- #1 The Platformer Gun
97% 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 38.1%, Action 34.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #2 Goo Saga
96% 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 38.1%, Action 34.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #3 Orphan
95% 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 38.2%, Action 34.4%, Indie 27.4%
- #4 All Fall Down
96% 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 38.1%, Action 34.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #5 The Sheltered
94% 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 38.2%, Action 34.4%, Indie 27.4%
- #6 In Passing
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
A first-person 3D platforming experience through a broken mind turned against you.
Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 34.2%, Indie 27.5%
- #7 Last Anime Boy 2: Hentai Zombie Hell
93% 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 38.2%, Action 34.4%, Indie 27.4%
- #8 Do Not Fall
94% 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 38.2%, Action 34.4%, Indie 27.4%
- #9 Departure
88% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #10 Darwin's Test
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 77 reviews2018
Dev: Wolfalone Studio
Windows
Darwin’s Test is a first-person action and puzzle game that immerses you into a futuristic universe. You play as an amnesic patient following an experimental care protocol. Who are you ? Where are you ? So many questions to solve to discover the truth !
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 34.5%, Indie 27.8%
- #11 Zarvot
84% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #12 WRONGED
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 40 reviews2017
Dev: Joshua Roland
Windows
WRONGED combines adventure-puzzle gameplay and a low-poly, pixelated art style with an oppressive horror atmosphere. Use only household items and your own wits to escape a warped, claustrophobic nightmare world shrouded in darkness.
Why similar: Adventure 38.4%, Action 34%, Indie 27.6%
- #13 The Misadventures of Denniz & Diana
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Merkas
Windows
The Siblings Denniz and Diana have to traverse a multitude of areas by jumping, sliding, climbing and fighting through them in this 2D-Jump'n'Run. Meanwhile, they encounter a... Mechanic-Pirate? Well, they have to stop him, whatever his plan actually is.
Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.6%
- #14 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 38.3%, Action 35.1%, Indie 26.7%
- #15 Parvaneh: Legacy of the Light's Guardians
87% matchMixed62% of 69 reviews2016
Dev: Bearded Bird Game StudioPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fadia, a young and courageous boy sets about protecting ‘Naria’, his home village, from the Khazdaks who are trying to pollute their river.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #16 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #17 Stickman World
79% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #18 Big Blue - Memory
86% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Studio RO
Windows
Become a killer whale and join a great journey to the endless sea. Join the great story of breaking through the harsh environments of ever-changing seas and overcoming the mighty storms.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #19 Painted Legend
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 59 reviews2016
Dev: Storyan teaM
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 85.5 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #20 Imperil
84% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #21 HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER
76% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #22 Lost Borderline
82% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #23 Rogues or Heroes
83% match8 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #24 Hallowed Encounter
82% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Alpha Pack StudiosPub: Handle Consolidated, LLC.
Windows
Trick-or-Treat! Or so you thought? Halloween night, last year, Weston Norris lost his daughter. This year, he plans on avoiding the night as the Trick or Treaters come knocking. But, once you sit alone in the screamingly silent darkness on Halloween night, you’ll truly learn what goes bump in the night.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #25 Star Surveyor
72% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #26 Talewind
81% matchMixed59% of 112 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #27 VR INTERACTIVE TRAILER: Runes
78% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: StormBorn Studio
Windows
Experience this VR trailer in full immersion inside your headset and get a sneak peek of Runes, a single player, story-driven VR adventure game in which you are Leth, a renegade wizard fighting for survival in a virtual fantasy world.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #28 Zarya and the Cursed Skull
79% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Rodz
Windows
“Zarya and the Cursed Skull” is an action-adventure game that tells a story based on a fantastic novel. In addition, several dungeons filled with creatures and puzzles await you.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #29 Drone Zero Gravity
80% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2015
Dev: Isaac Nichols
Windows
Drone Zero Gravity is a dark yet strikingly colorful space adventure that will test your skills. Navigate intricate cave systems, dodge enemy fire and take out as many enemy drones along the way. Throughout your journey energy is important, so stay charged or it’s game over.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #30 D.F.R.: The Light
78% match5 user reviews100% of 5 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #31 Into the Ice
69% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #32 And I Must Scream
