- #1 The NADI Project
97% matchMixed67% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Monkeys Tales Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%
The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.
Why similar: Adventure 68%, Indie 32%
- #2 Drop Alive
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,561 reviews2016
Dev: Invi GamesPub: Ipsilon Developments
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 43%
“Happiness is only real when shared, especially with a water drop”. (Isn’t that how it goes?). Take a deep breath and immerse yourself in the greatest journey you’ll ever set out on with the cutest friend.
Why similar: Indie 51.6%, Adventure 48.4%
- #3 Three Twenty One
96% matchMixed48% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: B-Side Games
Windows · Mac
3:21 is divided into smaller adventure games that open a dialog with the player and encourage interaction and exploration. Through the player's interactions with these that serve as a timeline of events, they discover what 3:21 is really about and just how real games can get.
Why similar: Adventure 55.1%, Indie 44.9%
- #4 Rescue Bear Operation
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 81 reviews2016
Dev: Cascade Game FoundryPub: Thought Ops LLC
Windows
Rescue Bear Operation is: a one-level, all ages, child friendly, free to play, mini game designed to create awareness about wildfires. We'll be donating at least 30% of our net proceeds to charitable causes.
Why similar: Indie 50.9%, Adventure 49.1%
- #5 Dawn
94% matchVery Positive91% of 868 reviews2017
Dev: Brave Rabbit GamesPub: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Dawn is an atmospheric 3D platformer in which players guide a druidic creature named Ash through a beautiful environment to bring life and light back to a dead tree at the center of the world.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #6 The Itch
94% matchVery Positive90% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: Dane ShermanPub: MAGIC Spell Studios
Windows
The Itch is a 2D platformer centered around using heart rate as a resource to make objects move, grow, and shoot in order to find a doctor who can cure a deadly virus. The path to the doctor is full of obstacles as you traverse cavernous environments filled with plant life and people.
Why similar: Adventure 53.6%, Indie 46.4%
- #7 MANDAGON
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 5,723 reviews2016
Dev: Blind Sky Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Explore Mandagon, a world inspired by Tibetan theology and philosophy. With a focus on life and death, discover what it means to make a true sacrifice . . .
Why similar: Adventure 53.3%, Indie 46.7%
- #8 Project "Fire"
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 111 reviews2016
Dev: Distant AlliancePub: ElvenNeko
Windows
Welcome to "Project Fire" - free adventure\role-playing game! This game is for the people who love good stories, fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk universes, and tactical combat in jrpg style. And yes, it's free for everyone, and let no one be left behind!
Why similar: Adventure 59%, Indie 41%
- #9 The Raintime
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 54 reviews2020
Dev: socah developmentPub: socah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .
Why similar: Adventure 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #10 Telepathy Zero
91% matchMixed46% of 89 reviews2017
Dev: Creashock studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Use your psychic abilities to compete against other test subjects and prove your psychic powers!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #11 Sprout
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,743 reviews2018
Dev: Jeff NuszPub: Mindful Mammoth
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 7%
Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.
Why similar: Adventure 51.7%, Indie 48.3%
- #12 REALITY
90% matchMixed68% of 106 reviews2016
Dev: Grey Reality Studios
Windows
REALITY is a FREE short First-Person horror game, it uses a graphical style to represent the present mood of the game. It gives the player the ability to choose and get slightly different results. The game has many mysteries you might want to uncover.
Why similar: Adventure 52.9%, Indie 47.1%
- #13 Mermaid Mission: Titanic
89% matchVery Positive94% of 68 reviews2018
Dev: Arglefumph
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Play as a mermaid, who has been sent to the human world to discover why they're building a giant ship called the Titanic.
Why similar: Adventure 53.9%, Indie 46.1%
- #14 A Game About
87% matchVery Positive90% of 881 reviews2018
Dev: byolivierb
Windows · Mac
A Game About is a free, short, lo-fi point & click adventure that tasks the player with living with their daily routine. Through day to day choices, life changes in imperceptibles and unexpected ways.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #15 Short Life
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 192 reviews2018
Dev: gametornado
Windows
Choose your hero and get to the finish without losing your head :) Avoid obstacles and try to complete the levels with all your body parts.
