- #1 Mommy
97% matchVery Positive89% of 145 reviews2020
Dev: KuKo
Windows
Meteor storm falls on Sweet Country. All country inhabitants disappear. Help little Toby survive, find his Mommy, safe locals and restore his home!
Why similar: Adventure 41.7%, Indie 34.7%, Platformer 23.5%
- #2 MOTHER
96% matchVery Positive88% of 466 reviews2020
Dev: Anya Segarane
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!
Why similar: Indie 71.8%, Adventure 28.2%
- #3 OLI
96% matchVery Positive85% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: Nikolas Guedes da SilvaPub: NK STUDIO GAMES
Windows
OLI is a short 2D puzzle-platformer game, with a thriller atmosphere. In this game you play as a child who needs to escape from scary monsters while passing through different locations in an inhospitable city. This project is inspired by others games like Limbo and Little Nightmares.
Why similar: Adventure 56%, Platformer 36.2%, Indie 7.8%
- #4 Helpless
95% matchVery Positive89% of 268 reviews2023
Dev: Bonne Journée StudioPub: UQAT - Création et nouveaux médias
Windows
In the heat of deserted lands, a child and their mother weakened by sickness try to survive a harsh world. Through a kid’s perspective, take action and explore the remains of a lost past. Protect yourself from the sun’s deadly intensity and help your family get back on the road.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #5 Fostering Apocalypse
94% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2021
Dev: Incisor Studios
Windows · Mac
The demon summoned to embark the second apocalypse is only a child, and a woman who has lost it all resolves to save her. A half-hour long narrative game with survival gameplay elements and two endings.
Why similar: Adventure 68.2%, Indie 31.8%
- #6 Sisyphus Reborn
94% matchVery Positive93% of 1,105 reviews2016
Dev: Edwin MontgomeryPub: Myshkin Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 18%
A short atmospheric adventure game about finding meaning in a meaningless world.
Why similar: Adventure 68.4%, Indie 31.6%
- #7 homebound
93% matchVery Positive89% of 55 reviews2023
Dev: Justin Yip
Windows · Mac
Tasked with finding humanity a new home, a lonely astronaut braves a desolate planet while making a fluffy friend along the way. homebound is a short 2D puzzle platformer that explores the feeling of home.
Why similar: Platformer 59.5%, Sci-fi 22.8%, Indie 17.7%
- #8 Marie's Room
92% matchVery Positive93% of 6,711 reviews2018
Dev: Kenny Guillaume
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
Why similar: Indie 52.8%, Adventure 47.2%
- #9 MANDAGON
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 5,752 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: Platformer 52.2%, Adventure 25.6%, Indie 22.2%
- #10 Step Lightly
89% matchVery Positive92% of 112 reviews2026
Dev: Water Leaks Studio
Windows
There’s no place like home - and yours is no home at all. Play as Rosa, a neglected child trying to escape her abusive family. Sneak out, but be ever so quiet. Mom is listening, dad is angry, and your big sister is always watching…
Why similar: Platformer 68.8%, Indie 18.6%, Adventure 12.6%
- #11 Waking Up: Way Back Home
91% matchVery Positive90% of 92 reviews2023
Dev: Nostalgic Brains
Windows · Mac · Linux
A child infiltrates a spaceship to carry out a secret rescue mission. His objective is compromised when they must make a forced landing on a strange planet. Explore this mysterious place, overcome obstacles, and find the way back home!
Why similar: Platformer 45.8%, Adventure 27.3%, Sci-fi 27%
- #12 Offspring Fling!
90% matchVery Positive82% of 596 reviews2012
Dev: Kyle Pulver
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children.
Why similar: Platformer 53.8%, Indie 29.5%, Adventure 16.7%
- #13 The Sixth Sorrow
87% matchVery Positive86% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Nezumirra
Windows
The Sixth Sorrow is a short, narrative-driven horror game where your choices impact the story. To what lengths can a mother's love drive her?
Why similar: Adventure 71.3%, Indie 28.7%
- #14 STRAY KITTEN
89% matchVery Positive85% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: LTZinc
Windows
STRAY KITTEN - is a short 2D platformer with surviving and hardcore elements where it is described a story about one lost kitten Silver.
Why similar: Platformer 53.2%, Adventure 28.4%, Indie 18.5%
- #15 One's Own Exile
86% matchVery Positive100% of 490 reviews2025
Dev: Updog Software
Windows
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Adventure 89.8%, Indie 10.2%
- #16 Super Blue Boy Planet
88% matchVery Positive91% of 2,724 reviews2016
Dev: NanningsGames
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 21%
SBBP is a 2D platformer with pixel graphics. Blue boy’s girlfriend is kidnapped by aliens so he goes through 21 levels to save her and he also fight bosses along the way.
