- #1 In the Pause Between the Ringing
97% matchVery Positive82% of 130 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Oleomingus
Windows · Mac · Linux
In the Pause between the Ringing is a rumination about completion, about territorial margins and about the haunting of bodies and memories that are translated across borders. It is an adaption of an unpublished story written by Mir Umar Hassan for the editor of the Malwa Chronicle in the July of 1958.
Why similar: Adventure 36.4%, Casual 36.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #2 The Hole Town
96% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: imayuiPub: Millchan Games
Windows
To the town in the hole... a story about a place where I can't go.
Why similar: Adventure 75.2%, Indie 23.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #3 a Museum of Dubious Splendors
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 173 reviews2018
Dev: Studio Oleomingus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 37%
a Museum of Dubious Splendors, is a storybook from the world of Somewhere. A quiet game about prosaic objects and spurious histories, it is an irreverent rumination on the nature of an archive and forms of recollection.
Why similar: Adventure 36.5%, Casual 35.3%, Indie 28.2%
- #4 Something for Someone Else
95% matchVery Positive87% of 427 reviews2019
Dev: 4H StudioLab
Windows
Something for Someone Else is a short atypical experience, a brief journey into the mind of a distressed game developer that feels haunted by a game he made. All in the form of a poorly hand drawn narrative platformer accompanied by the beautiful musics of Celluloid Jam.
Why similar: Adventure 35.9%, Casual 35.6%, Indie 28.5%
- #5 Deepwell
94% matchVery Positive100% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: LinsonLime
Windows
Deepwell is a story-driven adventure game, about a small town surrounding a giant mystery hole.
Why similar: Adventure 80%, Indie 19%, Singleplayer 1%
- #6 Bodyless
93% matchVery Positive82% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: NarriFlux
Windows
Bodyless is a VR journey set during Taiwan’s martial law era. You inhabit the ghost of a political prisoner, moving through fragmented spaces where folklore and surveillance intertwine. As environments distort, the line between memory and reality begins to dissolve.
Why similar: Indie 50.1%, Adventure 32.9%, Casual 16.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #7 Cube & Star: An Arbitrary Love
94% matchMixed60% of 139 reviews2014
Dev: Doppler Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Bound across the world spreading color, creating life, tearing brains asunder and meeting interesting geometry.Slowly begin to doubt that you are playing correctly. Slowly begin to doubt that life is even able to be lived correctly.And come to a terrifying conclusion.
Why similar: Casual 34.7%, Adventure 33%, Indie 32.3%
- #8 Way To Yaatra
92% matchVery Positive94% of 156 reviews2020
Dev: WayToYaatra Company
Windows
Get aboard on a thrilling voyage in search of the truth after the desolation of your village, using spears to climb a huge mountain while you walk the way to Yaatra.
Why similar: Adventure 36.3%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 28%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #9 When the Darkness comes
91% matchVery Positive92% of 8,408 reviews2019
Dev: Sirhaian
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.
Why similar: Indie 53.5%, Adventure 45%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #10 SWOLLEN TO BURSTING UNTIL I AM DISAPPEARING ON PURPOSE
90% matchVery Positive98% of 326 reviews2023
Dev: DECEMBER 7TH CREATIVE BUSINESS CORPORATION
Windows
SWOLLEN TO BURSTING is a weirdo RPG in which something is very wrong. A flying saucer has crash landed in town, but it's Thursday so you have to go to work at the post office.
Why similar: Adventure 76.5%, Indie 21.9%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #11 Sandwich Sim
89% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Sandwich SquadPub: Cole Young
Windows · Mac
A game where you play as a slightly confused bear trying to assemble the ultimate meal no matter who tries to get in your way. Relax and fish, visit the grocery store, escape bureaucracy, and more on your way to achieve enlightenment via sandwich.
Why similar: Casual 50.5%, Adventure 49.5%
- #12 Cloud Climber
89% matchVery Positive92% of 4,119 reviews2021
Dev: Two Star Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A surreal first person walking sim about the end of humanity. Explore magnificent sky-bound ruins, and learn why they were built.
