- #1 Parasite
97% 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 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.2%
- #2 D.F.R.: The Light
96% match4 user reviews100% of 4 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 37.1%, Action 36.3%, Indie 26.6%
- #3 Kindled Cavern
96% 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 37.7%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #4 Ghostie Quest
95% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Random Thoughts Enterainment
Windows
Ghostie Quest is back! Can you master the pyramid of 100 levels? Tons of secrets and multiple ghosts to unlock across 4 game modes. Insanely cute! Insanely hard!
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #5 PLANETS OF WAR
94% matchMixed59% of 294 reviews2017
Dev: Indiecode Games
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 11%
This is a Short Clicking Adventure Game in which you Save Earth from an Alien Invasion.
Why similar: Action 29.3%, Space 26.5%, Adventure 23.9%, Indie 20.3%
- #6 Project 5: Sightseer
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 547 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: Building 27.7%, Adventure 21%, Sandbox 19.1%, Action 18.2%, Indie 14%
- #7 The Royal Cosmonautical Society
93% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Chromosphere Games
Windows · Mac
Enjoy the rewarding challenge of becoming a qualified Cosmonaut. Gracefully pilot your ship through multitudes of challenges, finding the perfect trajectory all the way to the top of the leaderboards.
Why similar: Adventure 35.7%, Action 34.9%, Indie 29.5%
- #8 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
94% 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 37.3%, Action 35.4%, Indie 27.3%
- #9 Starbucket
91% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: ReedGames
Windows · Mac
Build both simple and complex spaceships, and engage in combat against other players using your creations!
Why similar: Space 26.1%, Building 21.9%, Action 20.2%, Sandbox 16.2%, Indie 15.6%
- #10 Funtoon's World
91% matchMixed53% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: Yash Future Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
Windows
Funtoon's World is amazing adventurous game with 25 Levels. Get Ready to enter Funtoon's World with amazing Excitement in each Level. Get Ready to face different monsters and earn as much coins as you can to get highest score.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #11 Space Impossible
90% matchVery Positive95% of 141 reviews2016
Dev: Happy Polygon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take control of a fully destructible spaceship and explore, blast or trade your way through the cosmos, alone or with friends. Every tile matters, as you dogfight, maneuver or speed your way past friendly traders, hostile aliens, and impressive space navies. What will you do, Captain?
Why similar: Adventure 29.4%, Action 28.1%, Indie 22.2%, Space 20.3%
- #12 BioMech
89% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
BioMech is a classic Metroid-like with carefully structured gameplay. No rogue elements, no random content, everything is handcrafted and deliberately designed. Backtracking is not a dirty word.
Why similar: Action 38.4%, Adventure 34.6%, Indie 27%
- #13 Code Name: Origin
89% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Aurora Games Studio
Windows
Code Name: Origin is a top down action adventure inspired by the classics in the 80's and 90's. You’re dispatched alone with a laser shotgun and the wits to uncover what transpired just days before you arrive.
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #14 IIslands of War
80% matchVery Positive84% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: jwiggs
Windows · Mac
IIslands of War is a 2D roguelike where you build floating islands out of blocks and modules. Travel through different realms to various locations to collect powerful items, shop for items, forge your items to become more powerful, and battle the Dark Order.
Why similar: Adventure 27.9%, Action 27.3%, Building 22.6%, Indie 22.2%
- #15 NickProject
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Velaris Studio
Windows
This game transfers you in the universe,where you`ll bring role of doctor Nick Johnson.He is a excentrie alien traveler with a great mind.His main aim is to right in justice travelling in time and space.
Why similar: Action 36.4%, Adventure 35.5%, Indie 28.1%
- #16 Univers
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spartan IndustriesPub: Capitán_22
Windows
Survival in space. Explore, repair and build in an ancient spaceship that lost its way many, many years ago...
Why similar: Adventure 34%, Action 33.2%, Indie 25.6%, Space 7.2%
- #17 Hallowed Encounter
86% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #18 Morphite
86% matchMixed68% of 111 reviews2017
Dev: Crescent Moon Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Morphite is a casual atmospheric FPS, inspired by the classics. Research plants and animals, battle hostile entities, and unravel a mystery surrounding a rare material called Morphite.
