- #1 Cartesian
97% matchVery Positive96% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Mark Radocy
Windows
Cartesian is a unique puzzle-platformer with lasers as its core mechanic. Use lasers to reflect, push, destroy, and more as you search for your lost crew-mates. Dozens of interesting mechanics are introduced through over 70 varied levels.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #2 Plight
96% matchPositive83% of 36 reviews2018
Dev: NewFort StudiosPub: Castle Production Services
Windows
Delve into the immersive world of Plight, where darkness has consumed the planet, and its up to you to re-energize it! Challenge yourself with over 90 handcrafted levels that put your puzzle solving skills to the test!
Why similar: Adventure 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #3 Ludu
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 82 reviews2016
Dev: Léo-Games
Windows
Ludu (« ash » in breton) is a free adventure game created with RPG Maker 2003.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #4 Deep Below
95% matchMixed62% of 29 reviews2016
Dev: Confused Studios
Windows
Experience the tireless journey of a lone survivor caught deep underground striving to reach the surface using a unique and mysterious gauntlet that allows the impossible at your fingertips.
Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
- #5 Fragments
94% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Pulsarium
Windows
Fragments is an asymetrical VR/desktop game where 2 players fight each other to save their planet. Win after an intense battle with your friends, take as many fragments as you can in a time trial or quietly explore the universe of the game to extend the experience without any pressure.
Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
- #6 Kiitsu
94% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Alexandre Rozier
Windows
In this beautiful low-poly world, the water of your village has stopped flowing... endangering all your people ! You'll need bravery, intelligence and observation to solve each puzzle and bring water back to Kiitsu. But will you be up to the task ?
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #7 Where The Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats
92% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Dim Bulb GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats is a free standalone experience which acts as a companion to Where The Water Tastes Like Wine.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #8 7
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 243 reviews2018
Dev: Zac
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
7 is a puzzle platformer, literally, by the numbers.
Why similar: Adventure 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #9 Magika Land of Fantasy
90% matchVery Positive83% of 105 reviews2018
Dev: Vimes Entertainment
Windows
Play as a powerful wizard to repeal the attack on your kingdom! Use your spells to survive through an intense journey with deadly enemies and traps to save Magika!
Why similar: Adventure 56.6%, Indie 43.4%
- #10 We Walked In Darkness
91% matchMixed57% of 46 reviews2018
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
We Walked in Darkness is a 2.5D side scrolling platformer where you play as two sibling slaves trying to escape to the north via the Underground Railroad. Stealth your way through obstacles and solve puzzles as you learn what it was really like to have risked your life for the sake of freedom.
Why similar: Adventure 60.3%, Indie 39.7%
- #11 K'NOSSOS
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Svarun Entertainment
Windows
K'NOSSOS is a cold surreal adventure game about a man traveling the unknown reaches of the cosmos and the things he uncovers on his journey.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #12 One Night
89% matchPositive82% of 44 reviews2018
Dev: Dark Gaia Studios
Windows
A free-to-play retro style survival horror game that resembles classics from the Playstation 1 era.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #13 LETHE: Broken memories
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cuatro Monos Games
Windows
Enter into the mind of Alan Zane, a loving husband and father, who is on the brink of losing his memories. Alzheimer's disease is trying to block your way, will you be able to remember your own life?
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #14 Three Twenty One
89% matchMixed50% of 53 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 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #15 Flightless Classic
86% matchVery Positive90% of 375 reviews2017
Dev: Bristol Street Studios
Windows
Flightless is a tile-based puzzle adventure game. Navigate your way through a series of floating islands, each presenting a curious puzzle. A minimalist art style and calming piano soundtrack complement senses of wonder and discovery.
Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
- #16 The Flaws of Gravity
88% matchMixed62% of 237 reviews2017
Dev: Absorbed Studios
Windows
The Flaws of Gravity is a first-person puzzle game where you change the direction of gravity to solve puzzles and uncover secrets in a labyrinth.
Why similar: Adventure 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #17 DownWind
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jackson Clarke
Windows
Are you ready to leave your home? Join a Little Leaf on a Big Journey.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #18 Phenomenal Car Park Adventure: Digital Deluxe Edition
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Myshkin Entertainment
Windows · Mac
A walking simulator for cars - or "driving simulator" - about meaninglessness, car parks, and the end of the world. Or is it...?
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #19 The Masked Mage
84% matchMostly Negative27% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
The Masked Mage is a slow paced, peaceful metroidvania game focusing on exploration, atmosphere and a story about friendship, mystery and of course magic. There are no bosses to fight. Think of this as a sort of 2D walking simulator.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #20 A.V.
