- #1 Near Impact
97% match9 user reviews33% of 9 reviews2014
Dev: Sonalysts Combat SimulationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Thousands of incoming asteroids...One robot...An untested defense force...The odds are about even!
Why similar: Strategy 65.4%, Action 34.6%
- #2 AntiPodal
96% matchPositive88% of 32 reviews2019
Dev: Lily DehaudtPub: lilGames
Windows · Mac
Trapped in a strange parallel world, face ruthless challenges using wit and skill. Run, jump and swap your way out of tricky situations in this super-tight action puzzle platformer. Will you be able to find and rescue your poor lost chicken?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.3%, Action 29.7%, Platformer 27%
- #3 MOP Operation Cleanup
96% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: EnsenaSoft
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
You are MOP, a curious and unique model of robot. You have been engineered using simple parts with one single objective: To clean up a polluted environment. Explore five challenging worlds with 50 difficult missions full of pixel-perfect platforming fun.
Why similar: Strategy 37.6%, Platformer 23.7%, Action 21.9%, Family Friendly 16.7%
- #4 Marudachi
93% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Niko Salocin
Windows
Marudachi is an action puzzle game that uses different Maru's abilities to let Maru get into the place they can't go on their own.
Why similar: Strategy 34.6%, Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Action 22%, Platformer 21.1%
- #5 Yeah Jam Fury: U, Me, Everybody!
95% matchPositive100% of 31 reviews2017
Dev: World Entertainment StudiosPub: McLeodGaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
GET THE MANGO! Yeah Jam Fury tests your speed and ingenuity in over 100 levels of smiling face blocks. Utilize all three of your egos to create blocks, scale walls, and destroy everything in the way of your righteous fruit.
Why similar: Strategy 41.6%, Action 22.4%, Puzzle Platformer 22.2%, Platformer 13.8%
- #6 Tower Offender
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPGamesPub: None
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stop the hero from saving the "princess"... This game is all about stopping the Hero from getting to the tower to do what heros to best. You will have some time to prepare and then can continue your efforts as he progresses.
Why similar: Strategy 36.7%, Puzzle Platformer 24.1%, Platformer 20.6%, Action 18.6%
- #7 Aliens Are Rude!
94% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: David Ruttan
Windows
The robots were dancing happily away until the aliens came and crashed the party! Engage in space combat, traverse planets, learn abilities from aliens, upgrade with perks and titles, strategize, dodge, shoot, and reclaim the nebulous!
Why similar: Strategy 44.3%, Action 28.5%, Platformer 27.2%
- #8 Gun Man
94% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: kessels game studio
Windows
Gun Man is a fun platform and arcade shooter where you need to complete the levels as fast as possible without dying. There are dozens of levels in the game, each one carefully created to provide you with platforming challenges as well as numerous shooting tests.
Why similar: Action 39.6%, Puzzle Platformer 33.7%, Platformer 26.8%
- #9 Warped Continuity
91% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Xufactor
Windows
The game incorporates the mechanics of the famous "slider" puzzle. The character is on one screen, and the player must move the screens around and move the character from screen to screen to get to the door.
Why similar: Strategy 44.6%, Puzzle Platformer 29.7%, Platformer 25.7%
- #10 WATCH / 透视
91% matchVery Positive86% of 59 reviews2020
Dev: MicractivePub: 电钮组
Windows
This is a platform puzzle game related to our "WATCH" vision.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38%, Platformer 26.3%, Strategy 23.4%, Action 12.4%
- #11 SlipSlop: World's Hardest Platformer Game
89% matchVery Positive83% of 1,687 reviews2019
Dev: 10F
Windows · Linux
One button platformer nightmare
Why similar: Strategy 46.8%, Action 27.6%, Platformer 25.5%
- #12 Almightree: The Last Dreamer
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 173 reviews2015
Dev: ChocoartsPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The world is shattering and you are the only hope to restore the balance. A thrilling and challenging 3D puzzle platformer game, Almightree: The Last Dreamer has you racing through a crumbling world to find your way to awaken the life giving Almightree.
Why similar: Strategy 37.5%, Puzzle Platformer 37.5%, Action 25%
- #13 Jarheads
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gareth Williams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Jarheads is a fast-paced tactical shooter with fully-destructible environments. Jarheads comprises of a 50 mission single-player (or two-player online co-op) campaign and a separate online multiplayer experience for up to 8 players with a variety of explosive game modes.
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 35.7%
- #14 Lordian: Karma
89% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: oneIMMERSPub: YJM GAMES
Windows
Destroy waves of monsters with your powerful magic crossbow and alchemical traps. Freeze, blow, trample, even burn your enemies with various traps available. From extreme difficulty which can only be experienced through multiplayer to various stages of difficulties for single player.
