- #1 MC Lars: The Video Game
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Synersteel Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac
Jump, fight, and fly your way through a dozen songs from MC Lars’ discography!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #2 Fleeting Ages
96% matchMostly Negative30% of 30 reviews2016
Dev: R&G Software
Windows
Fleeting Ages is an open world game with strong survival elements and with a constantly changing world and ages. The game features a huge open island and seven time periods that change as the player progresses.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #3 Sprinter
96% matchPositive81% of 43 reviews2016
Dev: Light Step Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run through this compelling action game with minimalist art style and maximum story.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #4 Space Ghost Pirate Zombie Slayer
95% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2016
Dev: Brandon Brizzi
Windows
Is there intelligent life in the universe? Of course not, it's filled with Zombies! Sensing the opportunity for plunder, the Ghost Pirates have taken to the stars on their ethereal ships. Now it is up to YOU to take command of the Space Ghost Pirate Zombie Slayer fleet and lead them against the Zombie menace!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #5 Alchemist Penguin
94% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: Foot in the Box, LLC
Windows
Take control of the Alchemist Penguin in the relentless battle against his dinosaur aggressors! Face off against a never-ending army of dinosaurs under increasing difficulty--and utilize a huge variety of weapons, potions, and techniques to aid you in your fight.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #6 Grid Masters
94% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2016
Dev: Angry Hangar Games, LLC
Windows
Fight for victory in a 1v1 or 2v2 grid-based deathmatch in Grid Masters. Represent your favorite faction as one of five characters (with more to come), each with their own unique abilities. Toss massive bombs, rocket punch, or send explosive robot minions to take your enemies down!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #7 Ride the Bullet
93% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2015
Dev: Jordan Sendar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a gun for hire with nothing to your name but your rifle and a single bullet. You have a special gift. You can control this bullet. Your objectives: take jobs, kill, build your reputation, and work your way up the crime ladder.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #8 Break Stuff With Coins
91% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: MKJ Interactive
Windows
Ever wanted to just let loose and Break stuff? Break Stuff with Coins lets you do just that. Toss coins at stuff, and break or manipulate it, all in a wacky physics world. Unlock new coins, each with unique bonuses or destructive effects that will definitely spice up your playstyle.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #9 Helena The 3rd
92% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2015
Dev: Only Human Studios
Windows
Pilot a jumping tank through a maze of underground caverns and dungeons in search of new abilities you'll need to progress deeper into the levels. Each upgrade is hidden out of reach of your tank, and can only be obtained after exploring on foot.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #10 HVRGUN
85% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Jonathan Bartram
Windows
Welcome to HVRGUN, the worlds best Assault Pilot Training program. Where you'll be placed directly into a virtual battlefield and test your ability to dodge, shoot, and destroy an endless onslaught of enemies!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #11 Exocomets
91% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Matthew Giordano
Windows · Mac · Linux
Exocomets is a basic yet difficult action game where you try to survive as long as possible against incoming waves of comets. One hit, and your ship is dead. Survive for as long as possible by collecting powerups and stars to beat every level!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #12 Delay
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: Matt FrankPub: baconlovarstudios
Windows
Inspired by Superhot, Delay is a fast-paced action platformer in which the player must manipulate time to cheat death and defeat their enemies.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #13 Breaking Bones
89% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Duplicator Studio
Windows
Breaking Bones is a survival game using the technology of photogrammetry. It's a First Person Melee game with some shooting component. Travel the world through quarries, islands, forests, mountains, deserts and more. Fight skeletons, dragons and dinosaurs. At your disposal a large number of deadly weapons, catapults and bows.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #14 Miner Wars Arena
90% matchMostly Negative34% of 35 reviews2012
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Fast-paced arcade game inspired by the classic PC game, Tunneler, with state-of-the-art top-down view, 2.5D gameplay in a fully destructible environment. Enjoy unlimited gameplay variation by adjusting arena settings, such as terrain, map size, number of AI-controlled bots, technology level and many more.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #15 Trail of Destruction
87% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Kim Niklas Schlüter
Windows
You fly a ship that leaves behind a trail. If you complete a circle, enemies within will be destroyed. Exciting abilities and a dynamic arena with events and items make this difficult task more feasible.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #16 Dawn of H'btakh
86% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: megaeggz
Windows
Bizarre roguelike arcade FPS. The fish demon H'btakh is trapped in a maze, luckily he has lots of super powers.
Why similar: Action 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #17 Ice Cream Surfer
86% matchMostly Negative24% of 50 reviews2015
Dev: Dolores Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 10%
The evil Broccoli, irritated by the fact that kids hate vegetables and love ice creams, has created an army of vegetables to destroy the flavor galaxy. Only the Ice Cream Surfer with the help of his 4 super tasty friends can prevent that.