Why similar: Adventure 51.3%, Casual 46.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #13 A Taste of the Past
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,768 reviews2022
Dev: Sondering Studio
Windows
What do you do when you lose someone you love? A Taste of the Past is an emotional sidescroller about reconnecting with your Chinese culture while navigating a train to the afterlife. Featuring a wholesome story, cooking minigames, and hope.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #14 Drywall Eating Simulator
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Peripheral Playbox
Windows
A bite-sized (literally) comedic adventure where you relieve the stress of ordinary life by biting through walls. Therapy is expensive, but drywall is plentiful.
Why similar: Adventure 57.3%, Casual 42.7%
- #15 Andarin Weppes: Pre-Dementia
85% matchVery Positive92% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: MötivPub: Next in Game
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Adventure 96.8%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #16 Consumption Line
84% matchVery Positive97% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: Rhombico Games
Windows · Linux
"Consumption Line" is a short, fully free, experimental indie game about the food industry, deceptive advertising and the downsides of modern life. A sarcastic 30‑minute experience designed to make you reflect, not grind.
Why similar: Casual 64%, Indie 34.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #17 The Hungry Fly
84% matchVery Positive91% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: Erupting AvocadoPub: indie.io
Windows
Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.
Why similar: Adventure 96.7%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #18 The Imagined Leviathan: Prologue
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 162 reviews2020
Dev: ChardPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
Imagined Leviathans is a narrative survival game set in a frozen British village. Explore the countryside and unite the survivors to face down your Leviathans together.
Why similar: Adventure 38.4%, Casual 33.3%, Indie 26.5%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #19 Pineapple on pizza
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 25,576 reviews2023
Dev: Majorariatto
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can a video game convey a flavor?
Why similar: Casual 93.8%, Singleplayer 6.2%
- #20 Memento Mori
83% matchVery Positive82% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Shea KellyPub: WolfWare Studios
Windows
A game for the ones we lost on the way. Memento Mori is a surreal walking simulator that combines a minimalistic art style and a show don't tell story, focused on dealing with loss.
Why similar: Casual 56.1%, Indie 42.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #21 MANDAGON
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 5,723 reviews2016
Dev: Blind Sky Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Explore Mandagon, a world inspired by Tibetan theology and philosophy. With a focus on life and death, discover what it means to make a true sacrifice . . .
Why similar: Adventure 45.1%, Indie 36.7%, Casual 17.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #22 Playing Kafka
78% matchVery Positive95% of 317 reviews2024
Dev: Charles Games
Windows · Mac
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Adventure 88%, Indie 11.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #23 Antenna
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,715 reviews2016
Dev: LWNA
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 146.3 hrs≥1hr: 18%
A machine ponders its loneliness. It scans the radio spectrum for an answer to its question.
Why similar: Casual 41.4%, Indie 34.1%, Adventure 23%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #24 ERROR: Human Not Found
81% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2018
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
Error: Human Not Found is a visual-novel/puzzle game with portions of point-and-click adventure. Play as Grace and work to uncover the cause of death for the first AI to inhabit a physical body. Solve 4 types of computer-science based puzzles that increase in difficulty as the story progresses.
Why similar: Casual 36.6%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 27.3%
- #25 The Mystery of Caketropolis
79% matchVery Positive96% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Afiq Suradi
Windows
A bakery falls to arson and a city falls to chaos. With the harmony between human and dragon crumbling, can Rimentus solve the Mystery of Caketropolis before his kind face exile?
Why similar: Adventure 65.9%, Casual 31.5%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #26 I Must Kill: Fresh Meat
82% matchMostly Negative29% of 264 reviews2015
Dev: Gaming Cats Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 47.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
I must kill...: Fresh Meat is a light horror story adventure game based on a sad story of a butcher. One day, one night and one accident will bring his misty past and memories to light.
Why similar: Adventure 57%, Indie 43%
- #27 A Raven Monologue
77% matchVery Positive94% of 2,710 reviews2018
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 18%
A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.
