- #1 Scrollonoid
97% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Vadjra
Windows
Scrollonid it's a 2D symbiosis of arkanoid and scroll shooter game.
Why similar: Action 48.6%, Indie 35.2%, Arcade 16.2%
- #2 PANDARA
96% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: leimonya
Windows · Linux
Simple 2D scrolling shooter. Button controls are shot and speed switching. English and Japanese subtitles are available, and the UI is English only. Defeating enemies and gaining experience levels up your shot. The more mistakes you make, the better your defense.
Why similar: Action 44.9%, Indie 33.5%, Shooter 21.6%
- #3 Virtual Rogue
96% matchMixed59% of 27 reviews2016
Dev: Snowy Productions
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Virtual Rogue is a top-down action roguelike shooter set in a computer controlled by a cruel and merciless User. You play as a text document file named “Note” who, after being accidentally created by the User, is thrown into the Recycle Bin.
Why similar: Action 42.7%, Indie 22.9%, Shooter 19%, Arcade 15.4%
- #4 The Existence Abstract
95% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Soot DE Games
Windows
ʇɔɐɹʇsq∀ ǝɔuǝʇsᴉxƎ ǝɥ┴ is a procedurally generated VR shooter with many rogue-like elements. You must dodge lasers, get powerful items and shoot your way through enemies. Enter and explore the A̜͉̗̫̤b͕͇͚͓̖̖̺̱̘s̭̼̞͚t̠̟͎̤̣͔͍̘r̻͈̯̣a̙̲̩͕̗c̜͔̳̠͇͍̩̝ͅt̩͍̖̺̬̟̟.
Why similar: Action 35.9%, Indie 26.8%, Procedural Generation 23.6%, Shooter 13.7%
- #5 Trash Squad
94% matchVery Positive83% of 148 reviews2018
Dev: Enitvare
Windows · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Trash Squad is a dynamic shooter with RPG elements. Stand up for the fight against hordes of monsters in over a dozen randomly generated levels.
Why similar: Action 40.9%, Shooter 31.1%, Indie 28.1%
- #6 Medieval Playground
90% matchMostly Negative26% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Americo Mateus RodriguesPub: Universus Software
Windows
Medieval Playground. Place and edit 3D Objects freely around the world. When you are happy with it you can take a 8k screenshot that is saved to file. It's a medieval sandbox where you can create without limits. Enjoy have fun with it.
- #7 MilitAnt
94% matchMixed66% of 35 reviews2016
Dev: Xibalba Studios
Windows
MilitAnt™ blends old school action with a 2.5D shooter gameplay for an epic platforming experience. Jump to the battlefield for a completely original experience of “Epic-tiny proportions”.
Why similar: Action 45.9%, Indie 31.4%, Shooter 22.7%
- #8 People Eater
93% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Perfect Square Studios LLC
Windows
A vicious, man-eating monster has escaped. And that monster is you! Rampage, devour, and dodge your way through endless procedurally generated levels. Overcome harrowing boss fights, unlock new monsters and upgrades, and compete for first place in the leaderboards. Sate your hunger or die trying.
Why similar: Action 39.2%, Procedural Generation 32.9%, Indie 27.9%
- #9 Drones
91% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Sharksauce
Windows
Blast your way through hordes of enemies in the progressive wave mode to defeat the overseer, or test your skills with the endless survival mode to become the greatest warrior on the leaderboard.
Why similar: Action 49.2%, Indie 36.7%, Arcade 14.1%
- #10 ShapeRockets
92% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: Echohead Games
Windows
Three shapes. Two choices. One weapon. ShapeRockets is the world’s first literal online multiplayer Rock, Paper, Scissors first-person shooter!
Why similar: Action 36.6%, Indie 27.3%, Shooter 20.7%, Arcade 15.5%
- #11 Sector Assault
89% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: Brian Crandell
Windows
In this arcade space shooter, combine weapons and equipment to create the perfect loadouts. Battle an enemy fleet as diverse as your own arsenal, dodging cruise missiles, phasing through lasers, and ramming targets as you fight to reclaim the sector!
