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  1. #1 Schizophrenia
    97% matchMixed52% of 31 reviews2020
    Dev: Indevelopment Productions
    Windows

    Schizophrenia is a indie horror game meant to be played at your own pace. Figure out the story of a child looking for her mom while experiencing her mental illnesses.

    Why similar: Indie 61.2%, First-Person 16.1%, Story Rich 12.4%, Atmospheric 10.3%

  2. #2 As If Dreaming When You're Wide Awake
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: StoryTale Studios
    Windows

    As If is a narrative game portraying issues revolving around mental health. Experience the life of Matthew as he struggles to reach his dreams and wishes. Step into his shoes. Look from his eyes. Listen to the voices. Feel his frustrations. Packaged in artistic symbolisms and realistic grit.

    Why similar: Indie 43.7%, First-Person 29.3%, Story Rich 27%

  3. #3 Delirium
    96% matchMixed51% of 35 reviews2017
    Dev: Night Whale
    Windows

    Woken up in a strange and seemingly abandoned house, you discover what insanity has prevailed as you uncover the remnants of its past guilt-ridden inhabitant.

    Why similar: Indie 35.6%, First-Person 23.9%, Story Rich 18.4%, Atmospheric 16.8%, Singleplayer 5.3%

  4. #4 boxlife
    96% matchMostly Positive79% of 145 reviews2016
    Dev: tequibo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 36 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 22%

    boxlife is a tiny first person metroidvania, where you gain abilities, find secrets and escape from the box

    Why similar: Indie 56.9%, First-Person 43.1%

  5. #5 Dissonance: An Interactive Novelette
    95% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2015
    Dev: Philip Royer
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Dissonance follows the story of Bartholomew Brittle (a movie theater projectionist) and Clementine Cleu (an inquisitive theater patron) in a thought provoking discussion of the meaning of life.

    Why similar: Indie 62.7%, Story Rich 37.3%

  6. #6 INTUS
    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Nahuel Martinez
    Windows

    Rent an apartment to finish your work and survive a night that grows increasingly strange. A first-person psychological horror game where routine, silence, and paranoia turn an ordinary place into somewhere impossible to leave.

    Why similar: Indie 47.6%, First-Person 19.5%, Story Rich 18%, Atmospheric 15%

  7. #7 Bird Watcher
    94% matchMixed69% of 64 reviews2018
    Dev: First Game Studio
    Windows
    Median: 30 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 20%

    Bird Watcher is a short story about a girl whose name is Claire that after her parent's death was made to live with her gloomy vicious aunt. Her life in the new house becomes similar to the life in the cage which is full of stringent prohibitions and rules. And every day is absolutely the same as previous one.

    Why similar: Indie 58.5%, Story Rich 41.5%

  8. #8 Memory
    93% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
    Dev: Soft Paw Studio
    Windows

    The little country town of Woodland Park is your home for the summer. Explore the town. Meet its inhabitants. Things long forgotten resurface and history is questioned. A beautiful young girl may be the key to untangling the truth, but will you solve the mystery?

    Why similar: Indie 77.7%, Story Rich 17.3%, Singleplayer 5%

  9. #9 Devil's dream
    92% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2020
    Dev: Milkoi Games
    Windows

    In Devils's Dream you play as James, a student which want to examine an abandoned place. He and his girlfriend Sophie drove in the late of the Night to the place and get what they hadn't expected. Try to Survive Night. and dont forgot you cannot hide or run from him.

    Why similar: Indie 68.4%, First-Person 19.2%, Atmospheric 12.5%

  10. #10 Fractured Minds
    91% matchMostly Positive78% of 488 reviews2019
    Dev: EmilyMGamesPub: Wired Productions
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 16%

    Fractured Minds is an immersive artistic short game, exploring anxiety and mental health issues. Embark on a journey through the human psyche to experience the everyday challenges associated with these conditions.

    Why similar: Indie 70.3%, First-Person 29.7%

  11. #11 Another_World
    89% matchMostly Negative39% of 49 reviews2020
    Dev: Wob Bob JonesPub: Salmon Slap Studios
    Windows

    Another_World is a Silent Hill/P.T. inspired psychological horror game. This is the first act for my first independently developed game made with Unreal Engine 4. Featuring an original soundtrack and story-line.

    Why similar: Indie 77.8%, First-Person 8.7%, Story Rich 7.4%, Atmospheric 6.1%

  12. #12 Skill Master VR -- Learn Meditation
    90% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2016
    Dev: fletcher.richmanPub: Boulder VR Studios
    Windows

    Skill Master VR -- Learn Meditation is the first meditation app that allows you to learn meditation in VR by visualizing your breath in real time.