Why similar: Adventure 29.7%, Action 26%, Space 25.9%, Indie 18.4%
- #19 Save Iron Globe
81% matchPositive89% of 36 reviews2021
Dev: Frameblade
Windows
Learn the story of Priscilla, the Perfect Soldier (PS) of the United Earth Federation, awakened from the cryptosleep to stop an alien invasion.
Why similar: Action 27.9%, Space 25.6%, Adventure 25%, Indie 21.5%
- #20 Planetoid
85% matchMixed53% of 107 reviews2017
Dev: GameWriterStudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Planetoid is a physics based building game in which you construct facilities and protect humanoids on the planetoid. Build a facilities which can defeat the enemies on your way.
Why similar: Indie 21.3%, Space 21.3%, Building 18.3%, Adventure 13.8%, Action 13.5%
- #21 StarShip Constructor
84% matchMixed67% of 267 reviews2017
Dev: SSCTEAM
Windows
Galaxy is on fire! Only you can save it! More than 20 modules and even more weapons and equipment,you can design your own spaceship and defeat the most powerful ships in galaxy!
Why similar: Space 37.3%, Building 31.5%, Indie 16.6%, Sandbox 14.6%
- #22 Logic Missile
84% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: Bouchard Industries
Windows
Logic Missile is an action puzzle based platformer where you and the missile must reach the central core. Launch the missile and setup the level properly so that you and the missile can exit the level. This game is extremely hard keep that in mind!
Why similar: Action 36.2%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 27.9%
- #23 After Rain: Phoenix Rise
83% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: DV8GamesPub: DV9DESIGN
Windows
The Rain fell, and washed away all that was good. Ancestors of the survivors face a world plagued by deadly disease, hostile landscapes that offer no safe haven, and brutal warlords beholden to a malevolent A.I. that seeks to enslave mankind and control the natural world. This is life After Rain.
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #24 Reassembly
82% matchVery Positive94% of 4,079 reviews2015
Dev: Anisoptera GamesPub: Indie Voyage
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
Why similar: Space 30%, Building 29.4%, Sandbox 18.4%, Action 8.5%, Top-Down 6.5%
- #25 WRONGED
82% 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 37.4%, Action 34.3%, Indie 28.2%
- #26 Supreme AI: Arena
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nasty Slippers
Windows · Mac · Linux
A minimalistic, fast-paced top-down arena shooter against a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. Fight AI agents whose speed, tactics, gunplay control and obsession to win have been trained for years of virtual playtime and now delivered to you in 60-seconds-long battles.
Why similar: Adventure 31.9%, Action 31.2%, Indie 24.1%, Top-Down 12.8%
- #27 Starship EVO
74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,485 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Space 26.9%, Building 24.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Action 12.6%, Adventure 11.6%
- #28 Lair of the Titans
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Team 21 Studio
Windows
Lair of the Titans offers a unique way for players to enjoy VR together. Play in the same room, hunting one another, choosing the right moment to strike and scare the other player.
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #29 One Bit
78% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #30 Guardian of The Demon Valley
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Lily GamesPub: Himi Games
Windows
This is an exciting shooting game.The game is set in a dark canyon, you’ll play a warrior who swears to defend the saint ice crystal that seals the devil with his life. would you be able to complete the mission of defending the sealing ice crystal against the horrible monsters’ continuous offensive?!
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #31 Solmec: Hollow Planet
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Octopus 8 Studios
Windows
Solmec: Hollow Planet is an adventure game where you play as Soledad, a lone Solmec warrior exploring an ancient, lost planet. His task is to find a cure for the Rot that is killing the Ankazil – spacefaring beasts that are home to the Solmec.
Why similar: Action 36.4%, Adventure 35.5%, Indie 28.1%
- #32 Alchemage
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 310 reviews2020
Dev: 量子艺界(QUANTUM ARTS)
Windows
Begin your otherworldly life from scratch—with nothing but a single magic staff in hand. Shape the world with your own hands, build the home you love, or unleash the powers of alchemy and magic to battle relentless monsters from beyond.Set forth, Warlock!
