- #1 The Painter's Apprentice
97% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Taco Sushi Games
Windows
Platform your way through different art styles and battle your way through paint blobs as you uncover the secrets of the Master Painter.
Why similar: Action 27.9%, Casual 25.8%, Indie 20.6%, Platformer 14.1%, 2D Platformer 11.6%
- #2 REAL LIFE OF SOLDIERS
95% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: WGAMES
Windows
Every city has been taken over by a virus, citizens are sick... Collect medicines and vaccines and take it to the city hospital to cure patients infected with this dangerous virus. Only on the way you will find "the viruses" to destroy and people to rescue. That's your mission, soldier.
Why similar: Casual 24.5%, 2D Platformer 21%, Action 19.7%, Platformer 17.5%, Indie 9.8%
- #3 WHERE'S PHANTOM THIEF
96% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: FlatCircle
Windows · Mac
Your job is to find the Phantom Thief who is hiding in a crowd of moving characters! Beware though, the thief is known for his special transformation skills! Your mouse-moving skills are key to finding the Phantom Thief!
Why similar: Action 30%, Casual 28.6%, Indie 22.1%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, 2D 4.9%
- #4 Gogoo
96% matchNo user reviews2020
Dev: StarCity Games
Windows
Take up the challenge and face fast pace platforming in Gogoo! you need to master the technique of jumping and timing. You are the hero! help yourself through the ingenious and tricky levels.
Why similar: Action 29.6%, Casual 28.2%, Indie 21.8%, Platformer 13.8%, 2D 4.5%
- #5 How to Become a Ninja: Part 1
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Pixel vs Pixel
Windows
How to Become a Ninja: Part 1 is a very difficulty game that challenges the player's skills. In it you will have to go through 50 levels in order to become a Ninja.
Why similar: Indie 22.5%, Action 20.7%, Casual 19.8%, Platformer 16.6%, 2D Platformer 15.3%
- #6 Dragon Fishing
89% match6 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Vantan Game Academy
Windows
戦艦で巨龍を討つ海上ハンティングアクションゲーム! 強力な武器でドラゴンに反撃し、クレーンを使った電撃攻撃で大ダメージを狙え!迫力の戦闘と討伐の達成感を楽しもう!
Why similar: Action 33.1%, Casual 27.9%, 2D Platformer 21.7%, Indie 8%, 2D 6.6%
- #7 El Minero
91% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Sketchy Ceviche
Windows · Mac · Linux
A laid back 2D Platformer game based on the unsung daily lives of miners.
Why similar: Action 27.1%, Casual 23.5%, Platformer 18.1%, 2D Platformer 17.8%, Indie 6.5%
- #8 JumpFist
94% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: BoomCat Studios
Windows · Mac
A fast paced platformer that will test even the most seasoned of gamers! Jump, punch and slide your way through mayhem and reclaim your stolen games!
Why similar: Action 31.4%, Casual 30.9%, Indie 23.9%, Platformer 13.8%
- #9 MightyIronBall
93% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Achisoft
Windows · Mac
The MightyIronBall is lost in a odd world. Help him to back to home through warp gates. Play several levels in a fast, addictive platform game with a real physics friction system. A balance mix between skill and cunning against the time. Warp gates last a few seconds, there is no time to waste.
Why similar: Action 32.5%, Casual 31%, Indie 23.9%, Platformer 12.6%
- #10 Speedrun Ninja
92% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Aghko
Windows
An humorous challenge for you, your friends and anyone who likes to compete to be the fastest finishing a game! To achieve this you can make use of all your skills, tricks, luck, of shortcuts and also emerging mechanics… if it can be done it is allowed!
Why similar: Action 35.7%, Indie 26.3%, Casual 23.1%, 2D Platformer 14.9%
- #11 Default Dan
91% matchVery Positive88% of 74 reviews2015
Dev: Kikiwik Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Coins are bad? Spikes are good! Looks can be deceiving in Default Dan, an indie platformer that flips the genre upside down.
Why similar: Casual 31.8%, Action 27%, Indie 22.7%, Platformer 18.5%
- #12 Naturalealia: Forest Determination
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Butnariu Ovidiu Mihai
Windows
Experience the nefarious interactions of mankind with nature by playing as 3 different animals (male or female) with their unique gameplay
Why similar: Action 34.9%, Casual 33.2%, Indie 25.3%, Platformer 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #13 Cube Runner
90% matchVery Positive83% of 1,238 reviews2016
Dev: EGAMERPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Cube Runner is a 3d action platformer that's simple to learn, exciting to play, and deep enough to challenge even the greatest gamers.
