Ghostie Quest is back! Can you master the pyramid of 100 levels? Tons of secrets and multiple ghosts to unlock across 4 game modes. Insanely cute! Insanely hard!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #9 After Rain: Phoenix Rise
91% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: DV8GamesPub: DV9DESIGN
Windows
The Rain fell, and washed away all that was good. Ancestors of the survivors face a world plagued by deadly disease, hostile landscapes that offer no safe haven, and brutal warlords beholden to a malevolent A.I. that seeks to enslave mankind and control the natural world. This is life After Rain.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #10 Logic Missile
91% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: Bouchard Industries
Windows
Logic Missile is an action puzzle based platformer where you and the missile must reach the central core. Launch the missile and setup the level properly so that you and the missile can exit the level. This game is extremely hard keep that in mind!
Why similar: Action 36.2%, Adventure 36%, Indie 27.9%
- #11 BioMech
89% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
BioMech is a classic Metroid-like with carefully structured gameplay. No rogue elements, no random content, everything is handcrafted and deliberately designed. Backtracking is not a dirty word.
Why similar: Action 38.4%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 26.9%
- #12 Lair of the Titans
89% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Team 21 Studio
Windows
Lair of the Titans offers a unique way for players to enjoy VR together. Play in the same room, hunting one another, choosing the right moment to strike and scare the other player.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #13 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
90% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2015
Dev: CS Squared Games
Windows
Gremlin Invasion: Survivor is a co-op overhead action shooter. With 8 different levels to choose from and up to 8 players, you'll play together in a survival-style mission to blast away hordes of gremlins that have come to take you out.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.3%, Indie 27.2%
- #14 Beyond Arm's Reach
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Round Squares Studios
Windows
Beyond Arm’s Reach is an action adventure game, set in a 1950’s steampunk universe. You have to use the physics based grappling hook, to navigate around the world, defeat enemies and solve puzzles along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #15 Rogues or Heroes
88% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: M.BonKov
Windows
Rogues or Heroes is a dungeon crawler where the difficulty depends on your choices. With procedurally generated levels and fearsomes bosses, Rogues or Heroes is a top-down dungeon crawler with fast paced action proposing a certain challenge. Play alone or with a friend, in lan or online co-op.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #16 Slug Slasher
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Slapped Silly Studios
Windows
Save the world from an onslaught of giant slugs in Slug Slasher! Using only your trusty bucket of salt, smash, dash, and slash through ridiculous enemies and crazy bosses as you fight your way to the slugs' homeland.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #17 In the thrall of darkness: The gift of dreams
87% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: PPofGG
Windows
In the thrall of darkness is a horror game in which you must get out of this nightmare.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #18 Domino Effect
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: GoshFather
Windows
Pick up an entire building and use it as a weapon. Go supernova and send everything flying in an outward direction. Use gravity in a way that has never been used before.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #19 To Hell With Dave
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pretzel Bros Studios
Windows
'To Hell With Dave' is a narrative-driven adventure platformer for the connoisseur of the absurd. Explore a world full of charming characters and twisted humor. If you're a fan of challenging action, wacky puzzles and foul language, this game is for you!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #20 Relativity
86% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: TomCGames
Windows
Relativity will turn your world upside down. Curved surfaces and stairs allow you to walk from the floor, up the walls and across ceilings, shifting gravity and giving you a whole new perspective! Landscape platforms can be moved and rotated using buttons and wheels to transform the landscape and form bridges.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #21 INFINITY CHALLENGE
84% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Simple Gaming - JVJ
Windows · Mac
A 3D Rail Shooter game with high quality tracks! Take the challenge and choose one of the many maps and defeat vicious waves of enemies while traveling through mysterious worlds! Face fearsome machines and creatures that will do whatever it takes to destroy you and end your race to save the galaxy!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #22 Captain's Tail
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Biting Mascot
Windows
Dash into action as the fluffiest pirate of the Seven Seas! Take on platforming challenges and explore a variety of islands.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #23 Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut
85% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2015
Dev: GG-Works
Windows
Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut is an action/adventure platformer, based off of old school platforming games of the 90s. The main objective here is you guide the agile reptile through over 60 levels spanned over six areas of traps, puzzles, and the occasional nasties who get in your way,
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #24 Survivor of Eschewal
84% match7 user reviews14% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Luke CrippsPub: Fellowplayer
Windows
You suddenly wake up and find yourself on a beach of a strange island. This island does not feel right from the start because you could have swarn this island was not here the previous night. Now all you can think of is getting off this island alive.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #25 Afandas Survival
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SchmidtGames
Windows
Afandas Survival is an open world survival game. After a plague wipes out most of the population, you're one of the few survivors on an island called Afanda. Already at the beginning you realize that surviving isn´t easy. To stay alive, you must search for equipment and provisions.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #26 Alien Planet
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Falkrus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Avoid the aliens and bandits in this skill testing game. Keep your cool as you work your way towards freedom on this planet of relentless enemies. Alien planet uses the simplicity and feel of an 80's style game to create an addictive and challenging experience.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #27 Trinity
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Maelstrom Rabbit
Windows
Trinity is a challenging fps/puzzle set in a surrealistic universe.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #28 Terrarium Land
83% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Layer games
Windows · Linux
Do explore the world`s levels, find secret places, unique artifacts and bonuses. In the Terrarium Land world, destroy enemies and solve the puzzles in different levels. This colorful 3D arcade game has tons of adventure in store for you. Let it begin!
