- #1 D.F.R.: The Light
97% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Nothing Rhymes With Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Unprepared and helpless, you are taken to a dark place where a mysterious light hunts you. In this relentlessly terrifying survival horror game, you must use your wits to stay alive long enough to extinguish the light, or perish trying. The light is crafty and observant, so this won't be an easy challenge.
Why similar: Adventure 37.3%, Action 36.5%, Indie 26.2%
- #2 Kindled Cavern
96% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Pretty Okay Games
Windows
Kindled Cavern is a cave exploration adventure for Virtual Reality filled with sights to behold. Waterfalls, bamboo forests, giant turtles, abandoned bridges and scaffolding, subterranian lakes, and ancient arches fill this explorable cavern. Not to mention the ghosts!
Why similar: Adventure 37.9%, Action 35.4%, Indie 26.7%
- #3 Code Name: Origin
96% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Aurora Games Studio
Windows
Code Name: Origin is a top down action adventure inspired by the classics in the 80's and 90's. You’re dispatched alone with a laser shotgun and the wits to uncover what transpired just days before you arrive.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #4 Domino Effect
95% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: GoshFather
Windows
Pick up an entire building and use it as a weapon. Go supernova and send everything flying in an outward direction. Use gravity in a way that has never been used before.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #5 Flight 732
94% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Ghere Games
Windows
Explore the island to find the missing jetliner. Once found, can you find a way to help you and your captain off of the island?
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #6 BioMech
94% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
BioMech is a classic Metroid-like with carefully structured gameplay. No rogue elements, no random content, everything is handcrafted and deliberately designed. Backtracking is not a dirty word.
Why similar: Action 38.6%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 26.5%
- #7 Lair of the Titans
93% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Team 21 Studio
Windows
Lair of the Titans offers a unique way for players to enjoy VR together. Play in the same room, hunting one another, choosing the right moment to strike and scare the other player.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #8 Guardian of The Demon Valley
92% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Lily GamesPub: Himi Games
Windows
This is an exciting shooting game.The game is set in a dark canyon, you’ll play a warrior who swears to defend the saint ice crystal that seals the devil with his life. would you be able to complete the mission of defending the sealing ice crystal against the horrible monsters’ continuous offensive?!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #9 INFINITY CHALLENGE
91% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Simple Gaming - JVJ
Windows · Mac
A 3D Rail Shooter game with high quality tracks! Take the challenge and choose one of the many maps and defeat vicious waves of enemies while traveling through mysterious worlds! Face fearsome machines and creatures that will do whatever it takes to destroy you and end your race to save the galaxy!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #10 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
91% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2015
Dev: CS Squared Games
Windows
Gremlin Invasion: Survivor is a co-op overhead action shooter. With 8 different levels to choose from and up to 8 players, you'll play together in a survival-style mission to blast away hordes of gremlins that have come to take you out.
Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.8%
- #11 One Bit
90% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Veibyn
Windows
This is the story of Onebit, a poor, cute character that is continious searching for a pixel someone has stolen from him. He simply can`t go on with his life knowing that he is missin a pixel. Your task will be to go tro a long and exciting adventure, on his search for the one that have stolen his pixel and retaliation.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #12 Solmec: Hollow Planet
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Octopus 8 Studios
Windows
Solmec: Hollow Planet is an adventure game where you play as Soledad, a lone Solmec warrior exploring an ancient, lost planet. His task is to find a cure for the Rot that is killing the Ankazil – spacefaring beasts that are home to the Solmec.
Why similar: Action 36.7%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 27.6%
- #13 MonsterS in haha Island (群妖志)
89% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Muggle
Windows
To be immortal, The most important thing is to have a long life.Our hero wants to be immortal, so he came to this island to find the secret of longevity in frogs.
Why similar: Action 37.1%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #14 The Royal Cosmonautical Society
88% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Chromosphere Games
Windows · Mac
Enjoy the rewarding challenge of becoming a qualified Cosmonaut. Gracefully pilot your ship through multitudes of challenges, finding the perfect trajectory all the way to the top of the leaderboards.