    Why similar: Indie 76.7%, Atmospheric 23.3%

  13. #13 LRRL or RLLR
    89% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
    Dev: talalilulalilula
    Windows

    LRRL or RLLR is a puzzle game in which you enjoy increasing your score by choosing left or right according to one recursive rule. You can enjoy it as long as you don't make the wrong choice. All choices are divided to the left or right when you start, and either contains all of your later choices.

    Why similar: Indie 80.4%, Atmospheric 14.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%

  14. #14 Displace
    88% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
    Dev: Eirtep
    Windows

    Single player, first-person puzzle game where you can spawn cubes and spheres while utilising switches, launch pads and boost pads to navigate through deceiving blocks to the next teleporter

    Why similar: Indie 67.8%, First-Person 32.2%

  15. #15 Vinnie's Diary
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Entangle Games, Inc.
    Windows

    Vinnie' Diary is a FPP Puzzle Solving Game. The player will be the child psychologist Edward Shawn and explore what happened inside the inner world of a 6-year-old boy, Vinson Gogh. In the game, you will face puzzles in Vinson's fantasy worlds while analyzing the case as a professional psychologist.

    Why similar: Indie 41.6%, Story Rich 29.2%, First-Person 29.2%

  16. #16 Amends VR
    86% matchPositive83% of 29 reviews2020
    Dev: Amends TeamPub: The Animation Workshop
    Windows

    A journey through the reflections of an upbringing with a now estranged mother.

    Why similar: Indie 78.2%, Story Rich 11.9%, Atmospheric 9.9%

  17. #17 I'm Calling The Cops!
    86% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2020
    Dev: Loxodonta
    Windows

    I'm Calling The Cops! is a first-person cartoony action strategy game in which you manage a small store. Customers buy items but they also steal them! See how much profit you can make in an in-game week (17 minutes IRL time).

    Why similar: Indie 87.8%, First-Person 12.2%

  18. #18 FM
    84% matchMostly Positive71% of 73 reviews2020
    Dev: Jordan B Cutler
    Windows

    A mysterious radio announcer describes a recent murder-suicide as the unknown protagonist navigates through an ever-shifting environment.

    Why similar: Indie 69.9%, Story Rich 16.4%, Atmospheric 13.7%

  19. #19 The Magnificent Trufflepigs
    84% matchMixed56% of 174 reviews2021
    Dev: ThunkdPub: AMC Games
    Windows

    The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, metal-detecting narrative game. It combines laid-back detecting and exploration with a dramatic story, all set in a beautiful English countryside. It’s a game about trying to find something.

    Why similar: First-Person 28.6%, Story Rich 27.5%, Atmospheric 21%, Indie 17.3%, Singleplayer 5.7%

  20. #20 Despair
    87% matchMostly Negative35% of 1,837 reviews2015
    Dev: AGC
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.

    Why similar: Indie 65.1%, First-Person 21%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

  21. #21 Curse in our heads
    85% match9 user reviews11% of 9 reviews2018
    Dev: Dankov Games
    Windows

    John Brown is a former detective, best in his staff. Has served more than 30 years and there is not a single case that he has not guessed! Retired already a year. The other day he received a letter asking him to come to the hospital for mental patients. John has yet to reveal another difficult matter.

    Why similar: Indie 90.1%, Singleplayer 9.9%

  22. #22 DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
    83% matchVery Positive93% of 12,757 reviews2015
    Dev: Jesse Makkonen
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

    Why similar: Indie 94.6%, Story Rich 2.7%, Atmospheric 2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

  23. #23 Moonlight Mansion
    82% matchMixed63% of 51 reviews2020
    Dev: Monocarpic GamePub: UQAT - Création et nouveaux médias
    Windows

    A mother and her son uncover the mystery shrouding the manor in which they are imprisoned. To escape, they need to cooperate without letting panic take over, while the manor – or what haunts it – tries to separate them. In this suspenseful game, will you be able to accept the truths revealed to you?

    Why similar: Indie 75.4%, First-Person 10.1%, Story Rich 8%, Atmospheric 6.6%

  24. #24 Frogvale
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pablo Mendizábal
    Windows

    The same day that Marco was fired, he found out that he'll be a father. The only job he can get for the time being is as a bus driver. Manage his passengers, money and relationships to ensure his family's future.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  25. #25 Escape Rebooted
    82% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2020
    Dev: Stéphane Bottin
    Windows

    This is a 2D puzzle jumping platformer in the dark.

    Why similar: Indie 84.6%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Singleplayer 3.7%

  26. #26 LIBRARY
    80% matchVery Positive97% of 176 reviews2018
    Dev: Happy SnakePub: Happy Snake Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    LIBRARY is a cute game about hanging out and throwing stuff at your new friends! · ◡ · 💌

    Why similar: Indie 74.7%, First-Person 25.3%

  27. #27 Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1
    81% matchVery Positive80% of 584 reviews2018
    Dev: Pavel KostinPub: HeroCraft PC
    Windows
    Median: 6 minMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 31%

    What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.

