- #1 sun-rise.exe
97% matchVery Positive92% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: louis morel
Windows
Adventure through bizarre and intricately made levels in this 2D platformer game.
Why similar: Adventure 92.1%, Indie 7.9%
- #2 Adventure Slime
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 54 reviews2019
Dev: Candied ArsenicPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Adventure Slime is a 2-D side-scrolling platformer where a slime traverses through a magical forest in their quest to find the bounciest mushroom room. Avoid noxious goop as you spring from mushroom to mushroom, collecting shiny golden leaves, and enjoy the casual atmosphere and catchy music.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #3 Deep the Game
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 946 reviews2020
Dev: Goricina ProductionsPub: Goricina Entertainment
Windows
Welcome to the Deep: Pixelart platformer indie game located deep inside caves. You are a cave explorer who accidentally falls in a pit which leads to a big cave system. After some exploration, you find remains of an old civilization that used to live there and decide to explore it a little further.
Why similar: Adventure 58.1%, Indie 41.9%
- #4 Low Oxygen
95% matchVery Positive89% of 299 reviews2023
Dev: Alex-Stefan Neagu
Windows · Linux
Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 91.5%, Indie 8.5%
- #5 Way To Yaatra
94% 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 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #6 Cartesian
94% matchVery Positive96% of 50 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 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #7 Relive
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 175 reviews2015
Dev: Studio Evil
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Relive is a free sci-fi adventure game about CPR. Its main purpose is to increase the awareness about this topic and encourage people to take a CPR class and be prepared to intervene in case of need. Discover the story and challenge your friends in tournament mode!
Why similar: Adventure 53.6%, Indie 46.4%
- #8 Cup Of Ethanol
92% matchVery Positive81% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: Eoin Flanagan
Windows
A free platformer game with a bunch of unique enemies and landscapes. Jump your way through 24 different levels to find that delicious pint.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #9 Plokoth
91% matchMixed68% of 338 reviews2021
Dev: Team Plokoth
Windows
Plokoth is an atmospheric 2D platforming game set in a mysterious jungle.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #10 The Cursed Tower
91% matchMixed64% of 97 reviews2018
Dev: Mohsin Rizvi
Windows · Mac · Linux
"The Cursed Tower" is a story-driven platformer game where you are a dutiful postal worker. Armed with only a letter opener and graceful jumping skills, you must embark on a quest and fulfill your duty. Along the way, you will encounter many dangers and uncover a dark secret. Do you have what it takes?
Why similar: Adventure 53.7%, Indie 46.3%
- #11 Worn Thin
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 171 reviews2021
Dev: Oakley Blade Games
Windows
Worn Thin is totally, definitely, absolutely not a rage game. You play as a medical pill, on a 3-D platforming quest to heal someone. Travel through a 100% totally accurate representation of the human body, in hopes to reach your goal!
Why similar: Adventure 50.9%, Indie 49.1%
- #12 In Passing
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
A first-person 3D platforming experience through a broken mind turned against you.
Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #13 Escape the Underground
88% matchVery Positive88% of 109 reviews2021
Dev: Joseph EnglishPub: Sleepy Vampire Games
Windows · Mac
At the bottom of a massive underground dump, a sentient pile of sludge is born. After finding a discarded book that shows photographs of the surface, they decide to make the journey upward to see the outside world.
Why similar: Adventure 79%, Indie 21%
- #14 Blink
89% 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 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #15 Dawn
87% matchVery Positive91% of 868 reviews2017
Dev: Brave Rabbit GamesPub: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Dawn is an atmospheric 3D platformer in which players guide a druidic creature named Ash through a beautiful environment to bring life and light back to a dead tree at the center of the world.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #16 Applewood
86% matchVery Positive97% of 60 reviews2019
Dev: Garrett Thompson
Windows
Discover the true meaning of apples in this charming adventure-platformer.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #17 The Navigator
86% matchVery Positive96% of 227 reviews2018
Dev: Team Navigator
Windows · Mac
The Navigator is a 2D puzzle-platformer where the player assumes control of a young boy travelling the high seas. The mysterious world around him is filled with floating rocks that have various celestial properties, and the player must help the boy align these celestial rocks to lead him on his journey.
