- #1 Fausts Alptraum
96% matchVery Positive94% of 1,233 reviews2017
Dev: LaboRatStudio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Fausts Alptraum is an single player, puzzle game created by LabORat Studio, an indie game team from Taiwan. The story based on Goethe's Faust. Players will play as a troubled girl wandering around in a crayon-drawn world. Players will have to find the relevance between dreams and reality by collecting clues.
Why similar: Adventure 40.5%, Indie 32.9%, RPG 26.6%
- #2 Haeven
97% matchMixed64% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Cleril Calamity Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Explore fantastical interpretations of different parts of the mind including the Hippocampus, Ego, and more! Battle against your oppressive Subconscious as you struggle for control of your mind.
Why similar: RPG 49.6%, Adventure 29.9%, Indie 20.5%
- #3 Mathoria: It All Adds Up
96% matchMixed61% of 99 reviews2016
Dev: Senshi.Labs
Windows
A free educational math RPG that caters to children. Helps in practicing basic addition skills through drills while adventuring in the land of Mathoria. Also aims to target educators and gamer parents alike, so that Mathoria can become a bonding tool between them and the children they care for.
Why similar: RPG 69%, Indie 31%
- #4 Project "Fire"
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 111 reviews2016
Dev: Distant AlliancePub: ElvenNeko
Windows
Welcome to "Project Fire" - free adventure\role-playing game! This game is for the people who love good stories, fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk universes, and tactical combat in jrpg style. And yes, it's free for everyone, and let no one be left behind!
Why similar: RPG 50.9%, Adventure 30.5%, Indie 18.6%
- #5 Fururu Project : Ruby
94% matchVery Positive96% of 123 reviews2019
Dev: Meowshmallow Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
《 Fururu Project : Ruby 》 is an adventure game (AVG). The game focuses on interactions with objects in scenes and exploring through the map. Players are able to trigger various events in game and affect how the story goes.
Why similar: RPG 49.5%, Adventure 29.4%, Indie 21.1%
- #6 Project Oasis
94% matchVery Positive92% of 211 reviews2020
Dev: 大以巴狼艾斯Pub: 上海翎迹网络科技有限公司
Windows
Be the light.
Why similar: RPG 60.4%, Adventure 25.4%, Indie 14.3%
- #7 One Dreamer: Prologue
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 797 reviews2020
Dev: One Dreamer CompanyPub: F2House
Windows · Mac · Linux
Modify the world around you with pseudocode as you journey through blended realities and discover why Frank became a game developer in the first place.
Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #8 The Adventurer - Episode 1: Beginning of the End
93% matchMixed59% of 357 reviews2017
Dev: ZemunBREPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Imagine if every time you fall asleep, a new adventure awaits you.
Why similar: RPG 44.3%, Adventure 36.3%, Indie 19.4%
- #9 Have a Nice Dream
91% matchVery Positive93% of 4,858 reviews2021
Dev: 榭季生
Windows
A story about dreams. Explore a weird house and find the truth. A short game with mild puzzles and some psychological horror elements.
Why similar: RPG 64.7%, Adventure 24.8%, Indie 10.5%
- #10 Night Reverie: Prologue
91% matchVery Positive92% of 281 reviews2020
Dev: Somber Pixel
Windows
Night Reverie: Prologue is the first act of a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.
Why similar: Adventure 64.8%, Indie 35.2%
- #11 Notes From Province
90% matchVery Positive87% of 85 reviews2022
Dev: BoxFox Studios
Windows
Dive into a deep Open World that rewards exploration. Solve clever puzzles with lateral thinking, and engage in unique, story-driven boss battles. Then take a break. Furnish your home, fish a little, and chill with your eccentric neighbors.
Why similar: RPG 64.6%, Adventure 35.4%
- #12 In My Bubble •°
88% matchVery Positive95% of 77 reviews2026
Dev: Juicy HousePub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
In My Bubble is a 3D action-adventure platformer featuring a child in a cute earflap hat on a quest to save the sheep of the dream world. Explore a world overtaken by darkness, rescue corrupted sheep, and restore the lost morning using the power of bubbles!
