- #1 Bildo
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: DALESI
Windows
Bildo is a 2D platform game in which the player plays the role of Bildo, a boy who saw his homeland consumed and ravaged by The Darkness, and decided to start a quest around the world in search for The Colors. Guided by The Keeper and he will begin his mission to beat The Darkness and restore the Light to Nibiru.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #2 The Forgotten Forest
96% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2015
Dev: Dylan Wentz
Windows
The Forgotten Forest is about a young girl who is lost in a cursed forest. Discover the hidden secrets behind this mysterious forest, and find a way to escape. But most of all, don't forget The Forgotten Forest.
Why similar: Adventure 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #3 Eternity's Child
96% matchMostly Negative22% of 77 reviews2008
Dev: Luc BernardPub: Silver Sphere Studios
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Eternity's Child, a quirky, hand drawn next generation 2D platformer is based on a fairy tale by Luc Bernard. It arrives on Steam with exclusive Steam Only levels and HD Resolution. Features: Beautiful 2D graphics with one of the most unique art direction done in a videogame Orchestral Soundtrack Game to be updated with new levels and...
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #4 OddPlanet
95% matchMixed53% of 155 reviews2016
Dev: Indievision
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 34%
OddPlanet is a side-scrolling adventure game inspired by Limbo and Oddworld.
Why similar: Adventure 60%, Indie 40%
- #5 Isoland
93% matchVery Positive91% of 307 reviews2018
Dev: Cotton GamePub: Lilith Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The objective of the game is to explore a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and uncover its secrets
Why similar: Adventure 44.5%, Indie 32%, Puzzle 23.6%
- #6 KEL Reaper of Entropy
94% matchMixed47% of 49 reviews2014
Dev: Tavern GamesPub: Stained Glass Llama
Windows
Remember all those games in which you start in a village and you have to prove your worth by clearing the local crypt of undead skeletons? What if you woke up as one of those skeletons instead of the wannabe hero?
Why similar: Adventure 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #7 Maze Sounds
94% matchMixed41% of 34 reviews2016
Dev: AMIDEA Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Maze sounds is a first-person puzzle game where you must focus on sounds that you hear. This is a labyrinth with invisible walls which produce sounds. These sounds help you to locate the walls.
Why similar: Adventure 45.1%, Indie 31%, Puzzle 24%
- #8 Find Pixel
92% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Denis Mikheikin
Windows
Remember the games where you had to find objects, now it's all in three-dimensional space, with nice graphics, and an unusual storyline. Help the ghost find the items that he needs, while interacting with the outside world!
Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Indie 32.9%, Puzzle 23.3%
- #9 Small Radios Big Televisions
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 378 reviews2016
Dev: Fire Face Corporation
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Explore the inner workings of deserted factories in search of data cassettes that contain boundless virtual worlds. Collect more tapes and explore more worlds and you'll soon discover new methods of traversal and control that will take you farther than you'd ever expect.
Why similar: Adventure 44.8%, Indie 33.2%, Puzzle 22.1%
- #10 Flightless Classic
90% matchVery Positive90% of 375 reviews2017
Dev: Bristol Street Studios
Windows
Flightless is a tile-based puzzle adventure game. Navigate your way through a series of floating islands, each presenting a curious puzzle. A minimalist art style and calming piano soundtrack complement senses of wonder and discovery.
Why similar: Adventure 46.9%, Indie 32.3%, Puzzle 20.8%
- #11 Chronon
91% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: HronosGame
Windows
Chronon is a puzzle game in the first person.
Why similar: Adventure 43.5%, Indie 31.2%, Puzzle 25.3%
- #12 Golem
89% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2018
Dev: Longbow Games
Windows
A heart-warming adventure about a young girl and a shape-shifting golem who must navigate the ruins of an ancient tower to solve its challenging puzzles and re-activate its long-dormant machines.
