- #1 Madness of the Architect
97% matchMostly Negative28% of 29 reviews2018
Dev: Podunk StudiozPub: Funbox Media Ltd
Windows
Madness of The Architect is a surreal horror/puzzle game inspired by older point-and-click adventure games such as Myst, Nine Doors and 999: Nine Hours. Players enter a world that seems to be going insane and must solve labyrinths of mind bending puzzles to escape the clutches of the Mad Architect!
Why similar: Strategy 38.1%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #2 Doors & Rooms
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: Gameday Inc.
Windows
Best of escape games! Just open the doors and escape!
Why similar: Strategy 39.4%, Adventure 35.3%, Indie 25.3%
- #3 Prismatic Maze
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Bad Monkey Love
Windows · Mac
Prismatic Maze is an experimental evolving maze game where maps are alive, grown organically and naturally arranging themselves into hierarchical mazes. Hidden in each map are tools and ingredients to grow more complex mazes and aid to exploration of their patterns and treasures.
Why similar: Strategy 39.7%, Adventure 33.5%, Indie 26.8%
- #4 TheMovingMaze
94% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Wuzi
Windows
A traditional maze awaits you, and you'll enjoy the old days
Why similar: Strategy 40%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 25.7%
- #5 Dark Mystery
95% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Yash Future Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
Windows
Dark Mystery is a Puzzled Platformer Game in which player faces different types of difficulties to find his true love.
Why similar: Strategy 39.8%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 24.4%
- #6 The Rabbit Hole Remastered
94% matchMixed68% of 37 reviews2017
Dev: VRMonkey
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
You find yourself in a strange place, a place full of darkness and mad things. After falling down the rabbit hole, what mysteries lies beyond? Are you ready to escape it? Be fast, be smart and survive this grim reality! Now Remastered!
Why similar: Strategy 39.9%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 24.4%
- #7 游离大陆 Uniland
91% matchVery Positive92% of 63 reviews2019
Dev: Ughorse Studio
Windows
It is a multi-play strategy game made by the combination of turn-based and roguelike. Master clever tactics, awaken strong talent, recruit powerful troops, create grand city-states, and so on, quickly enter the Uniland, lead your troops to unravel the ultimate mystery of this chaotic continent.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #8 Displaced
93% matchMixed56% of 216 reviews2017
Dev: GamexyPub: Alawar Casual
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Your mission: lead a group of civilians out of the war-torn country.
Why similar: Strategy 40.5%, Adventure 34%, Indie 25.5%
- #9 Two For One
92% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: 2Hyper
Windows
Two For One is a game about 2 brothers who have lost their home planet. It's your job to help them, alone or together with someone else, find their home planet! Puzzle your way trough lots of levels to get back home! Push boxes, open doors and jump on your friend's head to solve all kinds of puzzles!
Why similar: Strategy 40.7%, Adventure 33.2%, Indie 26.1%
- #10 Abyss
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TBDPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Abyss is an arcade-adventure game telling the story of a teenager who sets off on a dangerous and obstacle-filled journey. Take part in this thrilling adventure, explore 21 different levels, from the gloomy streets of Łódź to the infernal dungeons.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #11 灵文西游
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: Winturn Games
Windows
《灵文西游》是一款Roguelike和TCG组合玩法的策略卡牌游戏。游戏以中国古典神话故事为背景,选择你的传奇英雄,遭遇随机生成的不同妖魔鬼怪和事件,踏上封神之路!
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #12 Mad Crown
90% matchVery Positive80% of 148 reviews2018
Dev: S-Game
Windows
Mad Crown is a roguelike RPG set in a post-apocalyptic dieselpunk world. As an explorer, you are in search of the legendary crown. Make use of limited resources and meticulous tactics to battle an eerie enemy through the procedurally generated dungeons of a mutated world.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #13 Gotta Get Going: Steam Smugglers VR
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Alligator SL
Windows
In Steam Smugglers, you will be member of a band of thieves that want to return the social class balance by stealing the world's most valuable jewel, owned by one of the richest families in the country.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #14 Under The War
89% matchMostly Negative29% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Lightning Zebra
Windows
Cities are ruled by extremist organizations, and here become closed cages. As a leader of a team, you not only need to find enough materials to make your team survive, but also to be responsible for each of your choices. Under your leadership, can your team escape from the city?
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #15 Secrets of Deep Earth Shrine
89% matchMixed67% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Chronicle Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Dig your own path in this quirky strategy platformer. Use traps to defeat monsters, blow apart your environment, and collect treasure!
