- #1 D.F.R.: The Light
97% 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 38.3%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.1%
- #2 Ghostie Quest
96% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #3 Code Name: Origin
96% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Latent Studios
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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #4 The Royal Cosmonautical Society
95% 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 36.9%, Action 34.3%, Indie 28.9%
- #5 BioMech
94% matchMixed46% of 13 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 37.7%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 26.5%
- #6 Logic Missile
94% 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: Adventure 37%, Action 35.6%, Indie 27.4%
- #7 After Rain: Phoenix Rise
93% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #8 Lair of the Titans
92% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #9 NickProject
91% 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: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #10 Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut
91% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #11 Guardian of The Demon Valley
90% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #12 One Bit
89% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #13 Domino Effect
89% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #14 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
88% 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: Adventure 37.2%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #15 Solmec: Hollow Planet
87% 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: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #16 Flight 732
86% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #17 Rogues or Heroes
86% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #18 In the thrall of darkness: The gift of dreams
85% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #19 INFINITY CHALLENGE
84% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Simple Gaming - JVJ
Windows · Mac
A 3D Rail Shooter game with high quality tracks! Take the challenge and choose one of the many maps and defeat vicious waves of enemies while traveling through mysterious worlds! Face fearsome machines and creatures that will do whatever it takes to destroy you and end your race to save the galaxy!
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #20 Holobunnies: The Bittersweet Adventure
75% 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 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.7%
- #21 Mystic Ruins
82% matchPositive83% of 12 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 38.9%, Action 34.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #22 The End: Inari's Quest
83% matchMostly Negative35% of 106 reviews2018
Dev: MataPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
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 38.9%, Action 34.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #23 HereAfter
81% 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 38.9%, Action 34.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #24 Izeriya
81% matchMixed58% of 50 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 38.9%, Action 34.5%, Indie 26.6%
- #25 Parasite
80% 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 38.9%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #26 Welkin Road
78% 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 38.9%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #27 Evil Robots From N1M
79% 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 38.9%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #28 Unearthing Colossal
79% matchMixed42% of 31 reviews2016
Dev: Power Up to Maximum
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 38.9%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #29 homicide
76% 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 38.2%, Action 34.4%, Indie 27.4%
- #30 A Blind Legend
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 334 reviews2016
Dev: DowinoPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 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 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.8%
- #31 Lost with Dinosaurs
77% matchMixed40% of 140 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 39.2%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27%
- #32 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
78% 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 38.6%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.7%
- #33 New World: The Tupis
75% 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 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.7%
- #34 Stickman World
64% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #35 Departure
64% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #36 Destroy Space Aliens
74% 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 38.1%, Action 35.4%, Indie 26.4%
- #37 Holobunnies: Pause Cafe
74% 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 38.1%, Action 35.4%, Indie 26.4%
- #38 Zarvot
62% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #39 Orphan
71% 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 38.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #40 Pilli Adventure
73% 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 38.1%, Action 35.4%, Indie 26.4%
- #41 Escape 2042 - The Truth Defenders
73% 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 38.1%, Action 35.4%, Indie 26.4%
- #42 The Platformer Gun
71% 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 38.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #43 The Planet of the Vicious Creatures
73% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Jorge Giner Cordero
Windows
An old-school platformer set in outer space.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Action 35.4%, Indie 26.4%
- #44 DUSTWUN
61% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #45 Goo Saga
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 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 38.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #46 Nachzehrer
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eric Sauer
Windows
[h1]Nachzehrer[/h1]Your fear of being in the dark comes true in this short single player horror game. You find yourself stuck at a power plant at night, when suddenly the lights begin shutting off. However, attempting to turn them back on may cause you to meet your fears.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #47 I_AM.exe
60% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #48 Last Anime Boy 2: Hentai Zombie Hell
70% matchMixed63% of 62 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 38.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #49 Pep-Pel
58% matchPositive85% of 33 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #50 All Fall Down
72% matchMixed67% of 39 reviews2015
Dev: khos85
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 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 38.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #51 To Hell With Dave
60% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #52 Beyond Arm's Reach
59% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #53 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #54 Mausoleum of the Medusa
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 89 reviews2016
Dev: New Hell Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 8.0 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 39.4%, Action 35%, Indie 25.6%
- #55 Into the Ice
58% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #56 Above
58% 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 37.8%, Action 35.1%, Indie 27%
- #57 God Of Thunder
67% matchVery Positive97% of 119 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 38.3%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.1%