Why similar: Casual 39.6%, Action 28.2%, Indie 21.7%, Platformer 10.5%
- #14 EMPTY
88% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: ShihYuJungPub: SYJstudio
Windows
In the world of "EMPTY" Earth is flat, and Depart from the very ground. You will be controlling "Master Humpback", Jump through each level and collect "RED CORE". While you walk through Each level, you will discover the Story of "EMPTY".
Why similar: Action 28.8%, Casual 27.5%, Indie 21.2%, 2D Platformer 10%, Platformer 9.3%
- #15 The 27th Dimension
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: wARmAcH1n3
Windows
A 2D pixelart run-and-gun platformer with unpredictable enemy paths, 30 handcrafted levels, 3 boss fights and an unlockable enemy editor so you can decide which threats spawn in every stage.
Why similar: Action 26.9%, Casual 23.3%, Platformer 18.3%, 2D Platformer 18.1%, Indie 6.2%
- #16 Super Orbit
87% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2020
Dev: Tameem HamouiPub: Cold And Old
Windows · Mac
Reach your place in the stars!
Why similar: Action 35.2%, Casual 33.9%, Indie 25.9%, 2D Platformer 5.1%
- #17 RIDLE
84% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Local Ring
Windows
RIDLE is a 2D action game where you run around the stage in all directions.
Why similar: Action 31.3%, Indie 25%, 2D Platformer 22.3%, Casual 10.3%, 2D 8.2%
- #18 Wire Flying Maid 2
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: IzukawaN
Windows
As you know, the elegant maid never walks. Instead she flies.
Why similar: Action 34.7%, Casual 33.1%, Indie 24.7%, 2D 5.2%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #19 Wire Flying Maid
86% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: IzukawaN
Windows
According to my research, most maids can fly in some way. In her case, it's two wires.
Why similar: Action 35.3%, Casual 32.9%, Indie 25.4%, 2D 4.4%, Singleplayer 2%
- #20 Super Astreus 2
85% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: 4M2Q Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Super Astreus 2 is a 4-player platform game where you will have to watch out for your friends and avoid obstacles and all sort of traps to get to the goal first. Compete in an arsenal of stages or create, play and share your own ideas in the Level creator.
Why similar: Action 31.7%, Casual 30.2%, Indie 23.3%, Platformer 6%, 2D Platformer 5.9%
- #21 The Medic
84% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: ConmtrastPub: LGV
Windows · Mac
The Medic: the first Coronavirus-themed topdown/platformer game published on Steam. Can you beat the anti-vaxxers and the virus to save the Earth?
Why similar: Action 32.9%, Casual 31.3%, Indie 24.2%, Platformer 5.9%, 2D Platformer 5.8%
- #22 REPTOMOM
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: ProblemGamer Productions
Windows
As REPTOMOM, the fate of dinosauria rests on your cybernetically-enhanced shoulders. Rout the nefarious humans who have taken a quantum-leap to your universe and brainwashed its denizens in a bid to take over. Slash, kick, lase, and blaze your way through 8 areas of classic platforming challenge!
Why similar: Action 32.1%, Casual 30.6%, Indie 23.6%, Platformer 13.7%
- #23 Astronaut: The Moon Eclipse
83% matchPositive82% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: AppChu Indie Games
Windows
In this game, You need to protect our home planet from being destroyed by giant asteroids! If you ready, start playing now!🌍 🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑🌘🌗🌕
Why similar: Action 35.5%, Casual 33.9%, Indie 25.3%, 2D 5.3%
- #24 Eggs & Kings
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vsevolod Pletnev
Windows
SYSYGY`s Eggs & Kings - this is an unrealistic hardcore game that will explode your computer! Grab your gamepad and a lot of patience! You will have to destroy crowds of monsters, collecting their precious eggs.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #25 Barrel Blast
80% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Me First Games
Windows · Mac
Soar through Cannon City by blasting out of cannons, bounce off rubber balls and walls, slide down giant slides, and pull off aerodynamic acrobats in this physics cannon blasting game. Get sky-high today with some silly physics fun!
Why similar: Action 32.1%, Casual 30.6%, Indie 23.6%, Platformer 13.7%
- #26 Fight for Gold II
81% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: 南方堂果
Windows
The arcade-style beat-’em-up game with the decadent style,you can choose a bad guy or a cute girl to the great adventures. More featured scenes,enemies,stories and much fun!
Why similar: Action 33.9%, Casual 32.3%, Indie 26.1%, 2D 7.7%
- #27 Impossible Jumpy Quest
79% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Ginko Games
Windows · Mac
Immerse yourself in the colorful and simplistic world of "Impossible Jumpy Quest". In this Single-Player experience you will Jump'n Run through increasingly more challanging levels. Find your own way through each of it's unique logic based levels. A new adventure is waiting for you.
