- #1 Starship Rubicon
97% matchPositive84% of 44 reviews2015
Dev: WickworksPub: Cheerful Ghost
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Starship Rubicon is a modern take on the classic space shooter genre. It's a smart and challenging rogue-lite that features a unique control scheme, pixel art remixed with NASA photographs, and an existential crisis about who is REALLY the monster.
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #2 GunWorld
96% matchMostly Negative31% of 72 reviews2015
Dev: m07games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Plant seeds to grow guns in a challenging retro platformer.
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #3 Voxel Blast
95% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2015
Dev: Ceiba Software and Arts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Voxel Blast is a game where you control a spaceship traveling across complex 3D environments to fight enemies in cages set to trap them with you. Navigate as fast as you can through the level to reach the beacons or risk facing squads of enemies already waiting for you; then use your weapons and evasive maneuvers to take them down in...
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #4 ASCII Attack
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 41 reviews2016
Dev: Daisy Maze Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.4 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 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #5 Toy Wars Invasion
94% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2015
Dev: Web Interactive Solutions
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The neglected and despised toys of the world are angry and have escaped their forgotten toy box prisons and are seeking revenge. Fight 21 enemy from the beach to the model train store with an arsenal of 13 weapons and armed vehicles.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #6 Ice Cream Surfer
93% matchMostly Negative24% of 50 reviews2015
Dev: Dolores Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 10%
The evil Broccoli, irritated by the fact that kids hate vegetables and love ice creams, has created an army of vegetables to destroy the flavor galaxy. Only the Ice Cream Surfer with the help of his 4 super tasty friends can prevent that.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #7 GentleMoon 2
91% matchVery Positive86% of 94 reviews2016
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
GentleMoon 2 is a second game in GentleMoon series, an action game, filled with jokes and unlogical funny things to make you smile. The objective is to fly to the Moon and get away from the zombies this way. Before your trip to the Moon you collect the things that helps you to survive, like food, a weapon, good music, tv...
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #8 Children of Liberty
92% matchNegative13% of 22 reviews2014
Dev: Lantana Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When four spies are arrested infiltrating the mansion of Royal Governor Thomas Gage, the Patriots call upon their children to finish their mission, spring them from jail, and uncover the details of a conspiracy that could plunge the colonies into war...
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #9 Ride the Bullet
91% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2015
Dev: Jordan Sendar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a gun for hire with nothing to your name but your rifle and a single bullet. You have a special gift. You can control this bullet. Your objectives: take jobs, kill, build your reputation, and work your way up the crime ladder.
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #10 Space Robot Samurai Zombie Slayer
90% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2015
Dev: Brandon Brizzi
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 32%
We are not alone in the universe, its filled with Zombies! To combat them mankind invented their most efficient weapon yet: the Space Robot Samurai Zombie Slayer. ONLY YOU can pilot the powerful Space Robot Samurai Zombie Slayer to fight the Space Zombie horde!
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #11 ICARUS.1
89% matchMixed69% of 67 reviews2016
Dev: electrolyte
Windows
The ICARUS.1 Abandoned for decades, crew M.I.A.
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #12 The Wendigo
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: warkaPub: Warka Development
Windows
The Wendigo - is a first person investigation horror game set in a Victorian era mansion, located in the heart of a forest. You must rely on your instinct and intuition to survive the horrors that lie within. With tools to aid you, you will seek answers, but will you survive?
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #13 Random Access Murder
89% matchMostly Negative23% of 161 reviews2016
Dev: Team Murder
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 12%
You're a robot. Shoot other robots with your data-destroying weapons and create a stack of dismantled enemies. Be the last heap standing and DO NOT RUN OUT OF MEMORY!
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #14 Clean'Em Up
87% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2016
Dev: Cheesy Holes
Windows
Clean’Em Up is a fast paced, arcade-style Top Down Shooter with neon graphics. You play as an Upgradable Antivirus. You seek and destroy tremendous viruses and threats, collect and protect files and survive huge Bosses. The story is simple: Your Computer has been hacked... Dozens of viruses and other threats have penetrated your System...
