- #1 Mommy
97% matchVery Positive88% of 136 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 40.9%, Indie 36.1%, Platformer 23%
- #2 MOTHER
96% matchVery Positive88% of 450 reviews2020
Dev: Anya Segarane
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 73%, Adventure 27%
- #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 55.8%, Platformer 35.9%, Indie 8.3%
- #4 Helpless
95% matchVery Positive89% of 252 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 66.9%, Indie 33.1%
- #6 Sisyphus Reborn
94% matchVery Positive93% of 1,085 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 67.4%, Indie 32.6%
- #7 homebound
93% matchVery Positive89% of 54 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 58.3%, Sci-fi 23.2%, Indie 18.5%
- #8 MANDAGON
92% 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: Platformer 51.3%, Adventure 25.3%, Indie 23.5%
- #9 Marie's Room
91% matchVery Positive93% of 6,612 reviews2018
Dev: Kenny Guillaume
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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 54.2%, Adventure 45.8%
- #10 Waking Up: Way Back Home
90% matchVery Positive90% of 89 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 45.3%, Sci-fi 27.7%, Adventure 27.1%
- #11 Offspring Fling!
91% matchVery Positive82% of 594 reviews2012
Dev: Kyle Pulver
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children.
Why similar: Platformer 52.9%, Indie 30.6%, Adventure 16.5%
- #12 One's Own Exile
88% matchVery Positive100% of 394 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 89.9%, Indie 10.1%
- #13 STRAY KITTEN
89% matchVery Positive86% of 118 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 52.4%, Adventure 28.2%, Indie 19.4%
- #14 Super Blue Boy Planet
89% matchVery Positive91% of 2,720 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 58.3%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 11.7%
- #15 Monochroma
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 724 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 45.4%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 26.7%
- #16 Owlone in the Woods
85% matchVery Positive95% of 147 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 50.3%, Platformer 27%, Indie 22.7%
- #17 All Our Asias
86% matchVery Positive81% of 195 reviews2018
Dev: Melos Han-TaniPub: Analgesic Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 64.1%, Adventure 35.9%
- #18 The Savior From Above
84% matchVery Positive94% of 377 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 54.4%, Adventure 26.3%, Indie 19.3%
- #19 The Sixth Sorrow
82% matchVery Positive86% of 59 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 100%
- #20 In the Darkness of the Sea
86% 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 56%, Adventure 44%
- #21 The Old Tree
84% matchVery Positive90% of 3,312 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 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #22 The Kite
82% matchVery Positive82% of 840 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 51%, Indie 49%
- #23 Don't Let Me Fade
77% matchVery Positive99% of 127 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 51.9%, Indie 20.4%, Platformer 14.3%, Sci-fi 13.5%
- #24 Robin
81% matchVery Positive89% of 705 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%
- #25 Shiny The Firefly
83% matchMixed63% of 133 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 36.8%, Indie 35.2%, Platformer 28%
- #26 Macrotis: A Mother's Journey
81% 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 36.1%, Indie 32.5%, Platformer 31.4%
- #27 thanks mom
78% matchVery Positive82% of 55 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 79.7%, Indie 20.3%
- #28 Frightened Beetles
79% 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: Adventure 50.1%, Indie 49.9%
- #29 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: Indie 62.9%, Adventure 37.1%
- #30 Art House
75% matchVery Positive95% of 77 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 68.5%, Adventure 31.5%
- #31 My Light In The Dark
79% matchVery Positive93% of 87 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%
- #32 Replicomica
74% matchVery Positive98% of 57 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 48.8%, Platformer 45.4%, Indie 5.7%
- #33 The NADI Project
78% matchMixed67% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Monkeys Tales Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.3 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 66.7%, Indie 33.3%
- #34 I'll be Brave, Tomorrow
73% matchVery Positive100% of 52 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 51.2%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 22.7%
- #35 Sheepy: A Short Adventure
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 21,875 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 46.9%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 25.2%
- #36 The Way
