- #1 Spud's Quest
96% matchPositive81% of 32 reviews2014
Dev: Mouldy Toof StudiosPub: Clickteam
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Spud's Quest is an adventure game that draws its inspiration from the classic games of old, most notably the Dizzy, Zelda, and Metroid series. Help Spud and his friend Prince Charming on a journey to uncover four ancient elemental essences that have the power to remove a curse upon the royal family.
Why similar: Adventure 40.3%, Action 36.4%, Indie 23.3%
- #2 Beyond Dimensions
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 reviews2016
Dev: Cool Frogs Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Beyond Dimensions is a quirky action-adventure roguelike shooter.Adapt your playstyle to the randomized spells, evolutions, and levels, to obtain multiple levels.Customize your play session with different game modes, classes, and skills.
Why similar: Action 39.2%, Adventure 36.8%, Indie 24%
- #3 Fractal
94% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Phosphene Designs LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Fractal brings first-person real-time combat to beautiful stylized VR vistas. Enter a dazzling dimension where color is the lifeblood of all beings. Wielding a mysterious brush, you are granted the power to reshape the world and fate of its denizens.
Why similar: Action 38.5%, Adventure 37.9%, Indie 23.6%
- #4 Lost in a Forest
94% matchMixed50% of 88 reviews2015
Dev: Konsordo
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This game is a parody of horror games, rather than running and hiding from the monster you are now able to fight back!
Why similar: Action 38.7%, Adventure 36.5%, Indie 24.8%
- #5 Nano Project
93% matchMixed53% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Summer Media
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
You are the member of special detachment for bio weapons elimination. The main character separated from detachment that after some time is taken unawares and dismantled. The main character alone tries to destroy bio weapons called Nano Project that improves all human abilities and makes him insensible to get the perfect strike force.
Why similar: Action 39.4%, Adventure 36.5%, Indie 24.2%
- #6 SEAL Team 12
92% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2015
Dev: Social Loner Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
When evil lurks on the horizon, you need the best. You need the strongest. You need SEAL Team 12! As a member of SEAL Team 12, you must battle through massive enemy waves and break the enemies spine with the force of truth, justice and explosions!
Why similar: Action 40.3%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 23.6%
- #7 Holobunnies: Pause Cafe
91% 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: Action 38.8%, Adventure 38.2%, Indie 23.1%
- #8 Zombie Waiting
91% matchMixed58% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: Zombie Developer
Windows
Many years ago people and trolls had lived with peace in the world. Until the zombie virus spreads...
Why similar: Zombies 28%, Action 24.6%, Adventure 24.3%, Indie 23.1%
- #9 Corridor Z
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 476 reviews2018
Dev: Mass CreationPub: We Dig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Be quick or be undead! Ordinary high school, zombie outbreak and the bunch of survivors in a run for life.
Why similar: Action 33.1%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 19.7%, Zombies 17.4%
- #10 Goo Saga
90% 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 38.5%, Action 37.4%, Indie 24%
- #11 Light Fall
89% matchVery Positive86% of 137 reviews2018
Dev: Bishop Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Craft your path in this innovative 2D platformer. Master the use of your own platform to explore the Forgotten World of Numbra and save the land and its inhabitants from an imminent threat. Do you have what it takes to survive in perilous Numbra?
Why similar: Action 38%, Adventure 37.4%, Indie 24.7%
- #12 Welkin Road
87% 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 38.9%, Action 37.8%, Indie 23.2%
- #13 prog.1
86% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2016
Dev: Vector ArcadePub: Groupees Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Play as an anthropomorphic computer virus in prog.1, a thrilling 2D puzzle platformer set in a sci-fi world where scientists work feverishly to build the first fully artificial universe.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #14 Zombie World Coronavirus Apocalypse VR
84% matchMostly Negative39% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Smartmove
Windows
Welcome to the world of the apocalyptic future, where in the laboratories the best scientists tried to create a cure for all known diseases, but the test led to terrible consequences that you will have to find out!
Why similar: Action 36.4%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 22.4%, Zombies 5.6%
- #15 Terrarium Land
86% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Layer games
Windows · Linux
Do explore the world`s levels, find secret places, unique artifacts and bonuses. In the Terrarium Land world, destroy enemies and solve the puzzles in different levels. This colorful 3D arcade game has tons of adventure in store for you. Let it begin!
Why similar: Action 38.9%, Adventure 37.2%, Indie 23.9%
- #16 Mystery Castle
85% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: Runestone Games Limited
Windows · Mac
A retro-inspired masterpiece, Mystery Castle is the one puzzle game that will rule them all!