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #15 Tower Offence! たわーおふぇんす!
86% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Daisessen
Windows
"Attacks aggressively by build a lot of towers"It's a consept of this game. You can stack friend units any number of people,without limitation. "Strength in numbers" is the key to victory!
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #16 Quantum Flux
86% matchMostly Negative28% of 18 reviews2015
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows · Mac
Quantum Flux is an old school style rogue-like following the Artemis. A prototype vessel aiming to save humanity from destruction, to do so it must find a way through a difficult and hostile universe to create a new home for the human race.
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #17 El Taco Diablo
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Manne Cederskoog
Windows
Hardcore Competitive Stand-still Arena FPS. It’s all about your accuracy and speed, there is no hand-holding. Compete on a global leaderboard and earn the #1 spot by killing endless waves of demonic Tacos and UFO’s. Discover a game that looks simple on the surface but hides a surprising amount of depth.
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #18 Caelus Trident
84% matchMostly Negative32% of 201 reviews2019
Dev: Fractured Rogue Studios LLC
Windows
Caelus Trident is the debut game from Fractured Rogue Studios LLC. Paying homage to the classic arcade shooters, you take on the role of the last ship of your armada trying to survive wave after wave of addictive space combat action.
Why similar: Action 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #19 Respawn Man
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 46 reviews2015
Dev: Evan (Solidplasma) PeiperlPub: Solidplasma Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
What kills you makes you stronger! Use your extra lives to solve puzzles in this delightfully morbid puzzle platformer with a soundtrack by VVVVVV's composer, Souleye!
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #20 Blood Scrolls
82% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Adrien E. BrownPub: Sirbrownie_Games
Windows
Eleven Fighters, Ten Blood Scrolls, and one throne at victory! Battle for your chance to become the new Sun God or the universe!
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #21 Bomber Bother
81% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2019
Dev: Dare Looks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight back against thieving Greyman Grifterham and his horde of beavery bullies and experience the thrill (and frustration) of herding low-poly beavers into a bottomless pit, retro-style!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #22 Cosmic Leap
84% matchMixed68% of 146 reviews2016
Dev: Michael Hall
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Time your jumps from planet to planet, avoid the obstacles thrown in your path and blast off to safety with your rocketship!
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #23 Nowhere Station
80% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Other Side Worlds
Windows
Crazy Rogue-like top-down shooter with innovative movement mechanic, insane robo-cults, and lots of bullets to ensure your destruction before you grow a big bad robot!
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #24 Violet Cycle
81% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2018
Dev: Weckr IndustriesPub: Digerati
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hyperkinetic neopoly roguecade action game with procedural generation at its core. Order within chaos. Feeling inside polygons!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #25 Pineapple Smash Crew
82% matchVery Positive80% of 123 reviews2012
Dev: RichMakeGame
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Winner of the 2011 Eurogamer Indie Arcade award, Pineapple Smash Crew is a fast-paced, tactical blast-em-up with a unique modern-retro feel!
Why similar: Action 55.5%, Indie 44.5%
- #26 Circuit Warz
79% matchMixed52% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: Arttu TuovinenPub: Michael Callaghan
Windows
The hardest electronics game you will ever play, only good engineers need apply. Test your understanding of electronic circuits to save the planet in a desperate race against time. The laser protection system has been sabotaged…You have minutes to fix the circuits, repair the generator by solving the circuits correctly, fire the laser...
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #27 PooShooter: Toilet Invaders
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: FergaTroid Studios
Windows
Pooshooter: Toilet Invaders is a 2D action comedy game packed with explosions and fun gameplay. Reminiscent of arcade classics like Space Invaders, PooShooter lets you take control of a Bum fighting against vengeful Toilets.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #28 Roses and Gems
77% 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 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #29 Super Knockoff! VS
77% matchMixed55% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Action PanelPub: T.F.S. Entertainment, LLC
Windows
KNOCK IT OFF! It's an all-out clash between the greatest manga icons of 1999! Use your magic, energy, sporting goods, ninja tools, and more to destroy the ground beneath your friends and foes! Featuring a fully-voiced and star-studded roster, this is the battle of the millennium!
