- #1 LOST ORBIT
97% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2015
Dev: PixelNAUTS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Stranded after his ship is destroyed in deep space, Harrison, a lowly maintenance worker and our hero, must struggle to find his way home... Dodge, boost and die your way through space! Explore 4 solar systems with a surly robot sidekick in this deep and deadly dodge 'em up!
Why similar: Indie 59.3%, Adventure 40.7%
- #2 Hargrave
96% matchVery Positive93% of 264 reviews2020
Dev: Disafter Games
Windows
Hargrave finds himself inside the walls of a mysterious labyrinth filled with strange robots. Find the way out, or find what's hidden deep inside.
Why similar: Adventure 68.3%, Indie 31.7%
- #3 VR Escape The Space Station
96% matchMixed60% of 60 reviews2016
Dev: weyha.com
Windows
You are trapped in the space station all by yourself. Need to find a way to get the hell out of there. Experience with HTC Vive, consists of 4 rooms full of puzzles. Every scene are elaborately designed including spaceship with zero gravity, outer space landscape corridor and all.
Why similar: Adventure 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #4 Beyond the Breach
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: rubickanov
Windows
Discover a world overrun with robots, and play as a defective bot who tries to find a way to flee the facility. Find others who are the same kind, free them, and escape the laboratory!
Why similar: Adventure 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #5 Bad Bots
95% matchMixed55% of 260 reviews2013
Dev: Point Five ProjectsPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the “Titan Hauler” crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potential planet-destroying catastrophe.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #6 Helium
94% matchMixed51% of 112 reviews2017
Dev: rocketship
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Hardcore sci-fi first person shooter. You are a liaison on Vega 237 spacecraft. All crew members died and you are all by yourself in the midst of an unknown planet. Your goal is to find out what happened to the crew and establish the signal's nature.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #7 ReSetna
91% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: Today's GamesPub: Module16
Windows
What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.
Why similar: Adventure 57.4%, Indie 42.6%
- #8 Intrepid
93% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2018
Dev: Miskatonic Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up in your cryo-pod. Other crew members are dead. Something is wrong with the spaceship and if you don't use all your wits, you will not leave this place alive...
Why similar: Adventure 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #9 Robotex
92% matchMostly Negative38% of 986 reviews2014
Dev: YFYX GAMESPub: My Way Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Life on Earth is unsustainable. Humanity must seek a new home but the only planet found is very hostile. You were sent on a expedition to slay the monsters inhabiting the surface of this planet. In this adventure you end up being the villain. Game contains two basic controls, many puzzles and lots of guns and enemies.
Why similar: Adventure 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #10 Mechanic Escape
91% matchVery Positive85% of 794 reviews2014
Dev: Slak GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
In a world oppressed by ruthless machines, a stronghold full of die-hard TV-sets resists the persecution. Your lost friends and the lack of resources drive you to take action against the extinction. Brave the dangers and go find your comrades to rescue your species!
Why similar: Indie 53.2%, Adventure 46.8%
- #11 A Small Robot Story
90% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: bc likes youPub: MAGIC Spell Studios
Windows
A Small Robot Story is an adventure-platformer where you play as Rae, a small robot who activates and has no idea why. So you need to set out and find out what's up! With a heavy emphasis on story, A Small Robot Story will take you through forests, factories, caves, laboratories, and more.
Why similar: Adventure 70.2%, Indie 29.8%
- #12 Escape From Tethys
89% matchMixed70% of 460 reviews2018
Dev: Whimsical
Windows · Mac
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
- #13 Puzzle Bots
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 169 reviews2010
Dev: Ivy GamesPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
There’s a big secret at Dr. Hugo’s Factory for Making Robots. When the inventors aren’t looking, their tiny robots go on big adventures. They never expected to stumble onto a plot so diabolical it threatened their very existence. With lasers.
