- #1 Celestial Breach
97% matchMixed46% of 26 reviews2017
Dev: Dark Nebulae
Windows
Celestial Breach is a Coop arcade flight game in a Sci-Fi setting, Focused on team play VS NPC. It contains a lots of the old school arcade flight sim components, while being refreshing by focusing on cooperation and adding more exotic weapons, abilities, and GamePlay mechanics.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #2 Longshot Universe
96% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Longshot Studios LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Longshot Universe is an intense action arena shooter where you pilot a variety of space ships to dogfight and shoot down the enemy before they shoot you down.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #3 The Nothing
96% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: DDD Wares
Windows
The Nothing is a surreal and atmospheric action game with a new aesthetic, procedurally generated elements and perma-death - Designed for multiple short "runs", with endings based on the route you've chosen and the actions you've taken.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #4 Another Rocket Game
95% match5 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Games By Nemiz
Windows
Action packed 2D rocket game with a campaign story mode, single player mode (vs computer AI) and multiplayer mode (split-screen vs friends). Challenge your self and your friends in an old-school 2D rocket adventure with a great soundtrack and an online highscore leaderboard.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #5 Snakes on an Extradimensional Plane
94% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2016
Dev: Team Neon SnakesPub: Fox Buchele
Windows
Abstract HTC Vive game where you help adventurous space mice with tiny little jetpack escape the glowing snakes! Collect powerups for points and compete on the leaderboards!
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #6 Space Slam
94% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: ;)Pub: Quickdraw Studios
Windows
In SPACE SLAM there is only one way to mine: ramming planets at full speed with your spacecraft. View the action in VR with your HTC Vive or in flat mode!
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #7 Derelict Redux
93% matchMixed45% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Floor59Games
Windows
Derelict is a post-apocalyptic, top down, sandbox, rogue like(like). You have woken up from stasis long after the fall of humanity. Thousands of years of human colonization and war have left countless derelict space craft, abandoned space stations and settlements ripe for looting.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #8 Rise
91% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: New State
Windows
Rise is a first-person platformer combining casual gameplay mechanics with demanding challenges.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #9 Run Jump Die Repeat
91% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: LongArm Interactive
Windows
Run Jump Die Repeat is a single button platformer game. Press SPACE to run, bounce, jump, climb, and kill as you attempt to save the Cracker Princess and escape the evil Cron Rebels home planet.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #10 Booty Diver
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Xavier Orion Games
Windows
Take a dive into the perilous depths of the ocean as you seek sunken treasure while battling creatures who guard their treasure as you manage your precious air supply.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #11 Nebula
89% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: Szekretar
Windows
Nebula is an action platformer with a high emphasis on using everything at your disposal to succeed, such as the gravity gun. The game takes place on an abandoned space station where you need to survive the deadly traps, defeat your enemies and solve physics based puzzles.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #12 Brazilian Root®
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 98 reviews2018
Dev: Patria Games®
Windows
Brazilian Root® is an indie action game in first person perspectve. Benjamin, a former special ops soldier, was running for governor, but 30 days before voting day his daughter was mysteriously kidnapped. He will relive his fighter days and You will help him find his daughter and get his revenge.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #13 Spin the Beat
90% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Clockwork Anomaly, LLC
Windows · Mac
Jump-n-dodge couch-multiplayer arcade action to the beat of the music! A party game for 1 to 4 players.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #14 VHSoverdose
88% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2016
Dev: CallThePolices
Windows
VHSoverdose is an unrelenting assault of outlandish action, served up with thick juicy slice of anatomical annihilation! Set inside of the confides of a simple 80's Arcade Machine... Or is it?
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #15 Insane Insects: The Inception
87% matchMostly Negative20% of 10 reviews2016
Dev: Bad Cast gamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Played over five uniquely different arenas, Insane Insects - The Inception is an airborne Quake III on steroids, a classic old-school fragging game, speed, movement and skill based.
Why similar: Action 53.1%, Indie 46.9%
- #16 Cavern Crumblers
86% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Asymptotic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grab your friends and stock up on grenades for this fast-paced single-screen local multiplayer shooter! Compete with each other in an environment filled with destructible terrain as you run, jump, and dodge your way through the destruction.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #17 GoatPunks
84% matchMixed68% of 31 reviews2018
Dev: Alberto SantiagoPub: Studio Canvas
Windows · Mac · Linux
GoatPunks is a rip-roaring king of the hill multiplayer game of goats, mountains, fireballs and good ole head-butting action. Can you hoof it to the top and stay there?
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #18 Aftermath Y2K
83% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Matthew Willis
Windows · Linux
Inspired by such games as Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden; aftermath is a NES styled action platformer. However in Aftermath you play as a dog. You must run, jump, and dodge your way through 8 levels to recover your beloved owner. All the while also trying to fend off thugs, bandits, henchmen, and mutants.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #19 Hatland Adventures
85% matchMostly Negative32% of 22 reviews2015
Dev: Fractal Alligator
Windows
Hatland Adventures is a fast paced 2D Sidescrolling platformer-runner - built around speed, rewarding precision, skill and quick thinking. A unique hat-based health system keeps you alive and moving, while powerup hats can change the way you play. Compete on the online leaderboards for top place!
