- #1 Randall
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: We The Force Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In a dystopian world that doesn't seem like such a departure from our own future, people are content living under constant surveillance and absolute control. Players take on the part of Randall, a powerful telepath with a touch of schizophrenia.
Why similar: Action 38.7%, Adventure 35%, Indie 26.3%
- #2 Gum Guy
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Nickana Studio
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 99%
This tough energetic 2D platformer challenges you. The plot is fun and the main hero is terribly cute. Gum Guy lives in the drains with his gum family. But the soul calls for adventures. One day our hero gets lost. You become his guide through the dangers and wonders of the city above his home.
Why similar: Action 51%, Adventure 28.6%, Indie 20.4%
- #3 The Body Changer
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2015
Dev: TheShortAndTheTall
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A single player metroidvania 3D game with cooperative gameplay. Find out what's going on by taking control of distinct characters and change between them whenever you want. An unique mix of 3rd person shooter and challenging puzzles!
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27%
- #4 Laika 2.0 - Sekret Pravda
94% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Studio AlbatrosPub: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Reach the most guarded locations as a KGB trained and enhanced chimpanzee, ready to sneak from room to room, solving puzzles during the Cold War. Do you have what it takes to defeat the terrorists of the Ogdoade? Will you be able to make your mission a success, without going out of bananas?
Why similar: Action 29.4%, Adventure 28.5%, Stealth 21.3%, Indie 20.9%
- #5 The Butterfly Sign: Human Error
94% matchMixed50% of 82 reviews2017
Dev: Quantum Phoenix Bucharest
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
The Butterfly Sign: Human Error is the second chapter of the first person detective video game in which we are playing as a sole survivor of a serious terrorist attack. Protagonist is the only witness of the incident and his fate depends on his memories.
Why similar: Adventure 48.4%, Action 30.1%, Indie 21.4%
- #6 Beyond Dimensions
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 reviews2016
Dev: Cool Frogs Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Beyond Dimensions is a quirky action-adventure roguelike shooter.Adapt your playstyle to the randomized spells, evolutions, and levels, to obtain multiple levels.Customize your play session with different game modes, classes, and skills.
Why similar: Action 37.6%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 26.7%
- #7 Patchman vs. Red Circles
92% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: Naturally Intelligent
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help Patchman rescue the Sheeple from enslavement by the Drone army! But... who is Patchman, and why shouldn't you be him? Find out in the game they don't want you to play!
Why similar: Action 28.4%, Adventure 26.5%, Stealth 25.6%, Indie 19.5%
- #8 Stay Out Of The Farm: Prologue
89% matchMixed58% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Yasha
Windows
Free Prologue to Stay Out Of The Farm, a ps1 styled horror game where you try to escape from a serial killer.
Why similar: 1980s 35.7%, Adventure 21.3%, Action 19.2%, Stealth 19%, Indie 4.8%
- #9 Warp
91% matchMixed67% of 422 reviews2012
Dev: Trapdoor Inc.Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Warp™ is a strategic stealth-action puzzler where gamers play as Zero, a loveable yet lethal, little orange alien with a big score to settle. Abducted by a villainous General from his home world and taken to an underwater research facility, Zero must plan his ultimate escape by relying on his arsenal of special abilities.
Why similar: Action 32.2%, Adventure 29.4%, Stealth 21.2%, Indie 17.3%
- #10 Noise Hunters
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 127 reviews2020
Dev: Noise Hunters
Windows
Noise Hunters is an action stealth video game where noise is your tool, but also your enemy. Don't let them hear you, HUNT or be HUNTED.
Why similar: Action 28.4%, Adventure 27.7%, Stealth 24.7%, Indie 19.2%
- #11 Holobunnies: Pause Cafe
90% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: q-bit GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Holobunnies: Pause Café is the Holobunnies appetizer you didn't know you wanted: three little games in one adorable and quirky package! Fight your friends in a high-adrenaline two-player brawler, test your mettle against the classic q-bit bosses in Boss Rush, and navigate through Kitcat’s Adventure to help Kitcat find its way to the...
Why similar: Action 37.3%, Adventure 37%, Indie 25.7%
- #12 Majestic Nights
91% matchMixed55% of 113 reviews2014
Dev: Epiphany Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Majestic Nights is an episodic action-adventure-thriller set in an alternate 1980s where all conspiracy theories, past and present are True. It’s the bright and brash 1980s; a world crammed with hidden intrigue and sinister plots, government cover-ups and alien sightings, CIA experiments and the Truth.