Why similar: Casual 54.7%, Indie 44.4%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #28 Irbet Tong
75% matchVery Positive100% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Kyhynngy Oyuur
Windows
In this pixel adventure, Ürgel walks through a village crumbling with byllars, guided by the cosmology of the Sakha people and the memory of his ancestors, the Öbüge. As the permafrost collapses and the Earth warms, he searches for meaning on a quiet journey for jam.
Why similar: Adventure 69.8%, Casual 30.2%
- #29 nothing_matters
76% matchVery Positive83% of 229 reviews2023
Dev: Ka Hin Yuen
Windows
A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.
Why similar: Adventure 51.2%, Casual 48.8%
- #30 EMPORIUM
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 141 reviews2017
Dev: Tom Kitchen
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Emporium is a short interactive vignette. Exploring notions of escapism, loss and a fragmented sense of self in the wake of a personal tragedy.
Why similar: Casual 37.6%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 27.8%
- #31 Recursive Ruin
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 310 reviews2022
Dev: Bit RotPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.
Why similar: Adventure 96.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #32 The Wonderful End of the World
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 691 reviews2008
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You can't save the whole world. It's going to be eaten by a mythological demon with the head of a fish. But as a puppet that absorbs all it touches, you can try to rescue as much of Earth's greatness as you can before the end arrives. In the beginning, you roam the Earth, capable of absorbing only the tiniest of objects.
Why similar: Casual 52.2%, Indie 46.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #33 The Westport Independent
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 330 reviews2016
Dev: Double Zero One Zero
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 ABEL
73% matchVery Positive88% of 180 reviews2023
Dev: CNAM-ENJMIN
Windows
An uncanny liminal space themed walking-simulator.
Why similar: Adventure 72.8%, Indie 25%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #35 Faefever
72% matchVery Positive87% of 428 reviews2020
Dev: Monkey Wizard Entertainment
Windows
Faefever tells the story of a troubled journalist trying to uncover the mystery of a missing brother and sister in the small town of Glenroch, where not all things are as they seem.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Casual 35.3%, Indie 27.6%
- #36 Ishmael
74% matchMixed57% of 84 reviews2018
Dev: Jordan Magnuson
Windows
Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.
Why similar: Casual 37.7%, Adventure 32.5%, Indie 29.8%
- #37 The Desolate Hope
72% matchVery Positive92% of 1,763 reviews2014
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 39%
On a distant edge of an unknown planet, an abandoned structure sits in silence. Constructed by an unmanned research vessel sent from Earth, the Lun Infinus station was designed to run simulations for a five year period, exploring possibilities of human colonization in the case that Earth became uninhabitable.
Why similar: Adventure 60.3%, Indie 38.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #38 Frightened Beetles
71% matchVery Positive92% of 604 reviews2018
Dev: Anatoliy Loginovskikh
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 11%
Something terrible happened in the forest! Someone frightened all Bugs! What happened? You are the only one who can find it out!
Why similar: Casual 40.3%, Adventure 31.9%, Indie 27.8%
- #39 Doggone Hungry
70% matchVery Positive93% of 346 reviews2021
Dev: Dana SpeiserPub: SCAD Games Studio
Windows
Doggone Hungry is a delicious game about eating food, getting fat, and being a dog. Your favorite toy, Quackerjack, is always getting stolen, and superior dog logic has determined that you must get fat to save him!
Why similar: Casual 76.3%, Indie 22.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #40 We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,443 reviews2019
Dev: Mismatch Studio
Windows · Mac
a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles
Why similar: Casual 49.6%, Indie 49.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #41 A Game About
71% matchVery Positive90% of 881 reviews2018
Dev: byolivierb
Windows · Mac
A Game About is a free, short, lo-fi point & click adventure that tasks the player with living with their daily routine. Through day to day choices, life changes in imperceptibles and unexpected ways.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 ULTRAWORLD EXODUS
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 82 reviews2014
Dev: Neon Serpent LLC
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Visit a first-person, abstract landscape of bleeding technicolor wonder, armed with a camera, curiosity, and freedom. Explore at your own pace or experience the story that has confounded players and critics alike. Get lost in another reality.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 The Growth Journey
74% matchMixed59% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: Cleverweek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A game about tactical growth, where growth is irreversible.
