- #1 Alive
97% matchVery Positive83% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: Cskin Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you just get by, just happy to live? Or will you finally.... be Alive?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #2 Changeover: Decisions
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: KHB-Soft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your character has lost his memory and finds himself in a godforsaken place. An adventure with a nonlinear storyline, lots of choices, and a unique combat system. Could he get out alive?
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #3 MMA Life Simulator
94% matchVery Positive82% of 392 reviews2026
Dev: BNS7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the shoes of a young aspiring fighter facing other fighters. To survive and protect your loved ones, you must enter the renowned world of fighting. Every choice you make, from intense training to accepting risky challenges has an effect on your favorite girls.
- #4 Short Life
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 194 reviews2018
Dev: gametornado
Windows
Choose your hero and get to the finish without losing your head :) Avoid obstacles and try to complete the levels with all your body parts.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #5 Stay Dead Evolution
95% matchMixed43% of 144 reviews2015
Dev: BrucefilmPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Be an action B-movie hero and defeat all your enemies in this intense fighting experience! Stay Dead Evolution is a unique arcade action game based on real life footage.
Why similar: Action 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #6 Sparkle ZERO
94% matchMixed60% of 449 reviews2016
Dev: MMEUPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Many organisms fight for resources and the opportunity to evolve. Be one of them, start from ZERO and become the best, the biggest and the most efficient of them all. Become the ultimate sparkle.
Why similar: Action 53.8%, Indie 46.2%
- #7 KOLOBOK
93% matchMixed48% of 113 reviews2017
Dev: azimuth team
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Go through the epic path of Kolobok, prove to yourself and everyone that he is alive and can think.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #8 Streamer's Life
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 145 reviews2019
Dev: Just Making Games
Windows
RPG-Simulation game where you can create your own streamer and see whether you can overcome difficulties of being streamer or not.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #9 LivingBattle
90% matchMostly Negative37% of 590 reviews2025
Dev: LivingEveryday
Windows
Go to a right place and complete all battle mission
Why similar: Action 71.5%, Indie 28.5%
- #10 WIN THE GAME!
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 367 reviews2018
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
WIN THE GAME! - is a hardcore game. Try to finish the game without spending your nerves.
Why similar: Action 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #11 life is not auto
89% matchVery Positive95% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Bold Fish
Windows
"LIFE IS NOT AUTO"is a rhythm + survival based timing game. You manually control the organs to keep your character alive until life ends.
- #12 Silver Knight
91% matchMixed55% of 104 reviews2016
Dev: Wojciech KrupinskiPub: KrupinskiArt
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Silver Knight is a unique isometric mini-RPG with randomized enemy spawn placement that offers a challenging new experience each time you play. Any second can become your last in this dangerous land. Think twice before making your move — lives are extremely hard to come by in these parts.
Why similar: Action 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #13 Warriors' Wrath
89% matchMixed81% of 170 reviews2016
Dev: Storm Sharks Production
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Loot. Craft. Build. Defend. Fight. Survive
Why similar: Action 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #14 SKY THE SCRAPER
85% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Ryo KobuchiPub: HYPER REAL
Windows
SKY THE SCRAPER is an action-packed adventure about Sky, a young man who pursues his uncertain dreams while working as a building window cleaner. Through exciting wire action and daily life management, endure two months of hard living and pave the way for Sky's future.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #15 ASH OF WAR™
88% matchMixed63% of 67 reviews2018
Dev: Two-Way Ltd.
Windows · Mac
The story about an uneasy journey of one man. You will experience certain situations, those, that could have happened with our parents, children or even a neighbours on just any other war. Through the eyes of our hero you will see his struggle in a modern war, struggle with oneself.
