- #1 Nimbus
97% matchVery Positive94% of 252 reviews2010
Dev: Noumenon Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Nimbus is a unique combination of racing & puzzling. The player controls a craft with no means of directly propelling itself and needs to use whatever is scattered around the levels to acquire thrust and reach the goal. Traverse a world map with several distinct islands in order to recover your lost love.
Why similar: Racing 86.7%, Indie 13.3%
- #2 Joe Danger
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 221 reviews2013
Dev: Hello Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Can you put the world’s most determined stuntman back into the limelight? Combo, boost and pull ludicrous stunts as Joe attempts to race his way back into the record books in over 100 eye-popping levels. Leap school buses full of screaming kids and pools of ravenous sharks! Dodge spikes and mousetraps!
Why similar: Racing 78.6%, Action 11.9%, Indie 9.4%
- #3 Link: The Unleashed Nexus
96% matchVery Positive85% of 52 reviews2015
Dev: Reminisce
Windows
Go towards the sky. Wingless though you may be, flightless this makes you not. Link: The Unleashed Nexus is a high-difficulty fast-paced action game which will challenge the player to stay in the air.
Why similar: Racing 75.3%, Action 14.2%, Indie 10.5%
- #4 iO
95% matchVery Positive80% of 235 reviews2014
Dev: Gamious
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
iO is an abstract physics platformer about size and speed. Grow bigger and smaller in order to solve some of the trickiest puzzles. Reach the exit as quickly as possible and grab a gold medal as your reward!
Why similar: Racing 72.6%, Action 14.8%, Indie 12.6%
- #5 Cloak and Dasher
94% matchVery Positive100% of 50 reviews2020
Dev: Spirit Stone Studio LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a lightning fast thief in this fast-paced platformer about looting ancient ruins with speed and style!
Why similar: Racing 68.6%, Action 18%, Indie 13.3%
- #6 PIXEL DRIFT
94% matchMixed43% of 81 reviews2018
Dev: azimuth team
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Now you need to overtake the enemy on the track and not turn over while doing it!
Why similar: Racing 87.2%, Indie 12.8%
- #7 O3DX
93% matchMixed56% of 64 reviews2016
Dev: Egamea Game Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Prepare yourself for fast tracks, furious physics and a rush of adrenaline as you tackle daring obstacles and puzzles. O3DX will be the ride of your life!
Why similar: Racing 77.3%, Indie 11.8%, Action 10.9%
- #8 Coffin Dodgers
92% matchMixed69% of 758 reviews2015
Dev: Milky Tea Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pimp up your mobility scooter and take on the Grim Reaper and his Zombie army in a race for your soul. Armed with a variety of homemade weapons and gadgets, battle your way through 13 unique & exhilarating tracks. Can you survive the retirement village?
Why similar: Racing 82.1%, Action 11%, Indie 6.9%
- #9 Action Henk
91% matchVery Positive89% of 863 reviews2015
Dev: RageSquid
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Run, jump and butt-slide into the glorious toy-filled world of Action Henk! Become a master of momentum and defy physics as you race against a band of ragged 90s action figures to once and for all prove that Action Henk is the fastest of them all!
Why similar: Racing 81.1%, Action 11.5%, Indie 7.4%
- #10 STANDBY
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 232 reviews2017
Dev: Noclip
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Never STANDBY in this fast-paced, precise platformer and get out of the glitched world! Can you do it faster than anyone?
Why similar: Racing 52.5%, Action 27.2%, Indie 20.3%
- #11 Killer Chambers
90% matchVery Positive88% of 56 reviews2019
Dev: Village Bench
Windows · Linux
Help Brave Lord survive the Killer Chambers and defeat the bosses summoned by Lord Grave! Quick reflexes and good memory are the keys to success in this unforgiving action-platformer. Can you clear all 5 floors and get the King's Crown?