Why similar: Adventure 60.5%, Indie 39.5%
- #13 White Pearl
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 77 reviews2017
Dev: Harry Gill
Windows
White Pearl is a classic-like 2D RPG journey told over a large main cast with several villains. Replete with content, in-depth combat, unique equipment system, as well as a deep story to uncover. With their destinies already written, will calamity be prevented a fifth time?
Why similar: RPG 50%, Adventure 28.8%, Indie 21.2%
- #14 Patch me if you can
84% matchVery Positive99% of 223 reviews2025
Dev: Ah Shot ChuPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Patch me if you can is a puzzle adventure where you dive into a game world and manipulate objects however you want. Equip blocks to shrink boulders, move the sun, and thwart Lord's conspiracy. This broken world needs your 'patch'!
Why similar: Adventure 62.1%, Indie 37.9%
- #15 Mondealy: Day One
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 664 reviews2021
Dev: uglycoalPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Mondealy: Day One is a prologue for the 2D adventure game Mondealy. You can see how adventures in the magical kingdom of Dargratt begin.
Why similar: RPG 60.2%, Adventure 39.8%
- #16 Pear Quest
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 57 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A tiny adventure game set on a huge island. Talk to animals, solve puzzles and reach the big pear at the top 🍐
Why similar: RPG 50%, Adventure 29.1%, Indie 20.9%
- #17 Wish Giver 偿愿人
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 242 reviews2018
Dev: KelPub: 0Cube
Windows
《Wish Giver》is a role playing game for solving puzzles. The game tells us that the protagonist, as a new wish giver, has received very challenging entrustment due to huge rewards.But the road to fulfill the wish of the aspirant is far more complicated than she imagined.
Why similar: RPG 50.1%, Adventure 29.9%, Indie 19.9%
- #18 Planet RIX-13
86% matchVery Positive96% of 107 reviews2017
Dev: 9 Eyes Game Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Planet RIX-13 is а 2D adventure, in which you play as a space explorer engaged in searching for planets potentially suitable for life.
Why similar: Adventure 57%, Indie 43%
- #19 Nekokami: Internship - The Prologue Adventure
83% matchVery Positive91% of 117 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket-in-Bottle
Windows
Architect beautiful, peaceful worlds in a far-future where Cats rule the universe. Befriend sometimes-naughty spirits of nature. Manage Humans. Join us in this unique planet-building adventure and get a taste of the full journey!
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #20 Soma Union
84% matchVery Positive92% of 65 reviews2021
Dev: Torch60
Windows
Having fallen to a great calamity a second time, it's up to Zero and their friends to put Soma back together! What is on your horizon is for you to decide...
Why similar: RPG 94.9%, Indie 5.1%
- #21 Bubble People
79% matchVery Positive93% of 6,015 reviews2021
Dev: LiujiajunPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Bubble People is a point-and-click game, click on things with your mouse and have some fun!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #22 Winds Rhapsody
81% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: Ocean's DreamPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac
This is a sample game created in "RPG Maker MZ" by Ocean's Dream. Follow Joyanne and her trusty robot Sonie in this Steampunk RPG.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #23 Magic Wand
81% matchVery Positive96% of 80 reviews2017
Dev: thecatamitesPub: harmony corp
Windows · Mac · Linux
Machine to process your sensations into trains and fields the monster people moving 'cross are getting lost and found again. An exciting capsule toy JRPG for you.
Why similar: RPG 48.4%, Adventure 30.6%, Indie 21%
- #24 The Sun Will Rise
82% matchMixed56% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: The Sun Will Rise Team
Windows · Mac
The Sun Will Rise is a completely free Final Fantasy-style game about depression. Made by an international development team of gamers and mental health professionals, it is designed above all else to be a rewarding playing experience with a positive message behind it.
Why similar: RPG 50.3%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 20.8%
- #25 500 Years Act 1
82% matchMostly Negative33% of 73 reviews2015
Dev: Poorwill Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
500 Years is an old school episodic space opera with non-traditional combat controls. The game is an adventure where you explore different star systems and meet the inhabitants, some friendly, and some not so friendly.
Why similar: RPG 50.3%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 20.8%
- #26 Low Oxygen
77% matchVery Positive89% of 299 reviews2023
Dev: Alex-Stefan Neagu
Windows · Linux
Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 92.3%, Indie 7.7%
- #27 Mermaid Mission: Titanic
79% matchVery Positive94% of 68 reviews2018
Dev: Arglefumph
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Play as a mermaid, who has been sent to the human world to discover why they're building a giant ship called the Titanic.
