- #1 VELVETIST: The City of Machine Guns
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SiCzech Arts
Windows
VELVETIST: The City of Machine Guns is a 3rd person open world action-adventure game. The story of the main character Luka Vollek takes place in an old, socialist occupied city. The game is divided into consecutive linear missions that tell the story of the main protagonist.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 33.5%, Indie 26.3%, Story Rich 2.4%
- #2 Nana in the Dark
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 45 reviews2017
Dev: Starmyth
Windows
Nana who came to a strange place, To escape from there, you must survive from unidentified things! * Simple graphics * Cute characters * A little fear * Story * Multi-ending
Why similar: Adventure 36.4%, Action 32.2%, Indie 25.3%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #3 Curse of Anabelle
95% matchMixed65% of 136 reviews2020
Dev: Rocwise Entertainment
Windows
Curse of Anabelle is a story driven adventure-horror/puzzle game which players can experience in the first person perspective. The storyline is based on real world myths and legends.
Why similar: Adventure 40.2%, Indie 28%, Action 22.5%, Walking Simulator 3.9%, Story Rich 2.5%
- #4 MacGuffin
94% 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 40.4%, Action 32.7%, Indie 26.9%
- #5 Lost with Dinosaurs
94% 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 40.1%, Action 32.9%, Indie 26.9%
- #6 PLUTONIUM
93% matchMixed45% of 192 reviews2017
Dev: Ch.ZBK
Windows
PLUTONIUM: Distorted Shelter is a 2D adventure game about a major event that took place in a highly developed city state called Plutonium.
Why similar: Adventure 39.8%, Action 32.5%, Indie 27.7%
- #7 The Body Changer
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2015
Dev: TheShortAndTheTall
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A single player metroidvania 3D game with cooperative gameplay. Find out what's going on by taking control of distinct characters and change between them whenever you want. An unique mix of 3rd person shooter and challenging puzzles!
Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Action 32.6%, Indie 27.7%
- #8 In Passing
90% 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 39.5%, Action 33%, Indie 27.5%
- #9 WRONGED
91% 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 39.6%, Action 32.9%, Indie 27.6%
- #10 Orphan
89% 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 39.3%, Action 33.3%, Indie 27.4%
- #11 Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan
91% matchMostly Negative26% of 94 reviews2014
Dev: bitSmith Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A Celt-punk action-adventure set in a future Ireland ravaged by technomagical war and economic collapse, humanity clings on by using the remnants of technology that survive. Our hero must venture into lands unexplored, twisted by strange and mythical powers.
Why similar: Adventure 41%, Action 32.1%, Indie 26.9%
- #12 Spud's Quest
89% matchPositive81% of 32 reviews2014
Dev: Mouldy Toof StudiosPub: Clickteam
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Spud's Quest is an adventure game that draws its inspiration from the classic games of old, most notably the Dizzy, Zelda, and Metroid series. Help Spud and his friend Prince Charming on a journey to uncover four ancient elemental essences that have the power to remove a curse upon the royal family.
Why similar: Adventure 41.1%, Action 32.4%, Indie 26.5%
- #13 Last Anime Boy 2: Hentai Zombie Hell
88% 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 39.3%, Action 33.3%, Indie 27.4%
- #14 Do Not Fall
87% 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 39.3%, Action 33.3%, Indie 27.4%
- #15 The Platformer Gun
86% 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 39.3%, Action 33.3%, Indie 27.4%
- #16 The Sheltered
86% 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 39.3%, Action 33.3%, Indie 27.4%
- #17 Goo Saga
85% 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 39.3%, Action 33.3%, Indie 27.4%
- #18 the LAST LETTER
84% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Donuts Co. Ltd.
Windows
The Last Letter is a VR Narrative Puzzle Game. An enigmatic letter of girlfriend’s Grandma accompanying an antique board game will lead you to the discovery of a mysterious and fantastic world.
