- #1 Sky Jac
97% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: Team of Light Media LLC
Windows
A first person platforming, story driven VR Shooter. Fly and climb as you explore a world filled with questions, quirky characters, and an evil robotic race hell-bent on human destruction.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #2 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 38%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #3 NickProject
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Velaris Studio
Windows
This game transfers you in the universe,where you`ll bring role of doctor Nick Johnson.He is a excentrie alien traveler with a great mind.His main aim is to right in justice travelling in time and space.
Why similar: Action 36.7%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #4 D.F.R.: The Light
95% 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 37.4%, Action 36.6%, Indie 26%
- #5 Ghostie Quest
94% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #6 Escape From Space Shredder
94% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: s_unkPub: s_unk
Windows
The gameplay of the game is based on the ability to turn the game world while completing a maze with traps.This game Is Hardcore!
Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Action 36.5%, Indie 26.1%
- #7 New World: The Tupis
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Novo Mundo
Windows
New World: The Tupis is a 3D FPS adventure game about the South America colonization, during the 16th century, fight using only a bow, against enemies using powerful arquebuses and swords, save members of your tribe, and they will fight on your side.
Why similar: Adventure 38.4%, Action 35.9%, Indie 25.7%
- #8 BioMech
91% matchMixed50% of 14 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 38.7%, Adventure 34.9%, Indie 26.4%
- #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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #10 SQUAREHEAD
90% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #11 The Royal Cosmonautical Society
89% 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 36%, Action 35.2%, Indie 28.8%
- #12 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
89% 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 37.7%, Action 35.7%, Indie 26.7%
- #13 Code Name: Origin
87% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Aurora Games Studio
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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #14 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #15 Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut
88% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #16 A Rip In Time
79% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #17 Flight 732
86% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Ghere Games
Windows
Explore the island to find the missing jetliner. Once found, can you find a way to help you and your captain off of the island?
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #18 Super Bugman Extreme Ultra
85% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: SyKoHPaTh
Windows
A unique 2D platformer with puzzle elements where you can jump, pick stuff up, place it down, throw onions, and use special abilities on enemies. Play through the Story Mode, have fun in Creative Mode, tackle the Procedural generated Chaos levels, and even design your own levels in the level editor.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #19 RECHARGE COMPLETE
76% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #20 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
84% 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 37.2%, Adventure 36.3%, Indie 26.5%
- #21 Solmec: Hollow Planet
84% 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 36.7%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #22 Afandas Survival
73% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #23 Guardian of The Demon Valley
83% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Lily GamesPub: Himi Games
Windows
This is an exciting shooting game.The game is set in a dark canyon, you’ll play a warrior who swears to defend the saint ice crystal that seals the devil with his life. would you be able to complete the mission of defending the sealing ice crystal against the horrible monsters’ continuous offensive?!
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #24 One Bit
82% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #25 Rogues or Heroes
82% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #26 In the thrall of darkness: The gift of dreams
81% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #27 COSMONAUT
79% matchPositive86% of 43 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #28 Stickman World
71% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #29 Welkin Road
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: Gregor PaničPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Armed only with your grappling hooks and fearless nature, run, leap and swing your way across a dreamy skyscape to reach the pillar of light. Welkin Road is an elegant, first-person puzzle-platformer that combines parkour and grappling-hook-powered aerobatics.
Why similar: Adventure 38%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #30 Slime-san: Sheeple’s Sequel
80% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #31 LOST CAVE
78% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: SANBAE
Windows
At an old cave where ancient ruins lie, an unknown life slowly lurks beneath. Put on your gear, become an adventurer, and explore the caverns filled with many secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #32 Mage VR: The Lost Memories
78% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Baptiste DegrysePub: DBloke SPRL
Windows
Maybe you don't remember, but some of us do remember that we are Mages. Try a gesture, see if it starts fire in your hands, maybe you are one of us. Use this power and please save the world from this new malediction.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #33 Above
68% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #34 No Escape
77% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Martin HelvigPub: Tazhel
Windows
No Escape is a first-person adventure game with puzzles and a twist of horror. After a car accident in a collapsed tunnel, you try to find yourself a way out, but that does not seem to be as easy as you thought.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #35 Beyond Arm's Reach
67% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #36 D.F.R.: The Light VR
77% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #37 Pep-Pel
65% matchPositive85% of 34 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #38 Gearend
75% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: SolarLune Games
Windows · Linux
Gearend is a small 2D non-linear action-platforming exploration game. You control a small robot named Epsilon-98, or Eps, as he explores a hostile robotics research facility. Fight, restore, and explore as you search for the humans who awakened you.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #39 INFINITY CHALLENGE
76% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #40 NO-GO
74% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #41 FriendZoned Archer
75% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Centipede Game Studios
Windows
FriendZoned Archer is an action adventure game inspired by the classic NES Zelda. There is complete freedom of exploration, hidden Areas, hidden dungeons and key items to help you ease through the open world.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #42 Into the Ice
64% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #43 Chicken with Chainguns
74% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Nuts and Volts Electronics
Windows
The big bad fox crushed your hen's eggs and you aren't having it...take up arms and show him who is boss! Use your chainguns to get revenge.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #44 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
63% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #45 Save her, from dreams
72% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Ziyi Zhang
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter the dream, save the one you love.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #46 Adventure of Great Wolf
71% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #47 Relativity
73% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #48 Conquer
72% matchMixed54% of 24 reviews2018
Dev: Wan Studio
Windows
Conquer is an action-packed combat game experience crafted exclusively for VR/MR. The story is set in age of ancient times where the players will explore the game's dilapidated world, the Yan Valley, which is occupied by evil beasts, carrying the sacred gift of the gods to complete a quest against evil.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #49 Production Sound / 产声
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Aemaeth Monster
Windows
A fairy tale of growing up alone
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #50 To Hell With Dave
60% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #51 I_AM.exe
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paulo P. NetoPub: Indie
Windows
I_AM.exe is a first person action game with a focus on exploration. You wake up inside a vat on a strange place full of robots trying to kill you. Explore, solve puzzles and fight your way through different areas as you try to find a way out and understand what is going on and just who are you.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #52 Captain's Tail
59% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #53 Vector's Adventures
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Sol Bot Studios
Windows
The blueprints are scattered and out of order! You must piece the worlds back together. Join Vector, a dot, the lowest form of geometry, in his adventure across the Shades of Blue as he battles a hierarchy of greater shapes. Wield the Architect's pen for puzzles and combat in the Land of Lines.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #54 Flurius
71% matchMostly Negative21% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: One Buck
Windows
This is what happens when you do not brush your teeth.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #55 Zarvot
59% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #56 Project 59
69% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Red Oak Studio
Windows
You joined a secret agency. Someone is ordering you to carry out covert operations. There are advanced equipment and weapons at your disposal. You have to eliminate mutant creatures as you go through your mission objectives. But you realize things are not as they seem. There is something wrong in the system.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #57 Castle Heist: Chapter 1
70% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Gustav "Goffa" SöderströmPub: GoffaGames
Windows
Castle Heist is an episodic stealth game where you must use your wits to find the path forward and your skills to sneak past the enemy.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%
- #58 HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER
57% 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 36.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 27%