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #30 Oblivion's Edge
78% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2016
Dev: Odd EmuPub: MMOVentures
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Oblivion’s Edge is an arcade and bullet hell inspired twin stick shooter with multiple game modes and difficulty levels. You are the last pilot on Earth, tasked with slowing down the invasion and giving survivors enough time to escape.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #31 Brazilian Root®
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 98 reviews2018
Dev: Patria Games®
Windows
Brazilian Root® is an indie action game in first person perspectve. Benjamin, a former special ops soldier, was running for governor, but 30 days before voting day his daughter was mysteriously kidnapped. He will relive his fighter days and You will help him find his daughter and get his revenge.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #32 Strike Force: Desert Thunder
79% matchMostly Negative20% of 35 reviews2016
Dev: West Forest Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Strike Force: Desert Thunder is a small First-Person-Shooter game in the style of old, classic Delta Force games. You join 10 intense, large scale missions to prevent terrorist attacks. Customize your loadout, choose between 12 weapons and jump right into the action. Each Mission is large scale (2km²) and open to your tactical strategy.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #33 McRogue
76% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Snare Games
Windows
It's man versus machine in this action roguelite from Snare Games. Explore procedural worlds, collect power-ups, and use McRogue's devastating robot fists to destroy all that stand in his way. But don't take too long about it - the robots only get stronger.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #34 BlubBlub: Quest of the Blob
74% matchPositive82% of 45 reviews2018
Dev: Girls Make Games
Windows · Mac
BlubBlub is too cute! Escape through a trial of deadly traps to save all the blub friends!
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #35 The Gameshow
75% matchMostly Negative24% of 25 reviews2019
Dev: Biscuit Play
Windows
The Gameshow is an FPS game where you participate in a dangerous survival game. This is not your game. You, together with other players, have been kidnapped and brought to a forest. Now, surviving is your only objective.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #36 Mirror Angel's Paradise
73% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: Henez
Windows
Explore the remains of the tower Babil and encounter the terrible images left behind by those driven into madness. Rescue the artisan relics that reflect the old world and give you power as you explore the new.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #37 Derelict Redux
76% matchMixed45% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Floor59Games
Windows
Derelict is a post-apocalyptic, top down, sandbox, rogue like(like). You have woken up from stasis long after the fall of humanity. Thousands of years of human colonization and war have left countless derelict space craft, abandoned space stations and settlements ripe for looting.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #38 Automatum
72% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Old Point Games
Windows
Automatum is a 2D action and platform game with a dark pixel art style,in wich we take the role of an alien that must face a lot of adversities like platforming, combat and puzzles so he can regain his precious freedom.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #39 Assault on Hyperion Base
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Julian Stables
Windows
After a distress call was received from Hyperion Base you have been sent out to secure and reclaim this advanced research facility. Discover what project A.N.D.R.O.I.D really is and what happened to the team that was stationed there.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #40 Heavy load
70% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: SergeySmPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
HEAVY LOAD is a puzzle in which you have to solve the problem of how to move the boxes so that they fall into the right places.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #41 Ripped Pants at Work
71% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2018
Dev: Scott Ethington
Windows · Mac
Ripped Pants at Work is a frantic stealth game about searching for new pants!