Why similar: 1980s 37.7%, Stealth 24%, Adventure 17.6%, Action 12.3%, Indie 8.4%
- #13 Super Man Or Monster
86% matchVery Positive93% of 168 reviews2017
Dev: Xform
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Super Man Or Monster is an explosive monsterfilled action game. Protect or destroy the world, as MAN or MONSTER! Build your army, jetpack around, blast monsters and kick ass. OR... bring the chaos as you bash, stomp and wreck cities. Your choice!
Why similar: Action 40.2%, Adventure 32.3%, Indie 27.5%
- #14 Spud's Quest
87% matchPositive81% of 32 reviews2014
Dev: Mouldy Toof StudiosPub: Clickteam
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Spud's Quest is an adventure game that draws its inspiration from the classic games of old, most notably the Dizzy, Zelda, and Metroid series. Help Spud and his friend Prince Charming on a journey to uncover four ancient elemental essences that have the power to remove a curse upon the royal family.
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 35%, Indie 25.9%
- #15 Deadly Edge
85% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Bison Kings Game Studios
Windows
Featuring complex fighting moves and a rich story set in a dark grey fantasy world, Deadly Edge is an homage to 16 bit side-scrolling action adventures (and even fighting!) games from the 1990s. Every battle encountered is a one-on-one duel to the death dripping with lore and mystery.
Why similar: Action 37.6%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 26.7%
- #16 Tom vs. The Armies of Hell
84% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Darkmire Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Meet Tom -- a software engineer turned reluctant half-demon hero who must fight his way out of Hell by turning souls into demon-searing weapons. Blast your way back to your 9-to-5 in this hilarious, isometric indie action-adventure game.
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #17 Rising Islands
84% matchMixed60% of 113 reviews2016
Dev: Lone Hero Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Rising Islands is an adventure game where you’ll have to combine fast-paced action with quick thinking. Jump, shift, grind, dash and wallrun through a fantastic world that is fraying at the edges. New challenges await around every corner.
Why similar: Adventure 57.9%, Indie 42.1%
- #18 SQUAREHEAD
82% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Pixel Fun Games Production
Windows
Squarehead is a pixelart-action-jump & run game set in a comic style. You need to shoot, jump & teleport through more than 40 levels. Search forests, caves, deserts and snowy landscapes, to refuel your ship with diamonds.
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #19 Phantom Trigger
82% matchMixed58% of 94 reviews2017
Dev: Bread TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Phantom Trigger is a vivid hardcore slasher with elements of an RPG and a roguelike. Your world is made up of sick fantasies, you are a phantom. Accept it or stop your treatment.
Why similar: Action 38.3%, Adventure 36%, Indie 25.7%
- #20 Save her, from dreams
81% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Ziyi Zhang
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter the dream, save the one you love.
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #21 Do Not Fall
83% 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 37.4%, Action 35.9%, Indie 26.7%
- #22 Enemy Gates Stealth War
79% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: SBM
Windows
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." -Sun Tzu.
Why similar: Stealth 28%, Action 26.9%, Adventure 25.9%, Indie 19.1%
- #23 Project Exhibited
77% matchVery Positive83% of 180 reviews2020
Dev: Team ThievesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
A thrilling first-person action-stealth game. Play as Dana, the inventor thief, and use your gadgets to fulfill your task; retrieving a special artifact from a private art collection in a mysterious palazzo.
Why similar: Stealth 36.1%, Action 26.8%, Adventure 25.8%, Indie 11.3%
- #24 AT SUNDOWN: Shots in the Dark
79% matchMixed66% of 44 reviews2019
Dev: Mildbeast
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
At Sundown: Shots in the Dark is a fast-paced PvP twin-stick shooter where you can't see who's lurking in the shadows. With 12 light-powered weapons to choose from, sneak and shoot in the dark for the ultimate kill!
Why similar: Stealth 100%
- #25 Level 22: Gary’s Misadventures - 2016 Edition
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 65 reviews2016
Dev: Moving PlayerPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
The first stealth game set in the merciless and frenetic world of work!