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #20 Paladin
82% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Pumpkin Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are earth's last hero - defend civilization from annihilation.Protect the cities, destroy the aliens and upgrade your fighter. Drive back the vile invading scum and save mankind in this frantic twin-stick shooter!
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #21 Desperate Times
82% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2016
Dev: Yokcos
Windows
Use a variety of wonderful weaponry to annihilate literally thousands of enemy ships while dodging the unfathomable curtain of bullets they hurl in your direction. Defeat five epic bosses to claim your ultimate victory.
Why similar: Action 54.1%, Indie 45.9%
- #22 Children of Liberty
84% matchNegative13% of 22 reviews2014
Dev: Lantana Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When four spies are arrested infiltrating the mansion of Royal Governor Thomas Gage, the Patriots call upon their children to finish their mission, spring them from jail, and uncover the details of a conspiracy that could plunge the colonies into war...
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #23 Malazard: Magic Defense
81% matchPositive80% of 25 reviews2016
Dev: Invictus Games Ltd.
Windows
Unleash the magic inside you!Purify the demonic legion with a set of powerful abilities.The collapsing world relies upon you, experience what it means to control all Magic!
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #24 Maddening Euphoria
80% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Chequered Ink Ltd.
Windows
A unique, challenging, unnecessarily colourful arcade game with randomly generated circular level design and a wall of death.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #25 AEGIS 2186
81% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Jollyfish Games
Windows
Take command of the ultimate weapon and defend mankind in AEGIS 2186. Protect Earth from an overwhelming alien assault in this intense retro arcade survival-shooter.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #26 Break The Food Chain
78% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: TEHO GamesPub: Caffeine Overdose
Windows
Break The Food Chain is an arcade game about cute little animals shooting at each other in the face like there is no tomorrow.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #27 Alchemist Penguin
79% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: Foot in the Box, LLC
Windows
Take control of the Alchemist Penguin in the relentless battle against his dinosaur aggressors! Face off against a never-ending army of dinosaurs under increasing difficulty--and utilize a huge variety of weapons, potions, and techniques to aid you in your fight.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #28 Mactabilis
79% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2015
Dev: Blazing Bit Games
Windows
Mactabilis is a modern shooter with rpg elements. Customize your ship, select from a large array of weapons or even create your own with the powerful in-game editor! Blast your way through vibrant, multi-level, adrenaline filled missions in search of loot and power.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #29 Attack of the Gooobers
77% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: SluggishtacoGames
Windows
Grab some friends or play alone and prepare to defend yourself from the Goobers in "Attack Of The Goobers!" Choose between multiple classes with unique abilities to survive the attack. Customize your characters stats and appearance to play how you like. Purchase weapons to defend yourself from the Goobers.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #30 SuperLuminauts
78% matchMostly Negative27% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: LampFire
Windows · Mac
Break Space-Time with Friends! SuperLuminauts is a local-multiplayer spaceship shooter where your missiles leave trails in time. With the tight controls of an arcade shooter, and the deep mechanics of no other, soon you'll be flying, thinking, and blowing up your friends like a true SuperLuminaut.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #31 Pythagoras' Perpetual Motion Machine
74% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: MarudicePub: DLsite
Windows
Head to the top of the tower, guided by a mysterious voice... 40 stages that should leave you with a fulfilling sense of achievement. Play with your knowledge, cunning and sparks of brilliance as your only weapon. What do the messages mean? Who am I? What purpose does this tower serve...?
Why similar: Action 54.1%, Indie 45.9%
- #32 No Mans Land
77% matchMostly Negative31% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Selective Intuition
Windows
No Mans Land is a poly art Zombie Survival game. You can craft, loot and shoot your way around the map. Play alone, or with a group of people. Choose how you lived your life previously, and make your way into a new life, living along side the zombies. Just remember to sleep with one eye open!
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #33 NEON GALAXY
76% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Nicholas Backus
Windows
Neon Galaxy is a arcade style multiplayer twin stick shooter. There are modes for co-op play and pvp.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #34 Automatum
73% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Old Point Games
Windows
Automatum is a 2D action and platform game with a dark pixel art style,in wich we take the role of an alien that must face a lot of adversities like platforming, combat and puzzles so he can regain his precious freedom.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #35 Space Battlecruiser
72% matchVery Positive82% of 72 reviews2018
Dev: Less Describable Games
Windows
Space Battlecruiser is an arcade style, top down space shooter where you control a heavily armed capital ship. Battle against squadrons of fighters, fleets of warships, heavily defended space stations, and powerful command ships. Learn to master weaponry and special abilities like the Energy Shield.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #36 Heavy load
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: SergeySmPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
HEAVY LOAD is a puzzle in which you have to solve the problem of how to move the boxes so that they fall into the right places.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #37 Lux umbra
74% match8 user reviews22% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: UndeadTurtle
Windows
In "Lux Umbra" they explore a confused world. They do not know why you here are what all that has to mean and how they come here out. They are able to do themselves only ventures they gain an accident had and now strongly have headaches. But so properly also do not know it.
