- #1 Miegakure: Hide & Reveal
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mtb design works, inc.
Windows
Miegakure is a game where you navigate a four-dimensional world to perform miraculous feats and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 84.4%, Puzzle 15.6%
- #2 ZACH-LIKE
97% matchVery Positive97% of 155 reviews2019
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 51%
ZACH-LIKE is a book of behind-the-scenes design documents from Zachtronics. The digital version of ZACH-LIKE contains the full contents of the book, a bunch of terrible games that Zach made before SpaceChem, and some prototypes and early builds of Zachtronics games, both released and... not.
Why similar: Indie 87%, Puzzle 13%
- #3 Mu Cartographer
96% matchVery Positive88% of 231 reviews2016
Dev: Titouan Millet
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Colourful sandbox toy - Experimental treasure hunt. Manipulate an abstract machine to shape and explore colourful landscapes, and find the mysteries hidden in a shifting world.
Why similar: Indie 83.7%, Puzzle 16.3%
- #4 Alien Jelly: Food For Thought!
95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Collective Mass
Windows · Mac
Alien Jelly delivers on 50 levels of thoughtful puzzle design, mixed with weird and lovable characters packaged in a 50’s b-movie sci-fi environment.
Why similar: Indie 82.9%, Puzzle 17.1%
- #5 Magnibox
94% matchVery Positive96% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Joseph Gribbin
Windows · Mac
A puzzle game about magnets designed for human brains.
Why similar: Indie 81.7%, Puzzle 18.3%
- #6 Code Tracer
93% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Woodpecker Games
Windows
Code Tracer is a simple puzzle game. You only have to cut codes, but be careful about time and electricity.
Why similar: Indie 81.6%, Puzzle 18.4%
- #7 Pressured
94% matchMixed48% of 558 reviews2014
Dev: Paul MarrablePub: Funbox Media Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Pressured is a unique and intense number puzzler. Hit your targets to unlock pieces of the dark story, all told via the poetry of Nicholas Gordon. Created by Paul Marrable With music from Matt Mcfarland.
Why similar: Indie 81.9%, Puzzle 18.1%
- #8 Express Thru
92% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: 5minlab Corp.
Windows · Mac
Addictive one line puzzle to wake up your brain Draw a line and solve it!
Why similar: Indie 87.7%, Puzzle 10.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #9 Elizabeth
91% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2020
Dev: NeutronStar.studioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Elizabeth is a decryption leisure game.The protagonist is a young man who has just stepped into the society, shuttling through the picture frame in search of freedom and love.The game screen is fresh and lovely, each level has rich puzzles waiting for players to solve.
Why similar: Indie 85%, Puzzle 7.1%, Atmospheric 4%, 2D 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #10 Escape Rebooted
91% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Stéphane Bottin
Windows
This is a 2D puzzle jumping platformer in the dark.
Why similar: Indie 84.9%, Puzzle 7.2%, Atmospheric 6%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #11 Caliper 2
90% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Tort
Windows · Linux
Caliper 2 is an absolute, turn-based puzzle. By manipulating objects with different properties, you need to put some object on the button and enter the portal.
Why similar: Indie 79.7%, Puzzle 20.3%
- #12 DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
89% matchVery Positive93% of 12,692 reviews2015
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
Why similar: Indie 96.8%, Atmospheric 1.1%, 2D 1%, Puzzle 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #13 4004-022
89% matchMixed41% of 36 reviews2019
Dev: Aaron D.
Windows
In the year 2040 you and the 12 billion inhabitants of the Earth fled from the Earth after being attacked by extraterrestrials, you took refuge on a planet named 4004-022, but this planet is also being attacked by aliens.
Why similar: Indie 90.1%, 2D 9.9%
- #14 Evidence of Life
88% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: JustWallWireHead Games
Windows
You are a Space Traveler searching out alien DNA on distant planets. Harvest the minerals and flora of endlessly generated worlds. Destroy inhabitants you encounter. This game is a retro 2d side scrolling action game with an addictive mix of alien fighting and planet mining.
Why similar: Indie 90.1%, 2D 9.9%
- #15 山贼
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tushuo
Windows
某朝末年,烽烟四起。楚郡内生灵涂炭,青壮被逼无奈大多数只能进入深山落草为寇。在这几乎死境的楚郡内,想活下去,只有比别人更残忍。
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #16 YANKAI'S PEAK.
87% matchVery Positive90% of 93 reviews2017
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pyramid-Pushing Puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 79.1%, Puzzle 20.9%
- #17 Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2018
Dev: Pavel KostinPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 31%
What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.
Why similar: Indie 98.7%, Puzzle 0.5%, Atmospheric 0.4%, 2D 0.3%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #18 Memory
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Soft Paw Studio
Windows
The little country town of Woodland Park is your home for the summer. Explore the town. Meet its inhabitants. Things long forgotten resurface and history is questioned. A beautiful young girl may be the key to untangling the truth, but will you solve the mystery?
