- #1 The Night Fisherman
97% matchVery Positive82% of 771 reviews2020
Dev: de FaultPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Adventure 50.8%, Casual 49.2%
- #2 Underfishing
96% matchVery Positive81% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Petros Anastasiadis
Windows
You just arrived in hell. Nothing left to to do but contemplate the life you lived, and fish. Fish out ancient treasures, upgrade your fishing abilities, and face your biggest regrets in this narrative fishing game! Will you manage to fish out Lucifer's crown and earn another chance at life?
Why similar: Casual 43.5%, Adventure 38.4%, Indie 18.1%
- #3 Big Fish Legend
96% matchVery Positive80% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Igry.ru
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
One summer day the old friend Rat tells the kitten legend about Big Fish. The kitten has a desire to get the fish and starts its journey.
Why similar: Casual 37.7%, Adventure 34%, Indie 28.3%
- #4 Unroaded
95% matchVery Positive93% of 304 reviews2019
Dev: stormnebulae
Windows · Mac
Unroaded is a short free visual novel about the living dead man who instead of inaction has chosen the road.
Why similar: Adventure 36.1%, Casual 35.8%, Indie 28.1%
- #5 Something Strange
94% matchPositive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
Windows
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Casual 54.7%, Adventure 25.6%, Indie 19.7%
- #6 Glowfish
94% matchVery Positive89% of 179 reviews2011
Dev: MumboJumboPub: Accelerate Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 33%
The evil Dr. Urchin has kidnapped Coralline! It’s up to Glowfish to free his lady friend and sea pals everywhere from his clutches in this underwater platform adventure. Beware—while you scour the ocean floor in search of lost friends waiting for rescue, a host of enemies is lurking!
Why similar: Casual 40.2%, Adventure 35.5%, Indie 24.3%
- #7 un/FRAGMENT.
93% matchVery Positive88% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: izakiko paradox
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.
Why similar: Adventure 76.1%, Indie 23.9%
- #8 nothing_matters
92% matchVery Positive83% of 229 reviews2023
Dev: Ka Hin Yuen
Windows
A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.
Why similar: Casual 50.2%, Adventure 49.8%
- #9 Covid Tale: Ignorance
91% matchVery Positive88% of 147 reviews2020
Dev: BDAYGAME.COM
Windows · Mac
Discover the truths about COVID19... according to the internet. And the internet never lies, right? Play a witty story of how it all may or may not happened.
Why similar: Casual 37.9%, Adventure 35.2%, Indie 26.9%
- #10 Jellyfish Season
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 96 reviews2018
Dev: Kombinat
Windows
A short visual novel about meeting with a stranger on the beach.
Why similar: Casual 57%, Indie 43%
- #11 HOPE: Winter Tale
89% matchVery Positive99% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: PanelkaGamesPub: 7DOTS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every New Year is similar to the previous one. No friends, no family, no magic. But what if a fairy tale exists? And everything can change? HOPE: Winter Tale is a story about a man who has lost his all taste for life. But one winter night, everything changed.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #12 AftLife -Girl and Cats, and Lost world-
90% matchVery Positive80% of 71 reviews2020
Dev: ryoheyLab.
Windows
A girl and cats make "Heartful Comedy & Mystery" Comedy depicting calm everyday! The big mystery is solved in story. New Stories from Update Story is composed of short stories that are completed. Please wait for update!
Why similar: Casual 37%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 26.9%
- #13 Lake Minnewaska
86% matchVery Positive96% of 144 reviews2024
Dev: Bait ShackPub: USC Games
Windows · Mac
Lake Minnewaska is a narrative driven first person fishing game. Fish, explore, and uncover the secrets of Lake Minnewaska as you guide Sosa's journey in becoming a better father.
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Casual 35.3%, Indie 28.1%
- #14 Drop
89% matchMostly Negative40% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: uora
Windows
An adventure game following the story of a young boy at sea. A story told purely through animation with no sound or script.
Why similar: Adventure 59.2%, Indie 40.8%
- #15 Life on the Hook
87% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2022
Dev: Arkuda Inc.