Why similar: Adventure 41.4%, Action 32.1%, Indie 26.4%
- #19 homicide
83% 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 39.2%, Action 33.6%, Indie 27.3%
- #20 All Fall Down
84% 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 39.3%, Action 33.3%, Indie 27.4%
- #21 HereAfter
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 43 reviews2017
Dev: Brown Studios
Windows
Deep in an old forgotten laboratory, a failed experiment reboots from its sleep. With no memories, it now must explore the many different areas of the extensive complex with the help of an AI called MUSE. Will it find the light of redemption it longs for, or will it find a dark and terrible truth?
Why similar: Adventure 39.8%, Action 33.7%, Indie 26.5%
- #22 Mystic Ruins
81% 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 39.8%, Action 33.7%, Indie 26.5%
- #23 Kindled Cavern
80% 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 39.8%, Action 33.7%, Indie 26.5%
- #24 Into the Ice
70% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #25 Hoggy 2
78% 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 40.9%, Action 33.1%, Indie 26%
- #26 Izeriya
79% 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 39.8%, Action 33.7%, Indie 26.5%
- #27 The End: Inari's Quest
79% 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 39.8%, Action 33.7%, Indie 26.5%
- #28 Darwin's Test
75% 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 38.8%, Action 33.4%, Indie 27.8%
- #29 Welkin Road
77% 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 39.8%, Action 33.7%, Indie 26.5%
- #30 Star Surveyor
66% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #31 Unearthing Colossal
78% 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 39.8%, Action 33.7%, Indie 26.5%
- #32 Time, Space and Matter
74% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Vaclav HudecPub: Blameless Games
Windows · Mac
Time, Space and Matter (TSM) is a first-person action adventure focused on puzzle solving through gravity-manipulation. Find out what happened in an advanced-tech facility prior to your arrival and uncover the existence of a mysterious artificial intelligence.
Why similar: Adventure 41.8%, Action 32.6%, Indie 25.6%
- #33 I_AM.exe
65% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #34 Evil Robots From N1M
77% 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 39.8%, Action 33.7%, Indie 26.5%
- #35 Parasite
76% 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 39.8%, Action 33.7%, Indie 26.5%
- #36 DUSTWUN
63% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #37 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
76% 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 39.5%, Action 33.9%, Indie 26.6%
- #38 Law Mower
73% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: Scoria Studios
Windows
Law Mower is a game about one man's journey to achieve his life's purpose - to cut every blade of grass in the world.
Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #39 Dead Forest
73% matchMostly Negative21% of 39 reviews2018
Dev: Borov
Windows
Dead Forest is a first person mystical thriller. The game take place in the protagonist’s dream. Every time the main hero has the same dream in which he sees a mysterious dark forest. But this time it's different ...
Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Action 33%, Indie 28.5%
- #40 Science:The world is in your hands
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Panayotis Lampitsakis
Windows
You are the worlds most successful scientist which has revolutionised the world, but suddenly a tragedy hits and a virus is released on earth. You are the only one that can create the cure to save the world. You must fix your robot and your laboratory to save planet earth.
Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #41 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #42 Necrolance
68% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Monsoon Studios
Windows
The Dark Necromancer has returned and is causing havoc in the Kingdom of Nangarth! He has sent his loyal servant, The Great Dark Warrior Thorg of Winstin, to resurrect 6 deadly foes in order to fulfill his mischievous plans! Play as both Thorg and our hero in this 2D action packed adventure!
Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #43 Zarya and the Cursed Skull
71% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #44 No Escape
71% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #45 Pep-Pel
57% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #46 A Rip In Time
58% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #47 Stalked at Night
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: AquaBomber
Windows
Your name is Bill, a man that had a car accident in the countryside in West Virginia.You wake up from a car crash,not exactly knowing where you are.Before crashing you saw some big animal crossing the road and then following you for a while.Right now your priorities are to get out of this place.
Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #48 Departure
58% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #49 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
58% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #50 One Bit
70% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #51 Zarvot
57% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #52 Armoured Engines
57% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%
- #53 RECHARGE COMPLETE
56% 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 38.7%, Action 34.3%, Indie 27%