- #1 Anti Gravity Warriors VR
97% matchMixed60% of 30 reviews2017
Dev: Niket Patel
Windows
Fight alien space robots and mutant monsters in this immersive, Sci-Fi, zero gravity environment. Battle to the death in this vr game!
Why similar: Action 38.6%, Adventure 36.4%, Indie 25%
- #2 Biomydra
96% matchMixed65% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Class of 2015-2016Pub: Campus ADN
Windows
Play as Snow, a solo agent sent on a mission to Biomydra to report on the fate of a fellow officer. Explore colorful environments in this toe curling action-adventure game as you unfurl the staggering truth about the breathing planet you are walking on and the twisted people who sent you there.
Why similar: Adventure 37.3%, Action 34.7%, Indie 28%
- #3 Lost Borderline
96% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2018
Dev: PigeonCube Studios
Windows
Lost Borderline is a retro pixel-art, hack & slash puzzle-crawler where the boundaries of reality are broken, giving you creative control over the sides of the screen to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
Why similar: Adventure 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #4 GunGirl 2
95% matchVery Positive92% of 176 reviews2016
Dev: BlueEagle ProductionsPub: Paul Schneider
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
GunGirl2 is an action platformer in the style of games like Metroid, Castlevania or Cave Story. But with blood… LOTS of blood! Go on an epic adventure and explore a huge world with the heroic blonde chick GunGirl or her best friend GunDude.
Why similar: Action 37.9%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 26.5%
- #5 Ghostly Horizon
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2018
Dev: Bit Nurse
Windows · Mac
Ghostly Horizon is an intense 3rd-person spell-caster on round planets. You enjoy crazy battles with over 30 different spells, preferably together with your friends. Focus is placed on both player-skill and teamwork in this matchbased game with quick rounds. Can you top the Leaderboards?
Why similar: Action 39%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 24.8%
- #6 Mausoleum of the Medusa
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 92 reviews2016
Dev: New Hell Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
'Medusa' is a love song to brutal, old-school arena combat. Perseus and Medusa are trapped in a deathmatch--but the gods raise them from the dead! Prove yourself with first blood, then compete for the top spot on the Steam leaderboard!
Why similar: Adventure 39.8%, Action 35.4%, Indie 24.8%
- #7 Rail Recon
93% matchPositive89% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: Triggered Studios
Windows
Delve into the underground facility of Rail Recon, a Twin-stick Shooter with a Rail System. Navigate through its network of rails in search of its crystals, while maneuvering and fighting through the facility's defenses.
Why similar: Adventure 37.3%, Action 34.8%, Indie 27.9%
- #8 God Of Thunder
92% matchVery Positive98% of 133 reviews2017
Dev: RDavis
Windows
Action! Adventure! Puzzles! Corny humor! God Of Thunder is the full version of a 1994 shareware game that you've probably never heard of. It is now freeware, so have fun.
Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%
- #9 Bane of Asphodel
91% matchMixed69% of 92 reviews2018
Dev: The Bane Of Asphodel Team
Windows
Bane of Asphodel is an Action-Adventure Game set in the mystical world of Asphodel. Players can play as Neith, a recently deceased normal person, and must liberate the land from the evil Keeper of the Cycle.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27%
- #10 All Fall Down
90% matchMixed67% of 45 reviews2015
Dev: khos85
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Set in a distant future world, this is a unique first person shooter/platform/puzzle game where you need to find out why all the debris is falling and save your world from destruction.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #11 The End: Inari's Quest
89% matchMostly Negative34% of 109 reviews2018
Dev: MataPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 30%
You're a fox in a cyberpunk city full of hostile robots. You must escape while helping another fox and its cub
Why similar: Adventure 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.7%
- #12 Mystic Ruins
87% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Elite Games
Windows
Join Strade the explorer on his mission to investigate the Mystic Ruins. Navigate its labyrinthine corridors, solve its puzzles, gather treasures, and survive the onslaught of monsters within.
Why similar: Adventure 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.7%
- #13 Izeriya
88% matchMixed60% of 53 reviews2016
Dev: LigaGamesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Izeriya was a powerful city…but forces of evil captured it. The little man named Trix is heading to this city to destroy the evil within.
