- #1 Derelict Redux
97% matchMixed45% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Floor59Games
Windows
Derelict is a post-apocalyptic, top down, sandbox, rogue like(like). You have woken up from stasis long after the fall of humanity. Thousands of years of human colonization and war have left countless derelict space craft, abandoned space stations and settlements ripe for looting.
Why similar: Action 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #2 Space Slam
96% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: ;)Pub: Quickdraw Studios
Windows
In SPACE SLAM there is only one way to mine: ramming planets at full speed with your spacecraft. View the action in VR with your HTC Vive or in flat mode!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #3 Paladin
96% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Pumpkin Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are earth's last hero - defend civilization from annihilation.Protect the cities, destroy the aliens and upgrade your fighter. Drive back the vile invading scum and save mankind in this frantic twin-stick shooter!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #4 Run Jump Die Repeat
95% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: LongArm Interactive
Windows
Run Jump Die Repeat is a single button platformer game. Press SPACE to run, bounce, jump, climb, and kill as you attempt to save the Cracker Princess and escape the evil Cron Rebels home planet.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #5 Snakes on an Extradimensional Plane
94% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2016
Dev: Team Neon SnakesPub: Fox Buchele
Windows
Abstract HTC Vive game where you help adventurous space mice with tiny little jetpack escape the glowing snakes! Collect powerups for points and compete on the leaderboards!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #6 Booty Diver
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Xavier Orion Games
Windows
Take a dive into the perilous depths of the ocean as you seek sunken treasure while battling creatures who guard their treasure as you manage your precious air supply.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #7 MC Lars 2: Brotherhood
93% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Synersteel Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac
MC Lars, MC Frontalot, Mega Ran, YTCracker and Schaffer the Darklord save music! Join them in over a dozen songs as you fight, jump, and fly your way through the beat.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #8 Seek & Destroy - Steampunk Arcade
92% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: GamestormVRPub: Showstorm Ltd
Windows
You are Armed with a Steam Powered Rail Gun + Hammers + TESLA Powered Lightning + Magnets! SEEK & DESTROY to rack up the biggest score!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #9 Roses and Gems
91% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Pirate-Rob
Windows
Roses and Gems is a difficult sandbox platformer all about avoiding the inevitable, Death. Build constructs, traps and fight to keep the ancient machine safe. In the end, your home will be destroyed, and you'll die, but it just means you get to start a new dem... Adventure all over again!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #10 HVRGUN
83% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Jonathan Bartram
Windows
Welcome to HVRGUN, the worlds best Assault Pilot Training program. Where you'll be placed directly into a virtual battlefield and test your ability to dodge, shoot, and destroy an endless onslaught of enemies!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #11 Rise
90% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: New State
Windows
Rise is a first-person platformer combining casual gameplay mechanics with demanding challenges.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #12 Longshot Universe
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Longshot Studios LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Longshot Universe is an intense action arena shooter where you pilot a variety of space ships to dogfight and shoot down the enemy before they shoot you down.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #13 Insane Insects: The Inception
89% matchMostly Negative20% of 10 reviews2016
Dev: Bad Cast gamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Played over five uniquely different arenas, Insane Insects - The Inception is an airborne Quake III on steroids, a classic old-school fragging game, speed, movement and skill based.
Why similar: Action 53.2%, Indie 46.8%
- #14 Dawn of the Robot Empire
88% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: oeFun, Inc.
Windows
Witness first hand the Dawn of the Robot Empire. Can you stop the invading robotic forces from another galaxy? Blast your way to victory in this retro sci-fi shooter. You'll need fast reflexes and an accurate aim to win.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #15 Grid Masters
87% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2016
Dev: Angry Hangar Games, LLC
Windows
Fight for victory in a 1v1 or 2v2 grid-based deathmatch in Grid Masters. Represent your favorite faction as one of five characters (with more to come), each with their own unique abilities. Toss massive bombs, rocket punch, or send explosive robot minions to take your enemies down!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #16 Red Barton and The Sky Pirates
86% matchNegative17% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Schism WorldwidePub: 11000AD
Windows
Red Barton and the Sky Pirates is an exciting 3rd person arcade combat flight shooter reminiscent of games like Star Fox back on the classic N64 and the legendary “After Burner” arcade.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #17 Lux umbra
85% match8 user reviews22% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: UndeadTurtle
Windows
In "Lux Umbra" they explore a confused world. They do not know why you here are what all that has to mean and how they come here out. They are able to do themselves only ventures they gain an accident had and now strongly have headaches. But so properly also do not know it.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #18 AEGIS 2186
84% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Jollyfish Games
Windows
Take command of the ultimate weapon and defend mankind in AEGIS 2186. Protect Earth from an overwhelming alien assault in this intense retro arcade survival-shooter.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #19 Across
84% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: Jonathan Sprauel Games
Windows
ACROSS is a roomscale VR game, where you are tasked with a simple objective : cross the room.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #20 AstroShift
82% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: WHITEROCK games
Windows
AstroShift is a unique free-roam 2D space shooter, where your ship's destruction isn't game over - you get flung into space, and you have to find and board a new ship before your air runs out, and YOU explode - you know, because science...
