- #1 MMA Life Simulator
96% matchVery Positive81% of 284 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.
- #2 Alive
97% matchVery Positive84% of 85 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%
- #3 Changeover: Decisions
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 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 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #4 Short Life
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 192 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
94% matchMixed43% of 143 reviews2015
Dev: BrucefilmPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 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 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #6 KOLOBOK
94% matchMixed48% of 112 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%
- #7 Sparkle ZERO
93% matchMixed61% of 449 reviews2016
Dev: MMEUPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.4 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 53.2%, Indie 46.8%
- #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 life is not auto
90% matchVery Positive96% of 97 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.
- #10 WIN THE GAME!
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 366 reviews2018
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
WIN THE GAME! - is a hardcore game. Try to finish the game without spending your nerves.
Why similar: Action 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #11 SKY THE SCRAPER
87% 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%
- #12 Silver Knight
91% matchMixed54% of 103 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 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #13 Warriors' Wrath
89% matchMixed81% of 170 reviews2016
Dev: Storm Sharks Production
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Loot. Craft. Build. Defend. Fight. Survive
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #14 ASH OF WAR™
89% 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 57%, Action 43%
- #15 Untamed: Life Of A Cougar
86% matchMixed60% of 137 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 53.5%, Action 46.5%
- #16 Daily Run
86% matchMixed63% of 218 reviews2017
Dev: PepoLab
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 48.0 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 Bittersweet Birthday
81% matchVery Positive95% of 56 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 50.3%, Indie 49.7%
- #18 Make it indie!
85% matchMixed46% of 1,271 reviews2015
Dev: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.7 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%
- #19 Call of Bitcoin
84% matchMixed55% of 80 reviews2018
Dev: peevasseeq games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 16.4 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 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #20 Indie Game Sim
84% 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 53.2%, Indie 46.8%
- #21 Spermination
82% 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 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #22 Assenizator
77% matchVery Positive93% of 160 reviews2025
Dev: alexkab
Windows
Become a sewage disposal worker and help Petrovich cope with all the difficulties of this difficult profession!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #23 Ancient: Legacy of Azul
81% 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 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #24 Caveman Alive
83% matchMostly Negative38% of 109 reviews2017
Dev: Dwarven potion brewPub: Sacred Grab Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 31.1 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
82% 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 "LIFE" not found;
78% matchVery Positive94% of 330 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%
- #27 DOOMER'S ADVENTURE
79% 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 58.7%, Indie 41.3%
- #28 WIN THE GAME: DO IT!
80% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2018
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
WIN THE GAME: DO IT! - is a hardcore game. Try to finish the game without spending your nerves.
Why similar: Indie 54.4%, Action 45.6%
- #29 DRUDGE
73% matchVery Positive96% of 113 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 77.5%, Indie 22.5%
- #30 Unalive
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 362 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 71.1%, Action 28.9%
- #31 Project Mercury
78% matchMixed58% of 587 reviews2017
Dev: Raxasoft Games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 9.3 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 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #32 Chushpan Simulator
71% matchVery Positive85% of 2,762 reviews2024
Dev: Sebasa Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.0 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%
- #33 Tribal Pass
76% 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 52.7%, Indie 47.3%
- #34 Lifeslide
73% matchVery Positive92% of 422 reviews2021
Dev: Dreamteck
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.1 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 59.1%, Action 40.9%
- #35 Russian Life Simulator
72% matchVery Positive89% of 8,217 reviews2019
Dev: GosDev ProductionPub: Abama Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 16.0 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 53.6%, Indie 46.4%
- #36 LIFE EFFECT Survival
68% matchVery Positive89% of 243 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 Lup
77% matchMixed45% of 387 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 82.7%, Action 17.3%
- #38 One Man Is Not No Man
76% matchVery Positive90% of 73 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: Indie 50.4%, Action 49.6%
- #39 Cubway
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 125 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 52.3%, Indie 47.7%
- #40 Punch to Glory
69% 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.
- #41 Hard Place
75% matchMixed50% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Red twice potato
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 26.0 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 53.2%, Indie 46.8%
- #42 Little Jack's Adventures
74% 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 51.1%, Indie 48.9%
- #43 Nobody - The Turnaround
68% matchMixed60% of 14,289 reviews2022
Dev: U.Ground Game StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 23.9 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.
- #44 RITE
70% matchVery Positive86% of 341 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 57.7%, Indie 42.3%
- #45 Self-Isolation
69% matchVery Positive86% of 491 reviews2020
Dev: Dymchick1
Windows
This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.
Why similar: Indie 61.6%, Action 38.4%
- #46 Legend of Mortal
63% matchMostly Positive75% of 35,733 reviews2024
Dev: Obb Studio Inc.Pub: Paras Games
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 34.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 61%, Action 39%
- #47 Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
72% 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%, Indie 49%
- #48 Not without my donuts
74% matchMixed45% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Stake deep interactivePub: Evilized productions
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 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #49 Extra Lives
68% matchVery Positive89% of 76 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.
- #50 VLADiK BRUTAL
62% matchVery Positive90% of 9,983 reviews2024
Dev: BRUTAL SOFTWARE
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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%
- #51 Pixel Samurai
67% matchVery Positive90% of 130 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 55.4%, Action 44.6%
- #52 Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2016
Dev: PehessePub: Self
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #53 Reventa
70% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2018
Dev: Studio Nihilominus
Windows
Reventa is a challenging third-person sci-fi melee action game. You have been contracted to retrieve a technology long thought lost on Earth, technology that may be the key to saving the world. Choose your Replicant, unravel the past, and fight the future.
Why similar: Action 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #54 Skigill
62% matchMostly Positive76% of 121 reviews2025
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 87.3%, Indie 12.7%
- #55 Amber Tail Adventure
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 165 reviews2017
Dev: Xyak-Xyak
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
There's only You, the brave Sergio Fox, the parcel and the destination point!
Why similar: Action 58.3%, Indie 41.7%
- #56 Aeve:Zero Gravity
70% matchMostly Negative24% of 135 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 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #57 Lost Scavenger
66% matchMixed54% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: Rockbee
Windows
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.