Why similar: Adventure 67%, Indie 33%
- #14 Unusual and not safe experiments
86% matchVery Positive89% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: Galactic Geckon
Windows
Unusual and NOT Safe Experiments is an action-puzzle game where you control a robot trying to escape from an abandoned complex, overcoming traps and solving puzzles.
- #15 Environmental Station Alpha
86% matchVery Positive83% of 1,627 reviews2015
Dev: Arvi TeikariPub: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Adventure 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #16 Robot Rescue Revolution
88% matchMixed68% of 63 reviews2014
Dev: Teyon
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Dodge flamers breathing scorching fires and deactivate paralyzing Tesla machines as you guide wacky robots trapped in treacherous labyrinths to the exit! Plan each escape with precision as every single robot shares linked controls hindering a simple escape plan, even for the creators of the game!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #17 Growbot
85% matchVery Positive90% of 203 reviews2021
Dev: Wabisabi PlayPub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An adventure about a robot saving her home from a dark crystalline force. Set upon a biopunk space station bursting with fantastic plants and aliens.
Why similar: Adventure 60.3%, Indie 39.7%
- #18 Inescapable
87% matchMixed40% of 124 reviews2014
Dev: Magnetic Realms
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Unravel the mystery uncovered by a remote interplanetary mining operation. What did they find? What threat does it pose? And ultimately, what does it truly mean to be a hero?
Why similar: Adventure 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #19 Microbial Sector
82% matchVery Positive97% of 284 reviews2024
Dev: MadBug Studio
Windows
It's your first day as a lifeform researcher, and while you don’t know much about the job, you're desperate for the paycheck. What could possibly go wrong?
- #20 Fallback
83% matchVery Positive86% of 398 reviews2019
Dev: Endroad
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #21 Pact of Joy: Prologue
82% matchVery Positive94% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Just Sauce Studio
Windows
As Jack Argyle, you are tasked with restoring communication at the underwater ex-Aegis facility known as Phorcys Station. Be careful, or risk joining the spirits trapped inside.
Why similar: Adventure 63.2%, Indie 36.8%
- #22 Algo Bot
84% matchVery Positive82% of 188 reviews2018
Dev: Fishing CactusPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 Space of Darkness
84% matchMixed47% of 135 reviews2018
Dev: PilotLumpa Gaming
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Space of Darkness tells the story of a mechanic who works on a space station. The mechanic is alone on the ship for a few months. One day the power suddenly cuts off. He soon finds himself alone in the dark corridors of a space station. Can you unearth what truly happened on the space station?
Why similar: Adventure 61%, Indie 39%
- #24 Cybernetic Fault
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 811 reviews2025
Dev: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Prove your ability to read names next to the big red buttons! Show your ability to fight for life in a science center that is falling apart from the consequences of an insane scientific experiment!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #25 Neospace: Prologue
80% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
You wake up in a spaceship, you realize that strange things are going on there, you try to get back to civilization. However, this is harder than you think, the encounters will drive you crazy and you will doubt yourself.
Why similar: Adventure 91.9%, Indie 8.1%
- #26 TechnoTsunami
81% matchVery Positive93% of 55 reviews2020
Dev: Neon Castle
Windows
Solve puzzles to uncover the mysteries of a space cruise ship. Fight or work together with robots which are remotely controlled by humans on Earth. Collect the technology coming from the future which might cause an apocalypse. Save the future and the past before it’s too late.
Why similar: Adventure 60.4%, Indie 39.6%
- #27 SCP – Containment Breach
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 942 reviews2026
Dev: Undertow GamesPub: SCP-CB Community Preservation Project
Windows
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
- #28 SPACE ACCIDENT
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 295 reviews2022
Dev: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Your hero is Andy Freeman, a technical engineer of the Zeus-M700 spacecraft, sent on an expedition to the satellite of Jupiter to colonize it. However, what is conceived does not always go according to plan…
Why similar: Adventure 82.8%, Indie 17.2%
- #29 Low Oxygen
78% matchVery Positive89% of 303 reviews2023
Dev: Alex-Stefan Neagu
Windows · Linux
Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 92.7%, Indie 7.3%
- #30 Gato Roboto
77% matchVery Positive94% of 5,104 reviews2019
Dev: doinksoftPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Why similar: Adventure 51.7%, Indie 48.3%
- #31 PANIC STATION
81% matchMixed42% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Forest Games
Windows
After exploring the new planet, the space crew became infected with an unknown virus. After a long epidemic, the space station plunged into chaos. Various mutations took place with the crew of the ship, which clouded their minds. Make your way to the rescue shuttle through the mysterious danger.