Why similar: Adventure 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #28 Urban Tale
78% matchMixed69% of 223 reviews2021
Dev: WASD Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Urban Tale is a realistic, vibrant and unique RPG that will allow you to fulfil your dreams, and pursue your most wanted goals in life. You start from scratch, having nothing in the city where you can meet a lot of people, that can help you throughout your adventure. Your goal is to succeed in life.
Why similar: RPG 52.6%, Adventure 26.4%, Indie 21%
- #29 I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
74% matchVery Positive95% of 204 reviews2024
Dev: Lyko Studio
Windows · Mac
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #30 iTownGamePlay UNIVERSE
80% matchMixed51% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: Undermax Games
Windows
Warning: This Game is only available on Spanish. Acompaña al YouTuber ITownGamePlay en está increíble aventura junto a sus suscriptores para restaurar la paz en su mundo!
Why similar: RPG 47.8%, Adventure 31.7%, Indie 20.5%
- #31 水母之夜
75% matchVery Positive99% of 137 reviews2023
Dev: 古早五花
Windows
一款剧情向角色扮演小游戏。
Why similar: RPG 79%, Indie 21%
- #32 Team Four Star RPG
78% matchVery Positive83% of 92 reviews2017
Dev: Shadow Blade Productions
Windows
Join Lanipator, Master Wugglez, and LordMoonStone. Also known as Nick, Grant and Kirran, as they venture through worlds based on games they once played.
Why similar: RPG 71.5%, Indie 28.5%
- #33 Yume Nikki
74% matchVery Positive94% of 9,908 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 72.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Indie 51.6%, Adventure 48.4%
- #34 My journey to your world
76% matchVery Positive81% of 59 reviews2021
Dev: Nerogetz
Windows
A casual free-to-play puzzle game with randomly scrambled puzzle pieces that can be solved under a certain time to win.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri
76% matchVery Positive88% of 1,324 reviews2015
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Captain Gail Pilgrim has been flying starships since she was a kid, ferrying passengers between planets and space stations across the galaxy. She has no reason to expect that this latest trip to Alpha Centauri will be anything special, even if her passengers are a little more diverse than usual....
Why similar: Adventure 87.9%, Indie 7.9%, RPG 4.2%
- #36 The NADI Project
77% matchMixed67% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Monkeys Tales Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%
The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.
Why similar: Adventure 70.7%, Indie 29.3%
- #37 Black Moon 黑月
75% matchVery Positive90% of 67 reviews2018
Dev: 理想乡开拓者
Windows
A suspense puzzle game that explores scenes, collects objects, solves puzzles, and cracks well-designed organ puzzles. There are different endings depending on the player's choice of branch.
Why similar: RPG 50.3%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 20.8%
- #38 A MIRROR PUZZLE
71% matchPositive98% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: IMDT
Windows
"A MIRROR PUZZLE" is a puzzle game. Players will play as a water droplet spirit, through the use of various magic mirrors to control the symmetrical growth of plants or the position of certain scene elements change, overcome numerous difficulties, and finally reach the destination
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #39 Island Marauder
73% matchVery Positive81% of 182 reviews2019
Dev: MSOL
Windows
Indie Puzzle Game
Why similar: Adventure 55%, Indie 45%
- #40 Mars Underground
73% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: Matt Sanderson
Windows · Linux
Mars Underground is an apocalyptic adventure where you relive the same day over and over. With each cycle new items can be picked up and topics unlocked. Explore the possibilities of this timeloop and uncover multiple endings.
Why similar: Adventure 59%, Indie 41%
- #41 Astra Hunter Zosma
70% matchVery Positive98% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: Torch60
Windows
A treasure-hunting RPG with a lifelong friend! Escape the Crescent Moon Tower and return to the surface world... and grab lots of treasure on the way!
Why similar: RPG 94.7%, Indie 5.3%
- #42 Light of Alariya
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 323 reviews2023
Dev: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Light of Alariya is an open-world, third-person, exploration puzzle game in which you traverse ancient alien temples and ruins to restore the power of the stars and awaken your sleeping civilization.