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #16 Safe House
88% matchMostly Negative38% of 34 reviews2018
Dev: Labs Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Slip behind the scenes of a shadowy political conflict and operate a top-secret safe house. Build, upgrade, and run your spy HQ as you shape the course of history … for better or worse!
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #17 The Legend of Slime
86% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: XiaoLongBao Games
Windows
Become the leader of slime, and play a match three puzzle game!
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #18 Trinity Dungeon
87% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Jonathan Grey
Windows
A turn-based tactical rogue-like dungeon crawler. Fight the monsters, descend the Dungeon, and recover the Amulet!
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #19 Alice Must Find The Key To Escape (Hidden Objects)
84% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Tonee Ltd
Windows · Mac
Alice is locked in here own dream and she needs help to get from her deep level of unconsciousness. While she was taking care of her sick mother in the Garfield's Castle, a bolt strikes from the sky and hit Alice and she falls down in unconsciousness, and that is how her journey begin.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #20 Horresco Referens
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Spiro Spero Games
Windows · Mac
You are a soldier from an alien race exiled from its native planet. Armed with a deck of cards, your goal is to make sure that your new home never gets colonized by the neighboring civilizations.
Why similar: Strategy 42.1%, Adventure 32.1%, Indie 25.8%
- #21 DROD: The Second Sky
82% matchPositive96% of 45 reviews2016
Dev: Caravel Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The climactic conclusion to Beethro Budkin's epic DROD adventures! Join Beethro as he races against time and mysterious forces in the Rooted Empire as the dire Grand Event looms near. With a huge amount of novel, quality puzzle content and story, this is the puzzle game to end all puzzle games.
Why similar: Strategy 41.8%, Adventure 32.6%, Indie 25.6%
- #22 Soul Elegy
79% matchMixed61% of 253 reviews2021
Dev: Sichuan Fruit Interactive Technology Co., Ltd.Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
This is a very challenging war chess + roguelike game, with random mazes, free combination of teams, and turn-based combat. In the game, players will lead all kinds of undead to counterattack the human world!
Why similar: Strategy 41.3%, Adventure 33.4%, Indie 25.3%
- #23 Dimension of Dreams
79% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Kiif Entertainment
Windows
"Dimension of Dreams" is a unique strategy card game with rogue-like elements. You play an adventurer who embarks on an exhilarating journey through the dream world, where you engage in thrilling, fluid combat. Obtain and add cards strategically to your deck via exploration and upgrading existing cards.
Why similar: Strategy 42.6%, Adventure 31.3%, Indie 26.1%
- #24 Where's Home?
80% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: RollingStarStudios
Windows
"Where's Home?" Playing as Pumo the little robot and his companion friend Buggie; you're on a mission to find a new way home, as your aircraft mysteriously malfunctioned. Find creative ways to hide and sneak around, use your abilities to put pieces together and get Pumo back home!
Why similar: Strategy 41.1%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.3%
- #25 Under Spire 尖塔自走棋
81% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: CoolHeartGame
Windows
Real-time combat, depth strategy. Card formation, explore the maze.
Why similar: Strategy 43%, Adventure 31.9%, Indie 25.1%
- #26 Ramayana
83% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2015
Dev: Rakesh Malik
Windows · Linux
Real-Time-Strategy game based on great Indian epic Ramayana.
Why similar: Strategy 41.7%, Adventure 34%, Indie 24.3%
- #27 Airborne: Trials
78% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Stealfy
Windows
Airborne is a game with a series of trials that get progressively harder. The trials contain parkour and puzzles that you must surpass. In these trials you will encounter many platforms that can be friend or foe, or there just kind of there and don't do anything but that usually doesn't happen.
Why similar: Strategy 41.1%, Adventure 33.5%, Indie 25.4%
- #28 Abyss Cave
69% matchPositive83% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Piao Jingfu
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
As a member of an elite squad, you are tasked with a mission to penetrate into the great abyss. You are to explore an unknown cave system and eliminate all threats that may arise, Good luck Soldier!
Why similar: Strategy 42.3%, Adventure 33%, Indie 24.7%
- #29 The Gladhollow Nasties
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Novel Creatures
Windows
A beast stalks the forest by night. It will take cunning, stealth, and strategy to survive long enough to untangle a mystery through one wooded village and many despicable generations. Discover the stories of the sinful, pernicious, malicious morsels themselves: The Gladhollow Nasties.