Windows
Life on the Hook - is a short story about the life of a lonely fisherman named Hrafn, who lives his life in a small house on a lake with a dock and an old boat.
Why similar: Adventure 64%, Indie 36%
- #16 Burly Men at Sea
88% matchMixed63% of 494 reviews2016
Dev: Brain&Brain
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 45%
A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.
Why similar: Adventure 38.2%, Casual 37.3%, Indie 24.4%
- #17 Little Man Has a Day
84% matchVery Positive97% of 422 reviews2023
Dev: Mosman
Windows
A personal, short and silly handwritten game about a little man feeling a little 'eh'.
Why similar: Casual 60.6%, Indie 39.4%
- #18 Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia
84% matchVery Positive92% of 275 reviews2021
Dev: Bryce Bucher
Windows
Relax, and fish in a very strange lake.
Why similar: Casual 55.5%, Adventure 44.5%
- #19 Russian World
86% matchVery Positive87% of 86 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
Russia, an alternative reality Vasya is an ordinary welder at the plant, typical Monday morning, Vasya is going to go to work, but, unexpectedly, he discovers in his house a strange man ... You are waiting for an incredible and interesting adventure
Why similar: Casual 37.8%, Adventure 33.8%, Indie 28.4%
- #20 The River
82% matchVery Positive93% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: bokchoi
Windows
A short story point-and-click visual novel about the afterlife.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #21 In the Darkness of the Sea
85% 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 52.1%, Adventure 47.9%
- #22 Fish Story
83% matchVery Positive87% of 99 reviews2021
Dev: Five Percents
Windows · Linux
Atmospheric underwater game for the whole family! Help the brave fish solve the mystery of the lights!
Why similar: Casual 51.5%, Adventure 48.5%
- #23 Water Womb World
79% matchVery Positive97% of 300 reviews2026
Dev: Yames' Games
Windows
Aqua Catholicism; Explore Man's Original Sin Under The Sea
Why similar: Adventure 53.5%, Casual 46.5%
- #24 A Game About
82% matchVery Positive90% of 886 reviews2018
Dev: byolivierb
Windows · Mac
A Game About is a free, short, lo-fi point & click adventure that tasks the player with living with their daily routine. Through day to day choices, life changes in imperceptibles and unexpected ways.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Something for Someone Else
81% 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: Casual 37.1%, Adventure 35.4%, Indie 27.4%
- #26 Voices from the Sea
81% matchVery Positive93% of 1,262 reviews2015
Dev: Zeiva Inc
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 419.1 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Follow the story of a young boy, Cantus as he meets Maris, the mysterious girl by the sea - an experience that will change his life forever.
Why similar: Casual 38.1%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #27 A Raven Monologue
79% matchVery Positive94% of 2,722 reviews2018
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 18%
A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.
Why similar: Casual 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #28 Once'
80% matchVery Positive87% of 174 reviews2019
Dev: Once重置制作室Pub: JingtuStudio
Windows · Mac
This is a visual novel about 60 minutes in length, telling a story of memories."Once'" is a story which will recall the experience of many individuals. Regardless of if you're in your springtime of life having full of dreams for the future, or if you're a matured adult who has already stepped into the society and owns a family,...
Why similar: Adventure 56%, Indie 44%
- #29 Hibernation Day
76% matchVery Positive96% of 209 reviews2023
Dev: Ariorick
Windows · Mac
Hibernation Day is a short dialog based adventure with cozy visuals. It's about family and the problems we face trying to keep it afloat.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #30 Annoy This Guy
77% matchVery Positive94% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Samuel Leigh
Windows
Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.
Why similar: Adventure 69.3%, Indie 30.7%
- #31 Lure Of Passion
73% matchVery Positive92% of 401 reviews2026
Dev: Snakerser's Games
Windows · Linux
"Lure of Passion" is an adult game about a simple fisherman living in a old hut… who somehow keeps catching more than just fish.
Why similar: Casual 40.7%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 23.1%
- #32 Deepwell
76% matchVery Positive100% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: LinsonLime
Windows
Deepwell is a story-driven adventure game, about a small town surrounding a giant mystery hole.