Why similar: Adventure 46.2%, Indie 33.2%, Puzzle 20.7%
- #13 Bob Came in Pieces
89% matchMixed68% of 111 reviews2010
Dev: Ludosity
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Bob has crashed on a strange planet, lost a bunch of parts for his ship and above all, is late for work! Find the lost parts and rebuild your ship along the way to solve challenging, physics-based puzzles. You can build your ship any way you like in the ship builder – try to find the coolest ship-design for the puzzle at hand!
Why similar: Adventure 42.5%, Indie 32.7%, Puzzle 24.8%
- #14 Isoland 2 - Ashes of Time
86% matchVery Positive95% of 303 reviews2018
Dev: Cotton GamePub: Lilith Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Isoland 2: Ashes of Time is a puzzle game with a fascinating non-linear story, charming 2D hand-drawn art, numerous challenging puzzles, and unique twists. Besides numerous sci-fi references and easter-eggs hidden throughout the game, you’ll find things aren’t quite the same second time you play through the story.
Why similar: Adventure 48.5%, Indie 32.1%, Puzzle 19.5%
- #15 Virtual Escape: The Play Room
86% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2016
Dev: Default Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Find a way to escape the room, and unravel a strange story.
Why similar: Adventure 46.6%, Indie 33.5%, Puzzle 19.9%
- #16 Alan's Attitude
87% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Filip Lehocky
Windows
Alan's Attitude is 3D puzzle game, where you become a programmer. Your goal is to sit by the PC and finish the job. And what is your job? You'll find out.
Why similar: Adventure 42.3%, Indie 31.9%, Puzzle 25.8%
- #17 Light Borrower
85% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Jon Pulsipher
Windows · Mac
Join Rachel as she faces the Cleansing, a coming-of-age ritual that will determine whether she joins the last survivors of the end of the world or is banished above ground.
Why similar: Adventure 41.4%, Indie 31.2%, Puzzle 27.4%
- #18 Pan-Pan
83% matchVery Positive87% of 248 reviews2016
Dev: SpelkraftPub: Might and Delight
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Fix your downed spaceship and find your way home. Explore a lush and colourful world littered with riddles and sprinkled with memorable characters. Pan-Pan is an adventure game with environmental narrative storytelling, exploration elements and puzzle solving.
Why similar: Adventure 49.7%, Indie 32.8%, Puzzle 17.6%
- #19 The Flaws of Gravity
84% matchMixed62% of 237 reviews2017
Dev: Absorbed Studios
Windows
The Flaws of Gravity is a first-person puzzle game where you change the direction of gravity to solve puzzles and uncover secrets in a labyrinth.
Why similar: Adventure 45.2%, Indie 36.4%, Puzzle 18.4%
- #20 Night Shift
84% matchMixed63% of 120 reviews2015
Dev: Brandon Brizzi
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The sun has disappeared from the sky! Darkness chokes the land, depriving it of all things good. Now it’s time for you to figure out how to bring the sun back! Get behind the wheel and find the sun in Night Shift!
Why similar: Adventure 45.7%, Indie 35.3%, Puzzle 19%
- #21 Escape again
82% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Martin Flothmann
Windows
Escape again is a puzzle game which is inspired by Live Escape Games as well as "Escape Room" video games. In this game you solve different types of puzzles and riddles in order to move forward and find your way out.
Why similar: Adventure 48.1%, Indie 34.5%, Puzzle 17.4%
- #22 YBit
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Facundo Balboa
Windows · Mac · Linux
YBit is a pixelated platformer adventure. You will be playing as a small hero made of information, trying to escape from a program that has crashed. Avoiding errors, not falling down and getting to the exits will be your mission.