Why similar: Strategy 40.4%, Adventure 34.1%, Indie 25.5%
- #30 Beasts Battle
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 96 reviews2016
Dev: Greenolor StudioPub: Kaser Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Turn-based battles.
Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, Adventure 32%, Indie 25.1%
- #31 King's Tower
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Liang
Windows
shoot enemy. defend your tower
Why similar: Adventure 53.4%, Indie 40.4%, Strategy 6.2%
- #32 The Blackbird of Amor
77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: BCETracks
Windows
When there is an unsolved mystery, Stein can't let it go, he must pursue it till the end. In Amor there is a certain woman that interests him, she is rumored to have eternal youth. To solve the mystery of this woman he must tear heaven from earth. His journey will take him far beyond the world he has known.
Why similar: Strategy 41%, Adventure 33.5%, Indie 25.5%
- #33 Ring the City
78% matchMixed68% of 123 reviews2019
Dev: Giant Games
Windows
Wear rings and fight! How many rings can you wear on one hand? In Ring the City, you use rings to fight. Charge the rings and cast powerful magic!Choose your rings wisely and build your own ring squard! Loot the dungeon! Collect powerful rings and discover the truth of the world!
Why similar: Strategy 46.4%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 16.9%
- #34 The Roaring Empire
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArGeymsPub: Komiker Media
Windows · Mac
How about entering an epic and fantastic medieval world than you've ever seen before. In the legendary world of The Roaring Empire, you can talk to dragons, charm and guide your adventure with countless characters. Add a new color of RPG with this game.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #35 Electric Sheep: A Cyberpunk Dystopia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cross-Media Productions
Windows
In the near future, humanity has been minimalized, as the rise of android-rule crushes any threats to its near-term dominance. As part of the resistance, it’s your goal to undermine the automated dictatorship, and help free mankind from its robotic bonds.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #36 Sproots
76% matchMixed50% of 32 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Sproots is a colony management survival game where you control a group of 'sproots' - small pikmin-like creatures - that are in constant need of food and water. They can explore different biomes, pick up objects and study them, learn skills, craft structures and items and teach each other about their findings.
Why similar: Strategy 41.8%, Adventure 33%, Indie 25.2%
- #37 Baldina's Basis in Education Literary Grammar
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 71 reviews2019
Dev: Kourov Vyacheslav
Windows
Do you like reading the books of great writers? How many books have you read in school over the past year? Baldina is a teacher who makes you love books the way she loves them!
Why similar: Strategy 39.7%, Adventure 33.9%, Indie 26.5%
- #38 Bulleto Master
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Browith
Windows
Bulleto Master is a game in the wild wild west style. You shoot and control your bullets and try to move them to bunce and hit your targets.You can also go into slow motion for a limited time to gain additional controls over them. Defeat all the enemies and keep your town safe at all cost.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #39 Broken of Darkness
75% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: VoidStudio
Windows
30 Heroes, 30+Boss, 30+Boss, 150+ different monsters, 390 Hero's Skills, 300+ Runes, 300+ passive effect for equipment, 500+ synthetic skill scrolls for equipment, Infinite randomly generated equipment Only by matching different equipment and props reasonably can heroes be more powerful.
Why similar: Strategy 41%, Adventure 33.5%, Indie 25.5%
- #40 Purgatory II
77% matchMixed41% of 49 reviews2018
Dev: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In this indie strategy game, command your mighty legions of hellish creatures! Fight your way through the real world and seek vengeance for those who have wronged you!
Why similar: Strategy 39.6%, Adventure 32.3%, Indie 28%
- #41 Umiro
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 174 reviews2018
Dev: Diceroll StudiosPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Huey and Satura find themselves lost in the colorless world of Umiro with no memory of their past or how they arrived in this mysterious place. Draw your way through beautiful puzzles and guide Huey and Satura as they restore color to Umiro.
Why similar: Strategy 40.5%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 24.8%
- #42 Happy Empire 2 – The Lost Relic
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AEL Entertainment
Windows
Find mysterious relics inside an ancient chamber and progress through the Empire by using the power of those relics. Unite the Empire! Defeat the Evil Wizard and return home victorious!
Why similar: Strategy 41.9%, Adventure 32.5%, Indie 25.6%
- #43 CULT
73% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Salt & Pixel LLC
Windows
Chosen to be sacrificed. A kidnapped girl must use her wits and strength to escape a cult of demon worshipers.