Why similar: Adventure 51.5%, Indie 48.5%
- #16 Runeous: Part One
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 142 reviews2016
Dev: Novel Tea GamesPub: Lost Fables
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 10%
Join our heroes in a world ravished by the wars of it's past in this exciting Visual Novel experience!
Why similar: Indie 62%, Adventure 38%
- #17 Sisyphus Reborn
85% matchVery Positive93% of 1,085 reviews2016
Dev: Edwin MontgomeryPub: Myshkin Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 18%
A short atmospheric adventure game about finding meaning in a meaningless world.
Why similar: Adventure 68.6%, Indie 31.4%
- #18 Island Marauder
84% matchVery Positive81% of 182 reviews2019
Dev: MSOL
Windows
Indie Puzzle Game
Why similar: Adventure 51.8%, Indie 48.2%
- #19 About Elise
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 149 reviews2017
Dev: Toni Domínguez
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Dive into this first person puzzle adventure and become Owen Scott to rescue your daughter Elise, who has been kidnapped by the organisation known as Kiminster Labs. By doing it, you will discover the big piece of the puzzle that is About Elise as a whole.
Why similar: Adventure 54%, Indie 46%
- #20 Return Alive
81% matchMixed59% of 168 reviews2024
Dev: KOG
Windows
Return Alive is a Free-to-Play Top-down Shooter Game.
- #21 404Sight
82% matchVery Positive85% of 1,762 reviews2015
Dev: Retro Yeti Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 37%
404Sight is a free game made in support of net neutrality. It’s a 3D playground runner influenced by parkour running with the addition of a special ping ability that reveals areas that can speed the player up or slow them down.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #22 Solarium
83% matchMixed69% of 130 reviews2017
Dev: Sunfleck Software
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Challenge yourself. What do you really know about plants? Want to find out? And win some points to build your own custom plants? Then welcome to Solarium!
Why similar: Adventure 71.1%, Indie 28.9%
- #23 Snail Trek - Chapter 1: Intershellar
82% matchVery Positive95% of 176 reviews2017
Dev: Phil Fortier
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Chapter 1 is now free! Relive 1980s nostalgia in this text parser driven graphic adventure game. You and your molluscan crew embark on an epic journey to find a new home world. In Chapter 1 - Intershellar, wake up from your long trip only to discover a saboteur has been at work.
Why similar: Adventure 59.4%, Indie 40.6%
- #24 True or False Universe
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 209 reviews2017
Dev: Vladimir Maslov
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Challenge yourself to learn new and interesting things every day with the new free-to-play trivia game!
- #25 The Way of Life Free Edition
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 6,195 reviews2016
Dev: CyberCoconut
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 14%
The Way of Life makes the player relive the same life's experiences from the point of view of three characters of different ages: an adult, an old man and a child.
Why similar: Indie 53.5%, Adventure 46.5%
- #26 Realities
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 266 reviews2016
Dev: realities.io
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Explore what was out of reach before - travel to mesmerizing real world places and discover their stories!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #27 Orpheus's Dream
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 238 reviews2019
Dev: Orpheus's Dream Team
Windows
Orpheus’s Dream is a 3D isometric-inspired puzzle game with storytelling elements. Explore an amnesiac’s family house and recover lost memories of him and his cat.
Why similar: Adventure 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #28 THANATOS
75% matchVery Positive85% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Angela NguyenPub: WahooCat Productions
Windows · Mac
THANATOS is a first-person psychological horror mystery game that involves finding clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets to prevent a friend from taking their own life.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #29 Dung Beetle Adventure
75% matchVery Positive93% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Eight Bit Skyline
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short (and free) adventure game, where you are tasked with helping a hurt, hungry, but inventive dung beetle on its journey to find something to eat near the end of the mushroom season.