77% matchMostly Negative32% of 47 reviews2019
Dev: Stitched Mouth Studios
Windows
And I Must Scream is an experience horror game that takes the player through a journey of kid's imagination of how he perceives the world around him. Control Max as he navigates the literal and metaphorical landscapes of trauma on his search for strength and acceptance.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #33 Project 59
76% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #34 A Rip In Time
66% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #35 Vector's Adventures
75% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #36 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
64% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #37 Armoured Engines
63% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #38 Relativity
74% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #39 Pep-Pel
61% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #40 Prometheus - The Fire Thief
75% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2015
Dev: Magical Hackers
Windows
Prometheus - The Fire Thief is an action adventure game set in ancient Greece. As the player you assume control of the titan Prometheus. After stealing the fire from the Gods of mount Olympus, Prometheus must travel all across Greece and outside its borders, battling hideous monsters.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #41 VR_PlayRoom : Episode Beginning (Escape Room - Horror)
73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: WeVery
Windows
The main goal of this game is to find clues and escape the room using things in the room.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #42 Derelict Fleet
74% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: HCB Studios
Windows
Derelict Fleet is a fast-paced, space combat game. You are tasked with defending a refugee fleet as you travel the stars searching for a new colony to call home.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #43 Tom vs. The Armies of Hell
73% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Darkmire Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Meet Tom -- a software engineer turned reluctant half-demon hero who must fight his way out of Hell by turning souls into demon-searing weapons. Blast your way back to your 9-to-5 in this hilarious, isometric indie action-adventure game.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #44 Death Space
73% matchMostly Negative30% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
You play as a scientist named Elmagamed at the 69th space station and you got to escape from a monstrous mutant.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #45 Slavistan 2
71% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: PozojPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Go on an adventure through in a small place with a big personality inspired by slavic memes where you'll meet colorful characters and get to know this place in and out. Find a way to get home, befriend some people, beat up others, have a drink, and if you don't find any trouble, trouble will find you.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #46 RECHARGE COMPLETE
62% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #47 R.A.F.A.
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Cristian Villalba
Windows
Imagine that you are a child and want to explore new worlds as an astronaut. Imagine a platformer with the ability to jump across an entire solar system. Imagine a story that won’t left you enough time to separate your face from the screen. Challenge yourself and be part of this arcade style videogame – RAFA. R.A.F.A.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #48 Production Sound / 产声
72% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Aemaeth Monster
Windows
A fairy tale of growing up alone
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #49 Welcome To The Dreamscape
71% matchMixed42% of 36 reviews2018
Dev: FYRE Games
Windows · Mac
The Future is here, but are you ready?... Stepping into the shoes of a silent amnesiac, you must traverse through the virtual worlds of your own dreams, finding clues that may lead you to the answers of your mysterious past, but not all is as it seems...
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #50 I_AM.exe
59% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #51 Untouchable
70% matchPositive79% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: 动想网络Pub: 拇指游玩
Windows · Mac
Untouchable is a fantasy-themed adventure game, where players wander into a world of fantasy and begin an adventurous journey.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #52 Kitten Madness
70% 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 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #53 DUSTWUN
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goon Studios
Windows
Fight to survive in an alien frontier full of beauty and danger on your quest to locate a missing starfighter.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #54 PAPA'S TIME MACHINE
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Techone Game Studio
Windows · Mac
《PAPA'S TIME MACHINE》 is a brand new action & adventure game in which players will play the role of a father and start an adventurous journey in different stages of life.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #55 Fractal Chicken
68% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: FireSine LLC
Windows
Explore, craft, fight, and build your way through multiple infinite voxel worlds, look at fractals, have a good time! Play multiple game modes, builld automated machines, chop trees, build a base, turn into a helicopter, upgrade weapons and equipment and more! Oh, and most importantly, awaken true fractal power!
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #56 Flurius
69% matchMostly Negative29% of 21 reviews2018
Dev: One Buck
Windows
This is what happens when you do not brush your teeth.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27%