Why similar: Adventure 35.9%, Action 35.1%, Indie 29%
- #15 Black Mist
86% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Nyan_Fort
Windows
Black Mist is a 2D, roguelike action game. All stages are covered by darkness, thus it is necessary to shoot shiny bullets to the darkness and move carefully. Bullets and your life are shared as "Energy", and the enemy's power and ferocity will be increase with the passage of time.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #16 Datswer
87% matchNegative18% of 11 reviews2015
Dev: Behtam Developer
Windows
Datswer - help a brave hero escape to freedom from the dark dungeon full of traps, horrible enemies and various obstacles. The protagonist of this Android game is a statue that came to life after being hit by a few drops of mysterious magical liquid. You need to use your reflexes and logic to pave a safe way through dark dungeons.
Why similar: Action 37.1%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #17 Derelict Fleet
86% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: HCB Studios
Windows
Derelict Fleet is a fast-paced, space combat game. You are tasked with defending a refugee fleet as you travel the stars searching for a new colony to call home.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #18 bobo robot
81% matchVery Positive89% of 79 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A wacky metroidvania. ⚡ Meet weird characters, unlock new abilities and complete a mysterious mission . . .
Why similar: Adventure 34.8%, Action 34.3%, Indie 26.1%, Exploration 4.8%
- #19 Your Toy
82% matchMostly Negative29% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Viva Games
Windows
Your Toy is a 3D first person horror room escape game that features an advanced non-repeat puzzle system with challenging riddles, heart-pounding escape sequences and a mysterious narrative that dives deep into your darkest subconsciousness. Are you ready to enter your nightmares?
Why similar: Adventure 33.2%, Action 32.5%, Indie 25%, First-Person 9.3%
- #20 Lone Vessel
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Cobalt Flow Studios
Windows
Prepare for the invasion! Explore the void, complete missions for credits, and collect items to arm yourself. Unlock new load-outs and face exotic enemies in the face of impending destruction!
Why similar: Action 36.7%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 27.6%
- #21 Slug Slasher
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Slapped Silly Studios
Windows
Save the world from an onslaught of giant slugs in Slug Slasher! Using only your trusty bucket of salt, smash, dash, and slash through ridiculous enemies and crazy bosses as you fight your way to the slugs' homeland.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #22 DNO Rasa's Journey
85% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2015
Dev: EZDesigner
Windows
Guide Rasa on her journey as she collects lost DNA, and breathes life back into the broken planet. DNO is a continuous side-scrolling platformer that shows remnants of the once great planet Lira. Unlock creatures that once dwelled here, through the use of a unique card collection system, and use power-ups to make your way through each...
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #23 Captain's Tail
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Biting Mascot
Windows
Dash into action as the fluffiest pirate of the Seven Seas! Take on platforming challenges and explore a variety of islands.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #24 Orbits
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Avi Rosenblum
Windows · Mac · Linux
Orbits is challenging arcade-ish souls-ish game in space. You control a shell with basic combat abilities as it journeys through a galaxy on a quest to destroy all your enemies located in 100 levels and 20 bosses.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #25 Curse of Anabelle
80% matchMixed64% of 135 reviews2020
Dev: Rocwise Entertainment
Windows
Curse of Anabelle is a story driven adventure-horror/puzzle game which players can experience in the first person perspective. The storyline is based on real world myths and legends.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Indie 28.1%, Action 23.5%, First-Person 5.2%, Exploration 5.1%
- #26 Questria: Rise of the Robot Skullfaces
84% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2015
Dev: AltImage Games
Windows · Mac
Questria is a multiplayer action dungeon crawler. Grab your pals and save Friendship from the evil Robot Skullfaces!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #27 Alien Mayhem
82% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Supa Serious
Windows
Alien Mayhem is an artificial open world sandbox game developed and created by Supa Serious. We simulate a what-if scenario where an alien prankster finds himself in a virtual game world that enables him to prank in a rather unconventional yet stylish way.
Why similar: Action 45.4%, Adventure 31.4%, Indie 23.2%
- #28 A Rip In Time
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: iV Games
Windows
Time travel in a new twisted way. The game’s antagonist will be pulling you through “Rips in Time”. The further you explore, the more intertwined the worlds become! Experience the early 1900’s and future all in one, thanks to the power of Unreal Engine 4.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #29 MÅRD
81% matchMostly Negative22% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Black Curtain Studio
Windows
You are a detective who decides to visit your late father's cabin, which he has left you, somewhere in the woods of northern Sweden. But everything is not what it seems. Determined to find out what drove your father to spend his final months in isolation in the cabin, you set out to investigate.