Why similar: Adventure 81.2%, Indie 18.8%
- #33 Save the Pirate: Sea Story
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 83 reviews2021
Dev: MaurisPub: Mauris Games OU
Windows · Mac · Linux
An adventure game with logic challenges about a funny pirate
Why similar: Adventure 44.8%, Casual 40.4%, Indie 14.8%
- #34 Everyday Devil
72% matchVery Positive96% of 244 reviews2026
Dev: alleesaur
Windows
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Indie 50.6%, Adventure 49.4%
- #35 Kith - Tales from the Fractured Plateaus
78% matchVery Positive80% of 60 reviews2017
Dev: Screwy Lightbulb
Windows · Linux
Kith is free regular mini-adventure series, set on a planet covered in fractured plateaus above a dark and ominous mist.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Casual 36%, Indie 25.9%
- #36 From Head to Toe
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 105 reviews2019
Dev: Party for Introverts
Windows · Mac
"From Head to Toe" is a short interactive story about winter, existential guilt and your ex-classmates.
Why similar: Casual 37.4%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 27%
- #37 天降锦鲤 ~ My Lucky Koi
75% matchVery Positive94% of 333 reviews2019
Dev: V.P. TEAMPub: 33ParadoX&igstore
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 40.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Its`A humorous Daily story——A friendship story between a hard worker and a Koi leprechaun.——This is a Chinese short visual novel with single ending.
Why similar: Casual 38.8%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 25.5%
- #38 Absent in the Rain
71% matchVery Positive94% of 825 reviews2022
Dev: D10RAMA
Windows
A mysterious senpai. A serial murder case that has taken the world by storm. And a giant, shadowy fish swimming at my feet... What if all of them are connected and surround me like a circle? What should I do?
Why similar: Adventure 68.2%, Indie 31.8%
- #39 Without Romance
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 202 reviews2020
Dev: Moonlit Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fairy tale wish of a loveless girl
Why similar: Casual 51.9%, Adventure 31%, Indie 17.1%
- #40 Without Within
74% matchVery Positive88% of 2,027 reviews2015
Dev: InvertMouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 19%
The (mis)adventures of Vinty, a nobody who thinks she's somebody!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 Clam Man 2: Open Mic
73% matchVery Positive97% of 456 reviews2020
Dev: Sideby Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
OPEN MIC is the free prologue to the upcoming Clam Man 2: Headliner - a narrative adventure RPG where you escape your boring desk job to become a comedian!
Why similar: Adventure 45.6%, Casual 30.6%, Indie 23.8%
- #42 Zhmyshenko Valery Albertovich
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 119 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 11%
You play for an old bivas Valera, and you need to collect baby bons, beers and run away from guys from the club boys
Why similar: Casual 37.2%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 28%
- #43 Derpy's Fun House
70% matchVery Positive95% of 232 reviews2024
Dev: Raztudio
Windows
This is a very short Point and Click Adventure where you try to find Items for Anon because he is the strongest who can help opening the Door to the outside
Why similar: Casual 79.9%, Indie 20.1%
- #44 How Fish Is Made
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 5,490 reviews2022
Dev: Wrong Organ
Windows
Are sardines trustworthy? Are you? Do you want to be? How Fish is Made is a janky little jaunt through the world of surrealist storytelling. Now featuring a Katamari-like DLC!
Why similar: Casual 34.8%, Indie 32.6%, Adventure 32.6%
- #45 Dung Beetle Adventure
71% matchVery Positive93% of 82 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: Casual 60.1%, Adventure 27.4%, Indie 12.5%
- #46 The Knobbly Crook
73% matchVery Positive92% of 224 reviews2015
Dev: Gnarled Scar Manipulations
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Enter the surreal, disturbing, and ridiculous world of the Knobbly Crook in this old-school style point-and-click adventure. Completely free. No ads, no tricks.