Why similar: Adventure 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.7%
- #14 Holobunnies: The Bittersweet Adventure
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: q-bit GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
An action-exploration, retro sidescroller adventure game about holographic bunnies in space.
Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Action 35.4%, Indie 24.9%
- #15 Kindled Cavern
86% 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 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.7%
- #16 Welkin Road
84% 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 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.8%
- #17 Evil Robots From N1M
85% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Jake Conner
Windows
Play as a space-faring mercenary on a mission to a distant world in this side-scrolling action shooter.
Why similar: Adventure 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.8%
- #18 Unearthing Colossal
84% matchMixed42% of 31 reviews2016
Dev: Power Up to Maximum
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take on the role of an epic titan of death named Reaper. Your nemesis the Bringer of Life has broken from tradition - the cycles of life - and created a sentient race known as the Humans. Now it's up to you as Reaper to complete the cleansing cycles of life and death.
Why similar: Adventure 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.8%
- #19 Parasite
83% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2016
Dev: Raphael Gervaise
Windows · Linux
Parasite is a non-linear retro platformer with a mix of action and puzzles. The player controls an alien worm wanting to get rid of a human space colony on his planet. There are multiple shapes to unlock and to switch between to facilitate the navigation and sabotage the complex.
Why similar: Adventure 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.8%
- #20 homicide
80% matchNegative6% of 17 reviews2019
Dev: KiKi
Windows
This is a decryption game (first-person perspective),The player is at a murder scene.The player must first find the body,Then find five clues scattered around the scene,Then you can pass the level.There are two levels in this game,The player focuses on the corpse or clue for more than 2s,Can trigger the dialog box (meanings the body or...
Why similar: Adventure 38.6%, Action 34.9%, Indie 26.5%
- #21 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
82% 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 39%, Action 35.2%, Indie 25.9%
- #22 A Blind Legend
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 346 reviews2016
Dev: DowinoPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A Blind Legend is the first-ever action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes! Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound.
Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Action 35.4%, Indie 24.9%
- #23 Lost with Dinosaurs
81% matchMixed41% of 144 reviews2017
Dev: Mihai Morosanu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 22%
Collect power up that help you reach all placed in order to collect mushrooms. Avoid dinosaurs that will steal them from you
Why similar: Adventure 39.6%, Action 34.2%, Indie 26.2%
- #24 New World: The Tupis
79% 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 39.7%, Action 35.4%, Indie 24.9%
- #25 The Platformer Gun
78% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Daniel Dante
Windows
Use your Platformer gun to create your way to surpass the obstacles and escape big evil dudes in 80+ levels!
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #26 Goo Saga
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 37 reviews2016
Dev: Toka Loka Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Goo Saga is a platform adventure game where the player guides an elastic creature named Goo in a perilous journey to find his creator – and with him, the mysterious purpose of his own creation. Will Goo succeed? Puzzles, deadly traps and an army of foes in a labyrinthine underwater lab block his way.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #27 Departure
68% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #28 Holobunnies: Pause Cafe
77% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: q-bit GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Holobunnies: Pause Café is the Holobunnies appetizer you didn't know you wanted: three little games in one adorable and quirky package! Fight your friends in a high-adrenaline two-player brawler, test your mettle against the classic q-bit bosses in Boss Rush, and navigate through Kitcat’s Adventure to help Kitcat find its way to the...
Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Action 35.9%, Indie 25.6%
- #29 Orphan
75% matchPositive80% of 45 reviews2018
Dev: Windy HillPub: 2Dimensions
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 2D sci-fi platformer about a young boy who may be the last survivor of an alien invasion. Under the cover of night, he ventures out in search of other life and to seek revenge against the machines that have taken over the Earth.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #30 Escape 2042 - The Truth Defenders
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: OrionSoft
Windows · Linux
Discover a futuristic fast-paced platformer game in pixel art. The game takes place in three different environments (prison, desert, forest) and is interspersed with 2 mini-games, including a reversed “Shoot’em Up” and an original rappelling game!
Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Action 35.9%, Indie 25.6%
- #31 Destroy Space Aliens
76% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Flying Fire, LLC
Windows
Challenge yourself and enter the castle of the Legendary Sir Frank Jones V to destroy invading space aliens! Slash, blast, and dash your way to victory in this retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Action 35.9%, Indie 25.6%
- #32 The Planet of the Vicious Creatures
77% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Jorge Giner Cordero
Windows
An old-school platformer set in outer space.
Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Action 35.9%, Indie 25.6%
- #33 Beyond Arm's Reach
65% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #34 Last Anime Boy 2: Hentai Zombie Hell
74% matchMixed63% of 65 reviews2018
Dev: CSMPub: W.T.B.
Windows
In 2088, Nazi Muslims achieved great success in the field of chemical weapons and, not to fall into captivity and fight even after death with the infidels, they created a serum that turned them into zombies.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #35 Pilli Adventure
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: TavoPub: Calaca studios
Windows
Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Pilli Adventure features the Pilli & Paco as they blast their way through 7 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the Pilli Adventure online comic.
Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Action 35.9%, Indie 25.6%
- #36 A Rip In Time
62% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #37 Above
62% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #38 Hoggy 2
72% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Raptisoft
Windows
Hoggy 2 is the long awaited sequel to the 2010 mobile hit, Hoggy! Take control of Hoggy and Hogatha, two painfully adorable slime-molds, on a quest to rescue their children from the Moon Men! Slime molds are sticky... so whenever you jump, you stick to the ceiling!
Why similar: Adventure 40.4%, Action 34.4%, Indie 25.3%
- #39 The Sheltered
74% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2015
Dev: Benjamin FamigliettiPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 99%
"The Sheltered" is a top-down adventure game with an emphasis on exploration and decision making. Combining old school graphics and simple gameplay with modern storytelling and a multitude of choices, "The Sheltered" pushes a choice between safety and morals.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #40 Stickman World
61% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #41 Do Not Fall
73% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2014
Dev: XPEC Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Have you got what it takes to try out this challenging, intense and fast paced action-platform game? Think fast and think quick of where you are running as the tiles will start to disappear the moment you walked on it and the obstacles will be in your way to block you or knock you over. You can run. You can dash.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #42 MacGuffin
73% matchMixed61% of 36 reviews2016
Dev: Concrete Games ClassicPub: Gem Rose Accent
Windows
Good. Your plane tickets are ready. I already made a bank transfer of 1 000 000 on your account. We'll get in touch when you're inside the nuclear plant. You must understand that not getting the MacGuffin is not an option.
Why similar: Adventure 39.9%, Action 33.9%, Indie 26.2%
- #43 Slime-san: Blackbird's Kraken
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: FabrazPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
The notorious Blackbird's kracked, I mean, cracked! He believes Slime-san stole his treasure and unleashed his giant Kraken upon him! Sound familiar? It is now up to Slime-san to escape the giant squid's jaws back out to freedom!
Why similar: Adventure 38.6%, Action 36%, Indie 25.4%
- #44 Pep-Pel
58% matchPositive86% of 35 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #45 Lost Bros
72% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2016
Dev: Wheat Muffin Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
In Lost Bros simultaneously control three independent characters as they travel through time to save their kidnapped friend. Gunman, Shieldman, and Swordman must cooperate with unique abilities to solve puzzles and fight bad guys.
Why similar: Adventure 38.6%, Action 36%, Indie 25.4%
- #46 Armoured Engines
59% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #47 Cyborg Invasion Shooter
71% matchMixed45% of 58 reviews2017
Dev: Tero Lunkka
Windows
You are the only soldier that can save the world: Collect all the artifacts, kill several cyborgs and save the world
Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%
- #48 Glitchbuster
70% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Rémi Vansteelandt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fix all glitches in the game before the release!
Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%
- #49 Slug Slasher
59% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #50 Escape From Space Shredder
70% 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 38.7%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%
- #51 COSMONAUT
68% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #52 To Hell With Dave
58% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #53 Lightning War
69% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Diantong Intelligence Tech. Shanghai Co.,Ltd.
Windows
With hard work of two member team, the first series of the Lighting war finally go online. Hoping everyone enjoy this battle game. Always wondering who's driving the jets, will be a beauty?
Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%