Why similar: Adventure 35.8%, Action 33.9%, Indie 17.3%, Exploration 13.1%
- #30 Beyond Arm's Reach
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Round Squares Studios
Windows
Beyond Arm’s Reach is an action adventure game, set in a 1950’s steampunk universe. You have to use the physics based grappling hook, to navigate around the world, defeat enemies and solve puzzles along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #31 VR INTERACTIVE TRAILER: Runes
78% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: StormBorn Studio
Windows
Experience this VR trailer in full immersion inside your headset and get a sneak peek of Runes, a single player, story-driven VR adventure game in which you are Leth, a renegade wizard fighting for survival in a virtual fantasy world.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #32 D.F.R.: The Light VR
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Nothing Rhymes With Entertainment
Windows
Unprepared and helpless, you are taken to a dark place where a mysterious light hunts you. In this relentlessly terrifying survival horror game, you must use your wits to stay alive and extinguish the light, or perish trying. But be warned: the light is crafty and observant, so this won't be easy.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #33 Ghostie Quest
79% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Random Thoughts Enterainment
Windows
Ghostie Quest is back! Can you master the pyramid of 100 levels? Tons of secrets and multiple ghosts to unlock across 4 game modes. Insanely cute! Insanely hard!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #34 RECHARGE COMPLETE
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rechargecomplete
Windows
RECHARGE COMPLETE is a third/first person shooter featuring a hard-strutting jet-packing android created to destroy job-stealing robots! Blast enemies with homing missiles, lasers and EMP grenades! Jet pack, boost and skii your way through peril. Be the robohero you were made to be!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #35 Relativity
78% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: TomCGames
Windows
Relativity will turn your world upside down. Curved surfaces and stairs allow you to walk from the floor, up the walls and across ceilings, shifting gravity and giving you a whole new perspective! Landscape platforms can be moved and rotated using buttons and wheels to transform the landscape and form bridges.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #36 Slavistan 2
75% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: PozojPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Go on an adventure through in a small place with a big personality inspired by slavic memes where you'll meet colorful characters and get to know this place in and out. Find a way to get home, befriend some people, beat up others, have a drink, and if you don't find any trouble, trouble will find you.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #37 PAPA'S TIME MACHINE
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Techone Game Studio
Windows · Mac
《PAPA'S TIME MACHINE》 is a brand new action & adventure game in which players will play the role of a father and start an adventurous journey in different stages of life.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #38 Super Bugman Extreme Ultra
77% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: SyKoHPaTh
Windows
A unique 2D platformer with puzzle elements where you can jump, pick stuff up, place it down, throw onions, and use special abilities on enemies. Play through the Story Mode, have fun in Creative Mode, tackle the Procedural generated Chaos levels, and even design your own levels in the level editor.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #39 Stickman World
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dilmer ValecillosPub: Dilmer Games
Windows · Mac
Stickman World takes place in an underground world after the hero "Stickman" awakes in an unknown world. Play through an amazing story where Stickman has to solve puzzles in hopes to discover a way out of this world. The goals for each level are simple and require collecting all the hidden items through Stickman's journey.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #40 Pep-Pel
65% matchPositive85% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: SlugGlove
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run through each level as Pep-Pel! a goofy red goblin thing. In this beautifully hand drawn game. play through tons of fast-paced and difficult levels, each with there own challenge to master!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #41 Battle Of Keys
77% matchMostly Negative26% of 26 reviews2018
Dev: Tero Lunkka
Windows
Low Poly FPS Shooter where you need find 5 keys and avoid police army
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #42 Explodey - Sci-fi Side Scroller w/ 'splosions
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YitYat Studios
Windows · Mac
The galaxy is in peril. Equipped with the latest military tech, pilot your heavily armed space fighter through 5 exotic planets to destroy the evil Dr Grag and save the Life Spark. Joining you on your journey is The Engineer, a silicon being capable of building anything you need. Unfortunately, he's a jackass...