Why similar: Indie 56.5%, Action 43.5%
- #16 Daily Run
87% matchMixed64% of 222 reviews2017
Dev: PepoLab
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 47.6 hrs≥1hr: 25%
We all have a "Daily Run" in our schools and jobs, like in every race there will be obstacles and triumphs.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #17 Powernaut VANGARDT
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: ConfoundGreatJob
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Fight for your life in this state-of-the-art 8-bit platformer!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #18 Russian Life Simulator
83% matchVery Positive89% of 8,282 reviews2019
Dev: GosDev ProductionPub: Abama Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #19 Make it indie!
84% matchMixed46% of 1,275 reviews2015
Dev: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 Bittersweet Birthday
79% matchVery Positive95% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: World Eater GamesPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Bittersweet Birthday is a boss fight-only action adventure where every encounter is a unique and emotional showdown. Explore a colorful world full of endearing characters, uncover your memories, and battle your way through challenges that push skill, timing, and determination to their limits.
Why similar: Action 50.8%, Indie 49.2%
- #21 Assenizator
78% matchVery Positive93% of 164 reviews2025
Dev: alexkab
Windows
Become a sewage disposal worker and help Petrovich cope with all the difficulties of this difficult profession!
Why similar: Action 92.6%, Indie 7.4%
- #22 Call of Bitcoin
84% matchMixed55% of 80 reviews2018
Dev: peevasseeq games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 22%
Call of Bitcoin - Challenge the cryptocurrency world, pick all the Bitcoins, kill the monsters, open all the secret places, but just stay alive
Why similar: Action 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #23 Indie Game Sim
82% matchVery Positive91% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: Valadria
Windows · Mac
Become an indie game developer! Make your own games by hand and publish them on a fantasy market like Steam. Earn fans, receive brutal reviews, and battle your inner demons. Can you become the creator of your dreams?
Why similar: Action 53.7%, Indie 46.3%
- #24 Caveman Alive
82% matchMostly Negative38% of 109 reviews2017
Dev: Dwarven potion brewPub: Sacred Grab Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Caveman Alive - is a very simple platformer with elements of survival. Imagine that you were the last of your tribe. Everywhere are many enemies, thirsty for your death, and the main problem is hunger.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Super Life of Pixel
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 379 reviews2014
Dev: Super Icon LtdPub: WhiteMoon Dreams, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Join Pixel as he quests through gaming history, teleporting across the most iconic video game systems of generations past. He’ll have to jump, dodge and play smart if he wants to survive all the traps, puzzles and enemies waiting to take him down at every turn.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 Spermination
80% matchVery Positive85% of 445 reviews2015
Dev: Phr00t's Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Fight the battle you already won, but never remember. It is you up against 1000 other sperm fighters. Can you beat off your competition and come first? Finally, collect your very own baby gnomes as trophies for your minivan!
Why similar: Action 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #27 Untamed: Life Of A Cougar
81% matchMixed59% of 138 reviews2015
Dev: OCCA StudiosPub: Strategy First
Windows
Experience the life of a mountain lion in the brutal wild, Fight and maintain your territory, find a mate and raise cubs of your own which will grow into adults as your parenting skills are put to the test. Hunt prey, both big and small as you level up to become an effective and lethal hunter.
Why similar: Indie 53%, Action 47%
- #28 WIN THE GAME: DO IT!
79% matchMixed64% of 412 reviews2018
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 58%
WIN THE GAME: DO IT! - is a hardcore game. Try to finish the game without spending your nerves.
Why similar: Indie 53.9%, Action 46.1%
- #29 DOOMER'S ADVENTURE
78% matchVery Positive85% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: deadworld games
Windows
An platformer game about collecting stuff to bear with reality. Just like life, this game is short and meaningless, filled with existential questions of being.