Why similar: Adventure 66.5%, Indie 33.5%
- #30 Survivor
78% matchMixed64% of 115 reviews2019
Dev: Reija Meriläinen
Windows · Mac
Outwit, Outplay, Outcast.
Why similar: Adventure 55.1%, Indie 44.9%
- #31 Spark and The Digital Daydream
77% matchVery Positive93% of 71 reviews2019
Dev: Luminescence Interactive
Windows · Mac
Spark and The Digital Daydream is a story-based puzzle-platformer where puzzles are intertwined with live-action video and an original soundtrack. Follow Spark, a video game character lost in the world of his creator's computer, as he searches for a way to save his game and something even greater than himself.
Why similar: Adventure 53%, Indie 47%
- #32 Etheria: Restart
72% matchMixed58% of 262 reviews2025
Dev: XD
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 33.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Etheria is an Ethereal Hero RPG. To preserve the flame of civilization, humanity transfers their consciousness into the virtual world "Etheria". And you, as a Hyperlinker, will enter the virtual world to uncover the hidden truths of Etheria.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #33 Food Drive: Race against Hunger
70% matchVery Positive93% of 118 reviews2026
Dev: Gamers for Good
Windows
Food Drive: Race against Hunger is a fun driving adventure into food bank awareness. By collecting food and making timely deliveries you can work your way through 3 levels of driving, delivery, and fun.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 Relik
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 180 reviews2017
Dev: Iron 27
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Solve classic puzzles in head-to-head PvP. Sharpen your mind and test your wits against other players.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 DIVE: Starpath
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 62 reviews2018
Dev: Gravity Well Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 8.6 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: Indie 100%
- #36 Mars Underground
74% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: Matt Sanderson
Windows · Linux
Mars Underground is an apocalyptic adventure where you relive the same day over and over. With each cycle new items can be picked up and topics unlocked. Explore the possibilities of this timeloop and uncover multiple endings.
Why similar: Adventure 55.9%, Indie 44.1%
- #37 Albert and Camille's Little Lille Adventure
73% matchVery Positive90% of 71 reviews2021
Dev: The VALIDATE Network
Windows · Mac
Explore a war-torn city, avoid capture by soldiers, and collect the supplies Albert and Camille need to create the first vaccine to fight tuberculosis. As you progress, you will learn about the methods used to create BCG and how vaccines work.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #38 Jivana
71% matchVery Positive91% of 686 reviews2022
Dev: Team JivanaPub: Rubika Supinfogame
Windows
Jivana is a story-driven adventure game. Embody Aelis, a water priestess who uses her powers to open the path for her community, forced to flee after the appearance of a huge cataclysm. Explore the enchanting landscapes of Jivana, use your ability to manipulate water and lead your people to safety.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #39 Don't Let Me Fade
67% matchVery Positive99% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Adventure 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #40 Beyond the Stars VR
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: S1T2
Windows
The land is dying. The people are sick. Are you the hero destined to save them? Journey through interactive puzzles to rediscover ancient secrets as you bring health and happiness back to the land in this stunning (and free!) adventure exploration experience.
Why similar: Adventure 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #41 Live Adventure
71% matchVery Positive90% of 110 reviews2021
Dev: Live Adventure TeamPub: Rubika Supinfogame
Windows
Throw yourself into an exciting adventure! Live Adventure is a 2nd person game where you follow the journey of two young explorers, Lence and Reel in search of their parents. Solve the mysteries of a lost civilization while exploring a lush forest littered with mysterious ruins.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #42 Antenna
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,715 reviews2016
Dev: LWNA
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 146.3 hrs≥1hr: 18%
A machine ponders its loneliness. It scans the radio spectrum for an answer to its question.
Why similar: Indie 61.6%, Adventure 38.4%
- #43 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
73% matchMixed69% of 698 reviews2015
Dev: InSayn
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
You love riddles and to combine logically? You love Jump 'n' Runs? You don't want to fight but you still want a challenge? Then you will love this Journey to the Center of the Earth! Control three adventurers with unique powers at the same time, or guide them individually in this narrative 2D puzzle platformer...