Why similar: Adventure 57.4%, Indie 42.6%
- #23 In The Shadow Of The Truth
81% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2016
Dev: 7TPGames
Windows
First person shooter,puzzle,psychological horror video game. by 7TPGAMES
Why similar: Indie 40.9%, Adventure 38.5%, Puzzle 20.6%
- #24 Pocket Kingdom
79% matchVery Positive90% of 251 reviews2016
Dev: 08 GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Islands sometimes appear out of the blue in the clouds. The mysterious Pocket Kingdom is one of them. Wander around its districts, solve puzzles and listen to the weird stories told by the locals. Unveiling the place's mysteries depends on it. So does getting out of it.
Why similar: Adventure 46.2%, Indie 34%, Puzzle 19.8%
- #25 Blueberry Garden
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 161 reviews2009
Dev: Erik SvedängPub: Erik Svedäng AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Congratulations Blueberry Garden! Winner of the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for 'Best Independent Game' at the 2009 Independent Games Festival. Also a winner for 'Best Innovation' at the 2008 Swedish Game Awards. Blueberry Garden is a short and experimental game about exploring a strange world.
Why similar: Adventure 48.8%, Indie 35.1%, Puzzle 16.1%
- #26 Dunia: Masters
80% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Team Wood Block
Windows
Fill the shoes of Masters Mason-Northwood a ‘genius scientist’ who, after a failed assassination attempt, is left wandering in the dark, reading books, finding notes and listening to audio logs about the North Wood and himself, while also trying to escape his own barren lab.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #27 Land of an Endless Journey
78% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: Operation Codename
Windows
You find yourself in a mysterious land filled with puzzles that will challenge you, embark on a journey into the unknown and uncover the secrets of the land.
Why similar: Adventure 45.8%, Indie 34%, Puzzle 20.2%
- #28 A Quiet Mind
78% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Eitan Prince
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you get out of this world?
Why similar: Adventure 44.6%, Indie 30.6%, Puzzle 24.8%
- #29 Erusal
79% matchMixed41% of 29 reviews2016
Dev: Space Wedgie, LLC
Windows · Mac
Discover the secrets of the town of Erusal, escape a horrible maniac, and get spooked by this epistolary horror.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #30 xMoon
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: buffalo buffalo buffalo
Windows
xMoon is a laser-based puzzle game on The Moon.
Why similar: Adventure 47.3%, Indie 35.1%, Puzzle 17.7%
- #31 The Testing Floor
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: User Experience Studios
Windows
Welcome to The Testing Floor. Begin the preliminary testing phase for a prototype tool known as the C.U.B.E.R. Master the projectile-based teleportation system and Power Cube abilities all while solving puzzle-filled floors that push you and the C.U.B.E.R to its utmost limits.
Why similar: Indie 48.9%, Puzzle 26.9%, Adventure 24.2%
- #32 Escape: The Brother's Saloon
74% matchVery Positive80% of 112 reviews2020
Dev: Woodcrest Games, LLC
Windows
Trapped by your brother Joseph in a mysterious room, filled with the faint ticking of a clock and the crackles of a fire...it's up to you to explore, find clues, and solve the puzzles. Will you escape The Brother's Saloon?
Why similar: Adventure 53.6%, Indie 38.5%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #33 Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake
77% matchVery Positive98% of 124 reviews2014
Dev: SleepNinja GamesPub: Cartoon Network Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Warning: This game is crammed full of monsters, cake, amazing powers, puzzly bits, epic adventure, witty repartee, secret paths, unlockable characters, silly hats and a wiener dog. Use caution if you are allergic to fun or overly sensitive to cake-related pathos.
Why similar: Adventure 44.6%, Puzzle 29.1%, Indie 26.3%
- #34 IVAN POE
70% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: REACTOR PROJECTS LTD
Windows · Mac
Ivan Poe is a third person find-your-way puzzle adventure following this cuboid character as they keep truckin' on through the Cosmic Soup.
Why similar: Adventure 48.1%, Indie 34.5%, Puzzle 17.4%
- #35 AR-K: END GAME
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GATO STUDIO
Windows · Mac · Linux
AR-K: END GAME is the final episode in the classic point and click saga of AR-K. Help Alicia Van Volish to escape from District 8 and discover the source of the mysterious Golden Sphere through a great story...