85% matchMixed64% of 39 reviews2015
Dev: FirstForever StudiosPub: MAGIC Spell Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A.V. is a first-person stealth-puzzle-musical-adventure game (Try saying that 5 times fast). The game places the player in the role of a rogue music-processing algorithm from a computer's sound systems. From this role, the player can view the world only through audible means.
Why similar: Adventure 58%, Indie 42%
- #21 Buratino
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zemen
Windows
Buratino is a 2D arcade game with light adventure elements for the ZX Spectrum 8-bit computer.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #22 Bob and Kuura: Lost in Snowglobe
82% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: BelleGames Ltd.
Windows
Snowglobe has been ruined by the Evil Duke's corporation and it's up to you to save it.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #23 DevilShaft: TheTower
82% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: SureCreatorPub: Metal Fox
Windows
DevilShaft: TheTower tells the story of the heroes who tried to fight evil from the very beginning of time. After the invasion of demonic forces on the ground, the heroes tried in every way to expel them from their land.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #24 More and More
81% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Project_lelz
Windows
The protagonist of this story will be Freek, a human being who found himself in the city of More. In this city there are citizens, who say that Freek is the chosen one, he will have to discover the truth to fulfill the prophecy.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #25 Dark Train: Coupe
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paperash Studio
Windows · Mac
Dark Train: Coupe is a steampunk visual novel made of paper, story prequel to Dark Train. Be a passenger, listen, discuss and decide what will happen next during your journey through the Border City. Meet Ann Tagrezbung; she is quite lovely, unmechanical and still human...
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #26 Castle Agony
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: The Pompous Pixel
Windows
Welcome to Agony. Inspired by the Resident Evil of old, the golden age of NES gaming and the Castlevania series, you play a local hero with a dog! Forced by your village to enter the crumbling castle filled with trickery, magic and monsters! Can you defeat The Vampire and live to see another dawn?
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #27 裁決者 -The White Butcher-
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erotes Studio
Windows
《裁決者》是款以極權島國為背景的冒險遊戲。遊戲中你將扮演調查局的副局長,並透過裁決案子替國家伸張正義。但在一次裁決中你意外地殺害了摯友「黃義雄」,使你首次對國家產生了疑惑。重重的危機,雨中,客廳等待著你的並不是虛無。而是屋外毫不知情的黃義雄獨生女「黃詠晴」......少女的笑容,開始了你的罪──
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #28 Quatro Luzes
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2015
Dev: Jardel Elias
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Quatro Luzes (from the Portuguese, Four Lights) is a 3D platformer game, where you have to swap between 4 worlds to proceed, using your brain and skill. You play as Atlas, a girl that lived in a blank, lifeless world, in her adventure to discover 4 colorful new ones!
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #29 KALEIDO STELLA
77% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: CHARON
Windows
"Does your eye see the stars?" Visual Novel ADV "Kaleidoscope Stella" fighting with the fate of the stars Circle CHARON presents a large-scale latest work set in the universe. Peaceful lives of boys and girls are shattered by the invasion of one alien. In order to protect this blue planet, you have to fight.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #30 TrapLand
77% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: TandemPub: Versus Studio
Windows
Completely new game experience in adventure games with a unique coop-mode.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #31 Escape from the tomb tower
76% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Ivan Pichugin
Windows · Linux
Escape from the crypt tower, where spent hundreds of years. Dark atmosphere and riddles.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #32 Erusal
78% matchMixed41% of 29 reviews2016
Dev: Space Wedgie, LLC
Windows · Mac
Discover the secrets of the town of Erusal, escape a horrible maniac, and get spooked by this epistolary horror.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #33 Burning Instinct
75% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Merlin Beer
Windows
This game is about the journey of a dragon, beginning right from the start: Popping out of the egg! As a baby dragon, you will encounter many obstacles and difficulties, but as you get more experienced, your dragon gets too! It will learn new abilities, evolve and grow up as you progress!
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #34 Humble Abode
76% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Venomyth Game Studio
Windows
In this atmospheric adventure your own home becomes the playground of a sadistic intruder. Can you find a way to avoid being a prisoner in your house, or will you even live long enough to try?
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #35 Airglow
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GuiiStudio
Windows
You play as a wolf who gets seperated from the pack. Get unexpected help to find your way. Explore the nature and find the unforseen history of your pack.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #36 Ana The Game
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
If you answer that unknown number, you’re screwed... Are you willing to risk everything … ?