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #43 Zarvot
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: by Sam Eng
Windows · Mac
Two things: a charming co-op adventure and a cutthroat competitive party game. Be a tiny, adorable cube with hopes, dreams, unrequited loves… and unlimited destructive power.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #44 Fractal Chicken
73% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: FireSine LLC
Windows
Explore, craft, fight, and build your way through multiple infinite voxel worlds, look at fractals, have a good time! Play multiple game modes, builld automated machines, chop trees, build a base, turn into a helicopter, upgrade weapons and equipment and more! Oh, and most importantly, awaken true fractal power!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #45 I_AM.exe
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paulo P. NetoPub: Indie
Windows
I_AM.exe is a first person action game with a focus on exploration. You wake up inside a vat on a strange place full of robots trying to kill you. Explore, solve puzzles and fight your way through different areas as you try to find a way out and understand what is going on and just who are you.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #46 Into the Ice
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Homegrown GamesPub: Intr Studio Pty Ltd
Windows
4 years in the making, finally coming to your PC: Into the Ice - Nazis of Neuschwabenland - the official sequel to the multiple GOTY and award winner "Into the Dark". Adventure, Shooter, Trash, Comedy, Politics and Nudity. You. Have. Been. Warned!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #47 Project X
74% matchMostly Negative33% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Bulls Bros
Windows
Two teenagers were disappeared in the vicinity of the Grackham National Park. At night a roar is heard from the forest. Nearby, a group of archaeologists finds a cave and skull of an unknown creature.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #48 LOST CAVE
71% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: SANBAE
Windows
At an old cave where ancient ruins lie, an unknown life slowly lurks beneath. Put on your gear, become an adventurer, and explore the caverns filled with many secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #49 Afandas Survival
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SchmidtGames
Windows
Afandas Survival is an open world survival game. After a plague wipes out most of the population, you're one of the few survivors on an island called Afanda. Already at the beginning you realize that surviving isn´t easy. To stay alive, you must search for equipment and provisions.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #50 HeartZ: Co-Hope Puzzles
73% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: Upper BytePub: Spawn Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
HeartZ offers you a hearty combination of platform, action, puzzle and local co-op gaming. Outsmart traps and solve mysteries in each room and level while getting rid of Dr. Nylus' soldiers and machines! Kick, jump, fart, scare, bite... your way through mischievously designed levels!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #51 Mage VR: The Lost Memories
70% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Baptiste DegrysePub: DBloke SPRL
Windows
Maybe you don't remember, but some of us do remember that we are Mages. Try a gesture, see if it starts fire in your hands, maybe you are one of us. Use this power and please save the world from this new malediction.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #52 Death Space
71% matchMostly Negative30% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
You play as a scientist named Elmagamed at the 69th space station and you got to escape from a monstrous mutant.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #53 Talewind
72% matchMixed59% of 111 reviews2016
Dev: WindLimit Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Talewind is a whimsical platformer where you play as a young boy that is trying to save his village, but dont let its looks fool you, it will challenge even the most experienced platformer veterans. trailer music: bensound.com
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #54 Midnight Awake
70% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: KRISSADA LAEBUTPub: BEBONOZM
Windows
Midnight Awake is a horror adventure game. The story begins when a boy wakes up at the middle of the night and faces with some mysterious events. His dad is missing and what should he do with the strange phone call? Let’s find out what happened to him and his family.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #55 HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NEO FUTURE LABS
Windows
"HAMMER WORLD: DIMENSION TRAVELER" is a first-person metroidvania with physics-based combat built in Unreal Engine 4. Explore mysterious dimensions, unlock new abilities, and fight back against evil with your hammer friend!
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #56 Fist of Brave
74% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: ALOOF PROJECTPub: Beliebrave
Windows
Cinematic fighting action game. Ycan enjoy it as though you were watching action movies.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #57 Untouchable
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: 动想网络Pub: 拇指游玩
Windows · Mac
Untouchable is a fantasy-themed adventure game, where players wander into a world of fantasy and begin an adventurous journey.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #58 In the thrall of darkness: The gift of dreams
70% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: PPofGG
Windows
In the thrall of darkness is a horror game in which you must get out of this nightmare.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%
- #59 R.A.F.A.
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Cristian Villalba
Windows
Imagine that you are a child and want to explore new worlds as an astronaut. Imagine a platformer with the ability to jump across an entire solar system. Imagine a story that won’t left you enough time to separate your face from the screen. Challenge yourself and be part of this arcade style videogame – RAFA. R.A.F.A.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Action 36%, Indie 27.1%