Why similar: Action 32.1%, Casual 30.6%, Indie 23.6%, Platformer 13.7%
- #28 Grapple Force Rena
78% matchVery Positive94% of 146 reviews2018
Dev: Friend & FairyPub: GalaxyTrail
Windows · Linux
Swing, climb, grab, and throw in this action platformer where you can grapple anywhere! Using Rena's magic bracelets, hook onto any surface to swing wherever you like, or grab your foes to send them hurtling into each other!
Why similar: Action 36%, Indie 25.8%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Platformer 17.1%, 2D 4.1%
- #29 HoPiKo
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 224 reviews2017
Dev: Laser DogPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
HoPiKo is an intense speed run platformer where you get to save gaming. Jump from platform to platform avoiding death, exploiting shortcuts and ripping through 100s of hand-crafted levels, each one dropped into a 5-stage mini run designed to break your mind!
Why similar: Platformer 27.9%, Action 25.5%, Casual 25.4%, Indie 21.3%
- #30 Chopper To Hell
77% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Destroyer Doggo
Windows · Mac
Chopper To Hell is a top down twin stick shooter, where big and large spiders are coming in via portals and your job is to kill them all.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #31 Canyon Capers
82% matchMixed45% of 1,899 reviews2014
Dev: CrazyMoo GamesPub: Sunset Sugar Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Canyon Capers is a retro style platform game brought right up to date, with tons of levels, modes, collectables and secrets.
Why similar: Casual 29.2%, Indie 26.5%, Action 22.2%, Platformer 22%
- #32 Plat4mer
75% matchPositive81% of 32 reviews2018
Dev: sky-coding
Windows
"climb. kill. survive." Plat4mer is a simple 2D action platformer. Use your character's skills to kill as many enemies as possible!
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #33 .fall
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 17 reviews2019
Dev: Susami
Windows
".fall" is an action game that jumps blocks so as not to fall down. Anyone can play with simple operation and enjoy it. Try for the highest score in the world.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #34 Circle Up
72% matchMixed60% of 35 reviews2020
Dev: EGAMERPub: SA Industry
Windows
Avoid obstacles on the way: cybers, portals, spikes and many more to test your skills. There are 50 levels and many bonus modes with exciting and tricky obstacles.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #35 Pyramid Raid
78% matchMixed60% of 159 reviews2015
Dev: Travian Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 31%
A unique combination of run n' jump and humor. Even death is fun in Pyramid Raid!
Why similar: Action 42.8%, Casual 21.9%, Indie 21.5%, Platformer 13.8%
- #36 Dangerous Skies 80's edition
75% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: TeamomegaPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Enter the world of Dangerous skies, a shoot em up inspired by the mythical space invaders, you will face ten fantastic levels in full 80s style.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #37 SKIMMERZ
76% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Harrison Went
Windows
Battle the enemy 3 rounds at a time in SKIMMERZ. Utilise game changing abilities to turn the tide and unlock each unique skimmer as you progress through colourful arena style maps.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #38 Steve's Pub - Soda on tap
74% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: gitcare
Windows
It's all about service! Welcome to your new job as a bartender! Steve's Pub is an amazing bartender simulator game for virtual reality with not too realistic physics and a lot of fun!
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #39 PHAT PHROG
76% matchMixed62% of 78 reviews2016
Dev: ColloseusXPub: Phat Phrog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Phat Phrog is an all new one of a kind free to play, physics based addictive arcade game that puts your reflexes and skills to the test (and also your patience).
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #40 WIN THE GAME!
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 383 reviews2018
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
WIN THE GAME! - is a hardcore game. Try to finish the game without spending your nerves.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #41 StarLightRiders: HyperJump
57% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: LunarCitySeven
Windows
StarLightRiders: HyperJump is a fast paced and frantic multiplayer arcade shoot em up. Protect the solar system from the alien invasion and stop them from eliminating all life on Earth! Take control of the powerful HyperJump ships and blast the hell out of everything that moves.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #42 Smash Party VR
73% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2016
Dev: Viacom NEXT
Windows
Smash Party is an intense, hilarious, and free VR party game being developed by Viacom NEXT and Titmouse for the HTC Vive. In Smash Party, players can smash a variety of familiar objects from toilets to plates to televisions, surrounded by a virtual crowd cheering their every move.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #43 Thunderbolt
73% matchMixed51% of 45 reviews2018
Dev: LillyWelland Inc.Pub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 35%
A stylish puzzle game where you play the role of something flying through the long corridors. The main task is to shoot down objects thereby collecting fuel, which very quickly ends. To avoid collisions with other figures and go to the coveted finish.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #44 10 seconds
71% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Zynk Software
Windows
Gather your friends and play this party, funny, fast paced game in order to see who is better at throwing stuff, eating, drinking or other common activities when the time is your worst enemy! To complete each task you have a maximum of... yeah... you guessed it... 10 seconds!
