- #1 Space Slam
96% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: ;)Pub: Quickdraw Studios
Windows
In SPACE SLAM there is only one way to mine: ramming planets at full speed with your spacecraft. View the action in VR with your HTC Vive or in flat mode!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #2 MC Lars 2: Brotherhood
96% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Synersteel Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac
MC Lars, MC Frontalot, Mega Ran, YTCracker and Schaffer the Darklord save music! Join them in over a dozen songs as you fight, jump, and fly your way through the beat.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #3 Seek & Destroy - Steampunk Arcade
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: GamestormVRPub: Showstorm Ltd
Windows
You are Armed with a Steam Powered Rail Gun + Hammers + TESLA Powered Lightning + Magnets! SEEK & DESTROY to rack up the biggest score!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #4 Dawn of the Robot Empire
94% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: oeFun, Inc.
Windows
Witness first hand the Dawn of the Robot Empire. Can you stop the invading robotic forces from another galaxy? Blast your way to victory in this retro sci-fi shooter. You'll need fast reflexes and an accurate aim to win.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #5 Roses and Gems
94% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Pirate-Rob
Windows
Roses and Gems is a difficult sandbox platformer all about avoiding the inevitable, Death. Build constructs, traps and fight to keep the ancient machine safe. In the end, your home will be destroyed, and you'll die, but it just means you get to start a new dem... Adventure all over again!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #6 Paladin
93% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Pumpkin Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are earth's last hero - defend civilization from annihilation.Protect the cities, destroy the aliens and upgrade your fighter. Drive back the vile invading scum and save mankind in this frantic twin-stick shooter!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #7 Z.W!
91% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: S. Khasanov
Windows
Full ahead! Kill'em all! Fight as long as possible!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #8 Nebula
92% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: Szekretar
Windows
Nebula is an action platformer with a high emphasis on using everything at your disposal to succeed, such as the gravity gun. The game takes place on an abandoned space station where you need to survive the deadly traps, defeat your enemies and solve physics based puzzles.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #9 Booty Diver
90% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Xavier Orion Games
Windows
Take a dive into the perilous depths of the ocean as you seek sunken treasure while battling creatures who guard their treasure as you manage your precious air supply.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #10 Aftermath Y2K
89% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Matthew Willis
Windows · Linux
Inspired by such games as Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden; aftermath is a NES styled action platformer. However in Aftermath you play as a dog. You must run, jump, and dodge your way through 8 levels to recover your beloved owner. All the while also trying to fend off thugs, bandits, henchmen, and mutants.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #11 Spin the Beat
91% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Clockwork Anomaly, LLC
Windows · Mac
Jump-n-dodge couch-multiplayer arcade action to the beat of the music! A party game for 1 to 4 players.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #12 NEON GALAXY
89% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Nicholas Backus
Windows
Neon Galaxy is a arcade style multiplayer twin stick shooter. There are modes for co-op play and pvp.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #13 Run Jump Die Repeat
88% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: LongArm Interactive
Windows
Run Jump Die Repeat is a single button platformer game. Press SPACE to run, bounce, jump, climb, and kill as you attempt to save the Cracker Princess and escape the evil Cron Rebels home planet.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #14 Snakes on an Extradimensional Plane
87% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2016
Dev: Team Neon SnakesPub: Fox Buchele
Windows
Abstract HTC Vive game where you help adventurous space mice with tiny little jetpack escape the glowing snakes! Collect powerups for points and compete on the leaderboards!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #15 The Nothing
86% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: DDD Wares
Windows
The Nothing is a surreal and atmospheric action game with a new aesthetic, procedurally generated elements and perma-death - Designed for multiple short "runs", with endings based on the route you've chosen and the actions you've taken.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #16 Red Hot Ricochet
85% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Wyatt YeongPub: Everook
Windows · Mac
It's high noon in this barren wasteland, and only one of you is making it out alive. Sure, you could try and shoot them right between the eyes - but where's the fun in that? Red Hot Ricochet is an intense game of ricochet duels, and you'll need wise shooting, lucky bounces, and a bit of triggernometry to win.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #17 AmaranTime Arena
86% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Joshua Angeley
Windows
Use your control of time to dismantle and destroy waves of enemies! Slow down time to dodge enemy fire and aim your shots! AmaranTime is a Wave Shooter that challenges players to survive using their guns, their wit, and their control over time.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #18 BHB: BioHazard Bot
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Brain Machine
Windows
You are BHB. A BioHazard Bot. Your mission: decontaminate. When alien creatures overrun a research facility, robotic drones known as BioHazard bots are deployed to deal with a situation too dangerous for regular decontamination crews.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #19 Rest in Jelly
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Little Miracles Games
Windows