Why similar: Adventure 58.4%, Indie 41.6%
- #32 Deadly Station
79% matchMixed47% of 58 reviews2018
Dev: RPG Adventures Team
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Discover thet dark story of this space station and find a way out.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #33 Salvage Protocol
74% matchVery Positive100% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: IAmDirt
Windows
A short horror about exploring abandoned space stations and collecting junk in order to pay off your S.R.P.O debt.
Why similar: Adventure 74.3%, Indie 25.7%
- #34 Project Pulsation
77% matchMixed71% of 377 reviews2015
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Project Pulsation - a sci-fi first person shooter with elements of horror and stealth. The distant space station 'Complex' located nearby Thanatos Asteroid keeps a valuable Artifact. Fight your way through turrets, unknown creatures and mysterious ghosts, survive and try to get back.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #35 Moon Mystery
72% matchMixed66% of 696 reviews2024
Dev: CosmoscoutsPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full. Fill up your oxygen, load up the guns, and set out on an interstellar FPS adventure across the stars, filled with puzzles, fights, exploration, and strange secrets of the universe.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #36 SECTOR ZERO
70% matchVery Positive96% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Angelovic
Windows
SECTOR ZERO is a short, physics-based dark sci-fi puzzle adventure where you play as a fragment of an ancient hive-mind entity, awakened by mining operations deep within Asteroid 2031 XT.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #37 High Entropy: Challenges
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,268 reviews2020
Dev: Álvaro García (binarynonsense)
Windows
Use computers (via GUIs or the command line), unlock doors, crawl through vents, fight enemies head on or find other ways to neutralize or avoid them...
Why similar: Adventure 78.3%, Indie 21.7%
- #38 6-Mon Adventure
73% matchVery Positive94% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Objectif 3D
Windows
Embark on an adventure with 6-mon the little robot. Take control of the robot and travel through a disused factory, avoiding falls, protecting yourself from projectiles and traversing dangerous levels to stop the activities of a crazy AI.
Why similar: Adventure 50.1%, Indie 49.9%
- #39 Liveza: Death of the Earth
76% matchMixed55% of 172 reviews2016
Dev: Nikita NefedovPub: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A global catastrophe has literally torn our planet apart, breaking Earth into many pieces. You are the survivor that explores the remains of our planet and investigates the anomalies that have settled upon it. You start out with only a single item: a broken weapon that also functions as a flashlight.
Why similar: Adventure 78.7%, Indie 21.3%
- #40 Waking Up: Way Back Home
71% matchVery Positive90% of 89 reviews2023
Dev: Nostalgic Brains
Windows · Mac · Linux
A child infiltrates a spaceship to carry out a secret rescue mission. His objective is compromised when they must make a forced landing on a strange planet. Explore this mysterious place, overcome obstacles, and find the way back home!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #41 Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
73% matchVery Positive84% of 455 reviews2015
Dev: Jace Masula
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
Why similar: Adventure 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #42 Space Hotel
75% matchMostly Negative38% of 58 reviews2017
Dev: NHLislivePub: Man Hockey
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
One of your ship's engines breaks down while on a trade route. You are forced to make a landing in the nearest star system Merope, constellation Pleiades. Your task is to find a way to the main hangar and escape on the ship of those who remained there forever.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 Recursion Deluxe
74% matchVery Positive86% of 86 reviews2016
Dev: 2D Heroes
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A crash landing on a world inhabited by bee-like lifeforms. Stranded, our hero must unravel the rules of this uncharted planet to find their way home. Navigate a world where left is right, up is down, and you don't know where the simulation ends and you begin.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 Prominence
73% matchVery Positive85% of 155 reviews2015
Dev: Digital Media Workshop
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
When the interstellar mission to colonize a new world goes terribly awry, the fate of the Letarri people falls into the hands of a lone adventurer. Now it's up to you to unravel the mystery of what happened. Can you save them and their mission, or is it already too late?
