- #1 Lost in a Forest
96% matchMixed50% of 88 reviews2015
Dev: Konsordo
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This game is a parody of horror games, rather than running and hiding from the monster you are now able to fight back!
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 34%, Indie 28.4%
- #2 SEAL Team 12
95% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2015
Dev: Social Loner Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
When evil lurks on the horizon, you need the best. You need the strongest. You need SEAL Team 12! As a member of SEAL Team 12, you must battle through massive enemy waves and break the enemies spine with the force of truth, justice and explosions!
Why similar: Adventure 37.3%, Action 35.5%, Indie 27.2%
- #3 Beyond Dimensions
94% 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: Adventure 38%, Action 34.4%, Indie 27.6%
- #4 The Sun at Night
94% matchMixed47% of 45 reviews2014
Dev: Minicore Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Explore, blast, and shield your way through massive branching levels as Laika the space dog. This 2D adventure features customized gameplay and an incredibly deep narrative.
Why similar: Action 37.5%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 26.9%
- #5 The Body Changer
93% 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 40.1%, Action 32.1%, Indie 27.8%
- #6 Hoggy 2
92% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Raptisoft
Windows
Hoggy 2 is the long awaited sequel to the 2010 mobile hit, Hoggy! Take control of Hoggy and Hogatha, two painfully adorable slime-molds, on a quest to rescue their children from the Moon Men! Slime molds are sticky... so whenever you jump, you stick to the ceiling!
Why similar: Adventure 41.2%, Action 32.6%, Indie 26.1%
- #7 Mystery Castle
91% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: Runestone Games Limited
Windows · Mac
A retro-inspired masterpiece, Mystery Castle is the one puzzle game that will rule them all!
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Action 33%, Indie 28.9%
- #8 Welkin Road
90% 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 40.1%, Action 33.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #9 Parasite
89% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2016
Dev: Raphael Gervaise
Windows · Linux
Parasite is a non-linear retro platformer with a mix of action and puzzles. The player controls an alien worm wanting to get rid of a human space colony on his planet. There are multiple shapes to unlock and to switch between to facilitate the navigation and sabotage the complex.
Why similar: Adventure 40.1%, Action 33.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #10 Journey of Johann
88% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: Apapappa Games
Windows
Journey of Johann is an action adventure platformer with puzzle elements where you go through different obstacles to reach the goal. Use your weapons as tools such as climbing, blocking hits, lighting up darkness and defeating enemies.
Why similar: Action 36.2%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 27.7%
- #11 Mutant Mudds Super Challenge
87% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2016
Dev: Atooi
Windows
Here comes a challenge! Mutant Mudds Super Challenge!! Over 40 levels filled with malicious mutant mudds. This adventure is designed for super players; featuring a host of new platforming challenges and unique boss fights that will test your skills.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 34.9%, Indie 28%
- #12 the LAST LETTER
86% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Donuts Co. Ltd.
Windows
The Last Letter is a VR Narrative Puzzle Game. An enigmatic letter of girlfriend’s Grandma accompanying an antique board game will lead you to the discovery of a mysterious and fantastic world.
Why similar: Adventure 41.8%, Action 31.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #13 Time, Space and Matter
83% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Vaclav HudecPub: Blameless Games
Windows · Mac
Time, Space and Matter (TSM) is a first-person action adventure focused on puzzle solving through gravity-manipulation. Find out what happened in an advanced-tech facility prior to your arrival and uncover the existence of a mysterious artificial intelligence.
Why similar: Adventure 42.1%, Action 32.1%, Indie 25.7%
- #14 Distorted Reality
86% matchMostly Negative21% of 71 reviews2017
Dev: Berdochan
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 16%
Distorted Reality is a first-person survival horror, which takes place in the hospital of Alexandria. For mysterious reasons, the usual laws of physics in the hospital completely stopped working.
Why similar: Adventure 41.8%, Action 31.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #15 MacGuffin
84% matchMixed61% of 36 reviews2016
Dev: Concrete Games ClassicPub: Gem Rose Accent
Windows
Good. Your plane tickets are ready. I already made a bank transfer of 1 000 000 on your account. We'll get in touch when you're inside the nuclear plant. You must understand that not getting the MacGuffin is not an option.
Why similar: Adventure 40.7%, Action 32.2%, Indie 27%
- #16 Lost with Dinosaurs
84% matchMixed40% of 140 reviews2017
Dev: Mihai Morosanu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 22%
Collect power up that help you reach all placed in order to collect mushrooms. Avoid dinosaurs that will steal them from you
Why similar: Adventure 40.5%, Action 32.5%, Indie 27.1%
- #17 Mystic Ruins
82% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Elite Games
Windows
Join Strade the explorer on his mission to investigate the Mystic Ruins. Navigate its labyrinthine corridors, solve its puzzles, gather treasures, and survive the onslaught of monsters within.