Why similar: Adventure 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #44 While We Wait Here
66% matchVery Positive89% of 2,242 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Casual 77.1%, Adventure 20.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #45 Condo
66% matchVery Positive98% of 203 reviews2025
Dev: FlubbedMachina
Windows · Mac
Unable to sleep, you navigate a quiet condo complex. There's no rush - just you, the building, its inhabitants, and the stories they hold.
Why similar: Adventure 71.9%, Indie 25.5%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #46 Only If
71% matchMixed62% of 5,958 reviews2014
Dev: Creability
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Only If is a surreal first person adventure-puzzle game. It takes idiom into reality.
Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Indie 31.9%, Casual 10.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #47 Gravitational Phenomenon
66% matchVery Positive95% of 120 reviews2024
Dev: Teamey
Windows
IN THIS 3D ARCADE PLATFORMER GAME AN UNKNOWN CATACLYSM HAS ROCKED THE EARTH THE LAWS OF PHYSICS NO LONGER APPLY YOU MUST DESCEND THROUGH THE WRECKAGE Back to the OLD WORLD, TO EARTH
Why similar: Indie 50%, Casual 48.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #48 Legacy of Epstein: Bad Omen
67% matchVery Positive92% of 209 reviews2023
Dev: GZ Storm
Windows
Juglio encounters the Splendor Man... What happens next is unthinkable.
Why similar: Adventure 79.3%, Indie 19.7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #49 The Impure
70% matchVery Positive87% of 62 reviews2018
Dev: Wingjoy Games
Windows
They looks same, just like they see us. The coastal city was teared down by earthquake and tidal wave caused by it. A group of black square creatures, was rescuing their brothers and sisters in the ruins day and night with all their efforts, even with their lives.
Why similar: Casual 36.2%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 28.2%
- #50 LAVALAMP
64% matchVery Positive95% of 290 reviews2026
Dev: The Space Lemmings from Space Productions
Windows · Mac
3D first-person walking simulator with a side of exploration/interaction with the environment. The game tells the story of the Space Lemmings from Space who, after running many experiments with breakfast alphabet and the space-time continuum, got blocked between dimensions (or something).
Why similar: Casual 61.8%, Adventure 38.2%
- #51 Faded Stories: Greenberg
67% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows
Here in the city of Greenberg time is meaningless, and space is infinite. The city has endless history and yet... The whole place is fading away.
Why similar: Adventure 71.3%, Indie 27.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #52 Cowpocalypse - Episode 0
68% matchVery Positive87% of 210 reviews2019
Dev: Balazs Hrabacsik
Windows
Disappearing cows, strange visitors, talking trees... What is going on here...? Is the end of the world, the cowpocalypse really here? Discover the mysteries trough this puzzle filled, 2,5D, point & click style adventure game.
Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Casual 34.1%, Indie 26.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #53 Scorch
68% matchVery Positive83% of 317 reviews2018
Dev: Ellie's Lunchbox
Windows
It's been 30 years since a terrible arson attack erased an entire family. Until today the culprit has been on the loose. You are sent to investigate a similar incident in this narrative exploration game.
Why similar: Casual 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #54 The Mansion
69% matchMixed67% of 155 reviews2021
Dev: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows
The Mansion, a grim yet fascinating building you’re facing, doesn’t exist.
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Casual 34.5%, Indie 26.4%
- #55 SORE
70% matchMixed67% of 343 reviews2017
Dev: Bazitov Mikhail
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Mystical puzzle quest game in a gloomy minimalism style will tell you a story of a person who's got himself into a camera, and from which there is no way out it seems. Experimental gameplay diluted with a pinch of a philosophy, that's what SORE is.
Why similar: Indie 34%, Casual 32.3%, Adventure 31.7%, Singleplayer 1.9%