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #21 Lord of Djinn
86% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Lightray Games
Windows
Lord of Djinn is a two player shoot-em-up. Each player aims to destroy the lesser djinn of the opposite color faster than their opponent can slay their own to gain influence in the match. Collect coins dropped by slain enemies to increase the power of your djinn.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #22 Malazard: Magic Defense
82% matchPositive80% of 25 reviews2016
Dev: Invictus Games Ltd.
Windows
Unleash the magic inside you!Purify the demonic legion with a set of powerful abilities.The collapsing world relies upon you, experience what it means to control all Magic!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #23 Cavern Crumblers
81% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Asymptotic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grab your friends and stock up on grenades for this fast-paced single-screen local multiplayer shooter! Compete with each other in an environment filled with destructible terrain as you run, jump, and dodge your way through the destruction.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #24 Beyond Power VR
81% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2016
Dev: Unparalleled Games
Windows
In Beyond Power VR, you are so powerfull that weapons are useless. Battle online and destroy everything in sight with your sheer power. Will you be able to dominate your foes and become the strongest?
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #25 Aftermath Y2K
79% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Matthew Willis
Windows · Linux
Inspired by such games as Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden; aftermath is a NES styled action platformer. However in Aftermath you play as a dog. You must run, jump, and dodge your way through 8 levels to recover your beloved owner. All the while also trying to fend off thugs, bandits, henchmen, and mutants.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #26 Nebula
79% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: Szekretar
Windows
Nebula is an action platformer with a high emphasis on using everything at your disposal to succeed, such as the gravity gun. The game takes place on an abandoned space station where you need to survive the deadly traps, defeat your enemies and solve physics based puzzles.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #27 NEON GALAXY
78% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Nicholas Backus
Windows
Neon Galaxy is a arcade style multiplayer twin stick shooter. There are modes for co-op play and pvp.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #28 Space Battlecruiser
76% matchVery Positive82% of 72 reviews2018
Dev: Less Describable Games
Windows
Space Battlecruiser is an arcade style, top down space shooter where you control a heavily armed capital ship. Battle against squadrons of fighters, fleets of warships, heavily defended space stations, and powerful command ships. Learn to master weaponry and special abilities like the Energy Shield.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #29 Attack of the Gooobers
77% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: SluggishtacoGames
Windows
Grab some friends or play alone and prepare to defend yourself from the Goobers in "Attack Of The Goobers!" Choose between multiple classes with unique abilities to survive the attack. Customize your characters stats and appearance to play how you like. Purchase weapons to defend yourself from the Goobers.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #30 No Mans Land
78% matchMostly Negative31% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Selective Intuition
Windows
No Mans Land is a poly art Zombie Survival game. You can craft, loot and shoot your way around the map. Play alone, or with a group of people. Choose how you lived your life previously, and make your way into a new life, living along side the zombies. Just remember to sleep with one eye open!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #31 Ales Dash
77% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Mikage Productions
Windows
Ales Dash is a Side-Scrolling 3D Action Game. You control Ales running forward and Clear the Level while over obstacles.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #32 900
75% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Barnaque
Windows · Mac · Linux
900 is a minimalist action score attack game in which the player controls an entity that must absorb universes in order to grow endlessly.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #33 Slow.Bullet VR
75% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Marco S HampelPub: Firez Studios
Windows
Survive, Shoot, and Win! A co-op multiplayer zombie Survival Game, now in VR!
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #34 Break The Food Chain
76% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: TEHO GamesPub: Caffeine Overdose
Windows
Break The Food Chain is an arcade game about cute little animals shooting at each other in the face like there is no tomorrow.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #35 Spin the Beat
80% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Clockwork Anomaly, LLC
Windows · Mac
Jump-n-dodge couch-multiplayer arcade action to the beat of the music! A party game for 1 to 4 players.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #36 Don't Look Back - VR
74% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: FoV
Windows
Your goal is to find 6 hearts within an underground maze. This is a remastered version of the original DK1 game released in 2014. Armed with only a torch, how quickly can you find the 6 hearts to escape the maze? And will you resist the urge to look back.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #37 Mirror Angel's Paradise
73% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: Henez
Windows
Explore the remains of the tower Babil and encounter the terrible images left behind by those driven into madness. Rescue the artisan relics that reflect the old world and give you power as you explore the new.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #38 Heavy load
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: SergeySmPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
HEAVY LOAD is a puzzle in which you have to solve the problem of how to move the boxes so that they fall into the right places.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #39 Assault on Hyperion Base
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Julian Stables
Windows
After a distress call was received from Hyperion Base you have been sent out to secure and reclaim this advanced research facility. Discover what project A.N.D.R.O.I.D really is and what happened to the team that was stationed there.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #40 Ripped Pants at Work
72% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2018
Dev: Scott Ethington
Windows · Mac
Ripped Pants at Work is a frantic stealth game about searching for new pants!