Why similar: Adventure 61.2%, Indie 38.8%
- #45 Chernobyl Trap
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 112 reviews2022
Dev: ZERO5GAMES
Windows · Linux
You are survived pilot of fallen helicopter. Your mission is simple: go to evacuation point. But can you do it and not die?
Why similar: Adventure 83.1%, Indie 16.9%
- #46 Defunct
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 734 reviews2016
Dev: Freshly SqueezedPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!
Why similar: Adventure 61.1%, Indie 38.9%
- #47 Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop
65% matchVery Positive86% of 1,180 reviews2024
Dev: Beard EnvyPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Come on down to Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop, for all your roguelite spaceship repair simulation needs! WARNING: Untested genre not suitable for people with tentacles for arms or an aversion to dying horrifically. Side effects include improved reading comprehension under pressure and a furry fetish.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #48 Project Asteroids
68% matchMixed57% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Aleksandr Serdiuk
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Adventure 64.5%, Indie 35.5%
- #49 Terminal Lucidity
65% matchVery Positive97% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: Happy Accident Studios
Windows
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers. Each terminal operates on its own hidden rules, and the only way to escape is to learn how to speak their language. Crack the code, unlock the truth.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #50 Kohate
70% matchVery Positive84% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: DarkStone Digital
Windows
Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.
Why similar: Adventure 65.5%, Indie 34.5%
- #51 Plazma Being
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 407 reviews2015
Dev: Hedge Knight Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Take control of Zeb in this puzzle/platformer. He is a small energy based life form from space, known as a Plazma Being. While journeying through space to his home, Zeb was surprised to find that he was being kidnapped by aliens. They took him back to their planet and unceremoniously threw him into captivity.
Why similar: Adventure 63.8%, Indie 36.2%
- #52 Haiku, the Robot
65% matchVery Positive90% of 3,452 reviews2022
Dev: Mister Morris Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #53 bobo robot
69% matchVery Positive89% of 79 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A wacky metroidvania. ⚡ Meet weird characters, unlock new abilities and complete a mysterious mission . . .
Why similar: Adventure 59.1%, Indie 40.9%
- #54 SnowBot
64% matchVery Positive90% of 177 reviews2026
Dev: inoutofit
Windows
Silence, cold, solitude… What lies ahead? A small atmospheric adventure about a robot lost in a frozen wasteland.
Why similar: Adventure 61.7%, Indie 38.3%
- #55 Stray
60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 171,810 reviews2022
Dev: BlueTwelve StudioPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
Why similar: Adventure 74%, Indie 26%
- #56 Spacescape
69% matchVery Positive80% of 71 reviews2018
Dev: Silver Machine Studios
Windows
You are trapped on a space station far above the earth. Will you ever get home to earth again?
Why similar: Indie 57.6%, Adventure 42.4%
- #57 The elevator
64% matchVery Positive87% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: Springbok
Windows
Something is going on in the elevator of your new home.
Why similar: Adventure 67.2%, Indie 32.8%
- #58 Derelict Star
62% matchVery Positive95% of 111 reviews2026
Dev: gatePub: Luminous Tree Games
Windows · Mac
A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #59 Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock
67% matchVery Positive93% of 579 reviews2015
Dev: Red Herring LabsPub: Phoenix Online Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Crash-landed on a desolate, alien planet, what should've been a routine work-for-hire job for Powell has become a deadly mission to save the merchant vessel Morningstar and her crew.
Why similar: Adventure 66.5%, Indie 33.5%