Why similar: Adventure 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #18 Hargrave
85% matchVery Positive93% of 264 reviews2020
Dev: Disafter Games
Windows
Hargrave finds himself inside the walls of a mysterious labyrinth filled with strange robots. Find the way out, or find what's hidden deep inside.
Why similar: Adventure 64.6%, Indie 35.4%
- #19 Bask: The Alchemist Frog
84% matchVery Positive81% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Skuxx Games
Windows
Once human, now frog. Begin this unexpected journey into the land of the unknown in-search of a cure for your froggy state. Explore the world around you while helping others in need as you find new ingredients and potions to help you on your path.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #20 Hardcore and Death
81% matchVery Positive82% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: ZERO5GAMES
Windows
Run through huge multi-level locations, avoiding spikes, falling platforms, and flying blades, use double jumps, and choose your route to reach the Heart before the lights go out.
Why similar: Adventure 76.7%, Indie 23.3%
- #21 Goat Life
84% matchMixed62% of 154 reviews2018
Dev: Dwarven potion brewPub: Sacred Grab Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Goat Life is an unusual 2D platformer with elements of survival in which you have to go through a variety of levels for a goat.
Why similar: Adventure 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #22 Face It - A game to fight inner demons
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,250 reviews2017
Dev: Tlön StudiosPub: Gamestorming
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Carefuly crafted puzzles in a challenging 3D plaformer take the player on a surrealistic journey through a maze of feelings. In Face It, abstract concepts are shaped into gameplay: darker emotions are monsters and traps, while brighter concepts are the powers you need to beat the levels.
Why similar: Adventure 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #23 DreamDasher
82% matchVery Positive86% of 121 reviews2020
Dev: C3BGames
Windows · Mac
The Dreamworld has been infected! It is up to you to explore the Dreamworld as the DreamDasher, discover its secrets, and defeat the Nightmare.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #24 Perspective
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,387 reviews2019
Dev: WiddershinsPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Gravitia
79% matchVery Positive92% of 168 reviews2024
Dev: VuzzlePub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Gravitia is an adventure game about manipulating gravity to escape a unique world full of mystery.
Why similar: Adventure 87.5%, Indie 12.5%
- #26 Lup
82% matchMixed45% of 387 reviews2016
Dev: Leo BPub: Back To Basics Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Lup is a 2D platformer with heart, throughout the game you'll have to overcome enemies and challenges using weapons and items.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #27 Hard Light Vector
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 57 reviews2019
Dev: Actually A Game Company, L.L.C
Windows
Hard Light Vector is a first-person action platformer where you traverse an alien environment and fight to protect the memories of the dead from corruption.
Why similar: Adventure 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #28 Space Expedition
76% matchVery Positive93% of 181 reviews2023
Dev: Mobirate
Windows · Mac
Space Expedition is a 2D sci-fi platformer where you play as an astronaut who is sent to a space station to collect samples of mysterious dark matter. Space Expedition combines puzzle platforming, pixel art, and atmospheric adventures set in the style of 1980s sci-fi horror films.
Why similar: Indie 53.6%, Adventure 46.4%
- #29 The Pulse of Evil
76% matchVery Positive95% of 219 reviews2023
Dev: MadnukinPub: Mads Games
Windows
Find yourself on a mission exploring the depth of an ominous forgotten mine. You arrive barehanded but quickly find the tools needed to go deeper. Destroy the infected living parts of the mine and face the final threat and complete your mission.
Why similar: Adventure 90.2%, Indie 9.8%
- #30 Spark and The Digital Daydream
78% matchVery Positive93% of 71 reviews2019
Dev: Luminescence Interactive
Windows · Mac
Spark and The Digital Daydream is a story-based puzzle-platformer where puzzles are intertwined with live-action video and an original soundtrack. Follow Spark, a video game character lost in the world of his creator's computer, as he searches for a way to save his game and something even greater than himself.