76% 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: Platformer 30.2%, Adventure 28.2%, Sci-fi 22.5%, Indie 19.1%
- #37 Plazma Being
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 403 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 35.9%, Sci-fi 24.7%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 16.5%
- #38 CAYNE
75% matchVery Positive81% of 1,888 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 46.5%, Adventure 29.6%, Indie 23.9%
- #39 Fariwalk: The Prelude
76% matchMixed63% of 68 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 52.7%, Indie 47.3%
- #40 Low Oxygen
71% 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: Platformer 49.8%, Adventure 31%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Indie 3.1%
- #41 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 38.9%, Sci-fi 32%, Adventure 16.3%, Indie 12.8%
- #42 Gone Fireflies
74% 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 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #43 Virago: Herstory
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 105 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 46.1%, Adventure 43%, Indie 10.9%
- #44 Dung Beetle Adventure
69% matchVery Positive93% of 80 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 65.3%, Indie 34.7%
- #45 Bouncy Goat Climb
70% 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 51.9%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 12.2%
- #46 6-Mon Adventure
70% matchVery Positive94% of 65 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 57.9%, Indie 23.5%, Adventure 18.6%
- #47 Adapta Solva Legacy
68% matchVery Positive97% of 90 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%
- #48 Wittle Mistakes - Prologue
66% matchVery Positive92% of 380 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 64.2%, Adventure 35.8%
- #49 Scrap Garden - The Day Before
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,005 reviews2016
Dev: Egidijus BachurPub: Flazm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
A new chapter of charming 3D platformer about the little rusty robot C4N who unwittingly finds himself in the midst of momentous events in Robo Land. In order to solve the new riddle, Canny will once again need to run and jump a lot, solve puzzles, and fight against enemies who are much bigger and stronger than he is.
Why similar: Adventure 63.7%, Indie 36.3%
- #50 Space Expedition
67% 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: Platformer 43.1%, Indie 31.6%, Adventure 25.3%
- #51 The Timeless Child - Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,034 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 100%
- #52 CUBOTS The Origins
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 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 52.3%, Indie 47.7%
- #53 PLANETS OF WAR
72% matchMixed59% of 291 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 50.8%, Indie 49.2%
- #54 Dawn
69% 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%
- #55 Something for Someone Else
69% 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 52.5%, Indie 47.5%
- #56 Dragon Perception
73% matchMostly Negative25% of 57 reviews2017
Dev: ARGamesPub: Metal Fox
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Dragon Perception - 2.5D platformer, in which you will need to play for a small dragon, on whose lands attacked aggressive robots.
Why similar: Platformer 35.1%, Adventure 34.1%, Indie 30.8%
- #57 Child of Lothian
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: Exploding ApplesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Child of Lothian is a historically-accurate 3rd person stealth-adventure game where you play as an Orphan who has been robbed of her childhood as her family is put to trial during the 18th century Witch Hunt trials. The game takes place in the old town of Edinburgh.
Why similar: Indie 56.1%, Adventure 43.9%
- #58 Project Shoreline
63% matchVery Positive97% of 295 reviews2024
Dev: Speldosa Interactive
Windows · Linux
Step into the tiny metaphorical shoes of a Muri, entrusted with the important task of exploring, cleaning, and restoring a corrupted and decaying beach, one sparkling satisfying patch at a time, in this cute cozy mini-adventure - Project Shoreline!
Why similar: Adventure 66.5%, Platformer 33.5%
- #59 Cats are Liquid - A Better Place
67% matchVery Positive96% of 358 reviews2019
Dev: Last Quarter Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A better place. Made just for us. – A 2D platformer about a liquid cat and her friends.
Why similar: Adventure 37.9%, Indie 32.7%, Platformer 29.4%
- #60 Escape 51
64% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: 51 Goobcells Production
Windows
In Escape 51 you play as a small alien that has been mistreated by humans as he works to escape the research facility that has kept him and other aliens like him captive for so long.
Why similar: Sci-fi 55.9%, Adventure 44.1%