- #1 Max Stern
97% matchMixed53% of 40 reviews2016
Dev: Lupan Artiom OlegPub: None
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
If one day the perfect routine goes wrong, and your airship is knocked out over a mysterious tropical island - be ready to fight for your life, gather together all the parts of the Spanish chronicle, solve puzzles and, finally, yes… grind the armed skeletons into dust on your way.
Why similar: Action 39.9%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 25.8%
- #2 Captain Lycop : Invasion of the Heters
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 34 reviews2017
Dev: Aéronie
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
A space shooter mixing adventure, action and tactics. Face off against pen-pushing insects, merciless enemies and epic bosses. Your only hope is to banish all cowardice and follow a virtuous path.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.5%
- #3 Systematic Immunity
96% matchPositive81% of 27 reviews2016
Dev: Hedge Knight Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Systematic Immunity is a challenging precision platformer set inside the human body...and not a particularly healthy one either. This body has been infected by a big, nasty bugger of a germ, who is making it his business to spawn many more germs as fast as he can.
Why similar: Action 37.5%, Adventure 35%, Indie 27.6%
- #4 Super Man Or Monster
94% matchVery Positive93% of 167 reviews2017
Dev: Xform
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Super Man Or Monster is an explosive monsterfilled action game. Protect or destroy the world, as MAN or MONSTER! Build your army, jetpack around, blast monsters and kick ass. OR... bring the chaos as you bash, stomp and wreck cities. Your choice!
Why similar: Action 38.4%, Adventure 33.3%, Indie 28.4%
- #5 Parvaneh: Legacy of the Light's Guardians
95% matchMixed63% of 68 reviews2016
Dev: Bearded Bird Game StudioPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fadia, a young and courageous boy sets about protecting ‘Naria’, his home village, from the Khazdaks who are trying to pollute their river.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #6 The Butterfly Sign: Human Error
94% matchMixed50% of 82 reviews2017
Dev: Quantum Phoenix Bucharest
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
The Butterfly Sign: Human Error is the second chapter of the first person detective video game in which we are playing as a sole survivor of a serious terrorist attack. Protagonist is the only witness of the incident and his fate depends on his memories.
Why similar: Adventure 49.5%, Action 28.5%, Indie 22%
- #7 Lightning War
93% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Diantong Intelligence Tech. Shanghai Co.,Ltd.
Windows
With hard work of two member team, the first series of the Lighting war finally go online. Hoping everyone enjoy this battle game. Always wondering who's driving the jets, will be a beauty?
Why similar: Adventure 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #8 Goo Saga
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2016
Dev: Toka Loka Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Goo Saga is a platform adventure game where the player guides an elastic creature named Goo in a perilous journey to find his creator – and with him, the mysterious purpose of his own creation. Will Goo succeed? Puzzles, deadly traps and an army of foes in a labyrinthine underwater lab block his way.
Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 34.2%, Indie 27.5%
- #9 Virus Z
91% matchMixed56% of 66 reviews2017
Dev: Falco Software
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Virus Z is a 3D zombie shooter with a third-person view. You must wade through crowds of the walking dead with your partner. Zombies are very fast here, and you will struggle to get away from them, so you must rely only on your reflexes and accuracy. Also, from out of nowhere, a huge monster-mutant may appear at any time
Why similar: Action 37.6%, Adventure 37%, Indie 25.3%
- #10 The Body Changer
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2015
Dev: TheShortAndTheTall
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A single player metroidvania 3D game with cooperative gameplay. Find out what's going on by taking control of distinct characters and change between them whenever you want. An unique mix of 3rd person shooter and challenging puzzles!
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 33.4%, Indie 27.8%
- #11 The God Paradox
89% matchMixed60% of 35 reviews2017
Dev: Tristan Begin
Windows · Mac
Median: 6 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
An action-rhythm-puzzle-platform game that will test your skills and your patience as the game’s developer talks you through each screen. However, there may be more to this simple world of screens than what meets the eye, and this so-called developer may have motives of his own.