Why similar: Adventure 59.2%, Indie 40.8%
- #36 Occurrence at JCR Outpost
77% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Brandon Brizzi
Windows
A scientific mission in Antarctica goes awry when something is released from beneath the ice! Who is friend? Who is foe? Only you can solve the mystery of the Occurrence at JCR Outpost!
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #37 There Is a Way
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Bauble
Windows · Mac · Linux
There Is a Way is a cyclic maze adventure game in which you create the story of your character and solve the main puzzle of the game. You play as an unknown person, whose story is formed depending on the puzzles you solve and the path you choose, leading them to the exit.
Why similar: Adventure 48.4%, Indie 33.7%, Puzzle 17.9%
- #38 Gravity Spin
76% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gravity Spin is a tough as nails 8 bit retro metroidvania (retroidvania) with a literal spin - on gravity. Spin the world on its head and be careful not to get too confused.
Why similar: Adventure 57.4%, Indie 42.6%
- #39 MUSEUM VOLUME I
75% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Wreck Tangle Games
Windows
'Museum' is a short Puzzle-Adventure saga. The games follow the Security Guard at The Royal Foyer Museum in England. As you wake from a mid-night nap, you notice all the security cameras are down, it's up to you to get them working again.
Why similar: Adventure 48.1%, Indie 34.5%, Puzzle 17.4%
- #40 The Artifact
75% matchMixed64% of 213 reviews2017
Dev: Colin WrenPub: Enigma Games LTD
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Woken from a hypersleep, you find yourself alone on a drifting star cruiser, light years from home. The crew has disappeared, leaving behind nothing but a few scattered records and a strange artifact that seems to hold the key to an alien civilisation.
Why similar: Indie 49%, Puzzle 25.7%, Adventure 25.3%
- #41 Splitmind
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rendal StudioPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
You are Kaplan, an amnesic shadow awakening in Mnemosyn, « the land of memories ». Will you solve the mysteries of your mind ?
Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
- #42 Another Perspective
74% matchVery Positive88% of 322 reviews2014
Dev: SaraJS
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Another Perspective is a puzzle platformer following the very confusing adventure of someone looking for something. Swap minds to see the world in different ways! Where one mind sees a bottomless pit, another might not. Where one sees a locked door, another sees a key. To change perspective is to change reality!
Why similar: Adventure 41.7%, Indie 36.5%, Puzzle 21.8%
- #43 LEAVES - The Return
73% matchVery Positive85% of 425 reviews2017
Dev: ZAR 21Pub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Mononino and the Treefruities fared well without you - until another disaster scattered the leaves of their home tree. Once more, take on the journey and challenging puzzles along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 50.4%, Indie 33.4%, Puzzle 16.2%
- #44 To Azimuth
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: [bracket]gamesPub: Digital Uppercut Productions
Windows · Mac
A surreal adventure game set against the humid haze of 1970s Alabama, To Azimuth follows Nate and Susannah Windham's search for their missing brother in two interweaving stories that explore mental health, war, and the paranormal.
Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
- #45 Adventure Boy Jailbreak
71% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2020
Dev: Paul Georghiou
Windows
Puzzle your way through the small town of Estivale, brought to life with a range of characters who all have a problem to solve. With each person you help, Benson gets one stop closer to breaking his friend Mike out of the county jail.
Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 39.7%, Puzzle 4.7%
- #46 Hyss
72% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2018
Dev: Sunscale Studios
Windows
Angry fairies, a kidnapped herd of cows and a devastated cow queen. Play as Vilde and Grusa, throw Ms. Cowknight and solve the fairies’ tricky puzzles to save the kidnapped cows. Hyss is a lighthearted puzzle adventure with focus on platforming, puzzle solving and throwing cows.
