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Games Like Parasite

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Indie, Action, Early Access.

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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.

Reviews: 7 user reviews — 57% — of 7 reviews
Released: 2016-01-19
Developer: Raphael Gervaise
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Linux

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    97% 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 39.4%, Action 35.1%, Indie 25.4%

  2. #2 D.F.R.: The Light
    96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2017
    Dev: Nothing Rhymes With Entertainment
    Windows · Mac

    Unprepared and helpless, you are taken to a dark place where a mysterious light hunts you. In this relentlessly terrifying survival horror game, you must use your wits to stay alive long enough to extinguish the light, or perish trying. The light is crafty and observant, so this won't be an easy challenge.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  3. #3 Ghostie Quest
    96% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2017
    Dev: Random Thoughts Enterainment
    Windows

    Ghostie Quest is back! Can you master the pyramid of 100 levels? Tons of secrets and multiple ghosts to unlock across 4 game modes. Insanely cute! Insanely hard!

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  4. #4 Lair of the Titans
    95% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
    Dev: Team 21 Studio
    Windows

    Lair of the Titans offers a unique way for players to enjoy VR together. Play in the same room, hunting one another, choosing the right moment to strike and scare the other player.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  5. #5 Code Name: Origin
    94% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2017
    Dev: Aurora Games Studio
    Windows

    Code Name: Origin is a top down action adventure inspired by the classics in the 80's and 90's. You’re dispatched alone with a laser shotgun and the wits to uncover what transpired just days before you arrive.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  6. #6 BioMech
    94% matchMixed50% of 16 reviews2019
    Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    BioMech is a classic Metroid-like with carefully structured gameplay. No rogue elements, no random content, everything is handcrafted and deliberately designed. Backtracking is not a dirty word.

    Why similar: Action 38.4%, Adventure 36.3%, Indie 25.3%

  7. #7 The Royal Cosmonautical Society
    93% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2017
    Dev: Chromosphere Games
    Windows · Mac

    Enjoy the rewarding challenge of becoming a qualified Cosmonaut. Gracefully pilot your ship through multitudes of challenges, finding the perfect trajectory all the way to the top of the leaderboards.

    Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Action 34.9%, Indie 27.7%

  8. #8 NickProject
    92% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
    Dev: Velaris Studio
    Windows

    This game transfers you in the universe,where you`ll bring role of doctor Nick Johnson.He is a excentrie alien traveler with a great mind.His main aim is to right in justice travelling in time and space.

    Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 36.4%, Indie 26.4%

  9. #9 After Rain: Phoenix Rise
    91% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2017
    Dev: DV8GamesPub: DV9DESIGN
    Windows

    The Rain fell, and washed away all that was good. Ancestors of the survivors face a world plagued by deadly disease, hostile landscapes that offer no safe haven, and brutal warlords beholden to a malevolent A.I. that seeks to enslave mankind and control the natural world. This is life After Rain.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  10. #10 Datswer
    91% matchNegative18% of 11 reviews2015
    Dev: Behtam Developer
    Windows

    Datswer - help a brave hero escape to freedom from the dark dungeon full of traps, horrible enemies and various obstacles. The protagonist of this Android game is a statue that came to life after being hit by a few drops of mysterious magical liquid. You need to use your reflexes and logic to pave a safe way through dark dungeons.

    Why similar: Adventure 37.7%, Action 36.8%, Indie 25.5%

  11. #11 Logic Missile
    90% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2016
    Dev: Bouchard Industries
    Windows

    Logic Missile is an action puzzle based platformer where you and the missile must reach the central core. Launch the missile and setup the level properly so that you and the missile can exit the level. This game is extremely hard keep that in mind!

    Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.2%

  12. #12 Domino Effect
    89% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2018
    Dev: GoshFather
    Windows

    Pick up an entire building and use it as a weapon. Go supernova and send everything flying in an outward direction. Use gravity in a way that has never been used before.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  13. #13 Flight 732
    88% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2018
    Dev: Ghere Games
    Windows

    Explore the island to find the missing jetliner. Once found, can you find a way to help you and your captain off of the island?