Why similar: Platformer 59.4%, Indie 28.6%, Adventure 11.9%
- #17 All Our Asias
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 204 reviews2018
Dev: Melos Han-TaniPub: Analgesic Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In this free 3D adventure, explore someone's mind and discover their secrets in a surreal story about a father, son, Asian-America and more. Explore a dying father's "Memory World", and travel to familiar, supernatural spaces. By Melos, co-creator of Anodyne and Angeline Era.
Why similar: Sci-fi 63.4%, Adventure 36.6%
- #18 Owlone in the Woods
84% matchVery Positive95% of 149 reviews2022
Dev: Kasper TC
Windows
Help an owl find its chicks after losing them - and the ability to fly - in a thunderstorm. In this short 2D platformer you slowly recover your ability to navigate the dangers of the forest as you bring your chicks back to your hollow one by one.
Why similar: Adventure 50.9%, Platformer 27.5%, Indie 21.7%
- #19 Monochroma
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 727 reviews2014
Dev: Nowhere Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.
Why similar: Platformer 46.2%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 25.5%
- #20 The Savior From Above
82% matchVery Positive95% of 382 reviews2021
Dev: kóborfotonok
Windows
A sidescrolling 3D adventure shortgame that combines multiple genres and features various action and puzzle sequences. Its artistic approach is supported by powerful visuals, intense atmosphere and a unique game narrative on the boundaries of science-fiction and fantasy.
Why similar: Sci-fi 54.2%, Adventure 27.1%, Indie 18.7%
- #21 In the Darkness of the Sea
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 82 reviews2017
Dev: Olivier Leclair
Windows
In the Darkness of the Sea is a short narrative game about a boy lost in the middle of the ocean.
Why similar: Indie 54.6%, Adventure 45.4%
- #22 Don't Let Me Fade
79% matchVery Positive99% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Adventure 52.4%, Indie 20%, Platformer 14.5%, Sci-fi 13.2%
- #23 The Old Tree
82% matchVery Positive90% of 3,319 reviews2015
Dev: Red Dwarf Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 11%
The Old Tree is a short free-to-play cinematic puzzle game about a newborn alien baby. Witness this microscopic entity's first moments of life and help it emerge from its underground lair and ascend towards an unknown destination.
Why similar: Adventure 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #24 Shiny The Firefly
83% matchMixed64% of 135 reviews2014
Dev: Stage Clear StudiosPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Shiny the Firefly is a challenging platform adventure game. Journey through a mysterious garden as Shiny, a brave firefly on a quest to find his children, lost in a terrible accident. Master trials,solve puzzles and use your stealth to guide your children to safety.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Indie 33.8%, Platformer 28.7%
- #25 The Kite
81% matchVery Positive82% of 842 reviews2018
Dev: Anate Studio
Windows · Mac
The Kite is a small dramatic point-and-click adventure. The game highlights the problems of a struggling family.
Why similar: Adventure 52.5%, Indie 47.5%
- #26 The NADI Project
81% matchMixed67% of 472 reviews2016
Dev: Monkeys Tales Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 43%
The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.
Why similar: Adventure 68%, Indie 32%
- #27 Antenna
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,732 reviews2016
Dev: LWNA
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 150.2 hrs≥1hr: 18%
A machine ponders its loneliness. It scans the radio spectrum for an answer to its question.
Why similar: Indie 61.5%, Adventure 38.5%
- #28 Robin
79% matchVery Positive88% of 717 reviews2018
Dev: Isabelle Dela TorrePub: Group Pug
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 8%
Robin is a short slice of life game that was made to give some visibility to an invisible illness - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 Macrotis: A Mother's Journey
78% matchVery Positive92% of 181 reviews2019
Dev: Proud DinosaursPub: Orsam Information Technologies
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Help Mother Bilby, as she struggles underground to find her children, in this magical indie, 2.5D puzzle-platformer game. Macrotis: A Mother’s Journey is an unforgettable adventure for those who love being challenged.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Platformer 32.1%, Indie 31.2%
- #30 Frightened Beetles
78% matchVery Positive92% of 626 reviews2018
Dev: Anatoliy Loginovskikh
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 12%
Something terrible happened in the forest! Someone frightened all Bugs! What happened? You are the only one who can find it out!