Why similar: Action 55.5%, Indie 44.5%
- #18 Prison Bomber
84% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Sai Attack
Windows
Prison Bomber is an oldschool arcade shooter, based on classic 2d action games. Your main goal is to rescue your ally from enemies prison. Fight your way through the mass of enemies and beat the high-score.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #19 Epsilon Jump Prime
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Energize Labs Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Epsilon Jump is a retro, Geometry Wars-inspired arcade game based on a unique warping mechanic where you warp through enemies to destroy them, chaining warps together to get a high score.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #20 Elly The Jelly
82% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Seize Studios
Windows · Mac
Are you ready for the Jelly? Get this awesome Party Game where you have to take your (former)friends out of the arena! Shoot pieces of yourself and use several items!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #21 Quantum Flux
83% matchMostly Negative28% of 18 reviews2015
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows · Mac
Quantum Flux is an old school style rogue-like following the Artemis. A prototype vessel aiming to save humanity from destruction, to do so it must find a way through a difficult and hostile universe to create a new home for the human race.
Why similar: Action 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #22 Weird creatures
82% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2016
Dev: mchernykh
Windows
Blow-up your mind with the easy fantasy shooting simulator. You will travel across forests, deserts and snowy mountains, accompanied by a powerful ally vehicle to care of. Various weird inhabitants resist you to collect art pieces. Ever struggle to be rewarded.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #23 Encounter of Galaxies
81% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Obi-Wanya
Windows
Encounter of Galaxies is a vertical scrolling shooter with an open world and elements of trade.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #24 The Nothing
80% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: DDD Wares
Windows
The Nothing is a surreal and atmospheric action game with a new aesthetic, procedurally generated elements and perma-death - Designed for multiple short "runs", with endings based on the route you've chosen and the actions you've taken.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #25 GRAY GROFA
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TPM.CO SOFT WORKS
Windows
GRAY GROFA is an unparalleled side-scrolling shooter puzzle game developed for the 8-bit MSX computer. 2 years have been spent hand-tuning the game's visuals, movements and puzzles in a tireless pursuit for aesthetic perfection.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #26 Ice Demon
74% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: Bob HoodPub: Suits & Sandals
Windows
How long can you survive? In this arcade-style game, employ hand to hand combat and freeze your enemies to get as many kills as possible before you are defeated.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #27 Usagi Yojimbo: Way of the Ronin
81% matchMixed45% of 31 reviews2015
Dev: HappyGiant
Windows · Mac
Usagi Yojimbo: Way of the Ronin is a new, old school game based on the classic Dark Horse Comic Graphic Novel by Stan Sakai, and seen in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles over the years. This is an old school, simple, fun Retro brawler done in the vein of the classic TMNT Stand Up Arcade game.
Why similar: Action 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #28 Snakes on an Extradimensional Plane
79% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2016
Dev: Team Neon SnakesPub: Fox Buchele
Windows
Abstract HTC Vive game where you help adventurous space mice with tiny little jetpack escape the glowing snakes! Collect powerups for points and compete on the leaderboards!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #29 Break The Food Chain
78% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: TEHO GamesPub: Caffeine Overdose
Windows
Break The Food Chain is an arcade game about cute little animals shooting at each other in the face like there is no tomorrow.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #30 Jolly Riot
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victorian Clambake
Windows · Mac · Linux
A rip-roaring fighting game featuring a hardy crew of swashbucklers!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #31 Still Dark At Dawn
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Heavy Kick Games
Windows
Built from the ground up for VR, Still Dark At Dawn's highly immersive gameplay will test your grit and ability to trust all of your senses, in a hope survive The Dawn.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #32 TRIGGERED
76% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: eelDev
Windows
TRIGGERED is a speed runner game, get from point A to point B as fast as you can, without dying.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #33 Molly - Can you survive 100 nights?
75% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Cupantae.ie Games
Windows
Molly - Can you survive 100 nights?