Why similar: Adventure 30.1%, Action 27.2%, Indie 21.8%, Sandbox 20.8%
- #33 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
77% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Muggle
Windows
To be immortal, The most important thing is to have a long life.Our hero wants to be immortal, so he came to this island to find the secret of longevity in frogs.
Why similar: Action 36.9%, Adventure 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #34 I_AM.exe
66% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #35 In the thrall of darkness: The gift of dreams
76% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: PPofGG
Windows
In the thrall of darkness is a horror game in which you must get out of this nightmare.
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #36 Flight 732
75% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Ghere Games
Windows
Explore the island to find the missing jetliner. Once found, can you find a way to help you and your captain off of the island?
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #37 Rogues or Heroes
76% match9 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #38 Domino Effect
75% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #39 To Hell With Dave
64% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #40 A Rip In Time
64% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #41 Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2015
Dev: GG-Works
Windows
Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut is an action/adventure platformer, based off of old school platforming games of the 90s. The main objective here is you guide the agile reptile through over 60 levels spanned over six areas of traps, puzzles, and the occasional nasties who get in your way,
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #42 Zarvot
63% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #43 The Outer Rim: Survivor
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: Katoa Games
Windows
Welcome to The Outer Rim, where fast paced action and space combat meet. The Outer Rim: Survivor missions are free to download and play...Pure Action, Pure Mayhem - How long can you last?
Why similar: Space 44.2%, Action 32.1%, Indie 23.7%
- #44 Slug Slasher
62% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #45 Infinitum
72% matchMixed81% of 312 reviews2017
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Travel through space. Attend the planets. Gather resources. Find artifacts.
Why similar: Action 39.9%, Space 21.8%, Adventure 21.2%, Indie 17.1%
- #46 Krystal the Adventurer
71% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Floofs
Windows
Krystal's home has been burned down by a magic sword sent by a wizard, and it's up to you to help her beat him up!
Why similar: Adventure 36.3%, Action 35.5%, Indie 28.3%
- #47 The Misadventures of Denniz & Diana
71% 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 36.3%, Action 35.5%, Indie 28.2%
- #48 Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars
73% matchMixed69% of 130 reviews2015
Dev: Digital Eel
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sea of Stars is a starship roguelike, a sandbox adventure game of interstellar exploration and combat. Travel from star to star, upgrade your ship with new systems and weapons, build up your flotilla with allies and mercenaries, and take on a variety of alien menaces.
Why similar: Adventure 39.5%, Space 34%, Indie 26.5%
- #49 Bane of Asphodel
71% 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 36.2%, Action 35.4%, Indie 28.4%
- #50 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
60% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #51 Stickman World
59% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #52 Skelittle: A Giant Party!!
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Bubble Studios
Windows
Get together & funk-up the house with this crazy party game! Choose your tiny mess-maker to turn your everyday environment into a huge playground. Challenge friends & family in a series of wicked local multiplayer minigames and get creative together in the sandbox mode.
Why similar: Action 36.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 27.8%
- #53 Evil Cogs
70% matchMixed61% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: Wet Fish
Windows
Dark fairy-tale about little beam of light. Explore the strange and mystic world.
Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Action 35.3%, Indie 28.5%
- #54 Voxel Scavenger
67% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: ZUGALU ENTERTAINMENT
Windows
Play as a space garbage man kidnapped and trapped aboard a derelict space station in the universe’s garbage dump. Forced to collect materials in order to repair the space station to fly yourself to safety.
Why similar: Action 36.1%, Adventure 36%, Indie 27.9%
- #55 Pep-Pel
57% matchPositive85% of 34 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #56 Light Fall
68% matchVery Positive86% of 137 reviews2018
Dev: Bishop Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Craft your path in this innovative 2D platformer. Master the use of your own platform to explore the Forgotten World of Numbra and save the land and its inhabitants from an imminent threat. Do you have what it takes to survive in perilous Numbra?
Why similar: Adventure 36%, Action 35.2%, Indie 28.8%
- #57 Beyond Arm's Reach
58% 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 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #58 Captain's Tail
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Biting Mascot
Windows
Dash into action as the fluffiest pirate of the Seven Seas! Take on platforming challenges and explore a variety of islands.
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%