Why similar: Adventure 51.6%, Indie 48.4%
- #31 thanks mom
76% matchVery Positive84% of 61 reviews2024
Dev: LuuuLuuuL
Windows
"thanks mom" is an adventure game where you control a baby. You are given milk by your mother and sleeping soundly. In your dream, you remember the trials and tribulations that happened in the past. It may have been the days of struggle before you were born.
Why similar: Adventure 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #32 Art House
74% matchVery Positive93% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: Turtle Fish StudiosPub: USC Games
Windows · Mac
Art House is a 2D puzzle platformer in which you play as a woman who gets trapped with her children inside the paintings of her recently deceased mother. Navigate through painting rips and use a magical paintbrush to escape and come to terms with your grief.
Why similar: Platformer 68.6%, Adventure 31.4%
- #33 Replicomica
73% matchVery Positive98% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: enyevgPub: Look Who’s Talking Publishing
Windows · Mac
A short, atmospheric experience set inside a handcrafted dream. You are a small, solitary citizen drifting through augmented memories. Boot up your LonelyOS and let the robots guide you.
Why similar: Adventure 49.2%, Platformer 45.7%, Indie 5.2%
- #34 The Way
77% matchVery Positive83% of 1,318 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: Platformer 30.7%, Adventure 28.9%, Sci-fi 22.1%, Indie 18.2%
- #35 The Timeless Child - Prologue
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,112 reviews2021
Dev: Timeless Tale
Windows
The Timeless Child is a 2-player puzzle-adventure coop game with first-person view. Embark on a journey, through time and space, to save Emily Wells from her endless temporal jail.
Why similar: Sci-fi 64.6%, Adventure 35.4%
- #36 CAYNE
77% matchVery Positive81% of 1,932 reviews2017
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Hadley wakes in a facility. She is 9 months pregnant. They want her baby... CAYNE is the FREE, isometric horror game from the creators of STASIS.
Why similar: Sci-fi 46.3%, Adventure 30.5%, Indie 23.2%
- #37 My Light In The Dark
76% matchVery Positive93% of 91 reviews2019
Dev: TaleHammer
Windows
My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #38 I'll be Brave, Tomorrow
72% matchVery Positive100% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: InkForge Studios
Windows
A first-person narrative adventure game, telling the story of a sick child playing a 2D platformer. Made in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity!
Why similar: Platformer 52%, Adventure 26.4%, Indie 21.6%
- #39 Deer & Boy
68% matchVery Positive94% of 478 reviews2026
Dev: Lifeline GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
A runaway boy meets a lost fawn, and together they cross a quiet, dangerous world. Solve puzzles, climb, and slip past threats as your companion grows from a fragile newborn into a powerful deer. What you cannot do alone, you learn to do together.
Why similar: Platformer 64.6%, Adventure 35.4%
- #40 Cosmodrill
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 183 reviews2026
Dev: Morse Morse Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore the vastness of space, dig deep into planets to find resources, upgrade your ship and survive against alien life in this short space mining adventure! How far are you willing to travel into the dark unknown?
Why similar: Sci-fi 59.6%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 19.6%
- #41 Poopy's Playland
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 66 reviews2026
Dev: EmilJoes Games
Windows
Play as a grieving mother whose child went missing in a playland one year ago. Use your trusty flashlight to navigate through the dark, solve replayable puzzles to progress forward, and hide from the unstable killer mascots! Investigate the mysteries and find out the truth...
Why similar: Adventure 66.8%, Indie 33.2%
- #42 Plazma Being
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 409 reviews2015
Dev: Hedge Knight Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Take control of Zeb in this puzzle/platformer. He is a small energy based life form from space, known as a Plazma Being. While journeying through space to his home, Zeb was surprised to find that he was being kidnapped by aliens. They took him back to their planet and unceremoniously threw him into captivity.
Why similar: Platformer 36.6%, Sci-fi 24.3%, Adventure 23.2%, Indie 15.8%
- #43 Low Oxygen
71% matchVery Positive89% of 313 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: Platformer 50.1%, Adventure 31.2%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Indie 3%
- #44 Something Ate My Alien
73% matchVery Positive90% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: Rokabium Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
SAMA is a hand painted, digging and puzzle adventure where you take the role of a mining ship and the little Alien blob crew hijacked by a pirate ship. Your Aliens have to dig, fight and puzzle their way through the subterranean worlds fulfilling the ransom demand. Can you do it?
Why similar: Platformer 39.7%, Sci-fi 31.5%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 12.3%
- #45 PLANETS OF WAR
74% matchMixed59% of 298 reviews2017
Dev: Indiecode Games
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 11%
This is a Short Clicking Adventure Game in which you Save Earth from an Alien Invasion.