Why similar: Strategy 63.2%, Action 36.8%
- #15 The Lost VR
86% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2019
Dev: TOMATOVR
Windows
The Lost is ultimate FPS VR game. You must defend yourself from enemies with various guns. The Lost is only available in single mode, and you can gradually clear the stages according to the difficulty. Take over best teleport spots and choose proper guns strategically to defeat enemies!
Why similar: Strategy 62.7%, Action 37.3%
- #16 Crystal Quest Classic
87% matchPositive86% of 36 reviews2016
Dev: Game Mechanics LLC
Windows · Mac
Crystal Quest is a fast moving, adrenaline-boiling video arcade game from 1987 that won many awards. Now on the latest hardware.
Why similar: Strategy 63.5%, Action 36.5%
- #17 Uprising: Join or Die
86% matchVery Positive84% of 113 reviews2016
Dev: Cyclone StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Uprising offers more strategy than a military sim, and more action strategy than a shoot'em up. Using your hi-tech assault tank, loaded with powerful weapons, you need to establish tidal bases, mine for power, build factories and direct legions of allied units against the enemy
Why similar: Strategy 62.7%, Action 37.3%
- #18 Army Men: Toys in Space
85% matchMixed70% of 83 reviews2017
Dev: The 3DO CompanyPub: 2K
Windows
Finally, proof that little green men exist in outer space! A horde of alien toys has invaded Earth. Now, they've enlisted the Tan Army to help them conquer the galaxy. All hope rests with one man, a green plastic soldier known as Sarge.
Why similar: Strategy 62.4%, Action 37.6%
- #19 Tiempo
74% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Vancouver Film School
Windows
Climb a towering clockwork spire in this 3D platformer. Use time-pausing and rewinding powers to overcome traps, puzzles, and enemies as you race to stop your rival from freezing time forever.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.8%, Platformer 33.8%, Action 32.4%
- #20 Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy
84% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Cyclone StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
After a century of bloody galactic battle, a horde of intelligent bloodthirsty aliens, known as the Kri’iSara, threaten to exterminate all human life. New Alliance Command is counting on you to destroy the alien menace.
Why similar: Strategy 62.2%, Action 37.8%
- #21 The Defenders: The Second Wave
84% matchMixed56% of 96 reviews2015
Dev: FallenMaster
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fight the ghosts through 50 waves of growing danger. Play as a powerful wizard, a mighty warrior, or a strategic builder to stop the ghost invasion. Evolve your character in the direction you want. Survive until dawn, or die trying.
Why similar: Strategy 62.4%, Action 37.6%
- #22 Traffic Cop
83% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Waden Kane Game StudiosPub: Yes Productions
Windows
It's the 1950s in a city like no other. You're on duty as the local Traffic Cop smack dab in the middle of a busy intersection. Direct traffic, dodge flying food, & unlock bonus rounds to disintegrate aliens, and hunt birds!
Why similar: Strategy 62.2%, Action 37.8%
- #23 Heyoo 3D Platformer
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artemio Michel Jimenez
Windows
HEYOO is a pure and uncompromising 3D speedrunning experience. Each level is a complex labyrinth suspended in the void, where skill is not only measured by the precision of your jump, but by your ability to maintain momentum and find the optimal route in three-dimensional space
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.4%, Platformer 27.2%, Strategy 25.2%, Action 17.2%
- #24 BouleMan
70% match9 user reviews86% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Haruka NitakaPub: Haftas
Windows
BouleMan is a fun, family‑friendly game for all ages! With up to 5 save slots, each family member can follow their own adventure and resume where they left off. Simple, charming, and customisable—perfect for both young and old players.
Why similar: Strategy 43.2%, Platformer 23.6%, Action 21.9%, Family Friendly 11.3%
- #25 Dual Cat: Max
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seal Unicorn Games
Windows
Join Max, the brave and clever cat, on a puzzle-platformer adventure to save his best friend, Erwin
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.1%, Strategy 38.6%, Action 20.3%
- #26 Salvaged
81% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Opposable Games
Windows
The human race explores the stars, but a keen focus on the future has left a trail of desolation in the past. You are Alex Pieterson, commander of the salvage ship Thaddeus and its team of hardened agents. You are a remnant of that past, fighting for survival in a huge new galaxy.
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 35.7%
- #27 Panels
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Diceless Games
Windows
Puzzle platformer with a dash of metroidvania and a unique panel switching mechanic. All this with beautiful hand drawn visuals.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.1%, Platformer 25.2%, Action 23.6%, Magic 19%
- #28 Disintegration Technical Beta
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,428 reviews
Dev: V1 Interactive, Inc.Pub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Pilot a heavily armed Gravcycle and command your troops on the ground in Disintegration, a new sci-fi first-person shooter unlike any other. Disintegration features both a thrilling single-player campaign and frenetic PvP multiplayer. Join the multiplayer technical beta today and compete against other pilots and their Crews.
