- #1 Cartesian
97% matchVery Positive96% of 51 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #2 Plight
96% matchPositive84% of 37 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 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #3 Ludu
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 83 reviews2016
Dev: Léo-Games
Windows
Ludu (« ash » in breton) is a free adventure game created with RPG Maker 2003.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #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 59.7%, Indie 40.3%
- #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 59.7%, Indie 40.3%
- #6 Kiitsu
94% matchPositive90% of 10 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #7 One Night
92% matchPositive82% of 45 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #8 Where The Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats
91% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #9 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #10 Magika Land of Fantasy
89% 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 57%, Indie 43%
- #11 We Walked In Darkness
90% 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 60.7%, Indie 39.3%
- #12 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #13 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 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #14 Flightless Classic
86% matchVery Positive90% of 376 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 59.7%, Indie 40.3%
- #15 Buratino
78% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #16 Potion Paws
82% matchMixed52% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Bitten Toast Games
Windows
You’ve decided to take the risk and purchase a run down house in the middle of a spooky forest near a dungeon overrun with monsters.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #17 Burning Instinct
84% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #18 Dunia: Masters
84% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Team Wood Block
Windows
Fill the shoes of Masters Mason-Northwood a ‘genius scientist’ who, after a failed assassination attempt, is left wandering in the dark, reading books, finding notes and listening to audio logs about the North Wood and himself, while also trying to escape his own barren lab.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #19 A.V.
85% matchMixed63% of 41 reviews2015
Dev: FirstForever StudiosPub: MAGIC Spell Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 58.4%, Indie 41.6%
- #20 LETHE: Broken memories
76% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #21 Lit the Torch
83% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Corn EntertainmentPub: IceSimba
Windows
Lit the Torch is challenging puzzle platformer with a twist! Players control a Night Watch as they light torches and navigate through a shattered timeline. The twist is that player's can burn a portal into a different time to navigate to new altars and burn a path through obstacles in their time to existing altars.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #22 Phenomenal Car Park Adventure: Digital Deluxe Edition
75% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #23 One Night In The House
81% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Hight Games
Windows
One Night In The House is a first-person game with an emphasis on plot.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #24 Cloudborn
82% matchMixed51% of 41 reviews2018
Dev: Logtown Studios AB
Windows
NOW OUT OF EARLY ACCESS! Cloudborn is a truly immersive VR exploration/adventure game, an incredible audio-visual experience that will move you into a world of awe and wonder. Explore the remnants of a lost civilization to uncover a hidden fate. Are you ready to ascend?
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #25 Ana The Game
73% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #26 The Keepers of Pages: Chevengur
72% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #27 DevilShaft: TheTower
80% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #28 KALEIDO STELLA
79% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #29 A-Escape VR
81% matchMixed55% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: CTN Design, LLCPub: A-Escape
Windows
A-Escape is an escape room game built from the ground up for VR. Will you escape in time?
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #30 Midnight at the Celestial Palace: Part I
79% matchPositive94% of 32 reviews2017
Dev: Orrery Games
Windows
Midnight at the Celestial Palace: Chapter I is the first episode in an all new fantasy adventure series by Orrery Games and BlipHaus Design.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #31 Escape from the tomb tower
77% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #32 The Masked Mage
77% matchMostly Negative25% of 12 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #33 裁決者 -The White Butcher-
67% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #34 The Melody of Dust
76% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: Viacom NEXT
Windows
Explore a mysterious space from the fevered dreams of musician Hot Sugar and discover over 80 unique melodies in this synesthetic adventure on the HTC Vive
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #35 Escape Black Orion VR
75% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Pulse Studio LLC
Windows
In Escape Black Orion you are in a mysterious facility, Black Orion. Something has gone wrong and now you are locked in the engineering bay with gas pouring into the room. Using you wits and whatever tools you can find you must disengage the door locks to escape before your air runs out.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #36 DownWind
65% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #37 Blink
74% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #38 Nor'Easter
64% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #39 TrapLand
74% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #40 THE TEAR
73% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: Game Gestalt
Windows
An immersive VR adventure in a fantastic world.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #41 Grimsfield
73% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #42 Hei
70% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2019
Dev: Goca Games
Windows · Mac
Help Hei to find their path to the sacred tree! A point-and-click adventure game with lots of puzzles and a unique artistic style.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #43 K'NOSSOS
61% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #44 Slice of Life
72% matchMixed57% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: FurGoldGames
Windows
What to do when you are alone?
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #45 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #46 La Aventura De Axel
71% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Tordrix GamesPub: Tordrix
Windows
this fantastic and spectacula adventure, Get on the skin of Axel, a young man who by strange and mysterious circumstances lost his sister and took a long and incredible way to try to rescue her. In a journey full of magic and strange creatures you will have to help achieve your goal.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #47 Bob and Kuura: Lost in Snowglobe
70% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #48 Airglow
60% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #49 More and More
69% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #50 Dark Train: Coupe
60% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #51 Life in the Dorms
69% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Moment GamesPub: Oh, a Rock! Studios
Windows
A comedy adventure game about love, friendship, and ramen noodles.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #52 Unicorn Dungeon
69% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2018
Dev: Stand Off Software
Windows · Linux
Unicorn Dungeon is an absurdist comedy point & click adventure game following the adventures of Sir Typhil of Creulor as he attempts to secure a unicorn to bring to the castle.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #53 Inner Riddle
59% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #54 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #55 Baru and the Spirit Prince
70% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2016
Dev: Tingly, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Only the brave can see the magic of Elenav! Heroes of the Kingdom of Locria set on an adventure in search of Elenav, a heavenly fruit that appears only once every thousand years. In the village of Lucril, Baru finds himself in the middle of a skirmish by evil hero Vasil.
Why similar: Adventure 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #56 圣山ShenShan
64% 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 58.6%, Indie 41.4%