Why similar: Action 49%, Indie 36.6%, Shooter 7.9%, Arcade 6.4%
- #12 Avoid - Sensory Overload
91% matchVery Positive86% of 224 reviews2014
Dev: 48h StudioPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Avoid is a fast-paced arcade game that will test your reflexes!
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 32.8%, Arcade 13%
- #13 Manor of the Damned!
89% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: The Hideout
Windows
Manor of the Damned is a retro inspired action RPG that invokes the memories from the great console games of times past. The game features intense action, puzzle solving, and exploration. You play a destitute wandering vampyre who agrees to help rid a village of a raiding specpyre family.
Why similar: Action 58.4%, Indie 41.6%
- #14 Vanquish: The Adventures of Lady Exton
87% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Runestone StudiosPub: Tasaa Software Services Pvt. Ltd.
Windows
Vanquish: The Adventures of Lady Exton is a 2D platformer set in a quirky steampunk inspired world. Steamscience has altered things in recent times. It’s now become a fight for survival. Kidnapped, escaped and armed with only a parasol, Lady Exton must bring back peace to the human strongholds!
Why similar: Action 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #15 Usagi Yojimbo: Way of the Ronin
88% 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 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #16 Attack of the Labyrinth +
86% matchMixed66% of 71 reviews2015
Dev: Timedrop Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The forces of evil have invaded the land. A labyrinth of evil has appeared in the kingdom and legions of monsters are pouring out of its vile depths. The king has called upon a small party of heroes, the Champions of Virtue, to vanquish the demon within and free the land from a grim fate!
Why similar: Action 44%, Indie 32.9%, Arcade 23.1%
- #17 Grid Masters
86% 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 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #18 Candy Thieves - Tale of Gnomes
85% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2016
Dev: TrolleyBuzz LLC
Windows · Mac
A dynamic adventure. Protect delicious candies from impudent thieving gnomes! A whole assortment of development opportunities! Candy Thieves is a dynamic strategy game about making candy and protecting it from impudent thieving gnomes. They are legendary misers, known for their greed – and so are the main characters of the game.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #19 Valiant Gears
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gaze Interactive
Windows
Valiant Gears is a 3D old school shoot 'em up game. Hop on your Valiant Gear, a ferocious battle machine and defend the planet by fighting the alien robots!
Why similar: Action 52.4%, Indie 39.1%, Arcade 8.5%
- #20 Handsome Mr. Frog
82% matchVery Positive91% of 242 reviews2016
Dev: Cowboy Color
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Jump, lick, and spit your way through four worlds in a new-school arcade adventure starring the nominal Handsome Mr. Frog, a good looking fellow whose hat was jacked by a bunch of unattractive normies.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 35.8%, Arcade 10%
- #21 Rebound
83% matchPositive82% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Omnirift
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Rebound is a physics based reflex arcade game where the player must keep a ball within bounds of the screen, while aiming for the most points and longest time survived possible in a single round. Sounds simple, right?
Why similar: Action 43.3%, Indie 32.3%, Arcade 24.4%
- #22 Rooftop Cop
84% 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%
- #23 Bildo
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: DALESI
Windows
Bildo is a 2D platform game in which the player plays the role of Bildo, a boy who saw his homeland consumed and ravaged by The Darkness, and decided to start a quest around the world in search for The Colors. Guided by The Keeper and he will begin his mission to beat The Darkness and restore the Light to Nibiru.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #24 Radial Impact
84% match7 user reviews0% of 7 reviews2015
Dev: Devin Sherry
Windows
Radial Impact is a fast-paced, single-player game that challenges players’ reflexes by matching the sizes of two circles; one static and one dynamic.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Cobalt WASD
79% matchVery Positive86% of 210 reviews2017
Dev: Oxeye Game StudioPub: Mojang
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Cobalt WASD is a multiplayer bomb-defusal action platformer with grenades that stop time. Blast your way to the bomb site or repel the assault! Use teleporter guns, grappling hooks, sticky sentry turrets and quick tactical thinking to lead your team to victory! Play online or against AI!
