- #1 Biomydra
97% matchMixed65% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Class of 2015-2016Pub: Campus ADN
Windows
Play as Snow, a solo agent sent on a mission to Biomydra to report on the fate of a fellow officer. Explore colorful environments in this toe curling action-adventure game as you unfurl the staggering truth about the breathing planet you are walking on and the twisted people who sent you there.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 34.4%, Indie 29%
- #2 Lost Borderline
96% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2018
Dev: PigeonCube Studios
Windows
Lost Borderline is a retro pixel-art, hack & slash puzzle-crawler where the boundaries of reality are broken, giving you creative control over the sides of the screen to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #3 Rail Recon
96% matchPositive89% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: Triggered Studios
Windows
Delve into the underground facility of Rail Recon, a Twin-stick Shooter with a Rail System. Navigate through its network of rails in search of its crystals, while maneuvering and fighting through the facility's defenses.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 34.4%, Indie 28.9%
- #4 Scrap
95% matchMixed51% of 74 reviews2017
Dev: Top Shelf StudiosPub: None
Windows
Shoot, kick, and detonate your way through a post tech apocalyptic wasteland where robots reign terror upon the resourceful Scrappers. Scrap foes, unlock weapons, play alone or with friends and take back the world in this free, 3D, action, twin stick, shooter.
Why similar: Action 42.4%, Indie 31.4%, Multiplayer 26.1%
- #5 Anti Gravity Warriors VR
94% matchMixed59% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: Niket Patel
Windows
Fight alien space robots and mutant monsters in this immersive, Sci-Fi, zero gravity environment. Battle to the death in this vr game!
Why similar: Action 38.2%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 25.9%
- #6 HereAfter
94% 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 38.7%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #7 God Of Thunder
92% 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 38.1%, Action 35.7%, Indie 26.2%
- #8 Bane of Asphodel
91% 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 37.2%, Action 34.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #9 Ghostly Horizon
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2018
Dev: Bit Nurse
Windows · Mac
Ghostly Horizon is an intense 3rd-person spell-caster on round planets. You enjoy crazy battles with over 30 different spells, preferably together with your friends. Focus is placed on both player-skill and teamwork in this matchbased game with quick rounds. Can you top the Leaderboards?
Why similar: Action 38.7%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 25.7%
- #10 The Secret of Pineview Forest
89% matchMixed56% of 131 reviews2016
Dev: VIS-GamesPub: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
The Secret of Pineview Forest is a free prequel to Pineview Drive - Rising Storm. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...
Why similar: Adventure 30.8%, Action 28.8%, Indie 21.3%, Multiplayer 19.2%
- #11 Parasite
88% 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 38.7%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.7%
- #12 Welkin Road
86% 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 38.7%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.7%
- #13 Evil Robots From N1M
87% 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 38.7%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.7%
- #14 Unearthing Colossal
86% 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 38.7%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.7%
- #15 Kindled Cavern
84% 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 38.7%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #16 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 38.7%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #17 To Hell With Dave
74% 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 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #18 Izeriya
83% 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 38.7%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #19 The End: Inari's Quest
82% 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 38.7%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #20 Above
72% 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 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #21 homicide
80% 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 38.1%, Action 34.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #22 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
81% 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 38.4%, Action 34.8%, Indie 26.8%
- #23 Holobunnies: Pause Cafe
79% 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 37.9%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #24 Pilli Adventure
79% 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%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #25 Nachzehrer
69% 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 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #26 Destroy Space Aliens
78% 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%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #27 Star Surveyor
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: slimefriend
Windows · Mac
Star Surveyor is an exploration game about discovering a foreign planet, and observing the lives of its alien inhabitants. You're sent to Maya-247 with a simple mission: use your scanner to gather data about all of the flora and fauna you can, and send that data back to Earth.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #28 The Planet of the Vicious Creatures
78% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Jorge Giner Cordero
Windows
An old-school platformer set in outer space.