Why similar: Adventure 52.2%, Indie 47.8%
- #46 Sheepy: A Short Adventure
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 24,671 reviews2024
Dev: MrSuicideSheep
Windows
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Why similar: Platformer 47.5%, Adventure 28.4%, Indie 24.2%
- #47 Gone Fireflies
73% matchVery Positive85% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Quiet Bay Studio
Windows
A short story-driven experience about love, loss, and the choices we make.
Why similar: Adventure 56.7%, Indie 43.3%
- #48 6-Mon Adventure
70% matchVery Positive95% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Objectif 3D
Windows
Embark on an adventure with 6-mon the little robot. Take control of the robot and travel through a disused factory, avoiding falls, protecting yourself from projectiles and traversing dangerous levels to stop the activities of a crazy AI.
Why similar: Platformer 59.8%, Indie 21.9%, Adventure 18.4%
- #49 Virago: Herstory
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 108 reviews2022
Dev: Sunday AkorPub: Honest Chronicle
Windows
Virago herstory is about a little girl called Willow who after running away from her home becomes a victim of stalking
Why similar: Platformer 46.5%, Adventure 43.2%, Indie 10.3%
- #50 Bouncy Goat Climb
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Jesper Bergman
Windows
A highly punishing 3D precision platformer about a goat bouncing up a beautiful mountain to save its scared baby goat. Can you handle the challenge and endure all obstacles that you will face on your way up the mountain?
Why similar: Platformer 52.4%, Adventure 36%, Indie 11.6%
- #51 Raider Kid and the Ruby Chest
63% matchVery Positive99% of 269 reviews2026
Dev: Cacareco Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Sneak away from your boring family vacation and delve into ANCIENT RUINS! Borrow equipment from dead explorers and uncover the secrets of a lost civilization as you leave your parents worried sick. WARNING: The Ruby Chest may contain traces of an ancient curse (and gluten).
Why similar: Platformer 58.7%, Indie 41.3%
- #52 CUBOTS The Origins
72% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: Street Lamp Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Be a part of an adventurous journey in Cubots: The Origins. Explore and survive in beautiful, atmospheric environments!
Why similar: Adventure 53.7%, Indie 46.3%
- #53 Adapta Solva Legacy
66% matchVery Positive96% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Ares BrazeltonPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
Adapta Solva is a short puzzle platformer adventure. Play as an Adaptarian to absorb elements from magical shrines to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles. Uncover the truth behind your creation in a world laid to ruin by an unknown cause.
Why similar: Platformer 100%
- #54 Dung Beetle Adventure
67% matchVery Positive92% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: Eight Bit Skyline
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short (and free) adventure game, where you are tasked with helping a hurt, hungry, but inventive dung beetle on its journey to find something to eat near the end of the mushroom season.
Why similar: Adventure 66.6%, Indie 33.4%
- #55 Fariwalk: The Prelude
71% matchMixed64% of 72 reviews2017
Dev: AIHASTOPub: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
The world where humanity is almost gone. A few remaining people search for each other amongst monsters, common inhabitants of the Earth. However, this story is about a child who is going to obtain something very important. Fariwalk: The Prelude is a short prologue to The Fariwalk game.
Why similar: Adventure 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #56 Wittle Mistakes - Prologue
64% matchVery Positive91% of 399 reviews2024
Dev: Rockfire Games
Windows
Play the first game of many! Wittle Mistakes is a mechanics-based third-person 3D adventure where players navigate the trials of infancy within the Mother Corporation. Unveil the dark secrets that Mother has been hiding. The playpen awaits! Built by an insane two-man team.
Why similar: Platformer 64.3%, Adventure 35.7%
- #57 Space Expedition
65% matchVery Positive93% of 193 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: Platformer 44%, Indie 30.3%, Adventure 25.7%
- #58 Little Luna
64% matchVery Positive95% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Possumo
Windows · Mac
Little Luna is an engaging puzzle-platformer where every step is a race against time! Help little moth to escape the dark and dangerous cave!
Why similar: Platformer 100%
- #59 The Frosts: First Ones
67% matchVery Positive89% of 57 reviews2021
Dev: Ivan Sukhanov
Windows
An adventure about searching for a missing hunter and meeting with alien beings! Explore wild nature, climb on a rock, lure out a boar, meet a wolf, survive in a rockfall. Heal a deer and trick a creature! Meet the Unknown and find mystery!
Why similar: Sci-fi 52.1%, Adventure 29%, Indie 18.8%
- #60 Dawn
68% matchVery Positive91% of 877 reviews2017
Dev: Brave Rabbit GamesPub: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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%