- #1 D.F.R.: The Light
97% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #2 Guardian of The Demon Valley
96% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #3 One Bit
96% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #4 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
95% 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 37.3%, Adventure 36.5%, Indie 26.2%
- #5 Solmec: Hollow Planet
94% 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: Action 36.9%, Adventure 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #6 Kindled Cavern
94% 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 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #7 Code Name: Origin
92% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #8 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
93% 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 37.8%, Action 35.8%, Indie 26.3%
- #9 Domino Effect
91% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #10 Ghostie Quest
91% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #11 Lair of the Titans
90% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #12 BioMech
89% 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 38.8%, Adventure 35.1%, Indie 26.1%
- #13 After Rain: Phoenix Rise
89% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #14 The Royal Cosmonautical Society
88% 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 36.2%, Action 35.3%, Indie 28.5%
- #15 Rogues or Heroes
87% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #16 In the thrall of darkness: The gift of dreams
86% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #17 Jobous the alien R
86% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Veibyn
Windows
Jobous and his wife is living the dream in outer space. When suddenly ( dramatic music ) his wife want some new shoes. Oh no she is going to use all their space money (jup she is kinda a money spender). Jobous Immediately panics. What should he do? Jobous takes his ship and travel after her.
Why similar: Action 36.9%, Adventure 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #18 Into the Ice
78% 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: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #19 Flight 732
85% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #20 Zarvot
77% 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: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #21 INFINITY CHALLENGE
84% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Simple Gaming - JVJ
Windows · Mac
A 3D Rail Shooter game with high quality tracks! Take the challenge and choose one of the many maps and defeat vicious waves of enemies while traveling through mysterious worlds! Face fearsome machines and creatures that will do whatever it takes to destroy you and end your race to save the galaxy!
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #22 Baxter's Venture: Director's Cut
84% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #23 Survivor of Eschewal
83% match7 user reviews14% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Luke CrippsPub: Fellowplayer
Windows
You suddenly wake up and find yourself on a beach of a strange island. This island does not feel right from the start because you could have swarn this island was not here the previous night. Now all you can think of is getting off this island alive.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #24 Alien Planet
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Falkrus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Avoid the aliens and bandits in this skill testing game. Keep your cool as you work your way towards freedom on this planet of relentless enemies. Alien planet uses the simplicity and feel of an 80's style game to create an addictive and challenging experience.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #25 Star Surveyor
73% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #26 PAPA'S TIME MACHINE
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Techone Game Studio
Windows · Mac
《PAPA'S TIME MACHINE》 is a brand new action & adventure game in which players will play the role of a father and start an adventurous journey in different stages of life.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #27 Fractal Chicken
81% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: FireSine LLC
Windows
Explore, craft, fight, and build your way through multiple infinite voxel worlds, look at fractals, have a good time! Play multiple game modes, builld automated machines, chop trees, build a base, turn into a helicopter, upgrade weapons and equipment and more! Oh, and most importantly, awaken true fractal power!
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #28 Slavistan 2
80% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: PozojPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Go on an adventure through in a small place with a big personality inspired by slavic memes where you'll meet colorful characters and get to know this place in and out. Find a way to get home, befriend some people, beat up others, have a drink, and if you don't find any trouble, trouble will find you.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #29 A Rip In Time
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: iV Games
Windows
Time travel in a new twisted way. The game’s antagonist will be pulling you through “Rips in Time”. The further you explore, the more intertwined the worlds become! Experience the early 1900’s and future all in one, thanks to the power of Unreal Engine 4.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #30 Terrarium Land
82% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Layer games
Windows · Linux
Do explore the world`s levels, find secret places, unique artifacts and bonuses. In the Terrarium Land world, destroy enemies and solve the puzzles in different levels. This colorful 3D arcade game has tons of adventure in store for you. Let it begin!
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Adventure 36.4%, Indie 27%
- #31 PRE:ONE
79% matchMixed67% of 30 reviews2018
Dev: PDDSPub: PDDS ENT
Windows
There’s always more than one path to victory. Use your own strategy to defeat Peyton, the mastermind of the Second Generation, and claim your freedom
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #32 Kitten Madness
79% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: David OgdenPub: LoveTrooper Entertainment L.L.C.
Windows
Kitten Madness is an open world fast pace game where you race a kitten through various levels and game types. Kitten Madness starts out as a single player game where you control a cute kitten performing the playful actions of a kitten.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #33 Pep-Pel
67% matchPositive86% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: SlugGlove
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run through each level as Pep-Pel! a goofy red goblin thing. In this beautifully hand drawn game. play through tons of fast-paced and difficult levels, each with there own challenge to master!
