- #1 Mekabolt
96% matchVery Positive88% of 179 reviews2019
Dev: SomepxPub: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows
Use your trusty Mekabolt device to manipulate robots, solve a variety of puzzling levels and obtain batteries to fix the robots!
Why similar: Robots 46.3%, Puzzle 27.2%, Action 26.5%
- #2 Rocket Bots
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2020
Dev: ic3bug
Windows · Linux
Rocket Bots is a fast-paced FPS where you destroy waves of hacked robots in simple compact arenas. Build custom ones via Steam Workshop and fight for divine glory.
Why similar: Robots 44.4%, Action 28.9%, Indie 26.6%
- #3 Akimbot
94% matchVery Positive81% of 707 reviews2024
Dev: Evil RaptorPub: PLAION
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
In the action-adventure platformer, Akimbot, blast your way through armies of robots, pilot spaceships and forge your own path to save the universe from impending doom! Set in a sci-fi world where only robots exist, travel the galaxy and experience non-stop robot mayhem and explosive action!
Why similar: Robots 59.5%, Action 40.5%
- #4 Zombie Ballz
95% matchMixed68% of 153 reviews2017
Dev: Almighty GamesPub: My Way Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Arcade-style physics puzzle game where you kill undead & keep villagers alive. Level challenges offer a variety of weapons with their own physical properties. Choose the right weapon and solve puzzles by exploding crates, magnetizing metal, burning, slicing, dicing and bouncing your balls to victory
Why similar: Puzzle 38.5%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.4%
- #5 Tech Blast
94% matchVery Positive92% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Galactic Geckon
Windows
Tech Blast is an action-puzzle game where a young mechanic explores an abandoned planet, solving puzzles, building mechanisms, and battling ore insects.
Why similar: Robots 66.2%, Puzzle 33.8%
- #6 Chip
93% matchVery Positive83% of 1,169 reviews2014
Dev: Coatsink
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Chip is an isometric puzzle game with robots, electricity and fancy dress! The player must help recharge Chip - a plucky little red robot - who has been imprisoned by the nefarious villain, Rust.
Why similar: Indie 30.1%, Robots 27.7%, Puzzle 21.2%, Action 21%
- #7 Gunbot Diplomacy: Blast Off
91% matchVery Positive87% of 141 reviews2025
Dev: Sleepy SentryPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive the wasteland in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from tons of build-defining modules and wacky bots for a new experience every run. Prologue teaser build.
Why similar: Robots 52.8%, Action 41.3%, Indie 5.8%
- #8 Blitz Breaker
92% matchVery Positive88% of 152 reviews2016
Dev: Boncho Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A simple, fast paced platformer with one small change: Your character can't run. Play as an adorable robot named Blitz and help it escape the factory it was built in. The only problem is, it seems like everything is trying to break you!
Why similar: Action 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #9 Gearbits
89% matchVery Positive96% of 432 reviews2023
Dev: Quackpond Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fast-paced mecha themed third person shooter.
Why similar: Robots 55.2%, Action 34.2%, Indie 10.6%
- #10 Gravulse Experimental
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 228 reviews2020
Dev: illystrayPub: verkme
Windows
Welcome to Gravulse, an innovative space curvature laboratory that is trying to "flip" the laws of physics, literally. Here you have to go through many test levels using various new technologies!
Why similar: Action 45.8%, Robots 32.2%, Indie 22%
- #11 Interstellar Logistics Inc
91% matchVery Positive81% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Exalted Guy Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Interstellar Logistics Inc. is an action puzzle game. The player shoots an object from Point A to Point B using the gravity of planets, stars, and black holes while hitting certain points along the way. There's a lot more to the game, but that is the basic idea.
Why similar: Puzzle 100%
- #12 Unmechanical
89% matchVery Positive92% of 473 reviews2012
Dev: Talawa GamesPub: Teotl Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A carefully created world with unique environments and an engrossing atmosphere, Unmechanical offers over 30 unique puzzles of exploration and adventure!