Why similar: Indie 57.5%, Adventure 42.5%
- #44 Team Rise
69% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2023
Dev: Homyrest
Windows
Discover the fun of team climbing! Explore all the secrets, shortcuts and traps! Share this adventure as a team, or do it alone.
- #45 Project Skylab
73% matchMostly Negative28% of 57 reviews2018
Dev: Not Awful Studio
Windows
Project Skylab is an educational Algebra Sci-fi FPS that takes place on the surface of Mars.
Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%
- #46 Friendly Fire
68% matchVery Positive95% of 1,035 reviews2020
Dev: The Cat Hive Developers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you save the world from an unknown destiny?
Why similar: Adventure 53.8%, Indie 46.2%
- #47 Accident Liquidator
65% matchVery Positive93% of 148 reviews2024
Dev: Teamey
Windows
Accident Liquidator is an exciting 3D arcade action-adventure game that throws you into situations where each day presents new challenges necessary for survival.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Rescue Party: Live!
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 214 reviews2022
Dev: TAG StudioPub: 505 Games
Windows
Play alone or with your friends in this cooperative adventure for 1 to 4 players. Make the right moves, and coordinate with your team to rescue people in danger. Have fun, and act fast! The success of your team depends on your choices. Save as many lives as possible in a frantic race against time!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 ERROR: Human Not Found
70% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2018
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
Error: Human Not Found is a visual-novel/puzzle game with portions of point-and-click adventure. Play as Grace and work to uncover the cause of death for the first AI to inhabit a physical body. Solve 4 types of computer-science based puzzles that increase in difficulty as the story progresses.
Why similar: Adventure 55.1%, Indie 44.9%
- #50 Bone Voyage
69% matchMixed64% of 347 reviews2019
Dev: Team CobblestonePub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Bone Voyage is a third person adventure game set on a Vessel to the Afterlife. Use your skeletal body to your advantage and explore the ship in unique ways to uncover the mystery of the ship and its inhabitants!
Why similar: Adventure 61.1%, Indie 38.9%
- #51 La Rana
67% matchVery Positive95% of 453 reviews2019
Dev: Frog Paw StudiosPub: SMU Guildhall
Windows
In La Rana, players explore the lost Rain Temple of Rana. Play as a small spirit frog who is the temple's last remaining caretaker. Traverse its grand chambers and winding passages to restore its former power and revive your fellow frog spirits along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 50.4%, Indie 49.6%
- #52 Let's Save Mice
61% matchVery Positive95% of 93 reviews2026
Dev: SadSofa Entertainment
Windows
Join up to three friends in this mouse-sized adventure! Explore, gather resources, solve puzzles, and battle enemies as you try to bring your kidnapped brothers and sisters home.
Why similar: Adventure 76.9%, Indie 23.1%
- #53 Haeven
70% matchMixed64% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Cleril Calamity Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Explore fantastical interpretations of different parts of the mind including the Hippocampus, Ego, and more! Battle against your oppressive Subconscious as you struggle for control of your mind.
Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%
- #54 Paws and Soul: First Step
69% matchMixed59% of 81 reviews2020
Dev: ELECTROSTALIN ENTERTAINMENTPub: Games Operators
Windows
Paws and Soul: First Step is a story introduction to Paws and Soul. Adventure game about reincarnation. Turn yourself into a wolf, explore mysterious forest and reveal every secret of your past life!
Why similar: Adventure 56.6%, Indie 43.4%
- #55 Kellogg's Gut Bacteria Reef
67% matchPositive84% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: NAKATOMIPub: KELLOGG
Windows
Explore the human gut like never before!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #56 Tales of Rein Ravine
62% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,190 reviews2024
Dev: Maia the Horsegirl
Windows
Tales of Rein Ravine is an indie horse game that aims to challenge its players with unique real-life inspired riding, as well as tell an intriguing equestrian story to a young adult audience.
Why similar: Adventure 75.5%, Indie 24.5%