Why similar: Action 36.2%, Adventure 36%, Indie 27.8%
- #29 Above
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mighty Moth
Windows · Mac
Above is an aeronautic action-adventure game, in which you fly around exploring islands scattered in a vast ocean, upgrade and modify your aeroplane to progress, in order to find your lost brother and uncover the mystery behind the abominations that dwell beneath the waves.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #30 SQUAREHEAD
79% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Pixel Fun Games Production
Windows
Squarehead is a pixelart-action-jump & run game set in a comic style. You need to shoot, jump & teleport through more than 40 levels. Search forests, caves, deserts and snowy landscapes, to refuel your ship with diamonds.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #31 Nachzehrer
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eric Sauer
Windows
[h1]Nachzehrer[/h1]Your fear of being in the dark comes true in this short single player horror game. You find yourself stuck at a power plant at night, when suddenly the lights begin shutting off. However, attempting to turn them back on may cause you to meet your fears.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #32 Kitten Madness
78% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: David OgdenPub: LoveTrooper Entertainment L.L.C.
Windows
Kitten Madness is an open world fast pace game where you race a kitten through various levels and game types. Kitten Madness starts out as a single player game where you control a cute kitten performing the playful actions of a kitten.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #33 Save her, from dreams
76% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Ziyi Zhang
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter the dream, save the one you love.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #34 Adventure of Great Wolf
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Claudius Keigfron
Windows
A PC Port of a classical v«kän (Vexen) game, Originally Developed by fäkhäßk II. It features an intriguing soundtrack and various fun puzzles!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #35 Super Ubie Island REMIX
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Notion Games
Windows
Inspired by Super Mario World, Super Ubie Island REMIX is an adorable platformer. Help Ubie defeat Dr. Terrestrial, discover secrets, repair his ship and escape Climate Island. Run, jump and glide your way through more than 25 insanely fun levels!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #36 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YitYat Studios
Windows · Mac
The galaxy is in peril. Equipped with the latest military tech, pilot your heavily armed space fighter through 5 exotic planets to destroy the evil Dr Grag and save the Life Spark. Joining you on your journey is The Engineer, a silicon being capable of building anything you need. Unfortunately, he's a jackass...
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #37 Super Mega Bob
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 22 reviews2015
Dev: Jenito
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Bob's world has been invaded by mechanical demons from the nether! SEND THEM BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM! . . . by shooting at them like a madman, of course!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #38 Pep-Pel
64% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: SlugGlove
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run through each level as Pep-Pel! a goofy red goblin thing. In this beautifully hand drawn game. play through tons of fast-paced and difficult levels, each with there own challenge to master!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #39 COSMONAUT
73% matchPositive86% of 42 reviews2018
Dev: Neon Chasm, LLC
Windows
Unravel the mystery surrounding the lost vessel Diogenes. A story-driven retro platformer with elements of horror. Use the zero-g suit to explore the eerie corridors of a derelict ship filled with unknown lifeforms and dark secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #40 RECHARGE COMPLETE
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rechargecomplete
Windows
RECHARGE COMPLETE is a third/first person shooter featuring a hard-strutting jet-packing android created to destroy job-stealing robots! Blast enemies with homing missiles, lasers and EMP grenades! Jet pack, boost and skii your way through peril. Be the robohero you were made to be!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #41 A Rip In Time
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: iV Games
Windows
Time travel in a new twisted way. The game’s antagonist will be pulling you through “Rips in Time”. The further you explore, the more intertwined the worlds become! Experience the early 1900’s and future all in one, thanks to the power of Unreal Engine 4.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #42 Slime-san: Sheeple’s Sequel
73% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: FabrazPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sheeple's finally lost it! He is convinced that everything's just part of a giant videogame and that he was coded to simply be a side-character. Which is why he decided to recode himself to become the villain instead... Can you defeat his nefarious levels and come out of it unscathed?