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  14. #14 Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut
    89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2015
    Dev: GG-Works
    Windows

    Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut is an action/adventure platformer, based off of old school platforming games of the 90s. The main objective here is you guide the agile reptile through over 60 levels spanned over six areas of traps, puzzles, and the occasional nasties who get in your way,

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  15. #15 One Bit
    87% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
    Dev: Veibyn
    Windows

    This is the story of Onebit, a poor, cute character that is continious searching for a pixel someone has stolen from him. He simply can`t go on with his life knowing that he is missin a pixel. Your task will be to go tro a long and exciting adventure, on his search for the one that have stolen his pixel and retaliation.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  16. #16 Guardian of The Demon Valley
    86% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
    Dev: Lily GamesPub: Himi Games
    Windows

    This is an exciting shooting game.The game is set in a dark canyon, you’ll play a warrior who swears to defend the saint ice crystal that seals the devil with his life. would you be able to complete the mission of defending the sealing ice crystal against the horrible monsters’ continuous offensive?!

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  17. #17 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
    86% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2017
    Dev: Muggle
    Windows

    To be immortal, The most important thing is to have a long life.Our hero wants to be immortal, so he came to this island to find the secret of longevity in frogs.

    Why similar: Adventure 37.7%, Action 36.8%, Indie 25.5%

  18. #18 Solmec: Hollow Planet
    85% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
    Dev: Octopus 8 Studios
    Windows

    Solmec: Hollow Planet is an adventure game where you play as Soledad, a lone Solmec warrior exploring an ancient, lost planet. His task is to find a cure for the Rot that is killing the Ankazil – spacefaring beasts that are home to the Solmec.

    Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 36.4%, Indie 26.4%

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    84% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2017
    Dev: PPofGG
    Windows

    In the thrall of darkness is a horror game in which you must get out of this nightmare.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  20. #20 Rogues or Heroes
    84% match8 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2016
    Dev: M.BonKov
    Windows

    Rogues or Heroes is a dungeon crawler where the difficulty depends on your choices. With procedurally generated levels and fearsomes bosses, Rogues or Heroes is a top-down dungeon crawler with fast paced action proposing a certain challenge. Play alone or with a friend, in lan or online co-op.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

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    83% 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.

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    82% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2016
    Dev: Gregor PaničPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Why similar: Adventure 39.4%, Action 35.1%, Indie 25.5%

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    82% matchMixed42% of 31 reviews2016
    Dev: Power Up to Maximum
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%

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    Why similar: Adventure 39.4%, Action 35.1%, Indie 25.5%

  24. #24 Izeriya
    81% matchMixed61% of 54 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 39.4%, Action 35.1%, Indie 25.4%

  25. #25 Mystic Ruins
    79% matchPositive86% of 14 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 39.4%, Action 35.1%, Indie 25.4%

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    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: q-bit GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    An action-exploration, retro sidescroller adventure game about holographic bunnies in space.

    Why similar: Adventure 39.9%, Action 35.6%, Indie 24.6%

  27. #27 The End: Inari's Quest
    80% matchMostly Negative34% of 110 reviews2018
    Dev: MataPub: Plug In Digital
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 31%

    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 39.4%, Action 35.1%, Indie 25.4%

  28. #28 HereAfter
    78% matchMostly Positive76% of 45 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 39.4%, Action 35.1%, Indie 25.4%

  29. #29 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 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  30. #30 homicide
    76% 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...

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  31. #31 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 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  32. #32 A Blind Legend
    76% matchMostly Positive74% of 350 reviews2016
    Dev: DowinoPub: Plug In Digital
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    A Blind Legend is the first-ever action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes! Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound.

    Why similar: Adventure 39.8%, Action 35.6%, Indie 24.6%

  33. #33 Lost with Dinosaurs
    77% matchMixed41% of 144 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 39.8%, Action 34.3%, Indie 25.9%

  34. #34 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
    78% 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 39.1%, Action 35.3%, Indie 25.6%

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    75% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2017
    Dev: q-bit GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%

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    Why similar: Adventure 38.6%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%

  36. #36 Escape 2042 - The Truth Defenders
    75% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2017
    Dev: OrionSoft
    Windows · Linux

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    Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%

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    64% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Homegrown GamesPub: Intr Studio Pty Ltd
    Windows

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    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

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    74% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2017
    Dev: Flying Fire, LLC
    Windows

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    Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%

  39. #39 Orphan
    72% matchMostly Positive80% of 45 reviews2018
    Dev: Windy HillPub: 2Dimensions
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Why similar: Adventure 39%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.3%

  40. #40 The Planet of the Vicious Creatures
    74% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2016
    Dev: Jorge Giner Cordero
    Windows

    An old-school platformer set in outer space.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%

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    73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
    Dev: Daniel Dante
    Windows

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    Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.3%

  42. #42 Pilli Adventure
    73% 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 38.7%, Action 36%, Indie 25.3%

  43. #43 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
    62% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: YitYat Studios
    Windows · Mac

    The galaxy is in peril. Equipped with the latest military tech, pilot your heavily armed space fighter through 5 exotic planets to destroy the evil Dr Grag and save the Life Spark. Joining you on your journey is The Engineer, a silicon being capable of building anything you need. Unfortunately, he's a jackass...