Why similar: Adventure 40.2%, Action 33.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #18 Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan
85% matchMostly Negative26% of 94 reviews2014
Dev: bitSmith Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A Celt-punk action-adventure set in a future Ireland ravaged by technomagical war and economic collapse, humanity clings on by using the remnants of technology that survive. Our hero must venture into lands unexplored, twisted by strange and mythical powers.
Why similar: Adventure 41.4%, Action 31.6%, Indie 27%
- #19 The End: Inari's Quest
82% matchMostly Negative35% of 106 reviews2018
Dev: MataPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
You're a fox in a cyberpunk city full of hostile robots. You must escape while helping another fox and its cub
Why similar: Adventure 40.2%, Action 33.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #20 HereAfter
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 43 reviews2017
Dev: Brown Studios
Windows
Deep in an old forgotten laboratory, a failed experiment reboots from its sleep. With no memories, it now must explore the many different areas of the extensive complex with the help of an AI called MUSE. Will it find the light of redemption it longs for, or will it find a dark and terrible truth?
Why similar: Adventure 40.2%, Action 33.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #21 Holobunnies: The Bittersweet Adventure
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: q-bit GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
An action-exploration, retro sidescroller adventure game about holographic bunnies in space.
Why similar: Adventure 40.6%, Action 33.6%, Indie 25.7%
- #22 In Passing
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
A first-person 3D platforming experience through a broken mind turned against you.
Why similar: Adventure 39.8%, Action 32.6%, Indie 27.6%
- #23 Kindled Cavern
79% 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 40.2%, Action 33.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #24 Izeriya
80% matchMixed58% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: LigaGamesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Izeriya was a powerful city…but forces of evil captured it. The little man named Trix is heading to this city to destroy the evil within.
Why similar: Adventure 40.2%, Action 33.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #25 WRONGED
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 reviews2017
Dev: Joshua Roland
Windows
WRONGED combines adventure-puzzle gameplay and a low-poly, pixelated art style with an oppressive horror atmosphere. Use only household items and your own wits to escape a warped, claustrophobic nightmare world shrouded in darkness.
Why similar: Adventure 39.9%, Action 32.4%, Indie 27.7%
- #26 PLUTONIUM
79% matchMixed45% of 192 reviews2017
Dev: Ch.ZBK
Windows
PLUTONIUM: Distorted Shelter is a 2D adventure game about a major event that took place in a highly developed city state called Plutonium.
Why similar: Adventure 40.1%, Action 32%, Indie 27.9%
- #27 Orphan
76% matchPositive80% of 45 reviews2018
Dev: Windy HillPub: 2Dimensions
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 2D sci-fi platformer about a young boy who may be the last survivor of an alien invasion. Under the cover of night, he ventures out in search of other life and to seek revenge against the machines that have taken over the Earth.
Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Action 32.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #28 Above
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mighty Moth
Windows · Mac
Above is an aeronautic action-adventure game, in which you fly around exploring islands scattered in a vast ocean, upgrade and modify your aeroplane to progress, in order to find your lost brother and uncover the mystery behind the abominations that dwell beneath the waves.
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #29 Evil Robots From N1M
78% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Jake Conner
Windows
Play as a space-faring mercenary on a mission to a distant world in this side-scrolling action shooter.
Why similar: Adventure 40.1%, Action 33.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #30 Unearthing Colossal
78% matchMixed42% of 31 reviews2016
Dev: Power Up to Maximum
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Take on the role of an epic titan of death named Reaper. Your nemesis the Bringer of Life has broken from tradition - the cycles of life - and created a sentient race known as the Humans. Now it's up to you as Reaper to complete the cleansing cycles of life and death.
Why similar: Adventure 40.1%, Action 33.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #31 Afandas Survival
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SchmidtGames
Windows
Afandas Survival is an open world survival game. After a plague wipes out most of the population, you're one of the few survivors on an island called Afanda. Already at the beginning you realize that surviving isn´t easy. To stay alive, you must search for equipment and provisions.
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #32 Last Anime Boy 2: Hentai Zombie Hell
75% matchMixed63% of 62 reviews2018
Dev: CSMPub: W.T.B.
Windows
In 2088, Nazi Muslims achieved great success in the field of chemical weapons and, not to fall into captivity and fight even after death with the infidels, they created a serum that turned them into zombies.
Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Action 32.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #33 Do Not Fall
76% 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 39.7%, Action 32.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #34 The Platformer Gun
74% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Daniel Dante
Windows
Use your Platformer gun to create your way to surpass the obstacles and escape big evil dudes in 80+ levels!