Why similar: Indie 87.1%, Puzzle 10%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #19 Hexile
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dystrophic LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hexile is a first-person, narrative puzzle platformer game tin which players confront the consequences of manipulating their environments.. It takes place in a beautiful, surreal landscape where the player progresses by manipulating the environment to solve puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 Tumblestone
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,985 reviews2016
Dev: Ty TaylorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
Why similar: Indie 97.1%, Puzzle 2.1%, 2D 0.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #21 Curse in our heads
84% match9 user reviews11% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Dankov Games
Windows
John Brown is a former detective, best in his staff. Has served more than 30 years and there is not a single case that he has not guessed! Retired already a year. The other day he received a letter asking him to come to the hospital for mental patients. John has yet to reveal another difficult matter.
Why similar: Indie 94.7%, Singleplayer 5.3%
- #22 Aztec Number
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: CTU
Windows
Challenge puzzle masters from all over the world Accompanied by powerful sound effects, solve 108 puzzles and take possession of the secret treasure of the Aztecs.
Why similar: Indie 78.3%, Puzzle 21.7%
- #23 A2Be - A Science-Fiction Narrative
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vagabond Dog
Windows
In the far future, the invention of instantaneous and waste-free transportation has brought a new age of utopia for humanity. Explore this brave vision of our destiny, and see its many wonders.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #24 Oika
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Omniscopic
Windows
Oika tells the story of the living cosmos as a personal story through a series of first-person scientific experiences.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Three Digits
83% matchMixed73% of 311 reviews2015
Dev: Cleverweek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Three Digits is the sequel to our first game Two Digits. You are given 14 numbers less than 1000, and all you have to do is to choose two subsets with the same sum.
Why similar: Indie 94.2%, Puzzle 5.8%
- #26 Volume Up
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 9 Game
Windows
VR shoot'em up where the enemies come to you on the rhythm of the music.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #27 Hollow Halls
82% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Broken Code Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Hollow Halls is a short indie horror game, focusing on story and atmosphere over combat and action.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #28 Surge
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: MatchBox Studio
Windows
Endless waves, and slender like game mode. Multiple weapons and armor to combat enemies. Survive for as long as you can and get as far as possible.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 In The Bag
80% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Lukas Kolesar
Windows
Find out, if you can become an employee of the month in small supermarket. Your job is to pack as many customers bags as you can. You will have to work fast and smart and also be able to deal with randomly generated events, which may make your life harder.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #30 Mogh
79% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Beastudio Ltd
Windows
Mages are as powerful as their imagination.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 Box Looter 2018
81% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: Ludo Land
Windows
A dumb joke game in which loot boxes are the loot. Poke fun at loot boxes while poking at loot boxes. Climb the mountain and find the loot box of unknown riches that the prophecy foretold! The 2,018th game in the wildly popular Box Looter series.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #32 ByLo
78% matchMixed54% of 39 reviews2019
Dev: Mia Osterholm Sarceno
Windows
You wake up once again, but something has changed this time… Something is different… But everyone else is doing the same thing over and over again, just like they always do… You drift further and further into insanity with every action but you must escape… Don't go insane...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #33 Vampires: Guide Them to Safety!
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 49 reviews2014
Dev: CBE software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Guide bobble-headed ignoramuses through a labyrinth before dawn. Puzzle game filled with bobble-headed non-glittering lemming-like vampires, traps, crazy music and a real challenge for serious players.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 Daddy
77% matchMixed56% of 185 reviews2018
Dev: Pudding
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 607.0 hrs≥1hr: 15%
You have to find your daddy.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 PipeWorks
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Vedak the Dev
Windows
A short and semi-sweet 2D platformer to recover precious coffee and fix the leaks in Coffee Co factory! Endure the crazed coffee-highs of the critters infesting throughout and the nagging feeling that all of your work is disregarded by your corporate overlords!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Beetle Hunter
74% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2019
Dev: tinybugbot
Windows
BEETLE HUNTER is a simple first-person shooter. Beat various ferocious enemies, collect powerful weapons, explore the randomly generated complex steampunk stage, aim for the top floor and hunt the mighty beetle!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #37 The Under
77% matchMixed56% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Iconic Games
Windows
In a place unknown to the living, a young boy must navigate The Under so he may return to the world above.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #38 Sheaf - Together EP
73% matchVery Positive96% of 170 reviews2019
Dev: Stryde Games
Windows
Enter virtual reality to listen to the debut EP “Together” of synthwave producer Sheaf. No gameplay involved -- just sit back, relax, and enjoy the music while you drive through a retro low poly world.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #39 Towers
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bunzosteele
Windows
Towers is a VR-only puzzle game. Find your way through 3D tower mazes by twisting floors into place.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 Knossos
76% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Knossos Software
Windows
Knossos is a game about mazes, offering true 3D mazes, not just 2D ones with 3D graphics. You can design your own mazes to share with others, or play in randomly generated ones. Mazes can be 2D, 3D, and even 4 dimensional or higher.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 ColorCode
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Tecsi AronPub: MeRo Games
Windows
Creative games for creative minds.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 Live the Guitar
72% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Live the VR
Windows
A revolutionary VR game combining 3D 4K 360 real videos with guitar gameplay using controllers. If you ever wished to play in a rock band in front of a cheering crowd without a need to practice on an instrument every day then Live the Guitar is the game for you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 Expedition Oregon
71% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Your Friends Upstairs
Windows
Oregon Industries has tasked with leading the colonization of the last frontier: Space. Fill spaceships with resources then blast them off into the great unknown, seeking fortune while battling calamites that try to defeat you at every turn.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 Gunk
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 27 reviews2019
Dev: Electric Boogaloo Productions
Windows
Gunk is a 2D Platformer inspired by games and it is quite possibly the best game ever made. From the creators of absolutely nothing comes 2019s biggest hit! In this game you play as a snail in a French restaurant.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 Patternis
70% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Oddscure
Windows · Linux
Put your mind into matching patterns, swiftly traveling your way.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #46 Flying Slime!
73% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: SHB soft
Windows
A brief game description A. Flying Slime! is a 2D Platform that moves Slime to the target point in the stage. B. It consists of 4 stages in spring, summer, fall, winter. Each stage is made up of a total of 20 sectors. C. It only works with Window( XP and Up) and only supports Single play. D. It only supports mouse control.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #47 Hidden
69% matchMixed63% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: Soaring Games
Windows
Two orphans twin sisters, Yuna and Luna, were caught and placed separately in an unknown facility. The elder sister, Yuna tries to find Luna in the facility and rescue her. They aim to escape from the facility which is surrounded by a strange and mysterious atmosphere.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 RollingBall
71% matchMostly Negative21% of 39 reviews2018
Dev: PotatoIndustries
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 441.3 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Easy control and insanely exciting passing obstacles with a rolling ball. Go around and jump over obstacles using only a mouse. RollingBall will let you relax and rest.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 inSynch
71% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2015
Dev: Them Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An art-music-arcade game, inSynch is handcrafted and animated in stop motion. The game jumps and hops between meditative compositions and devilishly hard time-attack challenges!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 Ataque Marino
72% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Play Indie México
Windows
A deliberate act or a fatal accident. Something has turned all forms of marine life into fierce monsters that attack everything that moves. Immerse yourself in this exciting adventure, where your mission is to discover the responsible for this disaster, and your priority is ... Survive!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Captain Curve's Intergalactic Space Adventure
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: CDPPub: SEGA
Windows
Captain Curve’s Intergalactic Space Adventure is a fast-paced endless runner based on daydreams, featuring exciting minigames and different environments.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 Herman 2
68% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Dirge Game Studio
Windows
"Herman 2" is a fast-paced, occasionally brutal, humorous and challenging platformer with cool music. The game has 50 levels, some very tricky digging and resource management puzzles, interesting & tough enemies, and many game mechanics. Climb, dig, throw, jump, kick, jetpack, duck, slide, and fall your way to salvation!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Frogvale
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pablo Mendizábal
Windows
The same day that Marco was fired, he found out that he'll be a father. The only job he can get for the time being is as a bus driver. Manage his passengers, money and relationships to ensure his family's future.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 Please Knock on My Door
67% matchVery Positive94% of 254 reviews2017
Dev: Levall Games AB
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A summary of every emotion you'd rather lock away and forget.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Pound of Flesh
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ryan Andrew
Windows
There are others in the house. It's been a long time since they have eaten, and they each have their favorite "foods". To survive, you may have to offer them parts of yourself. Your teeth, your hair. I hope you weren't too "attached" to them. You won't be for long.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Doodle Jamboree
68% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Mike Laraman
Windows
Play as a drawing and explore a world of paper scraps and sketches in a quirky, delightful doodle extravaganza!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #57 Super Mixtape
68% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2016
Dev: Polygrammatic Limited
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Super Mixtape is a retro physics based rhythm-puzzle-platformer where you guide cassette tape ‘Mix’ across a fully reversible 2D world of A-Sides and B-Sides, completing puzzles as you progress to find the perfect beat.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #58 Escape: VR
67% matchVery Positive80% of 175 reviews2017
Dev: JapanCoPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 99%
The main objective in this game is to find your way out.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #59 Super Switch
67% matchVery Positive81% of 163 reviews2016
Dev: David MulderPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Super Switch is a difficult platformer in which you have to actively switch between 2 dimensions. It's tougher than iron and extremely rewarding.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #60 this was for you.
64% matchVery Positive87% of 126 reviews2019
Dev: Watercress
Windows · Mac · Linux
After the crash, I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. Even now, I haven’t found my way forward. I keep going back to that place. These memories are all that's left. this was for you. is an interactive visual novel, originally created for NaNoRenO2019.
Why similar: Indie 100%