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #42 Lost Cosmonaut
74% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: Charlie Evans
Windows
Rejoice comrades! For you have survived the crash landing! Become lost on a randomly generated planet in Lost Cosmonaut, an action platformer with roguelike elements.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #43 900
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Barnaque
Windows · Mac · Linux
900 is a minimalist action score attack game in which the player controls an entity that must absorb universes in order to grow endlessly.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #44 Action Legion
73% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: Aeonic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Action Legion is a mouse-controlled, single-player war game on the PC and Mac.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #45 Space Battlecruiser
70% matchVery Positive82% of 73 reviews2018
Dev: Less Describable Games
Windows
Space Battlecruiser is an arcade style, top down space shooter where you control a heavily armed capital ship. Battle against squadrons of fighters, fleets of warships, heavily defended space stations, and powerful command ships. Learn to master weaponry and special abilities like the Energy Shield.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #46 Winter Warland
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2017
Dev: Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this free for all multiplayer battle, fight to be the last snowman standing. Use your snowballs to destroy your enemies from far away, or use your carrot as a sword and deal damage up close.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #47 Grompula
69% matchPositive91% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: GreebPub: Greeb Games
Windows
Grompula is a high octane wave based survival game. Fight through endless waves of Grompuloids to save the Glorkon race, and banish Grompula back to limbo, where he belongs. With tons of weapons, items, and abilities at your disposal, you might just be able to claim back what's rightfully yours.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #48 Pixel bomb! bomb!!
72% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Uborm
Windows
Long time ago, there was a beautiful Queen in Leroy Forest. The Queen was very narcissistic. She dressed up splendid every day and thought she was the fairest woman in the Forest. Every beautiful girl in the kingdom would lose good looks by the Queen's curse.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #49 Slow.Bullet VR
68% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Marco S HampelPub: Firez Studios
Windows
Survive, Shoot, and Win! A co-op multiplayer zombie Survival Game, now in VR!
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #50 STARCATCHER
59% 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 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #51 DIVE: Starpath
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 64 reviews2018
Dev: Gravity Well Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DIVE: Starpath is a third-person runner set in the stratosphere of massive planets. Guide yourself through the perils of interstellar space as you pursue a mysterious traveler. Fight gravity, gather the data canisters, and don't lose orbit!
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #52 Don't Look Back - VR
69% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: FoV
Windows
Your goal is to find 6 hearts within an underground maze. This is a remastered version of the original DK1 game released in 2014. Armed with only a torch, how quickly can you find the 6 hearts to escape the maze? And will you resist the urge to look back.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #53 Still Dark At Dawn
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Heavy Kick Games
Windows
Built from the ground up for VR, Still Dark At Dawn's highly immersive gameplay will test your grit and ability to trust all of your senses, in a hope survive The Dawn.
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #54 Lord of Djinn
73% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Lightray Games
Windows
Lord of Djinn is a two player shoot-em-up. Each player aims to destroy the lesser djinn of the opposite color faster than their opponent can slay their own to gain influence in the match. Collect coins dropped by slain enemies to increase the power of your djinn.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #55 StickyBots
66% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Potion Games
Windows · Mac
This frantic platform shooter is all about momentum, transformation and sticking to the ceiling. Test your metal with online competition and a complete single player campaign. Launch your fist and swap characters mid fight in this first of its kind platformer!
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #56 Pythagoras' Perpetual Motion Machine
66% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: MarudicePub: DLsite
Windows
Head to the top of the tower, guided by a mysterious voice... 40 stages that should leave you with a fulfilling sense of achievement. Play with your knowledge, cunning and sparks of brilliance as your only weapon. What do the messages mean? Who am I? What purpose does this tower serve...?
Why similar: Action 55.1%, Indie 44.9%
- #57 Xenia
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: Dimitrios FlorosPub: Loresoft
Windows
A Metroidvania in Ancient Greece. Take control of the blacksmith Ardas. Fight epic bosses, find secret rooms and treasures, spend your gold for upgrades, and choose your fate through alternative endings. All this for one purpose. To save queen Xenia.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #58 BeeBeeQ
55% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Popup Asylum
Windows
BeeBeeQ is an asymmetric local multiplayer game where one VR player controls a Chef while up to four xbox controller players control Bees. Armed with a spatula and a fly swat the VR chef player has to try cook while the bees steal food, sting and generally harass him.
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%