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  44. #44 Goo Saga
    73% matchMostly Positive78% of 37 reviews2016
    Dev: Toka Loka Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%

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    Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.3%

  45. #45 New World: The Tupis
    71% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2018
    Dev: Novo Mundo
    Windows

    New World: The Tupis is a 3D FPS adventure game about the South America colonization, during the 16th century, fight using only a bow, against enemies using powerful arquebuses and swords, save members of your tribe, and they will fight on your side.

    Why similar: Adventure 39.9%, Action 35.6%, Indie 24.6%

  46. #46 Last Anime Boy 2: Hentai Zombie Hell
    71% matchMixed63% of 65 reviews2018
    Dev: CSMPub: W.T.B.
    Windows

    In 2088, Nazi Muslims achieved great success in the field of chemical weapons and, not to fall into captivity and fight even after death with the infidels, they created a serum that turned them into zombies.

    Why similar: Adventure 39%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.3%

  47. #47 All Fall Down
    72% matchMixed67% of 45 reviews2015
    Dev: khos85
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 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 38.9%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.3%

  48. #48 Departure
    59% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: RG CrewPub: No Gravity Games
    Windows

    Departure is a first-person perspective action adventure game with sci-fi and horror elements. Try to survive in a vast zone full of dangerous anomalies that alter your surroundings, and monsters that hunt you down at night.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  49. #49 Slug Slasher
    58% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Slapped Silly Studios
    Windows

    Save the world from an onslaught of giant slugs in Slug Slasher! Using only your trusty bucket of salt, smash, dash, and slash through ridiculous enemies and crazy bosses as you fight your way to the slugs' homeland.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  50. #50 Afandas Survival
    58% 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 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  51. #51 Slime-san: Blackbird's Kraken
    69% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2017
    Dev: FabrazPub: Headup
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The notorious Blackbird's kracked, I mean, cracked! He believes Slime-san stole his treasure and unleashed his giant Kraken upon him! Sound familiar? It is now up to Slime-san to escape the giant squid's jaws back out to freedom!

    Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 36.2%, Indie 25.1%

  52. #52 Mausoleum of the Medusa
    69% matchMostly Positive76% of 93 reviews2016
    Dev: New Hell Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    'Medusa' is a love song to brutal, old-school arena combat. Perseus and Medusa are trapped in a deathmatch--but the gods raise them from the dead! Prove yourself with first blood, then compete for the top spot on the Steam leaderboard!

    Why similar: Adventure 39.9%, Action 35.5%, Indie 24.5%

  53. #53 Above
    57% 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 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  54. #54 Necrolance
    66% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2019
    Dev: Monsoon Studios
    Windows

    The Dark Necromancer has returned and is causing havoc in the Kingdom of Nangarth! He has sent his loyal servant, The Great Dark Warrior Thorg of Winstin, to resurrect 6 deadly foes in order to fulfill his mischievous plans! Play as both Thorg and our hero in this 2D action packed adventure!

    Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

  55. #55 Do Not Fall
    70% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2014
    Dev: XPEC Entertainment Inc.
    Windows

    Have you got what it takes to try out this challenging, intense and fast paced action-platform game? Think fast and think quick of where you are running as the tiles will start to disappear the moment you walked on it and the obstacles will be in your way to block you or knock you over. You can run. You can dash.

    Why similar: Adventure 39%, Action 34.7%, Indie 26.3%

  56. #56 Lost Bros
    69% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2016
    Dev: Wheat Muffin Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%

    In Lost Bros simultaneously control three independent characters as they travel through time to save their kidnapped friend. Gunman, Shieldman, and Swordman must cooperate with unique abilities to solve puzzles and fight bad guys.

    Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 36.2%, Indie 25.1%

  57. #57 Armoured Engines
    57% 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 38.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

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