Why similar: Puzzle 50.5%, Indie 49.5%
- #13 Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
88% matchVery Positive92% of 1,030 reviews2012
Dev: Drinkbox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
Why similar: Action 38.5%, Indie 32.9%, Puzzle 28.5%
- #14 Iron Brigade
87% matchVery Positive86% of 1,208 reviews2012
Dev: Double Fine Productions
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #15 Galactic Glitch
84% matchVery Positive90% of 853 reviews2025
Dev: Crunchy Leaf Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A physics-powered action roguelike. Grab asteroids, catch missiles, and hurl them back at swarming enemies. Build wild loadouts, defeat colossal bosses, and push deeper into a collapsing galaxy.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #16 ElecHead
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,305 reviews2021
Dev: NamaTakahashi
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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Why similar: Action 29%, Puzzle 28.7%, Robots 25.7%, Indie 16.6%
- #17 Morphies Law: Remorphed
86% matchVery Positive85% of 93 reviews2019
Dev: Cosmoscope GmbH
Windows
Morphies Law is a wacky mass stealing, robot morphing 3D shooter where size really matters!
Why similar: Action 57.4%, Indie 42.6%
- #18 Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 292 reviews2012
Dev: Bootsnake Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Use your wits, weapons, and the city itself to save Franklin from the zombie apocalypse in this exciting indie action puzzler.
Why similar: Indie 57.2%, Puzzle 42.8%
- #19 RoboCo
82% matchVery Positive88% of 204 reviews2026
Dev: Filament Games
Windows
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
Why similar: Robots 58.1%, Indie 19.6%, Action 12.2%, Puzzle 10.2%
- #20 Gravity Badgers
85% matchMixed61% of 450 reviews2013
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Step into the space suit of valiant gravity badger Captain T Bayback as he ventures into the deadly depths of deep space to save his friends, family and the universe itself from the threat of the deadly Evil Honey Badgers, aka the Hellsett.
Why similar: Puzzle 34.9%, Indie 33.1%, Action 32%
- #21 Mechstermination Force
83% matchMixed53% of 158 reviews2020
Dev: Hörberg ProductionsPub: Flyhigh Works
Windows
Join the Mechstermination Force and save the world from the gigantic MegaMechs!
Why similar: Action 45.8%, Indie 35.2%, Robots 19%
- #22 Kumoon : Ballistic Physics Puzzle
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 80 reviews2015
Dev: Lucky You Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A unique puzzle game : a nonviolent trickshooting challenge with gamepad VR option.
Why similar: Action 33.6%, Robots 29.3%, Indie 25.1%, Puzzle 12%
- #23 Defy Gravity Extended
78% matchVery Positive86% of 8,545 reviews2016
Dev: Paul FischPub: Fish Factory Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.
Why similar: Indie 41.4%, Puzzle 31.7%, Action 26.9%
- #24 Rollers of the Realm
79% matchVery Positive89% of 707 reviews2014
Dev: Phantom Compass
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Bounce, spin, and battle through scenes of an epic storyline with a band of medieval misfits tasked with reclaiming the world from dark and ancient magic. Your characters are the balls—meeting new characters unlocks new sets of equipment and abilities!
Why similar: Action 37.1%, Puzzle 33.9%, Indie 28.9%
- #25 Rustbucket Rumble
81% matchMixed56% of 378 reviews2015
Dev: Reactor ZeroPub: Scrap Yard Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Rustbuckle Rumble is a side-scrolling, team-based, arena combat game - WITH ROBOTS! Inspiration for the mechanics was taken from classic run and gun games mixed with more modern, class-based, multiplayer shooters. It’s capture-the-flag where the players are the flags.
Why similar: Robots 51.8%, Action 28.4%, Indie 19.9%
- #26 Laser Disco Defenders
79% matchVery Positive83% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Out Of BoundsPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A self-inflicted bullet hell that combines retro sci-fi with the sounds and sights of the disco era
Why similar: Robots 52.7%, Action 27.5%, Indie 19.8%
- #27 Gravitas
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,038 reviews2019
Dev: Galaxy Shark Studios
Windows
Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.
Why similar: Puzzle 61.3%, Indie 38.7%
- #28 Escape Machines
80% matchMixed41% of 687 reviews2015
Dev: Mint Age StudiosPub: Back To Basics Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Escape Machines is an addictive Science Fiction single/multi-player/co-op adventure shooter in the near future! Artificial intellect and robots fight against their creators. You must take control of the robots and save people.
Why similar: Robots 36.5%, Action 36.3%, Indie 27.2%
- #29 Blast Course
75% matchVery Positive90% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Amiguito Studios
Windows
Blast Course is a first-person puzzle-platformer centered around the classic game mechanic of Rocket Jumping. Control Kit in a day at work testing "Hyperboom", a revolutionary transport technology based on explosives.