Why similar: Adventure 60.3%, Indie 39.7%
- #47 fishy
71% matchVery Positive95% of 79 reviews2021
Dev: I Choose Paradise
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fishy is a heartfelt visual novel about friends, enemies, acceptance, and monsters. Explore the aquarium, face your fears, and maybe make a friend. here fishy fishy f̵̥͘͠i̷̱͉͋͑s̵͙̈͘h̵͖̅y̶̜͘
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #48 A Fisherman's Tale
70% matchVery Positive94% of 1,525 reviews2019
Dev: InnerspaceVRPub: Vertigo Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.
Why similar: Adventure 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #49 The Hole Town
69% matchVery Positive94% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: imayuiPub: Millchan Games
Windows
To the town in the hole... a story about a place where I can't go.
Why similar: Adventure 76.6%, Indie 23.4%
- #50 Blemo
67% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Blippin Bloppy Games
Windows
BLEMO! It’s a super-short, casual interactive story. You can talk to NPCs, walk across the tiny map, or try to solve our secret puzzle. We wanted to create a tiny, living world so let us know how we did! Soak in the five minutes of gameplay for as long as you like.
Why similar: Casual 52.9%, Adventure 27.1%, Indie 20%
- #51 Mermaid Mission: Titanic
72% matchVery Positive93% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: Arglefumph
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Play as a mermaid, who has been sent to the human world to discover why they're building a giant ship called the Titanic.
Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #52 Fishing at the Lake Full of Cats
64% matchVery Positive100% of 340 reviews2025
Dev: Addison Clinton
Windows
Fishing at the Lake Full of Cats is a puzzle solving, cat collecting, fishing game where you uncover the secrets of Silly Lake in a quest to fish up every last one of its pointy eared denizens.
Why similar: Casual 45.2%, Adventure 40.7%, Indie 14.1%
- #53 Cowpocalypse - Episode 0
69% matchVery Positive87% of 211 reviews2019
Dev: Balazs Hrabacsik
Windows
Disappearing cows, strange visitors, talking trees... What is going on here...? Is the end of the world, the cowpocalypse really here? Discover the mysteries trough this puzzle filled, 2,5D, point & click style adventure game.
Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Casual 35.9%, Indie 25.9%
- #54 Not Sure About That
65% matchVery Positive97% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Scratch
Windows
A trivia quiz set in the middle of the ocean.
Why similar: Casual 50%, Adventure 50%
- #55 Impossible Quest
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 367 reviews2016
Dev: Axel Sonic
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Very dumb adventure game about a very dumb person from a very dumb developer.
Why similar: Casual 38%, Adventure 35.3%, Indie 26.7%
- #56 The Bright Star Of Seraph-Katis-
66% matchVery Positive87% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: STARxSTAR
Windows
《The Bright Star Of Seraph-Katis-》is a short text adventure game. This game combines a visual novel and an "adventure mode".
Why similar: Adventure 45.2%, Casual 33.1%, Indie 21.7%
- #57 Deep Lake: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive81% of 72 reviews2021
Dev: Sinto_KengekiPub: Kairos GD
Windows · Mac
"Deep Lake: Prologue" visual novel In the neo-Gothic genre, with a psychological story. Our hero's name is Sali. Sali is a former forensic photographer for the crime department. The accident that happened to him reveals in him a mysterious gift that can lead him to a terrible death.
Why similar: Adventure 76.4%, Indie 14.3%, Casual 9.3%
- #58 Punchline!!
68% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: idk?Pub: idk?
Windows
Punchline!! is a slice-of-life comedy visual novel. Enter the not-so-sane daily life of an eccentric, good-for-nothing bum with an unhealthy interest in peculiar conspiracies and a snarky, cynical part-time drunk as they navigate the weird and wacky city of Noo Yawk.
Why similar: Casual 37.5%, Adventure 35.5%, Indie 27%
- #59 Clam Man
67% matchVery Positive94% of 154 reviews2019
Dev: Team Clam
Windows · Mac · Linux
An absurd, strange, and hilarious underwater adventure featuring office work, the duck of truth, nasty drinks, and the horrifying reality of mayonnaise crime.
Why similar: Adventure 59.6%, Indie 40.4%