Welcome to “Rest in Jelly”, a videogame that will test your platforming ability and precision in ways that will drive you crazy. Control Jack the Devil in his adventure to terminate the fearful jelly rebellion. All you will need is just a button… plus an almost non-human accuracy and nerves of steel.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #20 BATTER BURST
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: TEAM_ETS
Windows
This game is a scroll action of continuous explosion drawn with pixel art. Let's blow it all away.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #21 Zig
84% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Scumways
Windows · Mac · Linux
50 levels of fast-paced, old school, arcade blasting.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #22 The Plague
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Nalu Zou
Windows
Prepare to fight alone against a horde of zombies from the graveyard to the streets in this suspenseful and horrifying zombie shooter, The Plague.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #23 Private Detective Punch Drunk
81% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Dogwood Gaming
Windows
Punch your way through ten levels of noir beat'em up with a video game twist.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #24 Rabbit Valley Legend (兔子山谷传说)
83% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Bamboo Secrets Co.,Limited
Windows
A cute action VR game of snowball.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #25 Scuffle Scoundrels
80% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Moped Games
Windows
Scuffle Scoundrels is an oldschool arcade brawler for 2-to-4 rivals of all ages. With explosive powerups, deadly hazards, and imposing animal captains, it's sink or be sunk in this fast paced pirate romp!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #26 The Pit
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zero KnowledgePub: Zero Knwoledge
Windows
The Pit is a platform game with touches of action and puzzles, which will force you to understand and know how to use all the skills you have.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #27 Halloween Knight
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Chris Patton
Windows
Halloween Knight is a hack n' slash adventure game mixed with tower defenses where you try to protect your house on Halloween night. You can switch between melee, ranged, and magical attacks on the fly while you battle against the hordes of monsters attacking your house and you.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #28 Galaxy Wide Domination
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: CPSuperstore
Windows
In this game, you must take down an empire of evil, corrupt space ships, and restore peace to the universe. To do this, you must take out as many ships as you can, as well as defeat the emperor, who is hiding out in an other dimension, in an arena, top down shooter-style game made entirely by 1 person.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #29 Asteroidiga
75% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: Levi Stoddard
Windows · Linux
A single mine detonation in this bullet hell game will send you flying around the screen. But never fear! Use your wits and your Teleportation module, fast Machine Gun, powerful Laser, Tracer Bullets, and the venerable shotgun.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #30 Saint George | The Tree Of Secrets
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Obscure Cloud
Windows
Embark on a new breed of medieval-fantasy arcade plaformer and explore extensive worlds packed with loots, creatures and humongous boss
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #31 BackSlash
77% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: Skeleton Crew Studio
Windows · Mac
BackSlash is a spell casting brawler featuring style-mixing, arena destruction, and accelerating duels. Combine two styles to plunge into a dance of destruction through flying blades, bone breaking punches and devastating spells.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #32 Brimstone
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Asunder Studios
Windows
Take control of a sinner to enter a trial to prove you are worthy to fight the mythic Brimstone. Travel through 3 different zones and kill each zones boss to gain the power of the demons. Fight and fight again until you have the power to kill the Brimstone.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #33 M.A.C.S.
81% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: House Izezweth
Windows
M.A.C.S. is a fast paced top down shooter in a persistent, procedurally generated world. Drive around and avoid your enemies, find weapon power-ups to even the odds. Soon you can place your own power-ups in your persistent world for you to collect on future runs!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #34 Rogue Singularity
73% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: Considerable Content
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rogue Singularity is a high-speed infinite obstacle course. Navigate the perils at the edge of a rogue singularity as it tears worlds apart. Customise your robot and face infinite challenges, fighting to survive. Traverse universes to discover what lies beyond the void.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #35 Edge Guardian
77% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: Hypothermic Games
Windows
Edge Guardian is a surreal-futuristic action beat-em-up for the HTC Vive. You have been summoned to defend the fringe of reality itself from a horde of reality-eating void cubes. Find yourself immersed in many different, eerie landscapes, punching your way through wave after wave of enemies.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #36 Revenge on the Streets
73% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: Del_PlayerPub: DEL PLAYER
Windows
In the year 201X, a policeman was beaten by bandits and becomes unconscious, his fighter sister Karina Kickboxing decides to do justice with his own hands, and part in seeking of REVENGE IN THE STREETS
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #37 Attack of the Gooobers
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: SluggishtacoGames
Windows
Grab some friends or play alone and prepare to defend yourself from the Goobers in "Attack Of The Goobers!" Choose between multiple classes with unique abilities to survive the attack. Customize your characters stats and appearance to play how you like. Purchase weapons to defend yourself from the Goobers.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #38 The Necromancer's Castle
79% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Stone Axe Games
Windows