Why similar: Puzzle 51.9%, Action 27.7%, Indie 20.3%
- #30 Infiltraliens
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Salt Grain Studio
Windows · Linux
Infiltraliens is an action adventure game in which you take on the role of Gorp. Place 52, the world's most advanced and well-guarded military base is holding your alien friends captive. Can you make your way through the obstacles and pass the guards to save them?
Why similar: Puzzle 100%
- #31 What The Hack!
73% matchVery Positive97% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Nigel HuensPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
What The Hack! Is a humoristic, story puzzle game, where you, a computer program, tries to avoid getting destroyed by escaping a facility. Doing so by hacking and hijacking devices in your surroundings.
Why similar: Robots 48.5%, Puzzle 29.3%, Action 22.2%
- #32 bobo robot
76% matchVery Positive89% of 79 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A wacky metroidvania. ⚡ Meet weird characters, unlock new abilities and complete a mysterious mission . . .
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #33 Keebles
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 98 reviews2015
Dev: Burnt FusePub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
An addictive physics-based vehicle building puzzle game. Build weird and wonderful vehicles using whatever you can find. Master rockets, balloons, parachutes and more. Save as many Keebles as you can, and be quick - the Whale at the End of the World won't wait forever.
Why similar: Indie 53.9%, Action 46.1%
- #34 Robot Detour
72% matchVery Positive99% of 191 reviews2024
Dev: Nozomu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
А fun and innovative puzzle game about a wired robot who delivers batteries to his wireless friends.
Why similar: Robots 53.4%, Puzzle 24.6%, Indie 22%
- #35 Worbital
74% matchVery Positive89% of 475 reviews2019
Dev: Team Jolly Roger
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #36 Zero G Arena
73% matchVery Positive89% of 709 reviews2018
Dev: Jonathan Wood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Zero G Arena is an arena shooter with zero gravity, ragdoll physics, grappling beams and magnet boots
Why similar: Action 59.9%, Indie 40.1%
- #37 Ion Assault
76% matchMixed69% of 181 reviews2010
Dev: CoreplayPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In ION ASSAULT players wield thousands of Ion Particles to blast, fry and disrupt anything on screen as you see fit! GAMEPLAY WITH A TWIST: By centering its gameplay around its unique fluid and particle physics system, ION ASSAULT adds a twist to arcade style space shooters!
Why similar: Action 58%, Indie 42%
- #38 TankBlitz
74% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: Onur Vural and Leigh ChristianPub: Onur Vural
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
TankBlitz is a brutal run and gun tank game with four playable tanks, each having access to four unique weapons and dozens of upgrades. You blast your way through twelve handcrafted levels crawling with over 50 different kinds of enemies, and numerous challenging bossfights.
Why similar: Action 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #39 Gravity Circuit
68% matchVery Positive94% of 3,462 reviews2023
Dev: Domesticated Ant GamesPub: PID Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.
Why similar: Robots 47.8%, Action 31%, Indie 21.2%
- #40 ACUVAC: A Suck and Blow Adventure
69% matchVery Positive98% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Curdle Games
Windows
Play as a Vacuum Cleaner! ACUVAC is a Cleaner Collectathon with Destruction, Limb Controls, and a mix of Arcade and Sandbox elements! Suck, Blow, and Swing your hose around in this vibrant, Physics-based Action-Adventure!
Why similar: Robots 78.4%, Action 21.6%
- #41 Redirection
73% matchVery Positive95% of 148 reviews2016
Dev: Daniel Ratcliffe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Unknown forces have scattered the Robot crew of the Starship Redirection across a perilous asteroid belt! In this 3D puzzle game, play as the ship’s computer and solve challenging puzzles to rescue your Robotic colleagues.
Why similar: Robots 43.3%, Indie 34.6%, Puzzle 22.1%
- #42 Grapples Galore
66% matchVery Positive91% of 9,915 reviews2025
Dev: Zoteling
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Grapples Galore is a fast-paced online multiplayer arena shooter with physics-based grappling hook movement, active ragdolls, and thrilling gunplay.
Why similar: Action 65.9%, Indie 34.1%
- #43 Sumoman
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 633 reviews2017
Dev: Tequilabyte Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Sumoman is an adventure puzzle platformer with advanced physics, destructible objects and the ability to reverse time. Solve various physical puzzles, trying to keep the unstable Sumoman on his feet in challenging environments.