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 35.7%
- #29 DwarVRs
80% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Beard Wizard
Windows
Experience a unique combination of the strategic elements of a tower defense game mixed with action-packed, first person perspective gameplay, built specifically for VR. Use multiple different towers, and your own skills to defeat hordes of greedy dwarves, before they run away with all your wealth.
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 35.7%
- #30 Tank Tread
81% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2016
Dev: INT2000
Windows · Mac
Tank Tread is a multiplayer real-time strategy game with modern military units.
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 35.7%
- #31 Mr. Photographer - Into The Light
67% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: Koray BirandPub: Art+Ist Digital
Windows · Mac
Stylized Platformer Game.
Why similar: Strategy 39.7%, Action 25.5%, Platformer 23.2%, Family Friendly 11.5%
- #32 NDE Rescue
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: 6L6 InteractivePub: KSCM Consulting
Windows · Mac
Become a NDE rescuer & join the international teams that can pull you back from death!
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 35.7%
- #33 Shattered Time
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: PixelRift Studios
Windows
Step into the chaotic world of Shattered Time, a 2.5D platformer set within the mysterious confines of a high-tech laboratory. As a lone experiment gone awry, you gain the ability to manipulate time itself, allowing you to reverse moments in the environment and use the past to reshape the present.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.7%, Strategy 31.3%, Platformer 21.3%, Action 13.7%
- #34 Hostage: Rescue Mission
78% matchMostly Negative29% of 24 reviews2018
Dev: InfogramesPub: Atari
Windows
Special Alert: Terrorists have invaded our embassy and seized an undetermined number of hostages...Lives hang in the balance as high ranking diplomats are held at gunpoint...Their safety requires immediate action... prepare to infiltrate the embassy, neutralize the terrorists, and rescue the hostages, or die trying.
Why similar: Strategy 62.1%, Action 37.9%
- #35 Snails
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2015
Dev: Jorge LimaPub: 2Brains Games
Windows
They are slow and dumb, and they sure need you! Snails is a 2D platformer/puzzle game where the main objective is to help the snails reach the level exit.
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 35.7%
- #36 Only Down
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Beryl Gaming
Windows
Only Down was made with speed runners in mind. Your skill will be tested. Victories are gained by the inch in this unforgiving puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Strategy 40.2%, Puzzle Platformer 30%, Platformer 29.8%
- #37 After Echo
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jabari Alii
Windows
Chase the echoes of another life. In this fast-paced puzzle platformer, dash and teleport through mysterious worlds, solve clever movement puzzles, and stitch together the memories of a broken past.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.5%, Strategy 30%, Platformer 22%, Magic 11.5%
- #38 Day of Destruction
78% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: SynaptixGames, LLC
Windows
Embrace Your Inner Alien! Rise as the destroyer of cities and conqueror of galaxies. Empower yourself with alien technology as you unlock new weapons and UFOs. Follow your destiny on the Day of Destruction.
Why similar: Strategy 62.1%, Action 37.9%
- #39 Ball Drop
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2023
Dev: Puffin Forest
Windows
Ball Drop is a puzzle platformer game. The ball rolls down using gravity and you must use the mouse to move platforms to guide the ball to the goal line. The objects in the game rotate following the mouse and you can use them to solve puzzles and navigate around hazards.
Why similar: Strategy 36%, Puzzle Platformer 30.4%, Action 18.1%, Platformer 15.5%
- #40 revvver
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Naparil
Windows
Create a path by reversing the desired area.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.3%, Strategy 35.3%, Platformer 22.4%
- #41 Layerworld
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BrandKnew.io
Windows · Mac
Solve each level, layer by layer, as the ghosts of your deaths stack up.
Why similar: Strategy 36.4%, Platformer 22.6%, Action 22.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%
- #42 Hovershift
77% matchNo user reviews2020
Dev: OuroborOs_
Windows
Test your reflexes with Hovershift and get the highest score on this little arcade game
Why similar: Strategy 62%, Action 38%
- #43 Maze Madness
76% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: James SchilzPub: Syngaming Studios
Windows
First Person Shooter Through a variety of Mazes and challenges. Each level has different weapons and AI to make each entertaining and increasingly more difficult. Try your luck and Beat your Time to get past each challenge all the levels have in store for you.