Why similar: Action 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #12 Renzo Racer
89% matchMixed52% of 65 reviews2019
Dev: EnsenaSoft
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Renzo Racer is a fun, fast-paced cartoon style racing game challenging your maneuverability and driving skills to cross the finish line first! Choose your driver from a selection of 16 comical personalities and race down 20 exciting tracks full of twists and turns, hazardous obstacles and unexpected surprises.
Why similar: Racing 77.1%, Action 13.7%, Indie 9.2%
- #13 The Next Penelope
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 280 reviews2015
Dev: Aurelien RegardPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Set in a futuristic Odyssey, "The Next Penelope" is a fast paced action racing game with loud colors, an original story and a challenging risk-reward system. Weapons can be mixed and used at any time, but all these abilities cost vital energy!
Why similar: Racing 79.5%, Action 12.1%, Indie 8.4%
- #14 Commando Hero
86% matchVery Positive88% of 197 reviews2023
Dev: Montee Games
Windows
Hero who wants to be a commando has to pass difficult tracks. Finish the track fast and enter the Leaderboard.
Why similar: Racing 94%, Indie 6%
- #15 Unpossible
88% matchVery Positive85% of 132 reviews2015
Dev: Acceleroto, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Unpossible will test your skills, your reflexes, and even your memory. It will make you smile. It will probably make you scream. You will die often and it will always be your fault. Fight to learn the obstacles…they already know how to fight you. Relentless. Thrilling. Unpossible!
Why similar: Racing 88.2%, Action 6.6%, Indie 5.2%
- #16 Duke Dashington Remastered
87% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Adventure Islands
Windows · Mac
Hop into the shoes of Duke Dashington and save treasures from collapsing dungeons! Do you have what it takes to be the fastest treasure hunter in the world?
Why similar: Racing 86.6%, Action 13.4%
- #17 ITRP _ Aero Star
85% matchVery Positive97% of 73 reviews2023
Dev: Unhexigon
Windows
Dynamic and hardcore runner. Dare to overcome a unpredictable track with a lot of unique challenges. Can you reach the finish line? Can you survive?
Why similar: Racing 74.9%, Action 16.3%, Indie 8.7%
- #18 Hoverflow
80% matchVery Positive96% of 150 reviews2026
Dev: Simon In Motion
Windows
You have been snatched from your world to take part in a challenging Pilgrimage that very few have completed.. Surf, jump, climb and keep your flow while finding secrets and beating time trials! Go on Pilgrim, I have faith in you.
Why similar: Action 60.4%, Indie 39.6%
- #19 Aero's Quest
86% matchMixed58% of 99 reviews2015
Dev: Soloweb Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Aero's Quest is a fast paced side scroller puzzle-platformer where the player have to lead Aero in his quest to save Ariella from the evil Andraus by solving puzzles throughout more than 100 colorful and challenging levels.
Why similar: Action 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #20 Against All Odds
83% matchMixed63% of 253 reviews2023
Dev: Microwave GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Water's cut. Rent's due. Jobs are scarce. Time to get rich. Enter the Slaughter League and win against all odds in supremely lethal races. Platforming meets slaughter in this casual racing game designed for players looking for a new experience - or a way to wind down with blood and guts galore!
Why similar: Action 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
- #21 Blitz Breaker
84% matchVery Positive88% of 152 reviews2016
Dev: Boncho Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A simple, fast paced platformer with one small change: Your character can't run. Play as an adorable robot named Blitz and help it escape the factory it was built in. The only problem is, it seems like everything is trying to break you!
Why similar: Action 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #22 Miles & Kilo
84% matchVery Positive93% of 76 reviews2017
Dev: Michael Burns
Windows · Mac
Race across a curious island in this fast-paced, light-hearted platformer
Why similar: Action 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #23 RUN! GRANDPA! RUN!
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 89 reviews2020
Dev: EgutidzePub: My Way Games
Windows
Just another boring day in the hospital? Not on your watch! Take on the role of Grandpa, grab your best slippers and embark on an epic race for freedom in a rocket-powered wheelchair.