Why similar: RPG 66.7%, Adventure 33.3%
- #43 Word Game: Episode 0
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 4,566 reviews2021
Dev: Team9
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 21%
Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!
Why similar: RPG 51.2%, Adventure 26.7%, Indie 22.1%
- #44 Zzzz-Zzzz-Zzzz
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 254 reviews2017
Dev: SaintHeiserPub: Half-Face Games
Windows
When you sleep, you are dreaming. Some dreams are beautiful and vivid, the others are strange, and the rest of them are horrible... We've having them all the night, and then wake up and forget them. But what if one day your "awakening" would be a difficult task? Could you find a way out of the dreams and wake up?
Why similar: Adventure 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #45 Robot girl's dream -RobotBattleChampionship-
66% matchVery Positive97% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: DeskClub Games
Windows
This game is an RPG game that follows the growth of a robot girl who has lost her memories. Players can aim for victory in the robot battle tournament, the main objective, and also enjoy interactions with both humans and robots.
Why similar: Adventure 64.3%, RPG 35.7%
- #46 Sonata Theory
70% matchVery Positive93% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: Mayj Studios
Windows
2D/3D story-adventure game
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #47 Labyrinthine Dreams
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 376 reviews2015
Dev: Solest GamesPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Labyrinthine Dreams is a short puzzle game about overcoming the scars of the past and following the right path, even in the face of overwhelming challenges.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #48 The Little UNI
65% matchVery Positive95% of 334 reviews2024
Dev: Vivid selfish
Windows · Mac
The game is a point-and-click adventure game in the form of a story with hand-drawn illustrations. Go on an adventure to the planets with various characters and listen to their stories, and find a new planet for Uni to stay on.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #49 还有一个小愿望 One More Wish
69% matchMixed69% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: A2 Game Studio
Windows
Wander, jump, and fly upon the clouds, collects stars to grow your energy, help guffy villagers with their wishes, and finally rerun the abandoned ferris wheel. Life is not of great goals or loud slogans but of negligible yet sparkling wishes.
Why similar: RPG 93.4%, Adventure 6.6%
- #50 waxweaver
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: kaiakairos
Windows
A short sandbox rpg game that takes place on a square planet. Explore the world, gather resources, build a home and become stronger.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #51 Ludu
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 81 reviews2016
Dev: Léo-Games
Windows
Ludu (« ash » in breton) is a free adventure game created with RPG Maker 2003.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #52 The Adventures of Fluffy
72% matchMixed51% of 73 reviews2017
Dev: RPGVideo
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Fluffy is a little blue Evo creature that lives on an island of Kekusan. His ancestors had descended on the island many centuries ago, but now the Kekusan empire sees them as pests! and wants to eradicate the whole Evo population.
Why similar: RPG 54.3%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 19.6%
- #53 The Twin Paradox
66% matchVery Positive90% of 113 reviews2024
Dev: Beyond Standard Games
Windows · Linux
The Twin paradox is an RPG where you must prepare yourself for the first time travel. Make decisions, explore, and learn real science with the scientists of the "Beyond" laboratory. It's up to you to make the journey a success.
Why similar: RPG 95.2%, Indie 4.8%
- #54 Matchville - Match 3 Puzzle
71% matchMixed41% of 121 reviews2019
Dev: CreobitPub: 8Floor
Windows
Matchville - your dream town. Complete three-in-a-row levels to advance the plot, make new friends and decorate picturesque locations. Your own cafe is already waiting for you!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #55 Logicality
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: SVGames
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting journey on the island of dreams. Explore the open world and interesting places, while solving various puzzles that use environment.
Why similar: Adventure 81.9%, Indie 18.1%
- #56 Towards The Pantheon: Escaping Eternity
69% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2017
Dev: Connor O.R.T. Linning
Windows
A soldier wakes up in darkness with a headache - Where is he, and how did he get here? Towards The Pantheon: Escaping Eternity is a prequel mystery minigame to the upcoming full length RPG Towards The Pantheon.
Why similar: RPG 50.2%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 20%
- #57 Puzzle Box Palace
67% matchVery Positive86% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.
Why similar: Adventure 60.3%, Indie 39.7%
- #58 7
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 241 reviews2018
Dev: Zac
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
7 is a puzzle platformer, literally, by the numbers.
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%