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #34 Scuffle Scoundrels
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Moped Games
Windows
Scuffle Scoundrels is an oldschool arcade brawler for 2-to-4 rivals of all ages. With explosive powerups, deadly hazards, and imposing animal captains, it's sink or be sunk in this fast paced pirate romp!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #35 Magnetron
77% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2015
Dev: Jay-Run
Windows
Have you ever dreamt to give life and motion to your creations?MAGNETRON CAN!Magnetron is a sandbox game where fantasy is the undeniable lifeblood for your own creations.In a motionless place, explore, design, build and bring to life whatever you want.Never Ever Still!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #36 Rubicon Approach
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Carbon Fiber Games
Windows
Rubicon Approach is a fast paced zero gravity shooter with a unique free movement system. Engage an enemy team in high speed, adrenaline fueled action across multiple maps.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #37 Aeve:Zero Gravity
77% matchMostly Negative24% of 135 reviews2018
Dev: DIG Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 24%
"Aeve:Zero Gravity" is an arcade space shooter about battles in open space. In a classic mode "Shoot'em'all"
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #38 Ship Happens
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Daygames
Windows
Ship Happens is a 4-player local party game where you use your pirate ship to outplay, outwit and murder your opponents. Load your cannons and get ready to hurt your friends. Best played within punching distance of your friends.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #39 Rogue Singularity
72% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: Considerable Content
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rogue Singularity is a high-speed infinite obstacle course. Navigate the perils at the edge of a rogue singularity as it tears worlds apart. Customise your robot and face infinite challenges, fighting to survive. Traverse universes to discover what lies beyond the void.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #40 PROJECT VELOCITY
74% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Omnirift
Windows · Mac · Linux
PROJECT VELOCITY is a Bullet Hell and Endless Runner where the speed never stops rising, and the obstacles never stop coming. Fight and cruise your way through obstructions and bosses with ever-increasing difficulty!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #41 Duck's Inferno
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: GROm Games
Windows · Mac
Duck’s Inferno is a fun and challenging Action/Runner game. Fly through the nine circles of Dante’s Hell! Improve your hand agility dodging fatal blows and slashing demon hordes. Grab awesome prizes and win the epic battle against Evil!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #42 Meteor Crush VR
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2016
Dev: XIERRA Games
Windows
Protect our planet from incoming meteoroids! Use your VR controllers to crush every one coming your way.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #43 Boogie Bot
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: From the end Games
Windows · Mac
Boogie Bot is a fast and challenging survival platformer about getting in the zone and finding your groove. Your battery is always draining. Stop thinking and let instinct take over. Only then can you safely evacuate the boogie bots before the No Good Music Haters blow planet Boogula-5 to bits.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #44 Ascend
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Newspaper Hats
Windows
Ascend is a first-person VR Arena Shooter where you rise to greatness in a crucible of visceral and kinetic combat. Rise above your enemies by engaging in intense aerial warfare and leverage the power of VR with our unique lean motion flight system.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #45 StickyBots
71% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Potion Games
Windows · Mac
This frantic platform shooter is all about momentum, transformation and sticking to the ceiling. Test your metal with online competition and a complete single player campaign. Launch your fist and swap characters mid fight in this first of its kind platformer!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #46 Elemental Combat
71% matchPositive84% of 45 reviews2017
Dev: AVRLON VR Studio
Windows
Set in a world of fantasy and martial arts, Elemental Combat is a competitive Virtual Reality game that blends the speed and intensity of a modern FPS with the strategy of classic arcade fighting games. Use your hands to let fire fall from the sky or raise mighty walls of earth in VR.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #47 Malazard: Magic Defense
73% matchPositive80% of 25 reviews2016
Dev: Invictus Games Ltd.
Windows
Unleash the magic inside you!Purify the demonic legion with a set of powerful abilities.The collapsing world relies upon you, experience what it means to control all Magic!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #48 Polygone
71% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Green Pepperoni Software LLC
Windows · Linux
local-coop / local-multiplayer twin-stick shooter
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #49 Edge Guardian
72% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: Hypothermic Games
Windows
Edge Guardian is a surreal-futuristic action beat-em-up for the HTC Vive. You have been summoned to defend the fringe of reality itself from a horde of reality-eating void cubes. Find yourself immersed in many different, eerie landscapes, punching your way through wave after wave of enemies.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #50 VS Round 1
70% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Radi LewisPub: OpenWorldComics
Windows
Versus is a fighting game starring comic book characters from Independent publishers/creators. The game is 2d with 3d models featuring specials, parrys and team-ups. You can build a team or run solo but you must make your way through 12 levels beating each character on each team until their health bar reaches 0.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #51 DWVR
70% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Mad Triangles
Windows
Feel like an action hero while switching seamlessly between an arsenal of guns, swords and spells. Your VR controller becomes an extension of your arm as you blast the hordes of enemies.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #52 Escape Lizards
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Egodystonic StudiosPub: Independent
Windows
Escape Lizards is simple: Tilt the platforms to roll your lizard egg from the start point to the finishing bell at the end of the level. However, things are never as simple as they seem...
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #53 Chuckie Egg 2017
68% matchMixed67% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Downsideup Games, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Run, jump, dodge, collect eggs! There's a new Harry in town as the popular platform game debuts on PC.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #54 Hyper Storm
66% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: MotionHouse
Windows
Hyper Storm is an arcade, thrilling shooter with backview. Defeat your enemies and compete for the best scores by controlling futuristic fighters that rush towards your enemies on a stage from ground to space.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #55 Rest in Jelly
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Little Miracles Games
Windows
Welcome to “Rest in Jelly”, a videogame that will test your platforming ability and precision in ways that will drive you crazy. Control Jack the Devil in his adventure to terminate the fearful jelly rebellion. All you will need is just a button… plus an almost non-human accuracy and nerves of steel.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #56 Shooting over it : to be a star
68% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: Megaton
Windows
Shooting over it: to be a star draws the adventure of a starfish that wants to be a star. When you swim along the cave in the deep sea, you will encounter things you have never seen before. Follow the starfish friends who help you out of the deep sea Could a cute starfish be a star?
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #57 STARCATCHER
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: John PlewePub: Nevercenter
Windows · Mac
STARCATCHER is an experimental wave-based arcade game, currently in development. It's simple, unique, and intensely hard. Protect the heart!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%