Why similar: Adventure 53.6%, Indie 46.4%
- #31 Trash TV
79% matchVery Positive86% of 131 reviews2015
Dev: Lawrence RussellPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Welcome to the world of Trash TV. Cast away into a recycling center, you play an outdated tube television animated to life with a singular goal – find your remote control and become fully functional again.
Why similar: Indie 54.5%, Adventure 45.5%
- #32 Summon The DUDES!
74% matchVery Positive97% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Inanity Catchers Team
Windows
A quirky 2D puzzle platformer where your most powerful tool is… the DUDES!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #33 Pitcher and the Whale
77% matchVery Positive96% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: Club Foxhole
Windows
A 2D platformer where you control a young fox searching for water to bring to a beached whale. Jump and throw your bucket around to open paths, knock away enemies, and of course, carry water!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #34 Aritana and the Harpy's Feather
78% matchVery Positive91% of 125 reviews2014
Dev: Duaik Entretenimento
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Aritana and the Harpy's Feather is a 2.5D platform game with an innovative stance and combo system. Race against time, face the challenges of Harpy Mountain, confront the Spirits of the Forest, and venture into the lands of the fearsome Mapinguari.
Why similar: Adventure 55.1%, Indie 44.9%
- #35 Whisker Witchery
75% matchVery Positive84% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: Mystic Moon Studios
Windows
Take the role of a cursed witch as she tried to become human once more! Navigate the cottage of your rival to locate the ingredients needed for the potion, avoiding her guardians and falling to the floor far below!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #36 Gravity Error
77% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #37 ITORAH
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 886 reviews2022
Dev: Grimbart TalesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Discover the world of Nahucan in this 2D action platformer. You are Itorah, the only human in this strange place. Explore, fight and survive to uncover your past and save Nahucan from its biggest threat, a mysterious plague!
Why similar: Adventure 52.4%, Indie 47.6%
- #38 The Way
73% matchVery Positive83% of 1,295 reviews2016
Dev: Puzzling DreamPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
Why similar: Adventure 61.4%, Indie 38.6%
- #39 Ex Vitro
70% matchVery Positive94% of 145 reviews2024
Dev: Evolver Dynamics
Windows
EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within. Whether machine, creature, or something else entirely, you’ll face the violent legacy of the last survivors of humanity.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #40 ITRP _ Volatile Vertex
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Unhexigon
Windows
If you see a ledge, it means that it is needed for something. A three-dimensional puzzle platformer about the change of gravity in three axes. Walk on the walls and hang from the ceiling. Do whatever you want. The main thing is to get out of here.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 The Dreamlord
75% matchMixed44% of 216 reviews2016
Dev: mesettsPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Collect Dreamlord powers, Mind Fragments and lost memories. Jump from platform to platform in order to reach the end portal in time and escape. The Dreamlord has given you jump pads, teleports, elevators, anti-gravity devices and lots of platforms to jump on and get to the end. Prove to him you are worthy of waking up.
Why similar: Adventure 79%, Indie 21%
- #42 Ninjahtic
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 91 reviews2015
Dev: Blaze Epic
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Ninjahtic is an action/adventure platformer with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth. While it's progression is linear, the open-ended nature of every level requires exploration of an abandoned civilization located atop floating islands.
Why similar: Adventure 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #43 Ascent DX
67% matchVery Positive99% of 272 reviews2025
Dev: Johan PeitzPub: Apskeppet
Windows · Mac
Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.
Why similar: Adventure 66.6%, Indie 33.4%
- #44 Entangled
71% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: P² Studios
Windows
Complete physics-based platformer puzzles as you venture deeper into an abandoned research facility responsible for developing ominously powerful quantum entanglement technology.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #45 Cave Crawler
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,108 reviews2022
Dev: Evan Youssef
Windows
Cave Crawler is a short, 2D side-scrolling action platformer. Explore caves filled with interesting enemies and fun platforming challenges.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #46 Short Life
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 192 reviews2018
Dev: gametornado
Windows
Choose your hero and get to the finish without losing your head :) Avoid obstacles and try to complete the levels with all your body parts.