Why similar: Action 40.7%, Indie 29.8%, Puzzle 29.5%
- #44 Galactic Thunderdome
69% matchVery Positive100% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Pansimula
Windows · Linux
Galactic Thunderdome is a 2D sci-fi platform brawler with a focus on physics-based mayhem. Best your friends with a vast array of weapons and gadgets in a world rich with emergent gameplay, explosive antics, and bloody remains.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #45 Kosmokrats
71% matchVery Positive87% of 124 reviews2020
Dev: Pixel DelusionPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Experience life in space using cutting edge drone simulation technology. You can never fail — build ships, make friends, live forever.
Why similar: Action 38%, Puzzle 36.4%, Indie 25.5%
- #46 Space Otter Charlie
70% matchVery Positive99% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Wayward DistractionsPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac
Adorable characters? Check! Makeshift weapons? Check! Otter dressed in a foam shark suit. Umm. Check? Join Charlie and his ragtag team of sea mammals as they jump, float, and rocket through Otter Space in this Zero-G Puzzle Platformer!
Why similar: Action 56.1%, Indie 43.9%
- #47 Bug Academy
69% matchVery Positive96% of 293 reviews2020
Dev: Igrek GamesPub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Bug Academy is a crazy action game in which you control a swarm of insects. Break through walls while delivering fridges, send rockets into space using chili sauce or catch ghosts with a vacuum cleaner. Finish all the lessons and pass the final exam to become Bug Academy graduate!
Why similar: Indie 82.3%, Puzzle 17.7%
- #48 The Superfluous
71% matchVery Positive81% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Voided Pixels
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
"The Superfluous" [soo-pur-floo-uh s] A cave-diving, sci-fi, rogue-lite, platformer with jet packs and lots of explosions. Help stop an apocalyptic asteroid on collision course with Earth. Lead a squad to the center of the asteroid and blast it into space dust.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #49 SuperSmash: Physics Battle
68% matchVery Positive93% of 941 reviews2019
Dev: XINGXIAN NET
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
SuperSmash is a physics base multiplayer fighting game.Character is fully driven by physics engine,and there are lots of different weapons and maps.It will provide you totally different battle experience.
Why similar: Action 58.4%, Indie 41.6%
- #50 Pizza Titan Ultra
70% matchVery Positive87% of 91 reviews2018
Dev: Breakfall
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Pizza! Giant robots! Lasers, destruction, evil cyborgs! Arcade action in a fully customizable mech with a pizzeria in its chest.
Why similar: Robots 41.8%, Indie 37.5%, Action 20.7%
- #51 Growbot
67% matchVery Positive90% of 202 reviews2021
Dev: Wabisabi PlayPub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An adventure about a robot saving her home from a dark crystalline force. Set upon a biopunk space station bursting with fantastic plants and aliens.
Why similar: Indie 68.9%, Puzzle 31.1%
- #52 Bad Bots
71% matchMixed55% of 260 reviews2013
Dev: Point Five ProjectsPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 45%
As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the “Titan Hauler” crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potential planet-destroying catastrophe.
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #53 Robot Wants It All
67% matchVery Positive89% of 187 reviews2019
Dev: Hamumu Games, Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Robot wants stuff! Go get it for him in this compilation of the metroidvania Robot Wants series, including an all-new Robot adventure!
Why similar: Robots 40.1%, Action 34.2%, Indie 25.7%
- #54 ACTION SANDBOX
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,004 reviews2022
Dev: Vona Soft
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Why similar: Robots 100%
- #55 Shiny
70% matchMixed48% of 81 reviews2016
Dev: Garage 227Pub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Left to fend for himself after mankind abandoned the doomed planet Aurora, robot Kramer 227 must find a way through 20 action-packed levels and rescue his robotic friends before Aurora crashes into its sun.
Why similar: Action 57.4%, Indie 42.6%
- #56 Nimbatus - Drone Creator
65% matchVery Positive90% of 270 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?
Why similar: Action 44.4%, Indie 38%, Robots 17.6%
- #57 Cargo! The Quest for Gravity
67% matchVery Positive80% of 446 reviews2011
Dev: Ice-Pick Lodge
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Create crazy, yet functional, custom vehicles to solve missions with your own unique style!
Why similar: Action 53.4%, Puzzle 46.6%