Why similar: Action 54.1%, Indie 45.9%
- #38 HVRGUN
56% 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 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #39 Grompula
70% matchPositive91% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: GreebPub: Greeb Games
Windows
Grompula is a high octane wave based survival game. Fight through endless waves of Grompuloids to save the Glorkon race, and banish Grompula back to limbo, where he belongs. With tons of weapons, items, and abilities at your disposal, you might just be able to claim back what's rightfully yours.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #40 Ripped Pants at Work
71% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2018
Dev: Scott Ethington
Windows · Mac
Ripped Pants at Work is a frantic stealth game about searching for new pants!
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #41 Bubli
75% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: LupolfLLC
Windows
Bubli is a 2D platformer where the gameplay is controlled entirely by the mouse. Play through a variety of maps and make your own with the built-in editor. As you beat maps, you can make copies of them to edit as well.
Why similar: Action 54.1%, Indie 45.9%
- #42 Pixel bomb! bomb!!
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Uborm
Windows
Long time ago, there was a beautiful Queen in Leroy Forest. The Queen was very narcissistic. She dressed up splendid every day and thought she was the fairest woman in the Forest. Every beautiful girl in the kingdom would lose good looks by the Queen's curse.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #43 Action Legion
73% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: Aeonic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Action Legion is a mouse-controlled, single-player war game on the PC and Mac.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #44 Mercfighter
76% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: One Dave Software
Windows
Make your assault against hundreds of waves of deadly spacecraft. Advance your equipment, skill trees, and ship to overcome the growing enemy threat.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #45 Mirror Angel's Paradise
69% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: Henez
Windows
Explore the remains of the tower Babil and encounter the terrible images left behind by those driven into madness. Rescue the artisan relics that reflect the old world and give you power as you explore the new.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #46 Winter Warland
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2017
Dev: Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this free for all multiplayer battle, fight to be the last snowman standing. Use your snowballs to destroy your enemies from far away, or use your carrot as a sword and deal damage up close.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #47 DIVE: Starpath
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 62 reviews2018
Dev: Gravity Well Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DIVE: Starpath is a third-person runner set in the stratosphere of massive planets. Guide yourself through the perils of interstellar space as you pursue a mysterious traveler. Fight gravity, gather the data canisters, and don't lose orbit!
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #48 Assault on Hyperion Base
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Julian Stables
Windows
After a distress call was received from Hyperion Base you have been sent out to secure and reclaim this advanced research facility. Discover what project A.N.D.R.O.I.D really is and what happened to the team that was stationed there.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #49 Slow.Bullet VR
68% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Marco S HampelPub: Firez Studios
Windows
Survive, Shoot, and Win! A co-op multiplayer zombie Survival Game, now in VR!
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #50 Don't Look Back - VR
69% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: FoV
Windows
Your goal is to find 6 hearts within an underground maze. This is a remastered version of the original DK1 game released in 2014. Armed with only a torch, how quickly can you find the 6 hearts to escape the maze? And will you resist the urge to look back.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #51 900
68% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Barnaque
Windows · Mac · Linux
900 is a minimalist action score attack game in which the player controls an entity that must absorb universes in order to grow endlessly.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #52 Pulstario
64% matchPositive97% of 36 reviews2019
Dev: Fred Wood
Windows · Linux
A small, challenging space game about collecting missing souls in the void.
Why similar: Action 53.8%, Indie 46.2%
- #53 BlubBlub: Quest of the Blob
67% matchPositive82% of 44 reviews2018
Dev: Girls Make Games
Windows · Mac
BlubBlub is too cute! Escape through a trial of deadly traps to save all the blub friends!
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #54 Toy Wars Invasion
72% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2015
Dev: Web Interactive Solutions
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The neglected and despised toys of the world are angry and have escaped their forgotten toy box prisons and are seeking revenge. Fight 21 enemy from the beach to the model train store with an arsenal of 13 weapons and armed vehicles.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #55 Bomber Bother
64% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2019
Dev: Dare Looks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight back against thieving Greyman Grifterham and his horde of beavery bullies and experience the thrill (and frustration) of herding low-poly beavers into a bottomless pit, retro-style!
Why similar: Action 54.4%, Indie 45.6%
- #56 The Executioner: Prologue
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LS
Windows
The Executioner: Prologue is a hardcore two-dimensional action platformer. The game serves as an introductory part of an epic story which narrates about an executioner’s adventures in hell. After the sudden and mysterious death you find yourself in hell. Try to escape from the world of the dead back into the normal world.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #57 Hypnocult
63% matchPositive96% of 47 reviews2019
Dev: increpare games
Windows · Mac
Fast action game - twist and weave your way through tunnels, collecting lines.
Why similar: Action 53.8%, Indie 46.2%
- #58 Nowhere Station
64% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Other Side Worlds
Windows
Crazy Rogue-like top-down shooter with innovative movement mechanic, insane robo-cults, and lots of bullets to ensure your destruction before you grow a big bad robot!
Why similar: Action 54.3%, Indie 45.7%