Why similar: Racing 74.7%, Action 14.5%, Indie 10.8%
- #24 Jumps
81% matchVery Positive94% of 337 reviews2017
Dev: Kiwiforge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter a world of sky islands and jump your way to the finish, you must complete each level with a certain amount of jumps! and HURRY, you must complete each world in under a certain amount of time.
Why similar: Racing 63.2%, Indie 24.9%, Action 11.9%
- #25 HackyZack
82% matchMixed67% of 255 reviews2017
Dev: Spaceboy Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Zack. Juggle balls with unique properties through platforming puzzles to a goal at the end of each stage. Help Zack fill his treasured book of stickers to unlock optional challenge levels, where you race against the timer to destroy targets as fast as possible.
Why similar: Indie 57.2%, Action 42.8%
- #26 Meow Motors
79% matchVery Positive90% of 238 reviews2018
Dev: ArtVostok
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Meet the kitties, the heroes of the new go-kart racing game! Overcome obstacles on the tracks, evade mines and bombs, blast your competitors with bubble gum and other awesome weapons to stop or slow them down. And don’t forget to collect power-ups on the way to be the fastest driver on the track.
Why similar: Racing 90.1%, Indie 9.9%
- #27 Exoracer
75% matchVery Positive97% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Nyan Studio Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Compete for the world record in this fast-paced multiplayer racing platformer! Dash through short and fun levels, or be creative and build your own levels in the fully fledged level editor!
Why similar: Racing 81.2%, Action 12.1%, Indie 6.6%
- #28 Rocket Assault: Downhill Rush
76% matchVery Positive92% of 240 reviews2023
Dev: Giovanni Elgert
Windows
Fast-paced racing game based on Rocket League mechanics, race against players from all over the world, defeat them to rank up in the leaderboards and get special items to show off your skills
Why similar: Racing 79.4%, Action 14.4%, Indie 6.2%
- #29 Paperball
77% matchVery Positive95% of 230 reviews2020
Dev: Cliax Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
It's time to get rolling! Navigate tricky passages, pull off crazy stunts and get ready to fall off a lot! Play carefully or risk it all for the fastest time - play any way you want in over 150 all unique stages.
Why similar: Racing 42.6%, Action 32.8%, Indie 24.6%
- #30 Twin-Turbo Supercharged Nitro-Fueled Papamobile
78% matchVery Positive80% of 55 reviews2020
Dev: Microtaur
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cyber-noir platformer in which you steer high-performance papamobile through a future city in order to deliver a cure that could save humanity.
Why similar: Racing 83.8%, Action 16.2%
- #31 4Wheel Challenge
74% matchMixed61% of 190 reviews2025
Dev: LJ3D
Windows
Face all kinds of challenges with your wheelchair!
Why similar: Racing 84.8%, Action 15.2%
- #32 Switch Galaxy Ultra
81% matchMixed45% of 110 reviews2015
Dev: Atomicom LimitedPub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Switch Galaxy Ultra is an insanely addictive, fast-paced arcade challenge. Weave your way past obstacles and enemies as you travel across the galaxy collecting Tantalum for Dakur Technology. It’s loaded with content and features that will have you blazing across the galaxy at breakneck speeds.
Why similar: Racing 78%, Action 12.6%, Indie 9.3%
- #33 Desert Child
79% matchMixed56% of 350 reviews2018
Dev: Oscar BrittainPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You are a hungry, young hoverbike racer who needs to get off Earth before it E-X-P-L-O-D-E-S. Hunt bounties, throw races, and do whatever you can to get to Mars and win the Grand Prix.
Why similar: Racing 81.9%, Action 9.5%, Indie 8.6%
- #34 Impulsion
77% matchVery Positive87% of 315 reviews2018
Dev: Driving Force GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Impulsion is a fast-paced first-person platformer designed to play with your nerves and reflexes! Make your way through 25 levels of increasing difficulty by manipulating physics to your advantage, shooting force fields to slow down or speed yourself up and the environment!