Why similar: Action 52.2%, Indie 38%, Shooter 9.8%
- #26 Timber! The Logging Experts
82% matchMostly Negative28% of 25 reviews2016
Dev: Stonehill GamesPub: UniqueGames
Windows
Finally - a light-weight forestry simulation that doesn’t need hours of tutorials to learn the basics. Easy to learn, hard to master is the key. Jump into your sophisticated machinery, get work done and enjoy the career mode.
Why similar: Arcade 100%
- #27 Claw Staff
78% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Glass Cargo Software
Windows
Jump and cling through a post post post-apocalyptic world populated by strange creatures and claim the Moon for your power-hungry Emperor!
Why similar: Action 36%, Indie 26.9%, Procedural Generation 25.8%, Arcade 11.3%
- #28 Dammerlicht
80% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Royal Tea Time Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dämmerlicht is a game based around the many worlds theory, where the actions of the player create alternate universes and allow you to experience each potential path the game world could take.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 Dawn of H'btakh
79% 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 58%, Indie 42%
- #30 DUMB Infernal
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 43 reviews2020
Dev: Beem Media
Windows
Enter the infernal hellscape as a lone warrior fending off an army of monsters in arcade style combat.
Why similar: Action 53%, Indie 39.5%, Arcade 7.5%
- #31 The Real Laser Ball
75% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Holmsario Games
Windows
A physics based, arcade, high score chaser with a progression system and a fetish for the 80’s. In The Real Laser Ball you’re a ball… with a laser.
Why similar: Action 51.2%, Indie 38.2%, Arcade 10.6%
- #32 Trail of Destruction
77% 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 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #33 BoxesWithGuns
81% matchMostly Negative21% of 82 reviews2015
Dev: Thomas Christof
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 23%
BoxesWithGuns is a 2D neon vertex endless shooter game. Try to survive as long as possible by avoiding collisions with the enemies that spawn. One game equals the length of the background music track playing. Collect dollars and customize your spaceship by adding new boxes and weapons.
Why similar: Action 51.4%, Indie 27.1%, Arcade 21.5%
- #34 Erusal
77% 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: Indie 100%
- #35 Breaking Bones
76% 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 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #36 Bleeding Blocks
75% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2015
Dev: Killer Teapot Games
Windows
Bleeding Blocks is a 2D arena shooter. Two players face off in a single-screen deathmatch. Winning requires more than quick reflexes. Players must use cover and tactics to outsmart the enemy.
Why similar: Action 59.4%, Indie 40.6%
- #37 DREAMFLIGHT VR
76% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2015
Dev: REFUGIO3D®
Windows
You close your eyes and when you open them again, you wake up in a new world full of magic. Decide for yourself whether you prefer, to fly on the back of an eagle or would you rather be the pilot. This game is perfect after a hard day's work. Try this game, put Oculus Rift on and relax .
- #38 Raptor Valley
73% matchVery Positive80% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: Andrew Stout
Windows
Warning! This game requires a VR headset, nerves of steel, and a sphincter of iron. Now with native support for Oculus Touch!
Why similar: Indie 51.1%, Action 48.9%
- #39 Eclipsed
74% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Christ Laurenz Sambrano
Windows
Eclipsed is a monochromatic adventure platform puzzle game. This is a story about a boy who wakes into a world ever changing. He finds beauty and mystery in the dark and strange world as well as a girl who seems to be as unique as him. Together they venture forth to rid of the world they are in.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 PION
69% matchPositive85% of 26 reviews2019
Dev: Oliver Chime
Windows
PION is a fast-paced and challenging top-down shooter. Pilot exotic hovercraft and battle your way through gauntlets of deadly drones and defense systems. Upgrade your hovercraft and weapons to keep pace with the growing swarms of increasingly powerful and intelligent enemies. You will not get far.
Why similar: Action 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #41 World's Fastest Pizza
72% matchPositive93% of 46 reviews2016
Dev: Oscar Brittain
Windows
Head to Australia and use all the superpowers you can to deliver fast pizza! Watch out for pizza-haters though! World's Fastest Pizza: It's not easy, when your pizza is so cheesy...