Why similar: Strategy 60.9%, Action 39.1%
- #44 Minskies
74% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Binary EmotionsPub: Piko Interactive LLC
Windows
Minskies Furballs is not a port, but a spiritual clone of Puyo Puyo. In a tournament against a cast of crazy characters, you must guide and rotating falling pairs of cats of different colours to make up colour combinations.
Why similar: Strategy 58.5%, Action 41.5%
- #45 Army Men II
75% matchMixed66% of 149 reviews2017
Dev: The 3DO CompanyPub: 2K
Windows
Army Men II, the sequel to the best-selling title Army Men, takes plastic toy soldier warfare into the kitchen, bedroom, front yard, and garage. Once again Sarge will lead his heroic Green forces into head-melting, plastic-body-part-exploding, combat mayhem; only this time the battle is for control of the kitchen sink!
Why similar: Strategy 66.1%, Action 33.9%
- #46 Wisentree Spirit
76% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: OriorInteractifPub: Orior Interactif
Windows
In this virtual reality tower defence, you will embody a hero, push back the enemies assaults, By building a network of defensive Towers and manipulating, internal might that will grant you powers of the mystical Fire.
Why similar: Strategy 60.9%, Action 39.1%
- #47 Tricks Magician
69% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Nibb Games
Windows
Tricks Magician is a game about a magician who has been trapped in an alternate reality because of his assistant rabbit's revenge, and now must overcome several challenges with a defying gravity and return to your normal world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.6%, Strategy 23.1%, Platformer 18.7%, Magic 14.5%, Action 11.1%
- #48 CTU: Counter Terrorism Unit
75% matchMostly Negative31% of 110 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows
Join the CTU, arrest dangerous terrorist threats, use gadgets including the snake cam and play online with up to five player co-op
Why similar: Strategy 65.9%, Action 34.1%
- #49 Orbit Defender
73% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Frostflake Studios
Windows
You are in the control of the Planetary Defense System of Earth. Your job is to protect Earth using turrets orbitting the planet. You have gotten full control of the planet and you are responsible to keep the planet intact.
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 35.7%
- #50 5 Dice
65% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: JeksimPub: Tiny Pebble Studios
Windows
5 Dice is a more challenging and precise puzzle platformer. You have 5 "moves" per screen that consist of; dashing, wall bouncing, placing platforms, etc. Use your moves wisely and precisely in order to reach the end!
Why similar: Strategy 35.8%, Action 22.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Platformer 20.6%
- #51 The Wave Story
68% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: Z4Z
Windows
A totally mysterious and enigmatic game, can you discover the end of this story?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.3%, Strategy 34.7%, Platformer 24%
- #52 Where's My Helmet?
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 135 reviews2016
Dev: Mega Boss Game StudioPub: My Way Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A challenging platform style game combined with aesthetic elements of the Nordic culture and doses of humor are the charming elements that make "Where's my Helmet?" a must-have title in the Steam library of all gamers.
Why similar: Action 42.8%, Strategy 38.5%, Platformer 18.7%
- #53 Dashbounce
63% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Delicious Software
Windows
A 2D Speedrunning Puzzle-Platformer about going fast and intentionally abusing physics quirks! Seek the goal in each level before the clock hits zero - but watch out, you can't jump! You'll have to use your surprising speed and bouncy body to turn every object and obstacle into an advantage!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31%, Platformer 26.1%, Action 23.6%, Magic 19.3%
- #54 SolSeraph
70% matchMixed51% of 103 reviews2019
Dev: ACE TeamPub: SEGA
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build your cities and set up defensive structures to protect them from the constant threat of monsters. Brought to you by ACE Team, SolSeraph combines action and strategy for a rich gameplay experience reminiscent of the 16-bit era.
Why similar: Strategy 63.8%, Action 36.2%
- #55 Stretchy-Man: The Video Game
65% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: JaxGames
Windows · Mac
Stretchy-Man is a physics based puzzle game. Earths mightiest super hero Super-Duper-Man has been captured by the villain Evil-Man, leaving it up to the unlikely hero Stretchy-Man to save the world from destruction. Will you be able to stop Evil-Man before its too late?
Why similar: Strategy 35.8%, Action 22.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Platformer 20.6%
- #56 March Of Soldiers
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: FAYEZ ALRASHEEDIPub: THE MARCH OF KWF
Windows
March Of Soldiers is a real time strategy single player , It is a military game based on the player's skill and the strength of his financial economy
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 35.7%
- #57 Romans From Mars 360
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: SideKickPub: Majesco Entertainment
Windows
You are a Roman soldier, and you and your crossbow are all that stands in the way of the invading Martian army. Use hands free movement to launch arrows or use your elemental powers like Fire, Ice, Earth, and Lightning to take down enemies.
Why similar: Action 63.3%, Strategy 36.7%