Why similar: Action 56.9%, Indie 43.1%
- #35 Road to Ballhalla
76% matchVery Positive88% of 425 reviews2016
Dev: Torched HillPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!
Why similar: Racing 82.2%, Action 17.8%
- #36 Drift (Over) Drive
78% matchMixed46% of 61 reviews2017
Dev: RetraissancePub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In DoD you take the role of a driver passionate about drifting, driving your car around the world on all kinds of environments and weather conditions, while taking on different challenges and avoiding all kinds of obstacles and hazards.
Why similar: Racing 95.4%, Indie 4.6%
- #37 Marble Race
75% matchVery Positive86% of 126 reviews2018
Dev: Elastic Sea
Windows
Race through colorful levels filled with obstacles and monsters and claim the best time. Challenge your friends in a 4-way battle arena. Unlock secrets and even build your own levels. A tribute to "Hamsterball" and "Marble Madness".
Why similar: Racing 87.1%, Indie 12.9%
- #38 Super Sami Roll
72% matchVery Positive84% of 178 reviews2021
Dev: Sonzai Games
Windows
Sami’s on a mission to rescue his friend Vera and he needs your help! Join him in this exhilarating, colorful 3D platformer and fast roll, air-grapple, and jump to save her!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #39 Shadow Racer
71% matchVery Positive84% of 203 reviews2022
Dev: DigiPen Europe-BilbaoPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Master the four car elements and save the valley by exploring a cursed world, filled with battles, secrets, amazing characters, and exciting racing challenges against the best racers of the land. Will you be worthy of being the new shadow racer?
Why similar: Racing 87.5%, Action 12.5%
- #40 Accel
73% matchVery Positive85% of 102 reviews2019
Dev: Objectif 3D
Windows
To escape the cyber world of ACCEL you’ll have to go beyond your limits with your spaceship. In ACCEL we’re adding a new challenge, 360° maneuverability.
Why similar: Action 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #41 Slip
74% 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: Action 55.5%, Indie 44.5%
- #42 Marble's Marbles
64% matchVery Positive96% of 124 reviews2026
Dev: James OliverPub: Destined
Windows · Mac · Linux
A love letter to the classic marble games. Help Marble find his lost marbles and roll through physics-powered worlds packed with wild challenges and quirky contraptions.
Why similar: Racing 60.4%, Action 39.6%
- #43 Wunderling DX
70% matchVery Positive94% of 188 reviews2020
Dev: Bitwave Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Dash, jump, and fly at full speed through Wunderling DX: a non-stop puzzle platformer and the world's first "goomba simulator"! Race against the clock, beat tricky puzzles to uncover shiny secrets, and stomp the odds to please your evil overlord!
Why similar: Action 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #44 Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game
66% matchVery Positive90% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: BiG INC. CO. LLC.
Windows
A chaotic physics-based vehicular platformer where you race to the top. Scream into your microphone to slow down time, look for shortcuts, and unlock new vehicles.
Why similar: Racing 77.5%, Action 22.5%
- #45 SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,309 reviews2021
Dev: Sewer Cat
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A spy-chicken tries to save the world from doom in this runner/shooter game that has a little bit of everything with a touch of chicken and anime girls on top. Run for your life in 6 different worlds and shoot your way through tons of enemies until you become a legend.
Why similar: Action 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #46 Super Laser Racer
73% matchVery Positive84% of 102 reviews2010
Dev: New Star Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Super Laser Racer is an exciting combat racing game set in outer geometric space. Blast your way to the top of the leaderboards using lasers, missiles, bombs and more! 24 exhilarating tracks, 12 racers, 8 challenging tournaments, online multi-player and a track editor.
Why similar: Racing 80.4%, Action 10.4%, Indie 9.1%
- #47 Almightree: The Last Dreamer
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 173 reviews2015
Dev: ChocoartsPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The world is shattering and you are the only hope to restore the balance. A thrilling and challenging 3D puzzle platformer game, Almightree: The Last Dreamer has you racing through a crumbling world to find your way to awaken the life giving Almightree.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #48 Up N' Down
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2023
Dev: CashcowGames
Windows
Up N' Down is a multiplayer racing game where you have to use items to your advantage. Race to the top, grab the crown and find a safe way down to the finish line.