Why similar: Action 37.4%, Adventure 36.5%, Indie 26.2%
- #12 The Breeding: The Fog
89% matchNegative18% of 38 reviews2017
Dev: GBROSSOFT
Windows
The World governments experiment to control soaring atmospheric toxin levels have failed. The weather has become unstable and the "Breeds" have appeared. Journey into the safe zone in The Breeding: The Fog's atmospheric randomly generated seamless world...
Why similar: Action 37.8%, Adventure 35.5%, Indie 26.7%
- #13 Holobunnies: Pause Cafe
88% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: q-bit GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Holobunnies: Pause Café is the Holobunnies appetizer you didn't know you wanted: three little games in one adorable and quirky package! Fight your friends in a high-adrenaline two-player brawler, test your mettle against the classic q-bit bosses in Boss Rush, and navigate through Kitcat’s Adventure to help Kitcat find its way to the...
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #14 Gum Guy
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Nickana Studio
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 99%
This tough energetic 2D platformer challenges you. The plot is fun and the main hero is terribly cute. Gum Guy lives in the drains with his gum family. But the soul calls for adventures. One day our hero gets lost. You become his guide through the dangers and wonders of the city above his home.
Why similar: Action 49%, Adventure 29.7%, Indie 21.3%
- #15 The Construct
86% matchMixed63% of 144 reviews2016
Dev: Cannibal Panda Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
“The Construct” is a classical top-down view adventure indie game. The gameplay mixes retro-like gameplay mechanics with modern features and a spectacular atmosphere and mysterious storyline.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 36.2%, Indie 26.6%
- #16 Evil Robots From N1M
85% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Jake Conner
Windows
Play as a space-faring mercenary on a mission to a distant world in this side-scrolling action shooter.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #17 The Sun at Night
86% matchMixed47% of 45 reviews2014
Dev: Minicore Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Explore, blast, and shield your way through massive branching levels as Laika the space dog. This 2D adventure features customized gameplay and an incredibly deep narrative.
Why similar: Action 38.9%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 26.7%
- #18 HereAfter
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 43 reviews2017
Dev: Brown Studios
Windows
Deep in an old forgotten laboratory, a failed experiment reboots from its sleep. With no memories, it now must explore the many different areas of the extensive complex with the help of an AI called MUSE. Will it find the light of redemption it longs for, or will it find a dark and terrible truth?
Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #19 Welkin Road
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: Gregor PaničPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Armed only with your grappling hooks and fearless nature, run, leap and swing your way across a dreamy skyscape to reach the pillar of light. Welkin Road is an elegant, first-person puzzle-platformer that combines parkour and grappling-hook-powered aerobatics.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #20 Parasite
84% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2016
Dev: Raphael Gervaise
Windows · Linux
Parasite is a non-linear retro platformer with a mix of action and puzzles. The player controls an alien worm wanting to get rid of a human space colony on his planet. There are multiple shapes to unlock and to switch between to facilitate the navigation and sabotage the complex.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #21 Kindled Cavern
82% 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 38.9%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #22 Mystic Ruins
81% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Elite Games
Windows
Join Strade the explorer on his mission to investigate the Mystic Ruins. Navigate its labyrinthine corridors, solve its puzzles, gather treasures, and survive the onslaught of monsters within.
Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #23 Holobunnies: The Bittersweet Adventure
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: q-bit GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
An action-exploration, retro sidescroller adventure game about holographic bunnies in space.
Why similar: Adventure 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.7%
- #24 Izeriya
80% matchMixed58% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: LigaGamesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Izeriya was a powerful city…but forces of evil captured it. The little man named Trix is heading to this city to destroy the evil within.
Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #25 The End: Inari's Quest
79% matchMostly Negative35% of 106 reviews2018
Dev: MataPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
You're a fox in a cyberpunk city full of hostile robots. You must escape while helping another fox and its cub
Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, Action 34.6%, Indie 26.6%
- #26 To Hell With Dave
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pretzel Bros Studios
Windows
'To Hell With Dave' is a narrative-driven adventure platformer for the connoisseur of the absurd. Explore a world full of charming characters and twisted humor. If you're a fan of challenging action, wacky puzzles and foul language, this game is for you!
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #27 homicide
77% matchNegative6% of 17 reviews2019
Dev: KiKi
Windows
This is a decryption game (first-person perspective),The player is at a murder scene.The player must first find the body,Then find five clues scattered around the scene,Then you can pass the level.There are two levels in this game,The player focuses on the corpse or clue for more than 2s,Can trigger the dialog box (meanings the body or...
Why similar: Adventure 38.2%, Action 34.4%, Indie 27.4%
- #28 Above
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mighty Moth
Windows · Mac
Above is an aeronautic action-adventure game, in which you fly around exploring islands scattered in a vast ocean, upgrade and modify your aeroplane to progress, in order to find your lost brother and uncover the mystery behind the abominations that dwell beneath the waves.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #29 Nachzehrer
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eric Sauer
Windows
[h1]Nachzehrer[/h1]Your fear of being in the dark comes true in this short single player horror game. You find yourself stuck at a power plant at night, when suddenly the lights begin shutting off. However, attempting to turn them back on may cause you to meet your fears.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #30 Gremlin Invasion: Survivor
79% 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 38.5%, Action 34.8%, Indie 26.7%
- #31 A Blind Legend
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 334 reviews2016
Dev: DowinoPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A Blind Legend is the first-ever action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes! Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound.
Why similar: Adventure 39.2%, Action 35%, Indie 25.8%
- #32 Lost with Dinosaurs
78% matchMixed40% of 140 reviews2017
Dev: Mihai Morosanu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 22%
Collect power up that help you reach all placed in order to collect mushrooms. Avoid dinosaurs that will steal them from you
Why similar: Adventure 39.2%, Action 33.8%, Indie 27%
- #33 Escape 2042 - The Truth Defenders
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: OrionSoft
Windows · Linux
Discover a futuristic fast-paced platformer game in pixel art. The game takes place in three different environments (prison, desert, forest) and is interspersed with 2 mini-games, including a reversed “Shoot’em Up” and an original rappelling game!
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.4%
- #34 Destroy Space Aliens
76% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Flying Fire, LLC
Windows
Challenge yourself and enter the castle of the Legendary Sir Frank Jones V to destroy invading space aliens! Slash, blast, and dash your way to victory in this retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.4%
- #35 Pilli Adventure
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: TavoPub: Calaca studios
Windows
Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Pilli Adventure features the Pilli & Paco as they blast their way through 7 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the Pilli Adventure online comic.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.4%
- #36 The Planet of the Vicious Creatures
75% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Jorge Giner Cordero
Windows
An old-school platformer set in outer space.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Action 35.5%, Indie 26.4%
- #37 The Platformer Gun
74% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Daniel Dante
Windows
Use your Platformer gun to create your way to surpass the obstacles and escape big evil dudes in 80+ levels!
Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 34.2%, Indie 27.5%
- #38 Orphan
72% matchPositive80% of 45 reviews2018
Dev: Windy HillPub: 2Dimensions
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 2D sci-fi platformer about a young boy who may be the last survivor of an alien invasion. Under the cover of night, he ventures out in search of other life and to seek revenge against the machines that have taken over the Earth.
Why similar: Adventure 38.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #39 Last Anime Boy 2: Hentai Zombie Hell
73% matchMixed63% of 62 reviews2018
Dev: CSMPub: W.T.B.
Windows
In 2088, Nazi Muslims achieved great success in the field of chemical weapons and, not to fall into captivity and fight even after death with the infidels, they created a serum that turned them into zombies.
Why similar: Adventure 38.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #40 All Fall Down
74% matchMixed67% of 39 reviews2015
Dev: khos85
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Set in a distant future world, this is a unique first person shooter/platform/puzzle game where you need to find out why all the debris is falling and save your world from destruction.
Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Action 34.2%, Indie 27.5%
- #41 Star Surveyor
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: slimefriend
Windows · Mac
Star Surveyor is an exploration game about discovering a foreign planet, and observing the lives of its alien inhabitants. You're sent to Maya-247 with a simple mission: use your scanner to gather data about all of the flora and fauna you can, and send that data back to Earth.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #42 DUSTWUN
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goon Studios
Windows
Fight to survive in an alien frontier full of beauty and danger on your quest to locate a missing starfighter.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #43 Armoured Engines
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bounder Games
Windows · Mac
Armoured Engines is a steam punk western epic featuring train conductor Dusty Beats and her partner in crime, the ancient living engine Billy Wylam, as they search for El Dorado. Protect your train and shoot, fling, slice, and blow up hordes of enemies, using an arsenal of weaponry and passengers.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #44 New World: The Tupis
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Novo Mundo
Windows
New World: The Tupis is a 3D FPS adventure game about the South America colonization, during the 16th century, fight using only a bow, against enemies using powerful arquebuses and swords, save members of your tribe, and they will fight on your side.
Why similar: Adventure 39.3%, Action 35%, Indie 25.7%
- #45 Do Not Fall
73% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2014
Dev: XPEC Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Have you got what it takes to try out this challenging, intense and fast paced action-platform game? Think fast and think quick of where you are running as the tiles will start to disappear the moment you walked on it and the obstacles will be in your way to block you or knock you over. You can run. You can dash.
Why similar: Adventure 38.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #46 Stickman World
60% 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 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #47 Slime-san: Blackbird's Kraken
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: FabrazPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
The notorious Blackbird's kracked, I mean, cracked! He believes Slime-san stole his treasure and unleashed his giant Kraken upon him! Sound familiar? It is now up to Slime-san to escape the giant squid's jaws back out to freedom!
Why similar: Adventure 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #48 Afandas Survival
60% 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 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #49 The Sheltered
73% matchMixed65% of 51 reviews2015
Dev: Benjamin FamigliettiPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
"The Sheltered" is a top-down adventure game with an emphasis on exploration and decision making. Combining old school graphics and simple gameplay with modern storytelling and a multitude of choices, "The Sheltered" pushes a choice between safety and morals.
Why similar: Adventure 38.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 27.5%
- #50 Slime-san: Sheeple’s Sequel
70% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: FabrazPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sheeple's finally lost it! He is convinced that everything's just part of a giant videogame and that he was coded to simply be a side-character. Which is why he decided to recode himself to become the villain instead... Can you defeat his nefarious levels and come out of it unscathed?
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #51 Imperil
69% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2017
Dev: Polybit
Windows · Mac
"Imperil" is a ruthless retro inspired platformer with puzzles. The hero must save the land that has been corrupted by evil. Place platforms or shift the world around you, move objects with telekenesis or burn enemies with fire to best the many obstacles you come across.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #52 Captain's Tail
59% 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 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #53 Lost Bros
71% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2016
Dev: Wheat Muffin Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
In Lost Bros simultaneously control three independent characters as they travel through time to save their kidnapped friend. Gunman, Shieldman, and Swordman must cooperate with unique abilities to solve puzzles and fight bad guys.
Why similar: Adventure 38.2%, Action 35.6%, Indie 26.2%
- #54 I_AM.exe
58% 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 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #55 Shoottera
70% matchMixed40% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: RussianDEVPub: azimuth team
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Shooter with the elements of the quest. You need to get out of the lab, killing all the enemies.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #56 COSMONAUT
67% matchPositive86% of 42 reviews2018
Dev: Neon Chasm, LLC
Windows
Unravel the mystery surrounding the lost vessel Diogenes. A story-driven retro platformer with elements of horror. Use the zero-g suit to explore the eerie corridors of a derelict ship filled with unknown lifeforms and dark secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Action 35.2%, Indie 27.1%