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #41 DIVE: Starpath
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 62 reviews2018
Dev: Gravity Well Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DIVE: Starpath is a third-person runner set in the stratosphere of massive planets. Guide yourself through the perils of interstellar space as you pursue a mysterious traveler. Fight gravity, gather the data canisters, and don't lose orbit!
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #42 Grompula
69% matchPositive91% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: GreebPub: Greeb Games
Windows
Grompula is a high octane wave based survival game. Fight through endless waves of Grompuloids to save the Glorkon race, and banish Grompula back to limbo, where he belongs. With tons of weapons, items, and abilities at your disposal, you might just be able to claim back what's rightfully yours.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #43 Toy Wars Invasion
74% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2015
Dev: Web Interactive Solutions
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The neglected and despised toys of the world are angry and have escaped their forgotten toy box prisons and are seeking revenge. Fight 21 enemy from the beach to the model train store with an arsenal of 13 weapons and armed vehicles.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #44 Brazilian Root®
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 98 reviews2018
Dev: Patria Games®
Windows
Brazilian Root® is an indie action game in first person perspectve. Benjamin, a former special ops soldier, was running for governor, but 30 days before voting day his daughter was mysteriously kidnapped. He will relive his fighter days and You will help him find his daughter and get his revenge.
Why similar: Action 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #45 Action Legion
72% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: Aeonic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Action Legion is a mouse-controlled, single-player war game on the PC and Mac.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #46 Winter Warland
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2017
Dev: Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this free for all multiplayer battle, fight to be the last snowman standing. Use your snowballs to destroy your enemies from far away, or use your carrot as a sword and deal damage up close.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #47 Automatum
70% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Old Point Games
Windows
Automatum is a 2D action and platform game with a dark pixel art style,in wich we take the role of an alien that must face a lot of adversities like platforming, combat and puzzles so he can regain his precious freedom.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #48 BlubBlub: Quest of the Blob
68% matchPositive82% of 44 reviews2018
Dev: Girls Make Games
Windows · Mac
BlubBlub is too cute! Escape through a trial of deadly traps to save all the blub friends!
Why similar: Action 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #49 The Gameshow
69% matchMostly Negative24% of 25 reviews2019
Dev: Biscuit Play
Windows
The Gameshow is an FPS game where you participate in a dangerous survival game. This is not your game. You, together with other players, have been kidnapped and brought to a forest. Now, surviving is your only objective.
Why similar: Action 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #50 Pythagoras' Perpetual Motion Machine
67% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: MarudicePub: DLsite
Windows
Head to the top of the tower, guided by a mysterious voice... 40 stages that should leave you with a fulfilling sense of achievement. Play with your knowledge, cunning and sparks of brilliance as your only weapon. What do the messages mean? Who am I? What purpose does this tower serve...?
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #51 McRogue
68% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Snare Games
Windows
It's man versus machine in this action roguelite from Snare Games. Explore procedural worlds, collect power-ups, and use McRogue's devastating robot fists to destroy all that stand in his way. But don't take too long about it - the robots only get stronger.
Why similar: Action 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #52 Bomber Bother
64% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2019
Dev: Dare Looks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight back against thieving Greyman Grifterham and his horde of beavery bullies and experience the thrill (and frustration) of herding low-poly beavers into a bottomless pit, retro-style!
Why similar: Action 54.4%, Indie 45.6%
- #53 Pulstario
63% matchPositive97% of 36 reviews2019
Dev: Fred Wood
Windows · Linux
A small, challenging space game about collecting missing souls in the void.
Why similar: Action 53.9%, Indie 46.1%
- #54 Pixel bomb! bomb!!
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Uborm
Windows
Long time ago, there was a beautiful Queen in Leroy Forest. The Queen was very narcissistic. She dressed up splendid every day and thought she was the fairest woman in the Forest. Every beautiful girl in the kingdom would lose good looks by the Queen's curse.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #55 Children of Liberty
73% matchNegative13% of 22 reviews2014
Dev: Lantana Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When four spies are arrested infiltrating the mansion of Royal Governor Thomas Gage, the Patriots call upon their children to finish their mission, spring them from jail, and uncover the details of a conspiracy that could plunge the colonies into war...
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #56 Nowhere Station
65% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Other Side Worlds
Windows
Crazy Rogue-like top-down shooter with innovative movement mechanic, insane robo-cults, and lots of bullets to ensure your destruction before you grow a big bad robot!
Why similar: Action 54.4%, Indie 45.6%
- #57 THE HOUCHI PLAY -THE 放置プレイ-
67% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: KoheiGallery
Windows
The aim of this game is to maneuver Taro Heibon and get close to the cos-play girls without being noticed. It's the right time to get close to them when they are facing away, so try to move closer before they face round. After passing all the stages, you can register the girls in your Gallery.
Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #58 BeeBeeQ
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Popup Asylum
Windows
BeeBeeQ is an asymmetric local multiplayer game where one VR player controls a Chef while up to four xbox controller players control Bees. Armed with a spatula and a fly swat the VR chef player has to try cook while the bees steal food, sting and generally harass him.
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Indie 44.6%