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #45 Tiger Fighter 1931 Sunset
70% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2019
Dev: TigerQiuQiu
Windows
This is a shoot em up game , In this game the player combats a large number of enemies by shooting at them, the game is set in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression,off the air of the North Eastern Province. Player control a fighter shoot down all the enemies r to win the game.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #46 Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary
72% matchVery Positive82% of 108 reviews2016
Dev: BBG Entertainment GmbH
Windows · Mac
Boulder Dash® - 30th Anniversary™ features classic retro-style gameplay with 220 exciting levels across 11 new, gorgeous and unique worlds, and 10 playable characters. The new level editor and Steam Workshop support offers potentially infinite replay with both user as well as community-created levels.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #47 All You Can Shoot
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antonio RuffoloPub: Carmine Francesco Aceto
Windows · Mac
All You Can Shoot is a 2D shooting arena game, where the player will be thrown into two (for now) levels.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #48 Oh Boy Cheese
69% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Ryan Bissonnette
Windows
Have some cheesy fun with two modes of cheesy madness. Try tojump onto scoreboard by collecting the cheese or just have some casual fun. Play one wacky mode, with trampolines, planes, presents and explosions. Whatever you choose it will be cheesetastic.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #49 The Princess is in Another Castle
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mihai Morosanu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Follow the touching story of a medieval knight that is having bad luck in finding its princess. A classic platform game where you will have to avoid dangers like bats, spikes etc.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #50 Quadra
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Witch Warlock Labs
Windows · Mac
Get good and get fast with Quadra, a high-speed match-3 game that will test your reflexes. Don't be a square, play Quadra!
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #51 Planet Protector VR
63% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: BigfootDS
Windows
Defend your city from alien invaders in this colorful virtual reality game! Aim, shoot, and protect your planet for as long as you can!
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #52 Ace Meerkats
69% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Catmoon Productions
Windows
Search and rescue your kidnapped meerkat brothers and sisters in this brand new classic arcade game! Your long journey through the wild will lead the way to your meerkat brothers and sisters. Escape from ugly monsters (or eliminate them all), climb the highest mountains and the deepest caves to win and find all of your lost mates.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #53 Space Struck Run
68% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Tormentor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Space Struck Run is a small game where you take control of Dectron The Cyborg, where you have to do your best to survive in outer space while the difficulty keeps rising.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #54 Bullet Dodge
70% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: QRA-CS
Windows
Dodge, block, or shoot. Whatever you do, survive. Use your amazing reflexes to dodge out of the way of an onslaught of bullets. Use your slow time ability to get the edge. Don’t get hit in the head or it’s game over.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #55 peakvox Route Candle for Steam
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: peakvoxPub: O-TWO inc.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Let's light a candle... it's the beginning of Sparky's great adventure! The Sparky's battlefield is the only 6 x 12 square lattices. Make an efficient route for Sparky in this new challenging puzzle.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #56 Gangsta Sniper
67% matchMixed55% of 78 reviews2018
Dev: Tero Lunkka
Windows
Thirdperson shooter and survival game, where player is gangsta criminal. Mission to rob and collect hidden money bags. Also avoid or kill different enemies like zombies, mutants and cyborg soldiers. Also use armored vehicle
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #57 Fat Foods
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Team 21 Studio
Windows
Having become too large from all the snacks, you must roll and eat your way to glory! Complete with a "same screen" multiplayer mode where one player is a giant, doing everything to keep the other player from reaching the finish.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #58 Brain Guzzler: The End Is Nigh
70% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2015
Dev: Flaming Pumpkin Ltd
Windows
Guzzle brains and keep the zombie conga alive! Brain Guzzler is an action packed classic where you take control of the zombie outbreak. Gobble up humans and add them to your Zombie chain, but remember don’t eat yourself, zombies taste bad!
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%
- #59 Wingless
68% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Kentoo Sp. z o.o.
Windows
It’s a snowball crafting, penguin mashing, dynamite throwing fun! Fend off waves of flightless birds in the name of gaining the ultimate skill - flight. Who deserves it more? Humans or wingless animals?
Why similar: Action 37.2%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.4%