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #34 Lost Borderline
76% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2018
Dev: PigeonCube Studios
Windows
Lost Borderline is a retro pixel-art, hack & slash puzzle-crawler where the boundaries of reality are broken, giving you creative control over the sides of the screen to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #35 Black Mist
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Nyan_Fort
Windows
Black Mist is a 2D, roguelike action game. All stages are covered by darkness, thus it is necessary to shoot shiny bullets to the darkness and move carefully. Bullets and your life are shared as "Energy", and the enemy's power and ferocity will be increase with the passage of time.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #36 VR INTERACTIVE TRAILER: Runes
75% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: StormBorn Studio
Windows
Experience this VR trailer in full immersion inside your headset and get a sneak peek of Runes, a single player, story-driven VR adventure game in which you are Leth, a renegade wizard fighting for survival in a virtual fantasy world.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #37 LOST CAVE
75% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: SANBAE
Windows
At an old cave where ancient ruins lie, an unknown life slowly lurks beneath. Put on your gear, become an adventurer, and explore the caverns filled with many secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #38 Zarya and the Cursed Skull
77% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Rodz
Windows
“Zarya and the Cursed Skull” is an action-adventure game that tells a story based on a fantastic novel. In addition, several dungeons filled with creatures and puzzles await you.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #39 DUSTWUN
65% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #40 Parvaneh: Legacy of the Light's Guardians
76% matchMixed62% of 69 reviews2016
Dev: Bearded Bird Game StudioPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fadia, a young and courageous boy sets about protecting ‘Naria’, his home village, from the Khazdaks who are trying to pollute their river.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #41 I_AM.exe
64% 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: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #42 Mage VR: The Lost Memories
73% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Baptiste DegrysePub: DBloke SPRL
Windows
Maybe you don't remember, but some of us do remember that we are Mages. Try a gesture, see if it starts fire in your hands, maybe you are one of us. Use this power and please save the world from this new malediction.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #43 Stickman World
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dilmer ValecillosPub: Dilmer Games
Windows · Mac
Stickman World takes place in an underground world after the hero "Stickman" awakes in an unknown world. Play through an amazing story where Stickman has to solve puzzles in hopes to discover a way out of this world. The goals for each level are simple and require collecting all the hidden items through Stickman's journey.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #44 Midnight Awake
72% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: KRISSADA LAEBUTPub: BEBONOZM
Windows
Midnight Awake is a horror adventure game. The story begins when a boy wakes up at the middle of the night and faces with some mysterious events. His dad is missing and what should he do with the strange phone call? Let’s find out what happened to him and his family.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #45 Talewind
74% matchMixed59% of 112 reviews2016
Dev: WindLimit Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Talewind is a whimsical platformer where you play as a young boy that is trying to save his village, but dont let its looks fool you, it will challenge even the most experienced platformer veterans. trailer music: bensound.com
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #46 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...
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #47 HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NEO FUTURE LABS
Windows
"HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER" is a first-person metroidvania with physics-based combat built in Unreal Engine 4. Explore mysterious dimensions, unlock new abilities, and fight back against evil with your hammer friend!
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #48 Untouchable
70% matchPositive79% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: 动想网络Pub: 拇指游玩
Windows · Mac
Untouchable is a fantasy-themed adventure game, where players wander into a world of fantasy and begin an adventurous journey.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #49 Welcome To The Dreamscape
71% matchMixed42% of 36 reviews2018
Dev: FYRE Games
Windows · Mac
The Future is here, but are you ready?... Stepping into the shoes of a silent amnesiac, you must traverse through the virtual worlds of your own dreams, finding clues that may lead you to the answers of your mysterious past, but not all is as it seems...
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #50 Super Bugman Extreme Ultra
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: SyKoHPaTh
Windows
A unique 2D platformer with puzzle elements where you can jump, pick stuff up, place it down, throw onions, and use special abilities on enemies. Play through the Story Mode, have fun in Creative Mode, tackle the Procedural generated Chaos levels, and even design your own levels in the level editor.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #51 Tom vs. The Armies of Hell
71% 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: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #52 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #53 ORBITOR
72% matchMixed66% of 35 reviews2015
Dev: Evil Aliens
Windows
Navigate the mysterious Quantum Nebula and dismantle it's gravity machine piece by piece before it destroys The Galaxy.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #54 RECHARGE COMPLETE
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rechargecomplete
Windows
RECHARGE COMPLETE is a third/first person shooter featuring a hard-strutting jet-packing android created to destroy job-stealing robots! Blast enemies with homing missiles, lasers and EMP grenades! Jet pack, boost and skii your way through peril. Be the robohero you were made to be!
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #55 Armoured Engines
58% 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 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #56 R.A.F.A.
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Cristian Villalba
Windows
Imagine that you are a child and want to explore new worlds as an astronaut. Imagine a platformer with the ability to jump across an entire solar system. Imagine a story that won’t left you enough time to separate your face from the screen. Challenge yourself and be part of this arcade style videogame – RAFA. R.A.F.A.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #57 Bad Bots Rise
69% match8 user reviews13% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: High Leap StudiosPub: Lamina Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Bad Bots Rise is an action platformer shooter. Dodge bullets, evade traps and destroy enemies in 2D sidescrolling levels. Explore different areas and choose the right character for the right scenario. Defend Earth from alien invaders!
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #58 Production Sound / 产声
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Aemaeth Monster
Windows
A fairy tale of growing up alone
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #59 Gearend
68% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: SolarLune Games
Windows · Linux
Gearend is a small 2D non-linear action-platforming exploration game. You control a small robot named Epsilon-98, or Eps, as he explores a hostile robotics research facility. Fight, restore, and explore as you search for the humans who awakened you.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.7%