Why similar: Adventure 51.1%, Indie 36.7%, Puzzle 12.2%
- #47 ReFrame
72% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Frame
Windows
'ReFrame' is a VR puzzle/adventure game that you can see in different colors.
Why similar: Adventure 51.2%, Indie 36.7%, Puzzle 12.1%
- #48 The Lighthouse | VR Escape Room
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shadow Knights Studio
Windows
You find yourself trapped in a room inside Wescott Manor, which has been abandoned for years. Use The Lighthouse light to guide your way out. Get out before the evil lurking on the other side of the door gets you.
Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
- #49 Hotel Spring
73% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Chief Fenrir Entertainment
Windows
A first-person puzzle mystery game with 3D controls and a focus on atmosphere and immersion
Why similar: Adventure 48.9%, Indie 35.1%, Puzzle 16.1%
- #50 驱灵
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: FXH
Windows
主角受老同学之托前往其老家驱灵,本以为轻松的工作却因一起又一起的死亡事件而变得险象环生。。。
Why similar: Adventure 54.8%, Indie 39.4%, Puzzle 5.8%
- #51 Last in Orbit
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Dapper Rabbit Games
Windows
Last in Orbit is a Horror game with a focus on surviving a A.I. gone Crazy. Your the first to arrive on a new space station meant for human living but in the preparations ahead you found out that the A.I.
Why similar: Adventure 52.1%, Indie 37.4%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #52 看白海豚的好日子 A Perfect Day for White Dolphin
68% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: 寒蟬
Windows
改編自乾綠郎的小說《完美的蛇頸龍之日》。 在這個時代,人們可以透過SC裝置和植物人進行感應。 感應淺者知道自己正在虛擬世界之中;感應深者,則會分不清虛幻與現實。 即使如此,黃芷欣還是決定和植物人弟弟芷樂進行感應,她必須找出芷樂自殺的原因。
Why similar: Adventure 54.2%, Indie 38.4%, Puzzle 7.4%
- #53 Building the Universe: The Beginning of Time
69% match2 user reviews67% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: TheBeamer LLC
Windows
Building the Universe is a time travel and building game that starts at the Big Bang and progresses through time as players recreate the conditions that resulted in the very fire atoms being created.
Why similar: Adventure 54.3%, Indie 39.4%, Puzzle 6.3%
- #54 Nevaeh
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 62 reviews2020
Dev: Alpheratz GamesPub: CFK Co., Ltd.
Windows
To restore the Village's light, the Girl heads to the Tower.
Why similar: Adventure 50.4%, Indie 37.5%, Puzzle 12.1%
- #55 人格面具:陰影面積(Persona:Shadow)
68% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: YeluPub: 人格面具工作室
Windows
The story happened in subconsciously, someday ego anomalies, “Persona” is one of the managers living subconsciously, she must use mind power and solve problems.
Why similar: Adventure 51.7%, Indie 37.8%, Puzzle 10.5%
- #56 Blind Spot VR / 盲点 VR
68% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2020
Dev: Unlimited Fly Games
Windows
Blind Spot is a story-driven VR adventure game. Solve various puzzles all over the room to proceed, and explore every detail of surroundings to find what really happened.
Why similar: Adventure 54.4%, Indie 38.6%, Puzzle 7%
- #57 Wild Unknown
71% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: Joe SansonePub: Island Bar Games LLC
Windows
Wild Unknown is a first-person adventure game where players must explore, solve puzzles, and uncover hidden secrets in order to piece together the surprising story of the mysterious wilderness in which they awake. Includes DLC: Trial of Antiquity.
Why similar: Adventure 44.4%, Indie 31.9%, Puzzle 23.7%
- #58 Fireflies
71% matchMostly Negative36% of 85 reviews2015
Dev: Phanom Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Adventure horror with many puzzles and an interesting story.
Why similar: Adventure 50.4%, Indie 32%, Puzzle 17.6%