Why similar: Action 59.2%, Indie 40.8%
- #30 "LIFE" not found;
76% matchVery Positive94% of 331 reviews2022
Dev: BerCh1n
Windows
This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life. Find out what they're struggling with, you might even recognize some things from your own life.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 Ancient: Legacy of Azul
77% matchVery Positive81% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmic Spud
Windows
Fight against numerous mutated creatures across this desolate land. Unlock characters, items, and learn of the world’s history. Dive into this action packed sidescrolling, rogue-lite experience. Fight, die, try again.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #32 DRUDGE
72% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: Writegg
Windows
You are a slave. A collar with three lights hangs around your neck: each one fades and shocks you for mistakes or disobedience. Your life is quotas: sorting waste, growing food, and expeditions into lower levels with zombies. Earn, unlock passages, buy gear, and seek a path to freedom.
Why similar: Action 77.8%, Indie 22.2%
- #33 Unalive
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 377 reviews2017
Dev: RandomSpinPub: RandomSpin
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Unalive is an action adventure roguelike game. Randomly generated laboratory rooms. Collect unique items to improve your abilities. Kill bosses and stay alive. You have only one chance!
Why similar: Indie 70.7%, Action 29.3%
- #34 Project Mercury
76% matchMixed58% of 590 reviews2017
Dev: Raxasoft Games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Make your way on foot, on a hoverbike, up skyscrapers, and down bottomless pits, as you exterminate a threat of unknown origin!
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #35 Chushpan Simulator
69% matchVery Positive85% of 2,812 reviews2024
Dev: Sebasa Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A game in which you have to go from an insignificant person to the king of the world
Why similar: Action 100%
- #36 LIFE EFFECT Survival
67% matchVery Positive88% of 453 reviews2026
Dev: LIFE EFFECTPub: EFFECT STUDIO
Windows
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #37 Tribal Pass
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 436 reviews2016
Dev: Tribe TeaPub: Stas Shostak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A genre-twisting tactical runner where you maneuver, fight, think, sacrifice and evolve – all ON THE RUN.
Why similar: Action 53.2%, Indie 46.8%
- #38 Lifeslide
71% matchVery Positive92% of 426 reviews2021
Dev: Dreamteck
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Embark on a daring journey through life and master the skill of paper plane flight. Explore colorful worlds with unique challenges, find secrets and unlock your full potential!
Why similar: Indie 58.6%, Action 41.4%
- #39 Lup
75% matchMixed45% of 389 reviews2016
Dev: Leo BPub: Back To Basics Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Lup is a 2D platformer with heart, throughout the game you'll have to overcome enemies and challenges using weapons and items.
Why similar: Indie 82.4%, Action 17.6%
- #40 One Man Is Not No Man
74% matchVery Positive91% of 74 reviews2016
Dev: TEN TIULENYA team
Windows
Do you want to fight with a sword? Do you want to feel like a hero? "One Man Is Not No Man" project will quench that desire! You will defend the castle from the army of enemies on your own!
Why similar: Action 50.2%, Indie 49.8%
- #41 Punch to Glory
68% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Start your journey as a boxer from the ground up, fighting your way to glory. Develop your character, collect fight cards, and face the challenges life throws your way. Train hard, manage stress, and give everything you've got to turn your championship dreams into reality.
- #42 Hard Place
74% matchMixed50% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Red twice potato
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 35%
You are stuck in a huge room and have no idea what to do. You only option is to survive.
Why similar: Action 53.7%, Indie 46.3%
- #43 Little Jack's Adventures
73% matchMixed66% of 93 reviews2016
Dev: Mihai Morosanu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Join the adventures of Little Jack. You will need to solve many interconnected puzzles that involve finding keys, pushing crates in order to reach the exit door. The game will have 4 difficulty levels so that each person regardless of its skill level can enjoy this game.
Why similar: Action 51.6%, Indie 48.4%
- #44 Cubway
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 126 reviews2016
Dev: Armnomads LLCPub: Armnomads
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cubway is a journey with an abstract story of lifecycle of rebirth, called Samsara. Guide the cube through the long way full of dangers and difficulties, visit many interesting and mysterious places.
Why similar: Action 52.9%, Indie 47.1%
- #45 Nobody - The Turnaround
67% matchMixed60% of 14,298 reviews2022
Dev: U.Ground Game StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.