    Why similar: Indie 98.3%, Atmospheric 0.8%, Story Rich 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.2%

  28. #28 阿比斯的宝藏 - Treasure of abyss
    79% matchVery Positive84% of 132 reviews2018
    Dev: 心之初
    Windows

    《阿比斯的宝藏》是一款超长篇的海贼冒险剧情式RPG游戏,并结合半沙盒与半硬核的传统玩法。游戏背景与故事建立在拥有大面积海洋的幻想世界,海洋将各个岛屿连接起来,海路也成为了游戏唯一的交通方法。四大海域成为了海贼们冒险与战斗的舞台,进行着各种各样精彩演绎。

    Why similar: Indie 99.3%, Story Rich 0.7%

  29. #29 Mogh
    78% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
    Dev: Beastudio Ltd
    Windows

    Mages are as powerful as their imagination.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  30. #30 Data Hacker: Reboot
    79% matchMixed61% of 224 reviews2015
    Dev: New Reality Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Time, Space and Parallel Universes collapse and merge, tethered to threads of reality and sustained by a paradoxical power source. Nothing is impossible - it is time to become a Data Hacker.

    Why similar: Indie 97.4%, Story Rich 2.6%

  31. #31 Moe Mekuri SP
    78% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2017
    Dev: KoheiGallery
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    The goal of this game is to turn all the panels to face up. You can choose the level stage from EASY, NORMAL, and HARD. However, in order to play the NORMAL stage, you need to have passed all the EASY stages, and to play the HARD stage, all the NORMAL stages.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  32. #32 Fishy Dungeon Delving
    76% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2019
    Dev: JackoAces Studios
    Windows

    Explore a massive dungeon in style, as a land fish! Slide, jump, and swing your way to victory in this goofy physics based platformer.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  33. #33 Generic Jumper
    77% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
    Dev: Sasha C. Gervais-TourangeauPub: Asphe Games
    Windows

    Jump through a quiet land and learn of it's past. What really happens when a chosen one saves the world? Experience challenges that emerge from simple blocks; Discover new uses for the ubiquitous crate; and Platform your way to the end of a story.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  34. #34 Super Goribei
    77% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2018
    Dev: CheaseKace Develment
    Windows

    Super Goribei is a retro style platformer with small comic like story. Super Goribei is what could be called a pixelated animated mess but with lots of care to the mess all made by the dev. and is right for your faces with this mario clone that now has 46 levels and 2 boss battles for the good of pixel man kind and more to come.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  35. #35 PipeWorks
    76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
    Dev: Vedak the Dev
    Windows

    A short and semi-sweet 2D platformer to recover precious coffee and fix the leaks in Coffee Co factory! Endure the crazed coffee-highs of the critters infesting throughout and the nagging feeling that all of your work is disregarded by your corporate overlords!

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  36. #36 Player One
    74% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
    Dev: Prime2Gold
    Windows

    3D Game, Thirdperson Platformer

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  37. #37 A Game For You, Josh
    74% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2019
    Dev: Snotwurm
    Windows · Mac

    this game is for josh

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  38. #38 (VR)西汉帝陵 The Han Dynasty Imperial Mausoleums
    75% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2017
    Dev: 派嘉数创科技有限公司
    Windows

    Entering emperor mausoleum of West Han Dynasty of thousands of years, feeling the magnificence and stories of the tomb owner.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  39. #39 In The Bag
    73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
    Dev: Lukas Kolesar
    Windows

    Find out, if you can become an employee of the month in small supermarket. Your job is to pack as many customers bags as you can. You will have to work fast and smart and also be able to deal with randomly generated events, which may make your life harder.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  40. #40 Please Knock on My Door
    72% matchVery Positive94% of 254 reviews2017
    Dev: Levall Games AB
    Windows
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    A summary of every emotion you'd rather lock away and forget.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  41. #41 Touch My Spinner
    72% matchMostly Positive73% of 22 reviews2017
    Dev: mibix
    Windows

    It's just a clicker idle game. Rotate your fidget spinners, earn coins, do upgrades, open chests, buy new spinners, earn more coins and buy more new spinners.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  42. #42 Escargot
    71% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
    Dev: Smoulder
    Windows

    In this platform runner you play as Escar, an unnaturally fast snail. Shelly has been kidnapped by the treacherous Vulgaris. Escar will jump, stick, roll, go fast and slow, in order to rescue his beloved.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  43. #43 Box Looter 2018
    71% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2017
    Dev: Ludo Land
    Windows