Why similar: Strategy 41.8%, Adventure 32.6%, Indie 25.6%
- #44 Gripper's Adventure
73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Gripper's Studio
Windows · Mac
Over 40 challenging puzzles. Can you get to the treasure that lies at the end. Help Gripper get to the end of each room by collecting all the keys. Gameplay that eases you into new mechanics, that will eventually combine for more difficult puzzles.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #45 Wood 'n Stones
71% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Malaka
Windows · Linux
Wood 'n Stones is an innovative rogue-lite survival game set in the Stone Age, where cooperation between the player and the other NPCs is the key to the final victory.
Why similar: Strategy 40.1%, Adventure 33.8%, Indie 26.1%
- #46 Diamond Joyce and the Secret of Crystal Cave
72% matchPositive97% of 31 reviews2016
Dev: Rake in Grass
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Diamond Joyce and the Secret of Crystal Cave is an action puzzle game with quest for long-lost treasures buried in pitch black caves, pyramids and temples of ancient civilizations.
Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Strategy 35.8%, Indie 26.8%
- #47 Arcane Worlds
75% matchMixed45% of 237 reviews2014
Dev: Ranmantaru Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 21%
A game inspired by classic Magic Carpet, with modern graphics and features. You play as a sorcerer, exploring mysterious worlds, changing them, discovering ancient secrets, creating new spells, fighting creatures and other mages, building and destroying as you please.
Why similar: Adventure 27.1%, Sandbox 25.5%, Indie 25%, Strategy 22.4%
- #48 Homeworld Defense
72% matchMixed40% of 25 reviews2018
Dev: Krylov ViktorPub: SA Industry
Windows
Homeword defense is a strategic game in which you will protect your planets from the waves of asteroids, find out why they appear and save your world from the threat once and for all. To protect the world, you will have to use weapons that asteroids can help you discover.
Why similar: Strategy 41.3%, Adventure 32.6%, Indie 26.1%
- #49 Squarelands
74% matchMixed50% of 163 reviews2015
Dev: Oryon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Squarelands is sandbox adventure game where you explore a randomly generated world while fighting, building and becoming stronger as you play! Mainly inspired by Terraria, Squarelands aims to provide plenty of freedom for the player.
Why similar: Adventure 42.1%, Indie 30.5%, Sandbox 27.5%
- #50 Convoy Mod Tools
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Convoy GamesPub: Indietopia Games
Windows
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #51 Seek Love
71% matchMostly Negative23% of 44 reviews2018
Dev: SUNYU
Windows · Mac
Phoebus and Venus have met each other an old time ago. For a long time, in the heart of Phoebus, he has always loved Venus...
Why similar: Strategy 40.7%, Adventure 33.7%, Indie 25.6%
- #52 Plunge
66% matchVery Positive90% of 144 reviews2019
Dev: Spooky BunsPub: N/A
Windows · Mac
It's time to take the Plunge! Enter the adventure of Billie, the billionth prisoner who longs to find freedom on the other side. Dodge, dash, and defeat a wide variety of guards, creatures, and otherworldly beings bent on preventing Billie's passage in this exciting turn-based dungeon plunger!
Why similar: Strategy 41.3%, Adventure 32.9%, Indie 25.9%
- #53 荒野寻踪
70% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: Wu Zhang
Windows
Wild searching is a strategy game abundant in humour elements and promotes memorising, spontaneous reacting and strategic response capabilities. It brings you wonderful experience. Check it out!
Why similar: Strategy 42.4%, Adventure 32.9%, Indie 24.7%
- #54 Rackham's Shambala Adventure
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ragonsoft
Windows
Point and Click Adventure Game
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #55 Visions of Zosimos
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Forever Interactive Inc.Pub: IF Studios
Windows
Visions of Zosimos is an Online Tactical CCG that utilizes a central character, known as a homunculus, to wield a deck that spins the elements and conjures the denizens of the afterlife.
Why similar: Strategy 42.4%, Adventure 32.9%, Indie 24.7%
- #56 Star Thief
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maxime Letemple
Windows
Why similar: Adventure 40.4%, Strategy 30.3%, Indie 29.3%
- #57 Coin Pickers
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 26 reviews2020
Dev: Pablo Arismendi Rabe
Windows
Running across this maze-type of environment, you will have to open doors and avoid dangers to pass through the final door. Simple but cool. Classic but fresh at the same time.
Why similar: Strategy 41%, Adventure 33.5%, Indie 25.5%