- #46 Mastema: Out of Hell
72% matchMixed62% of 143 reviews2017
Dev: Oscar CelestiniPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You don't know who you are, where you are and why you are here, you know just thing, you want to survive and get out of HELL!
Why similar: Action 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #47 RITE
69% matchVery Positive85% of 345 reviews2020
Dev: Pond Games PTY LTD
Windows · Linux
RITE is a high-speed, precision platformer where you must conquer a series of challenging trials, a rite of passage for every Nim.
Why similar: Action 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #48 Extra Lives
67% matchVery Positive89% of 79 reviews2023
Dev: MDickie
Windows
See how long you can survive in a world full of brainless zombies and heartless humans! Find your place among hundreds of other characters spread across several warring factions, and battle to reclaim every corner of a sprawling city in real-time.
- #49 VLADiK BRUTAL
62% matchVery Positive90% of 10,131 reviews2024
Dev: BRUTAL SOFTWARE
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Fight under the onslaught of mutated monsters, obsessed soldiers and even darker bosses. Just try to survive and find out what to do next in this life, simultaneously tearing your enemies to pieces.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #50 Not without my donuts
73% matchMixed45% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Stake deep interactivePub: Ghost in the cartridge
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You both stand ready to be champions. Your vows to protect your world and every remaining donut have toughened your resolve to overcome all obstacles. In the icing that sits on top of your flavored cupcake you some how understand how importantly the need to survive has become, as you glance at the donut you now defend, you realize,...
Why similar: Action 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #51 Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 609 reviews2015
Dev: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice, the title says it all! You get thrown into a dark room, with no light to be found anywhere! Are you willing to end your life to light the way for the next generation to proceed further? Play it today and find out!
Why similar: Action 51.6%, Indie 48.4%
- #52 We Who Are About To Die
63% matchVery Positive88% of 8,249 reviews2022
Dev: Jordy Lakiere
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #53 Pixel Samurai
66% matchVery Positive90% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: ArtofKingsgame
Windows
A journey of a lost samurai. Encounter five samurai and challenge them to a duel. Unleash your katana strike and deflect incoming attacks. Fight for honor or die with shame.
Why similar: Indie 54.8%, Action 45.2%
- #54 No Time To Live
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 175 reviews2015
Dev: Snail-Ninja Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
This is a story about an office clerk who tries to leave monotonous routine of life and do a book. And if he could find the time for his dream it depends on you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Aeve:Zero Gravity
71% matchMostly Negative23% of 138 reviews2018
Dev: DIG Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 24%
"Aeve:Zero Gravity" is an arcade space shooter about battles in open space. In a classic mode "Shoot'em'all"
Why similar: Action 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #56 Skigill
61% matchMostly Positive76% of 126 reviews2026
Dev: Achromi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight! Collect! Explore! Experiment! Survive! Master the SKIGILL, a large skill tree spanning the entire battleground, to power your character and survive waves of enemies. Unlock upgrades, weapons, and characters in a meta sigil after each game, and maybe you'll see the end!
Why similar: Action 87.6%, Indie 12.4%
- #57 Legend of Mortal
60% matchMostly Positive75% of 36,048 reviews2024
Dev: Obb Studio Inc.Pub: Paras Games
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 38.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The game world is set in a turbulent state and the mighty Tang-Man declines. The threats from the old enemies keep coming one after another.As a nobody, will you choose either to leave yourself out of it or to fight for Tang-Man's future and turning the tide? The journey of yours,is unpredictable.
Why similar: Indie 60.7%, Action 39.3%
- #58 Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2016
Dev: PehessePub: Self
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
One student, two lives and six months to go. This year, Red must meet her idol Big Blue in the ring and make it to the top of the masked fighting tournament. Her dream will come true... as long as she also graduates!
Why similar: Action 56.9%, Indie 43.1%