Why similar: Racing 80.5%, Action 12.6%, Indie 6.9%
- #49 Who's That Flying?!
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 170 reviews2011
Dev: MediatonicPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 34%
As the mysterious and powerful "Guardian of Earth" your steely eye and HYPER-POWERED LASER ARM have kept the citizens of Earth safe for generations.
Why similar: Action 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #50 Heavenly Bodies
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,263 reviews2021
Dev: 2pt Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
Why similar: Action 60.9%, Indie 39.1%
- #51 Stay Alight
71% matchVery Positive81% of 202 reviews2015
Dev: Wyse Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a world savior in the new arcade game — Stay Alight®! Meet the adventurous Mr. Bulb, who will free the planet from the cartoonish microbes with your help. The green meanies have conquered the planet completely and utterly, so it’s up to Mr.
Why similar: Action 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #52 Devil's Drizzle
63% matchVery Positive97% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Cozy Creeps GamesPub: ZNT Productions
Windows · Linux
Devil's Drizzle is a 2D platformer that narrates the story of a kid in pursuit of his friend, an umbrella. Brave the storm and outrun the clutches of the demonic Pazuzu in this audacious effort to save your buddy.
Why similar: Action 61.2%, Indie 38.8%
- #53 Remnants of Naezith
69% matchVery Positive88% of 652 reviews2018
Dev: Tolga Ay
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
With the powers granted to him by the dragon, Kayra will destroy the Remnants of Naezith, enchanted fragments of the dragon's body, to prevent anyone from exploiting their power for evil. Rush and swing through levels to top the leaderboards in this fast-paced, grappling hook precision platformer.
Why similar: Racing 72.6%, Action 15.1%, Indie 12.4%
- #54 JumpJet Rex
70% matchVery Positive87% of 526 reviews2015
Dev: TreeFortress Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Test your dinosaur jump-jet skills with a game that redefines the platformer genre, aptly renaming it "platflyer." Simply put, you're a t-rex with rocket boots trying to save earth from an incoming asteroid. Do you have what it takes to stop it?
Why similar: Racing 86.3%, Action 13.7%
- #55 Airhead
65% matchVery Positive88% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: OctatoPub: HandyGames
Windows
Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.
Why similar: Action 50.4%, Indie 49.6%
- #56 6N23
65% matchVery Positive90% of 91 reviews2023
Dev: TajoPub: Murtabongjo
Windows
6n23 is an action-platfomer-racing game. Rush fast as you can. Use your finger, find path. It has controls similar to a fighting game, allowing you to practice your control skills.
Why similar: Racing 70.4%, Action 25.1%, Indie 4.5%
- #57 Aureole - Wings of Hope
62% matchVery Positive98% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: Team StargazersPub: JanduSoft
Windows
At sonic speeds, Aureole - Wings of Hope takes platforming to the literal skies! Join Ramila and Ryleth on their crusade to reclaim their home from demonic forces in this unique physics-based side-scrolling game.
Why similar: Indie 54.8%, Action 45.2%
- #58 Inch by Inch
69% matchVery Positive97% of 65 reviews2018
Dev: LevelXProjectPub: Dare Looks
Windows
You play a shrinking scientist in a race against time: Can you find all necessary formulas and ingredients to produce the antidote and stop shrinking, before you are too small to operate the life-saving lab equipment?
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #59 Beam
68% matchVery Positive89% of 61 reviews2020
Dev: Binary ImpactPub: CobraTekku Games
Windows
BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #60 Upside Down
68% matchVery Positive81% of 714 reviews2017
Dev: EGAMERPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Upside Down will immerse you in an incredible adventure. Sharpen your reflexes for this fast-paced, precise puzzle-platformer.
Why similar: Indie 77.6%, Action 22.4%