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #43 Talewind
74% matchMixed59% of 109 reviews2016
Dev: WindLimit Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Talewind is a whimsical platformer where you play as a young boy that is trying to save his village, but dont let its looks fool you, it will challenge even the most experienced platformer veterans. trailer music: bensound.com
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #44 Into the Ice
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Homegrown GamesPub: Intr Studio Pty Ltd
Windows
4 years in the making, finally coming to your PC: Into the Ice - Nazis of Neuschwabenland - the official sequel to the multiple GOTY and award winner "Into the Dark". Adventure, Shooter, Trash, Comedy, Politics and Nudity. You. Have. Been. Warned!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #45 Armoured Engines
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bounder Games
Windows · Mac
Armoured Engines is a steam punk western epic featuring train conductor Dusty Beats and her partner in crime, the ancient living engine Billy Wylam, as they search for El Dorado. Protect your train and shoot, fling, slice, and blow up hordes of enemies, using an arsenal of weaponry and passengers.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #46 Questria: Rise of the Robot Skullfaces
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2015
Dev: AltImage Games
Windows · Mac
Questria is a multiplayer action dungeon crawler. Grab your pals and save Friendship from the evil Robot Skullfaces!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #47 D.F.R.: The Light VR
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Nothing Rhymes With Entertainment
Windows
Unprepared and helpless, you are taken to a dark place where a mysterious light hunts you. In this relentlessly terrifying survival horror game, you must use your wits to stay alive and extinguish the light, or perish trying. But be warned: the light is crafty and observant, so this won't be easy.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #48 Project X
72% matchMostly Negative33% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Bulls Bros
Windows
Two teenagers were disappeared in the vicinity of the Grackham National Park. At night a roar is heard from the forest. Nearby, a group of archaeologists finds a cave and skull of an unknown creature.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #49 Imperil
70% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2017
Dev: Polybit
Windows · Mac
"Imperil" is a ruthless retro inspired platformer with puzzles. The hero must save the land that has been corrupted by evil. Place platforms or shift the world around you, move objects with telekenesis or burn enemies with fire to best the many obstacles you come across.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #50 Painted Legend
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 58 reviews2016
Dev: Storyan teaM
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 86.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Imagine that one day, all the worlds that you have created on paper - live. Brave knights, fearsome dragons and terrible monsters, they all live on the page of your notebook.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #51 Star Surveyor
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: slimefriend
Windows · Mac
Star Surveyor is an exploration game about discovering a foreign planet, and observing the lives of its alien inhabitants. You're sent to Maya-247 with a simple mission: use your scanner to gather data about all of the flora and fauna you can, and send that data back to Earth.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #52 Departure
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RG CrewPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Departure is a first-person perspective action adventure game with sci-fi and horror elements. Try to survive in a vast zone full of dangerous anomalies that alter your surroundings, and monsters that hunt you down at night.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #53 Zarvot
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: by Sam Eng
Windows · Mac
Two things: a charming co-op adventure and a cutthroat competitive party game. Be a tiny, adorable cube with hopes, dreams, unrequited loves… and unlimited destructive power.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #54 Rainbow Step
68% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: AMG GAMES
Windows
Teru Teru Bouzu, with the mysterious ability to clear the rain, journeys though the world in this 3D adventure game. Why is it always raining in this magical world? Solve the mystery by using the mysterious ability to clear the rain while riding rainbows to explore this magical world.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #55 HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NEO FUTURE LABS
Windows
"HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER" is a first-person metroidvania with physics-based combat built in Unreal Engine 4. Explore mysterious dimensions, unlock new abilities, and fight back against evil with your hammer friend!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #56 NO-GO
67% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: ATOMIC AGE CULTURE
Windows
A dark thriller in first-person perspective. We play as Charles Wood, who has the task of espacing a city taken over by a fanatic gang.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #57 Stickman World
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dilmer ValecillosPub: Dilmer Games
Windows · Mac
Stickman World takes place in an underground world after the hero "Stickman" awakes in an unknown world. Play through an amazing story where Stickman has to solve puzzles in hopes to discover a way out of this world. The goals for each level are simple and require collecting all the hidden items through Stickman's journey.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #58 Dinosaur Hunter VR
69% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Gooners Game
Windows
Embark on a great adventure to hunt down some prehistoric beasts!
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%