Why similar: Stealth 40.2%, Action 36.8%, Indie 23%
- #26 Eximius: Seize the Frontline
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 739 reviews2021
Dev: Ammobox Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
EXIMIUS is a FPS/RTS hybrid that focuses on squad-based combat. The game features an intense 5v5 multiplayer experience with each team comprising of 4 Squad Officers and one Commander.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #27 SKIPCHASER
78% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2018
Dev: PonywolfPub: Ponywolf, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
SKIPCHASER is a story-driven sci-fi fantasy shooter with procedural missions, deep weapon customization and action/adventure elements.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #28 Bite the Bullet
76% matchMixed56% of 89 reviews2020
Dev: Mega Cat StudiosPub: Graffiti Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Run, Gun and Eat your way through this roguelite RPG shooter. In a world where every enemy is edible, what you eat and how much you eat drives everything from your waistline to branching skill trees to weapon crafting. Shoot fast. Eat big. Satisfy your appetite for destruction.
Why similar: Action 40.3%, Adventure 33.4%, Indie 26.3%
- #29 Lords of New York
80% matchMixed52% of 63 reviews2017
Dev: Lunchtime Studios, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Imagine playing poker, but with unique superpowers. Lords of New York is a new kind of poker game where you have incredible gifts you leverage to your advantage to dominate at cards. With RPG-like skills, battle your way to victory against exciting and hilarious characters.
Why similar: Indie 69.6%, Adventure 30.4%
- #30 Sky Noon
75% matchVery Positive86% of 665 reviews2018
Dev: Lunar RoosterPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sky Noon is a First-Person Shooter with Brawler mechanics. Players are equipped with a grappling hook, a lasso and an arsenal of weapons and abilities. There is no health in Sky Noon - players eliminate their enemies by pushing and pulling them off the Floating Frontier.
Why similar: Action 61.4%, Indie 38.6%
- #31 Orb Labs, Inc.
76% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2018
Dev: Next Friday Interactive
Windows
In this room-scale VR action-puzzle stealth game, infiltrate a mysterious company's secret underground lab protected by deadly laser systems. Throw "orbs" to move, hide, defend, attack and survive!
Why similar: Stealth 28.7%, Action 26.4%, Adventure 26.2%, Indie 18.7%
- #32 Welkin Road
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: Gregor PaničPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Armed only with your grappling hooks and fearless nature, run, leap and swing your way across a dreamy skyscape to reach the pillar of light. Welkin Road is an elegant, first-person puzzle-platformer that combines parkour and grappling-hook-powered aerobatics.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 36.4%, Indie 25.8%
- #33 Coffee Crisis
75% matchMixed66% of 182 reviews2018
Dev: Mega Cat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Coffee Crisis is an neo-rogue brawler that puts you in the shoes of the only baristas on Earth with enough heavy metal in their veins to fend off an alien assault. Play solo or join up with a friend to fight across eight locations ranging from your Coffee House HQ to the far reaches of outer space.
Why similar: Action 51.5%, Indie 35.9%, Adventure 12.6%
- #34 Tower Fortress
74% matchVery Positive92% of 155 reviews2017
Dev: KeybolPub: Nitrome
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A mysterious tower has risen! It emits plumes of noxious green smoke from its summit making people sick. Strange creatures infest the tower but if nobody tries to ascend it we will all be doomed! Are you that hero?.....
Why similar: Action 38.4%, Adventure 35%, Indie 26.6%
- #35 FIREWORK
73% matchPositive93% of 44 reviews2018
Dev: Ivan Zanotti's MyMadnessWorks
Windows
Follow Yan the Defective One through his fight against the Fire Troops and let him unveil the Facility's mystery in this action platformer.
Why similar: Action 38%, Adventure 36.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #36 Subaeria
73% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: iLLOGIKA
Windows
Subaeria is an intense action puzzler where players use their wits to manipulate their enemies into destroying each other.
Why similar: Action 38%, Adventure 36.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #37 DubWars
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 293 reviews2016
Dev: MURA InteractivePub: WOBBL3 Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
DubWars is a music game that combines the mechanics of a top-down shooter with the power of Dubstep and Electronic music. Your weapons are synced to the music creating times of intense weapon load outs and calm moments where your survival skills are tested.
Why similar: Action 54%, Indie 46%
- #38 Lonely Skies
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Suspension Games
Windows
Pilot your rickety airship along a dangerous journey in a 2D vehicle adventure game, stealing parts and fuel to keep your ship running long enough to reach safety.
Why similar: Action 38.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #39 Spheroids
72% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2017
Dev: Eclipse GamesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Spheroids is a 2D sidescroller that mixes mechanics from classic platformers such as Super Mario Bros or Umihara Kawase with 'combat' sections inspired in Pang! (or Buster Brothers), within a comical science-fiction setting inspired by films and series such as Futurama, Rick & Morty, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future or Spaceballs.