Why similar: Adventure 39.6%, Action 32.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #35 Goo Saga
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2016
Dev: Toka Loka Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Goo Saga is a platform adventure game where the player guides an elastic creature named Goo in a perilous journey to find his creator – and with him, the mysterious purpose of his own creation. Will Goo succeed? Puzzles, deadly traps and an army of foes in a labyrinthine underwater lab block his way.
Why similar: Adventure 39.6%, Action 32.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #36 To Hell With Dave
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pretzel Bros Studios
Windows
'To Hell With Dave' is a narrative-driven adventure platformer for the connoisseur of the absurd. Explore a world full of charming characters and twisted humor. If you're a fan of challenging action, wacky puzzles and foul language, this game is for you!
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #37 The Sheltered
75% matchMixed65% of 51 reviews2015
Dev: Benjamin FamigliettiPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
"The Sheltered" is a top-down adventure game with an emphasis on exploration and decision making. Combining old school graphics and simple gameplay with modern storytelling and a multitude of choices, "The Sheltered" pushes a choice between safety and morals.
Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Action 32.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #38 Slug Slasher
63% 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: Adventure 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #39 Darwin's Test
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 73 reviews2018
Dev: Wolfalone Studio
Windows
Darwin’s Test is a first-person action and puzzle game that immerses you into a futuristic universe. You play as an amnesic patient following an experimental care protocol. Who are you ? Where are you ? So many questions to solve to discover the truth !
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 32.9%, Indie 28%
- #40 New World: The Tupis
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Novo Mundo
Windows
New World: The Tupis is a 3D FPS adventure game about the South America colonization, during the 16th century, fight using only a bow, against enemies using powerful arquebuses and swords, save members of your tribe, and they will fight on your side.
Why similar: Adventure 40.6%, Action 33.6%, Indie 25.7%
- #41 A Blind Legend
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 334 reviews2016
Dev: DowinoPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A Blind Legend is the first-ever action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes! Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound.
Why similar: Adventure 40.6%, Action 33.6%, Indie 25.8%
- #42 All Fall Down
73% matchMixed67% of 39 reviews2015
Dev: khos85
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Set in a distant future world, this is a unique first person shooter/platform/puzzle game where you need to find out why all the debris is falling and save your world from destruction.
Why similar: Adventure 39.6%, Action 32.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #43 Beyond Arm's Reach
61% 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: Adventure 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #44 Nachzehrer
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eric Sauer
Windows
[h1]Nachzehrer[/h1]Your fear of being in the dark comes true in this short single player horror game. You find yourself stuck at a power plant at night, when suddenly the lights begin shutting off. However, attempting to turn them back on may cause you to meet your fears.
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #45 homicide
71% matchNegative6% of 17 reviews2019
Dev: KiKi
Windows
This is a decryption game (first-person perspective),The player is at a murder scene.The player must first find the body,Then find five clues scattered around the scene,Then you can pass the level.There are two levels in this game,The player focuses on the corpse or clue for more than 2s,Can trigger the dialog box (meanings the body or...
Why similar: Adventure 39.5%, Action 33.1%, Indie 27.4%
- #46 Captain's Tail
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Biting Mascot
Windows
Dash into action as the fluffiest pirate of the Seven Seas! Take on platforming challenges and explore a variety of islands.
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #47 Mausoleum of the Medusa
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 89 reviews2016
Dev: New Hell Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
'Medusa' is a love song to brutal, old-school arena combat. Perseus and Medusa are trapped in a deathmatch--but the gods raise them from the dead! Prove yourself with first blood, then compete for the top spot on the Steam leaderboard!
Why similar: Adventure 40.7%, Action 33.6%, Indie 25.7%
- #48 A Rip In Time
60% 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 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #49 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
73% 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 39.8%, Action 33.4%, Indie 26.8%
- #50 Save her, from dreams
68% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Ziyi Zhang
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter the dream, save the one you love.
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #51 Holobunnies: Pause Cafe
70% 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: Adventure 39.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 26.5%
- #52 Escape 2042 - The Truth Defenders
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: OrionSoft
Windows · Linux
Discover a futuristic fast-paced platformer game in pixel art. The game takes place in three different environments (prison, desert, forest) and is interspersed with 2 mini-games, including a reversed “Shoot’em Up” and an original rappelling game!
Why similar: Adventure 39.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 26.5%
- #53 Into the Ice
58% 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 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27.1%
- #54 Destroy Space Aliens
69% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Flying Fire, LLC
Windows
Challenge yourself and enter the castle of the Legendary Sir Frank Jones V to destroy invading space aliens! Slash, blast, and dash your way to victory in this retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 39.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 26.5%
- #55 Pilli Adventure
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: TavoPub: Calaca studios
Windows
Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Pilli Adventure features the Pilli & Paco as they blast their way through 7 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the Pilli Adventure online comic.
Why similar: Adventure 39.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 26.5%