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #37 Waking the Glares - Chapters I and II
73% matchMixed67% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Wisefool Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
How can a book change the universe? Dawnfall’s life has changed deeply, now he must travel and find his way back home.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #38 The Keepers of Pages: Chevengur
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galitsyn Egor(GG)Pub: Gogol'Game
Windows
"The Keepers of Pages" is a puzzle-platformer, inspired by the novel of Russian writer A. Platonow "Chevengur". Find your way through a post-apocalyptic world and collect the lost pages in the realm where the reality of the future is tightly interlaced with the texts of the past.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #39 Catsby
73% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: OOTOTGames
Windows · Mac
Catsby works in Happy Technology. He helps people to become happy. One day, he signed a big contract with Steven to make his master Doctor Philip become happy again. Unfortunately, during the task, he was turned into a cat. But he still has to finish his task, so here his "Cat Adventure" goes...
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #40 Nor'Easter
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Redi Games
Windows
Nor’easter is a classic point-and-click adventure game inspired by the lumberjack folklore of Northern America. As a brave jackalope befriend strange, magical creatures, help a lost man find his children and save the woodlands from endless winter!
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #41 Blink
71% matchVery Positive92% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: nextReality Games
Windows
Blink into a world of after-images, where you can walk on light. Solve puzzles by manipulating lights and blinking between worlds. Explore hand drawn landscapes while uncovering the secrets behind this strange power.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #42 圣山ShenShan
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: lynchhead
Windows
Explore the holy mountain and use equipment and cards to defeat the enemy to discover the value of your existence
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #43 Inner Riddle
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Growfall Games
Windows
You have awoken in strange and unfamiliar place. Soon you realize that you are not simply locked up. But why? For what reason? In search of answers, you must follow the rules of this place. Puzzles and hard decisions are waiting for you. Will you perish never reaching the end or pass through all obstacles and understand what happened?
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #44 Drawn Story
74% matchMostly Negative38% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Vitaly Rekubratskiy
Windows · Mac
Play as an artist looking at a painted world. You're able to create new items in this world by simply drawing them. Use your own imagination to lead a stickman character through a variety of puzzles by drawing things he can use. There’s always a few ways to solve each puzzle.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #45 Welcome to nightmare
74% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: AlekseyPub: AlexGames
Windows
Is it a dream, or is everything really happening? The player will plunge into a strange world, where everything depends only on what decision he makes while in a particular situation. Will he save himself or will he save all the captives of this world?
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #46 GRIM - Mystery of Wasules
72% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: StudioBACKSTAGE
Windows
GRIM - Mystery of Wasules is a first-person, story-driven mystery. To uncover the truth behind the deaths, you will investigate Wasules as Oswald GRIM.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #47 Citadale - The Ancestral Strain
71% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
The gravest Citadale adventure yet breaks new ground... and buries you in it!
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #48 Slice of Life
71% matchMixed57% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: FurGoldGames
Windows
What to do when you are alone?
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #49 Kitty Nigiri
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Greater Studios
Windows
The cat in space, sushi catching, laser puzzle solving, fireball dodging, kitten saving, chopstick wielding, flying VR game your cat's been dreaming about. Use your wits and dexterity, and prove yourself a potential champion.....
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #50 Grimsfield
70% matchPositive91% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Adam Wells
Windows · Mac
Grimsfield is a short point & click story game. You take on the role of a deadbeat beatnik poet who lives in an absurdist market town somewhere in the north of England.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #51 Den vänstra handens stig
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Newmark Software
Windows · Mac
Den vänstra handens stig is a transcendental blackened narrative experience that focuses on courage, determination and sacrifice.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #52 Cedar Junction
72% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: vandal_TEN Studio
Windows
An urban exploration adventure, set in the pine forests of the fictional Midwest. Explore every building and climb every hill as you discover the mysteries of Cedar Junction.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #53 Mind Trap
66% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Gear Worx Productions
Windows · Linux
Mind Trap is a Twilight Zone "Inspired" 4 Episode psychological thriller series. Where the player must explore and follow the clues as the stories unfolds around them.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #54 Abandonment
67% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: ZHANG YANPub: JXTD
Windows
Kevin found his wife missing when he returned home from a business trip. He was worried that his wife would be kidnapped by a "pregnant killer". Kevin decided to set out to find his wife and uncover the truth behind her kidnapping.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #55 Nogard
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Oryps Games
Windows
Explore the Floating Kingdoms in a low poly 3D platformer with Nogard and try the materia power of the ancient Yksimals. Restore the power of a mysterious land and discover what happened using the power to change your state in an incredible adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #56 Maldrin Journey
67% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Blurstar Games
Windows · Linux
Maldrin Journey is a 3D Collectathon adventure game, which contains two main modes of play. The first is a single player story mode. The second is a split screen two player racing mode. Both modes of play allow players to test their platforming and exploration skills.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%