Why similar: Action 38.4%, Adventure 36.6%, Indie 25%
- #40 FISK
71% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: fjy741
Windows
《FISK》is a simple 2D platform game made by myself, based on the classic jumping elements of 2D platform game. You can complete the mission through enhanced action capability by interaction with monsters using simple buttons.
Why similar: Action 38.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #41 Beyond Arm's Reach
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Round Squares Studios
Windows
Beyond Arm’s Reach is an action adventure game, set in a 1950’s steampunk universe. You have to use the physics based grappling hook, to navigate around the world, defeat enemies and solve puzzles along the way.
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #42 Hero Barrier
72% matchMixed63% of 76 reviews2017
Dev: The Rock StudioPub: Beijing New Era Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
As a RPG type TD game,player will be playing as the DEAD Knight. Defending the kindom,even the whole world from the catastrophe brought by the Devil Lord-Zypheria Die with glory on the battlefield,or Survive to the end of the doom?It's all on you !
Why similar: Action 38%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 25.9%
- #43 I_AM.exe
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paulo P. NetoPub: Indie
Windows
I_AM.exe is a first person action game with a focus on exploration. You wake up inside a vat on a strange place full of robots trying to kill you. Explore, solve puzzles and fight your way through different areas as you try to find a way out and understand what is going on and just who are you.
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #44 PIXEL ZUMBI
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 43 reviews2018
Dev: Amilton NevesPub: Neves
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Destroy the evil being that entered the Earth's atmosphere, causing an apocalypse.
Why similar: Action 38.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #45 Gangsta Sniper 2: Revenge
70% matchMixed47% of 36 reviews2019
Dev: Tero Lunkka
Windows
Gangsta sniper is back. Collect and find money bags in new levels
Why similar: Action 38.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #46 Super Cube Smash
71% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: Lewis Fitzjohn
Windows · Mac
Super cube smash is a rhythmic action game that generates music as you play. It is set on the mysterious ancient spaceship 'The Dawrfstone' where the most peculiar and unfortunate of events have occurred.
Why similar: Action 38%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #47 Into the Ice
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Homegrown GamesPub: Intr Studio Pty Ltd
Windows
4 years in the making, finally coming to your PC: Into the Ice - Nazis of Neuschwabenland - the official sequel to the multiple GOTY and award winner "Into the Dark". Adventure, Shooter, Trash, Comedy, Politics and Nudity. You. Have. Been. Warned!
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #48 The Construct
70% matchMixed63% of 145 reviews2016
Dev: Cannibal Panda Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
“The Construct” is a classical top-down view adventure indie game. The gameplay mixes retro-like gameplay mechanics with modern features and a spectacular atmosphere and mysterious storyline.
Why similar: Action 38.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #49 DUSTWUN
57% 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: Action 37%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #50 Zarvot
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: by Sam Eng
Windows · Mac
Two things: a charming co-op adventure and a cutthroat competitive party game. Be a tiny, adorable cube with hopes, dreams, unrequited loves… and unlimited destructive power.
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #51 Slug Slasher
57% 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: Action 37%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #52 Ravager
69% matchMostly Negative38% of 26 reviews2017
Dev: Nikhil TailorPub: Horse Beverages
Windows
Ravager is a 2D Open World Platformer with 12 unique characters to ravage your way across the land. Each character has different upgrade abilities to fight against the army of Crows and Trolls, who are trying to unleash the Nidhoggr into the world.
Why similar: Action 38.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #53 Fight For Freedom
66% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Shadowhite Animators LTD.
Windows
Fight For Freedom is a First person shooter Game where you have to perform like a special agent, In this game you have to destroy a group of worshipers who sacrificed people for immortality from last 35 years and rescue some hostage from worshiper. Remember , The Worshiper are well armed.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 36.3%, Indie 26%
- #54 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
69% 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: Action 38.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #55 Mortal Manor
67% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Dogless Head Games
Windows
Take part in a difficult 2D Metroidvania adventure where you will fight through the Manor and surrounding areas to find the source of fog consuming the world. Collect weapons, relics, and experience to upgrade your character to fight, or avoid, the hordes of monsters sent out by the scientist.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 36.3%, Indie 26%
- #56 ARC Continuum
69% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: Akimbo Creations
Windows
ARC Continuum is an action/adventure game set on a new sci-fi world rich with ancient history that has been violently occupied by the vicious alien Kasaar race. Use the ARC to slow, rewind or manipulate the flow of time and liberate your homeworld.
Why similar: Action 38.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%