Why similar: Adventure 52%, Indie 48%
- #47 Squared Adventure
68% matchVery Positive93% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Potato Game Studio
Windows
Embark on a journey through tunnels, caves and ancient temples, solving puzzles and fighting all kinds of hostile creatures. Be smart - avoid traps and think carefully. They say it doesn't hurt ;)
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Beyond the Breach
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: rubickanov
Windows
Discover a world overrun with robots, and play as a defective bot who tries to find a way to flee the facility. Find others who are the same kind, free them, and escape the laboratory!
Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #49 Make Me LAG
70% matchVery Positive93% of 251 reviews2020
Dev: 4H StudioLab
Windows
Make Me LAG is the first game that features a revolutionary new control scheme: your character actions are determined by the game frame count! Use external softwares and other tricks to lower the FPS count and control your character to defeat evil monsters and save the world!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 Lumin's Path
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: Buckle Up Games
Windows
Lumin's Path is an atmospheric 3D platformer using light and darkness to impact the world in mysterious ways.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #51 Blink the Bulb
71% matchVery Positive85% of 107 reviews2017
Dev: White Sparkle Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Blink the Bulb is a 16-bit platformer composed of massive, holiday-themed realms. Explore six unique worlds, mix and match varied power ups, and stave off the nefarious Holidaemon in this throwback to games of yore.
Why similar: Adventure 60.6%, Indie 39.4%
- #52 Pulut Adventure
72% matchMixed62% of 92 reviews2015
Dev: yayapipiPub: Yayapipi Studio
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Pulut Adventure is a 2D platform game with over 30 different stylistic levels and exciting mechanics. Defeat the enemy and collect different of weapon to advance your abilities. You can use the summon skills and flying mode to explore the world.
Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #53 Island Dash
69% matchVery Positive84% of 499 reviews2017
Dev: Flo Knödl
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 30%
You are controlling the Tourist through the whole Island. Your goal is to collect as much money as quickly as possible, so the Tourist can buy himself a Hotdog. If you are to slow and he runs out of calories, he will die. :( Do you think you can make it?
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #54 La Rana
67% matchVery Positive95% of 453 reviews2019
Dev: Frog Paw StudiosPub: SMU Guildhall
Windows
In La Rana, players explore the lost Rain Temple of Rana. Play as a small spirit frog who is the temple's last remaining caretaker. Traverse its grand chambers and winding passages to restore its former power and revive your fellow frog spirits along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 50.9%, Indie 49.1%
- #55 KEEK
66% matchVery Positive96% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: 70-MTNSPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows · Mac
KEEK is a pixel 2D platformer that you could use a special force to change the dimension of objects. Overcome obstacles, disable traps, collect items and face the final challenge.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Disorder
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 104 reviews2015
Dev: Swagabyte Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A psychological 2D puzzle platformer. You must switch between two versions of the past: dark & light, positive & negative, hope & despair. Every action is innately tied to this dualistic battle. Traverse a surreal landscape of memory to try and mend a fragile mind.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #57 Guazu: The Rescue
67% matchVery Positive97% of 59 reviews2021
Dev: Guara Studios
Windows
Boarding on this adventure with Guazu in a wide forest of dangers, where you will rescue your friends who have been captured.
Why similar: Adventure 69.4%, Indie 30.6%
- #58 Eternal Cave Escape
67% matchVery Positive83% of 148 reviews2021
Dev: HarderGaming
Windows
You find yourself stuck in a cave with nothing but your wit... and a pickaxe! As you climb your way out you'll find this is no ordinary cave.
Why similar: Adventure 57.8%, Indie 42.2%
- #59 Smilemo
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,267 reviews2022
Dev: REXECHOPub: CFK Co., Ltd.
Windows
A new side-scrolling platformer where you go flying out of control at the slightest touch! In this virus-infected world, it is your job to collect the scattered pieces of vaccine code and exterminate the virus!
Why similar: Adventure 78.5%, Indie 21.5%
- #60 Jerma's Big Adventure
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,371 reviews2021
Dev: worblir
Windows
Oh no! Jerma985 has fallen into a spooky cavern filled with ROBOT dinosaurs and EVIL warlocks. In this wacky action-platformer, fight to escape the treacherous cavern while a live studio chat cheers you on!
Why similar: Adventure 100%