Why similar: Action 47.9%, Indie 35.7%, Arcade 16.4%
- #42 Lord Mayor
73% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: John McCannPub: Bottlenose Bits, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A strategy game that lets you build cities, solve puzzles and create an empire!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 The Turkey of Christmas Past
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Dinan Studios
Windows
The Turkey of Christmas Past is a third person, swordplay orientated, action game about Tom de Cat, master swordsman, and his one cat stand against the Turkey menace. With a fowl army hell bent on destroying Christmas, Tom is our last and only hope.
Why similar: Action 58.4%, Indie 41.6%
- #44 Bounty For Sharks
66% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Beep2Bleep
Windows
Kill Sharks for bounty, spend to upgrade.
Why similar: Action 52.4%, Indie 39.1%, Shooter 8.5%
- #45 Vaccine War
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 30 reviews2016
Dev: Games For Tutti
Windows · Mac · Linux
“Vaccine War” is an action adventure game with exploration features. It is set in the tense Europe from the thirties, with the Spanish Civil War (and some fiction stories) as background. Aesthetically, the game combines the pixelart retro style with a 3D environment.
Why similar: Action 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #46 HVRGUN
55% 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 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #47 Fine China
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Fine China Games
Windows
Fine China is a VR 'you-break-it-you-buy-it' simulator for the HTC Vive, in which you have to make your way through an antique store without breaking too much.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Constricting Cubes
70% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: D.W.S.
Windows
Destroy the cubes before they constrict to crush you in this 3D and VR capable casual puzzler. It supports VR, non-VR, mouse, gamepad, and motion controllers.
Why similar: Action 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #49 1001 Jigsaw. Interior Design
57% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: 8floor
Windows
Bright, modern and unconventional interior design. Each picture is a unique choice and vision of amazing people. Enjoy a selection of incredible designs.
- #50 Maze Sounds
71% matchMixed41% of 34 reviews2016
Dev: AMIDEA Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Maze sounds is a first-person puzzle game where you must focus on sounds that you hear. This is a labyrinth with invisible walls which produce sounds. These sounds help you to locate the walls.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Trap
64% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Apex
Windows
Trap is a survival shooter in which you must stay alive as long as possible in the fight against zombies.
Why similar: Action 50.5%, Indie 37.7%, Shooter 11.8%
- #52 The Planet of the Vicious Creatures
69% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Jorge Giner Cordero
Windows
An old-school platformer set in outer space.
Why similar: Action 58%, Indie 42%
- #53 Cell HD: emergence
71% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2015
Dev: New Life Interactive, LLC
Windows
Based on a 3D version of mathematician John Conway's "Game of Life," the game puts the player in a biological world that is uncannily alive.
Why similar: Action 56.1%, Indie 43.9%
- #54 Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy
68% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Cyclone StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
After a century of bloody galactic battle, a horde of intelligent bloodthirsty aliens, known as the Kri’iSara, threaten to exterminate all human life. New Alliance Command is counting on you to destroy the alien menace.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #55 Apple Jack 1&2
67% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: My Owl Software
Windows
When a little man with an apple for a head loses his dog, it marks the beginning of a grand platforming adventure deep into the heart of...Wales?
Why similar: Action 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #56 Abyssal Fall
66% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Blazing Stick
Windows
Abyssal Fall is a fast paced arena action game where every tile of the arena will fall one second after you step on it.Trap, bait & pressure your opponents in order to make them do a mistake and punish them with your special ability.
Why similar: Action 59.5%, Indie 40.5%
- #57 Nanomedix Inc
67% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: ItRuStore GamesPub: TrolleyBuzz LLC
Windows · Mac
Nanomedix Evolution - a game in tower defense genre, where you have to fight with whole armies of viruses that attack your body.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #58 Aria: Dragon Eater
58% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: OZNA STUDIO
Windows
"Aria: Dragon Eater" is a fantasy action top-down shooter game set in a magical era. Begin your journey to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of the dragon!
Why similar: Action 50.5%, Indie 37.7%, Shooter 11.8%