Why similar: Adventure 38%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #29 DUSTWUN
67% 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 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #30 Escape 2042 - The Truth Defenders
77% 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%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #31 The Platformer Gun
76% 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 38.2%, Action 34.2%, Indie 27.5%
- #32 Armoured Engines
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bounder Games
Windows · Mac
Armoured Engines is a steam punk western epic featuring train conductor Dusty Beats and her partner in crime, the ancient living engine Billy Wylam, as they search for El Dorado. Protect your train and shoot, fling, slice, and blow up hordes of enemies, using an arsenal of weaponry and passengers.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #33 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%, Action 33.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #34 Goo Saga
75% 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 38.2%, Action 34.2%, Indie 27.5%
- #35 Trinity
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Maelstrom Rabbit
Windows
Trinity is a challenging fps/puzzle set in a surrealistic universe.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #36 All Fall Down
76% 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 38.2%, Action 34.2%, Indie 27.5%
- #37 COSMONAUT
73% matchPositive86% of 42 reviews2018
Dev: Neon Chasm, LLC
Windows
Unravel the mystery surrounding the lost vessel Diogenes. A story-driven retro platformer with elements of horror. Use the zero-g suit to explore the eerie corridors of a derelict ship filled with unknown lifeforms and dark secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #38 Survivor of Eschewal
74% match7 user reviews14% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Luke CrippsPub: Fellowplayer
Windows
You suddenly wake up and find yourself on a beach of a strange island. This island does not feel right from the start because you could have swarn this island was not here the previous night. Now all you can think of is getting off this island alive.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #39 Vanquish: The Adventures of Lady Exton
75% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Runestone StudiosPub: Tasaa Software Services Pvt. Ltd.
Windows
Vanquish: The Adventures of Lady Exton is a 2D platformer set in a quirky steampunk inspired world. Steamscience has altered things in recent times. It’s now become a fight for survival. Kidnapped, escaped and armed with only a parasol, Lady Exton must bring back peace to the human strongholds!
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #40 RECHARGE COMPLETE
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rechargecomplete
Windows
RECHARGE COMPLETE is a third/first person shooter featuring a hard-strutting jet-packing android created to destroy job-stealing robots! Blast enemies with homing missiles, lasers and EMP grenades! Jet pack, boost and skii your way through peril. Be the robohero you were made to be!
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #41 Shoottera
73% matchMixed40% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: RussianDEVPub: azimuth team
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Shooter with the elements of the quest. You need to get out of the lab, killing all the enemies.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #42 Crowtel Renovations
71% matchVery Positive89% of 84 reviews2017
Dev: SinksAdventure
Windows
Chirp through 9 levels of mayhem and check a few disruptive tenants out in an attempt to fix up this trashy vacation spot and save a little crow's job.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #43 Imperil
71% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2017
Dev: Polybit
Windows · Mac
"Imperil" is a ruthless retro inspired platformer with puzzles. The hero must save the land that has been corrupted by evil. Place platforms or shift the world around you, move objects with telekenesis or burn enemies with fire to best the many obstacles you come across.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #44 Pep-Pel
57% 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 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #45 Beyond Arm's Reach
60% 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 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #46 Kitten Madness
70% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: David OgdenPub: LoveTrooper Entertainment L.L.C.
Windows
Kitten Madness is an open world fast pace game where you race a kitten through various levels and game types. Kitten Madness starts out as a single player game where you control a cute kitten performing the playful actions of a kitten.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #47 Talewind
72% matchMixed59% of 109 reviews2016
Dev: WindLimit Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Talewind is a whimsical platformer where you play as a young boy that is trying to save his village, but dont let its looks fool you, it will challenge even the most experienced platformer veterans. trailer music: bensound.com
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #48 Afandas Survival
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SchmidtGames
Windows
Afandas Survival is an open world survival game. After a plague wipes out most of the population, you're one of the few survivors on an island called Afanda. Already at the beginning you realize that surviving isn´t easy. To stay alive, you must search for equipment and provisions.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #49 Zarvot
59% 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 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #50 Captain's Tail
59% 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 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #51 Super Ubie Island REMIX
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Notion Games
Windows
Inspired by Super Mario World, Super Ubie Island REMIX is an adorable platformer. Help Ubie defeat Dr. Terrestrial, discover secrets, repair his ship and escape Climate Island. Run, jump and glide your way through more than 25 insanely fun levels!
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #52 STRASHILKA
67% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: reqtion
Windows
STRASHILKA - MEAN FEAR.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #53 Painted Legend
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 58 reviews2016
Dev: Storyan teaM
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 86.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Imagine that one day, all the worlds that you have created on paper - live. Brave knights, fearsome dragons and terrible monsters, they all live on the page of your notebook.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #54 Slime-san: Sheeple’s Sequel
68% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: FabrazPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sheeple's finally lost it! He is convinced that everything's just part of a giant videogame and that he was coded to simply be a side-character. Which is why he decided to recode himself to become the villain instead... Can you defeat his nefarious levels and come out of it unscathed?
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%