The Necromancer's Castle is a sidescroller where you play as a wizard trying to get back a stolen magic diamond from an evil necromancer. You will be stuck in rooms with enemies chasing you, and you have to defeat them all to get to the next one.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #39 Ship Happens
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Daygames
Windows
Ship Happens is a 4-player local party game where you use your pirate ship to outplay, outwit and murder your opponents. Load your cannons and get ready to hurt your friends. Best played within punching distance of your friends.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #40 Aeve:Zero Gravity
76% 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 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #41 Ducks in Space
70% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Happy Cow Games LLC
Windows
Ducks in Space is a 2D platformer where you play as Captain Quackers, a duck attempting to thwart the plans of the most evil creatures in the universe: geese!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #42 ASCII Attack
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 41 reviews2016
Dev: Daisy Maze Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A Cold War super computer has gone rogue and is printing launch codes for a first strike. There is only one way to prevent nuclear Armageddon; enter the dot matrix, collect the codes, and defeat the ASCII army. ASCII Attack is a retro style indie action title inspired by arcade games of yesteryear.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #43 Far From Orbit
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Alexander Conway
Windows
A short and sweet rogue-like, bullet hell game. Amass points, upgrade your ship and conqueror creatures that oppose you. There is no progression in this game, every run is a fresh start.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #44 Bud Blitz
71% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Dave Brake Creations
Windows · Mac
Bud Blitz is a fast-paced cannabis-themed action/arcade game with a splash of simulation. Grow your way to the top of the leaderboard while defending your crops from enemies by using a variety of outrageous weapons!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #45 STARCATCHER
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: John PlewePub: Nevercenter
Windows · Mac
STARCATCHER is an experimental wave-based arcade game, currently in development. It's simple, unique, and intensely hard. Protect the heart!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #46 Exostorm
74% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2015
Dev: Midnight Oil Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A classic top-down vertical scrolling "shoot-em-up" with amazing music and art.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #47 Ice Demon
65% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: Bob HoodPub: Suits & Sandals
Windows
How long can you survive? In this arcade-style game, employ hand to hand combat and freeze your enemies to get as many kills as possible before you are defeated.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #48 Ke-Tsu-No-Ana
72% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Yusuke UemuraPub: Yusuke Uemura
Windows
Ke-tsu-no-ana is Arcade Style Shoot'em Up Game. Grab your joystick Let's Go into The Ke-Tsu-no-ana!!!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #49 Dear Leader
70% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Pleizter Games
Windows
Prevent the liberation of your kingdom in "Dear Leader", an action side scroller shooter, where you guide Kim Jong Un in his quest to defeat the foreign invaders.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #50 Corporate America
67% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Sam DeMinicoPub: Self Published
Windows
Corporate America is a fast paced multiplayer shooter, where you shoot emails to your coworkers in intense competitive matches online and off to see who is the best corporate shill.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #51 UBERCOLD
68% matchMixed56% of 41 reviews2019
Dev: Side Group
Windows
A stylish parody game featuring an unconventional weapon.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #52 Epic Snowday Adventure
69% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Verge of Brilliance LLC
Windows
The neighborhood kids must be neutralized. I'm sure its for their own good. Only you can restore order by DESTROYING YOUR NEIGHBORS WITH SNOWBALLS. They'll thank you for it later.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #53 Rubicon Approach
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Carbon Fiber Games
Windows
Rubicon Approach is a fast paced zero gravity shooter with a unique free movement system. Engage an enemy team in high speed, adrenaline fueled action across multiple maps.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #54 Last Shark Standing
64% matchPositive96% of 47 reviews2019
Dev: Shark Fin Games
Windows
Last Shark Standing is a couch-play party game where you use your superior fishing skills to throw your friends out of the arena.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #55 Blind Blades
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2016
Dev: Heavy Key Studios
Windows · Mac
The art of the sword is death by one stroke. The art of stealth is proximity with the unaware. In Blind Blades, players must master both. No special button combinations. No life bars. Just player against player. Skill against skill. Winner take all.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #56 GALAXY MONSTER
67% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Small GamesPub: GLD Games
Windows
The action takes place in the alternative reality. Among far stars, heroes fight monsters on arenas. This fight is eternal.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #57 Galactic Storm
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 28 reviews2016
Dev: Dawid Bujak
Windows
Galactic Storm is a top down shoot'em up. It features distinct weapons, fast action and epic boss battles.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #58 The Airship Designer
65% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: The Studio
Windows
Build your own airships by snaping engines, envelops, fins and gondolas together. Then fly it freely or watch it blow up in the sandbox!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #59 S#arp Shooter
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Complex Infinity
Windows
Guns fire and enemies attack based on music you choose from your library in S#arp Shooter - a VR game where you are dropped into an action movie scene and must stylishly shoot your way out!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%