    A dumb joke game in which loot boxes are the loot. Poke fun at loot boxes while poking at loot boxes. Climb the mountain and find the loot box of unknown riches that the prophecy foretold! The 2,018th game in the wildly popular Box Looter series.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  44. #44 Towers
    59% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Bunzosteele
    Windows

    Towers is a VR-only puzzle game. Find your way through 3D tower mazes by twisting floors into place.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  45. #45 Hexile
    58% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dystrophic LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Hexile is a first-person, narrative puzzle platformer game tin which players confront the consequences of manipulating their environments.. It takes place in a beautiful, surreal landscape where the player progresses by manipulating the environment to solve puzzles.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  46. #46 Rooftop Cop
    73% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2015
    Dev: Lawra Suits ClarkPub: Independent
    Windows · Mac

    A world of Police that have forgotten what, and why, they are policing. Rooftop Cop is a collection of five endless vignette games and a 7-track album. The games are set on a loose metaphysical timeline in which the Cops slowly lose their way.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  47. #47 The Party of Demons
    70% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2019
    Dev: Chensey Game
    Windows

    The Party of Demons is a high pace, competitive bullet hell game. It contains well-designed bullets and awesome background music. You can even compete against your friend in this game.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  48. #48 Rapid Racing
    69% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2018
    Dev: Soft Loft Studios
    Windows

    Rapid Racing is a top-down 2D arcade style racing game - try to beat your best times on the many included levels in singleplayer, or race against friends in multiplayer.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  49. #49 Adventures of musical tones and their notes
    71% matchNo user reviews2019
    Dev: Milena KurtevaPub: VIKSYS OOD
    Windows

    Adventures of Music Tones and Their Notes [/] is an educational computer game for children, with which children learn to sing songs in Bulgarian, to recognize the musical tones in them and to arrange notes.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  50. #50 Agent X: Equation Rider
    70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
    Dev: Fred Ells
    Windows

    A bike game with an educational twist. Build and ride on algebraic equations!

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  51. #51 A Bewitching Revolution
    66% matchVery Positive93% of 354 reviews2019
    Dev: Colestia
    Windows

    A Bewitching Revolution is a first-person adventure game about a communist witch living in a cyberpunk city. Use magic to help the city's residents organise collective forms of power and resistance!

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  52. #52 The Puppet Master
    69% matchPositive83% of 48 reviews2016
    Dev: AMS Game Development Association
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Deadly rotating blades. Bottomless ditches of death. And a demented woman with an unfortunate affinity for bad puns at the most inappropriate times gunning for your death. As if that wasn't bad enough, your soul has been trapped in a doll courtesy of the aforementioned psycho-lunatic lady.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  53. #53 四之石
    56% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: HUANGYIJIE
    Windows

    四种不同的宝石技能:时间停止、空间封锁、重力改变、瞬间移动。四个有不同技能和特性的人物,以及数十种特效不同的道具,通过它们來开发属于你的独特的通关体验吧!游戏中的移动速度、跳跃高度都会受人物和道具的影响,共有20个关卡以及30个BOSS等待挑战,带着四个宝石“外挂”去挑战更高的难度吧!

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  54. #54 Buffy Stole Your Sandwich
    69% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
    Dev: Xivek's Toybox
    Windows

    Buffy Stole your Sandwich is an arcade rage game with non-physics based barrels. If you die, you are sent all the way back to level one.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  55. #55 Derrick the Deathfin
    70% matchMostly Positive74% of 34 reviews2014
    Dev: different cloth
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The world's very first underwater papercraft adventure starring a goofy shark named Derrick.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  56. #56 Arevoatl Seven Coins
    67% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2018
    Dev: Arevoatl Games
    Windows

    Arevoatl Seven Coins is a first-person puzzle/hidden object game that takes place in an old estate. You receive a cryptic letter from your grandfather, when you come to him, you do not find him at home. Carefully study the letter and follow its clues. You need to collect objects and solve quests, passing room by room.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  57. #57 Hyacinthus
    66% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2019
    Dev: 朽木布可凋夜Pub: JingtuStudio
    Windows

    Hyacinthus is a 30-minute AVG game with a painting system. Players help people in the city achieve their wishes through painting.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  58. #58 Rigo: The Movie
    55% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: We Are Three StudiosPub: We Are Three L.L.C.
    Windows

    Join Rigo and his "friends" as they engage in everyday activities in a not so normal world. With his unique brand of stupidity, guide Rigo's choices so that you can discover every single route in the game (or just rush to the end to say that you finished, that's fine too).

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  59. #59 b.m.g 19 - bike messenger go!
    67% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
    Dev: funktiondreizehn studio
    Windows

    Get in the role of an urban bike messenger, ride, walk and sometimes use a car trough the city and deliver letters just in time. Race and chase in the streets or in the velodrome! Earn money with deliveries or in competitions and spend it for your individual style and ingame features!

    Why similar: Indie 100%

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