Why similar: Action 37.6%, Adventure 37.1%, Indie 25.3%
- #17 Memoir En Code: Reissue
84% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Kalopsia GamesPub: N/A
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Memoir En Code: Reissue is an autobiographical game album. Designed to be experienced similarly to a music album, this short experimental game explores different bits of the author's life as a series of interactive tracks.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #18 FIGHTING SPACE
83% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: Apology Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Featuring carefully curated 256 color palette sprites, a smashing retro soundtrack and intense action, FIGHTING SPACE brings back the glorious days of yesteryear DOS gaming – back when red meat, 33.6k modems and colossal 19 inch CRT displays where cream of the crop!
Why similar: Action 63%, Indie 37%
- #19 Bedlamball
81% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Evan PeiperlPub: Solidplasma Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Bedlamball is a goal scoring game where you change the rules as you play!
- #20 Parasite
82% 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 38.9%, Action 37.8%, Indie 23.2%
- #21 Flute Master
81% matchPositive90% of 31 reviews2016
Dev: Classplash
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Learn how to play recorder step by step with music tracks specifically composed for music education! 🎶 The notes you play are detected over your computer's microphone, so that you can help Cornelius the dragon protect his tower of strawberries from the greedy bats. 😉 Have fun!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #22 Sharpe Investigations: Death on the Seine
82% matchMixed48% of 23 reviews2014
Dev: Icarus GamesPub: Libredia Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Journalist-turned-food critic Taryn Sharpe and her assistant/photographer George Haske are sent on assignment to France to cover the opening of Paris' hottest new restaurant, Le Roi Soleil.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #23 Cyber Complex
79% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: PolarityFlow, Adrian ZinggPub: PolarityFlow
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Cyber Complex is a unique mix of Action, Strategy and Arcade elements in a 60s-style Sci-Fi setting.
Why similar: Action 45.3%, Adventure 32%, Indie 22.7%
- #24 The Hole Story
80% matchMixed57% of 21 reviews2015
Dev: LearnDistrict Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 98%
A girl aided by her trusty shovel embarks on a riddling quest to find a missing princess. Girls Make Games 2014 Grand Prize Winner!
Why similar: Adventure 61.6%, Indie 38.4%
- #25 Super Stone Legacy
78% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Garden Shed Studios
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Super Stone Legacy is a hack n' slash action RPG that is fast, flashy and exciting to play. Dash at enemies, dodge fireballs and unleash huge "SUPER" attacks! Fight through an ever changing dungeon as the forces of evil grow more powerful with each room, or invite some friends over for couch co-op!
Why similar: Action 38.7%, Adventure 36.6%, Indie 24.7%
- #26 Gemstone Keeper
78% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Gamepopper
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Gemstone Keeper is a twin stick shooter where avid explorers go down into the Cistershire Caverns, a large, dangerous and mysterious set of caves and caverns that are filled with vast amounts of rare and valuable gemstones.
Why similar: Action 36.7%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 27.1%
- #27 Don't Move
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STVR
Windows · Mac · Linux
Don't Move is an experimental puzzle platformer with a focus on ludonarrative dissonance and player investment manipulation.
Why similar: Action 41%, Adventure 37%, Indie 22%
- #28 Revenge of the Spirit: Rite of Resurrection
77% matchMixed40% of 15 reviews2016
Dev: Absolutist Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
How far will you go to return your one and the only? Can you cheat death? Save the residents of a remote town where you ended up chance before the ancient evil takes up your soul in this creepy hidden object game.
Why similar: Adventure 79.7%, Indie 20.3%
- #29 PLUTONIUM
77% matchMixed45% of 192 reviews2017
Dev: Ch.ZBK
Windows
PLUTONIUM: Distorted Shelter is a 2D adventure game about a major event that took place in a highly developed city state called Plutonium.
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 36.5%, Indie 24.4%
- #30 Mini's Magic World
76% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: Magory.net
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Mini's Magic World is an action platformer with a diverse cast of characters and levels to explore. Fight bosses, find hidden treasures, follow the rhythm of music, chase or be chased.
Why similar: Action 38.5%, Adventure 37.9%, Indie 23.6%
- #31 Blowhards
76% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Babloon Studios
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Blowhards is a long range multiplayer fighting game, with king of the hill style gameplay. The characters are colourful, the music is fun, and the chaoticness is hilarious!
Why similar: Action 68.1%, Indie 31.9%
- #32 Holobunnies: The Bittersweet Adventure
65% 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 39.4%, Action 38.2%, Indie 22.4%
- #33 SodaCity
75% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2015
Dev: Tochas Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
SodaCity is an action, fast paced game, with hybrid beat/shoot ‘em up gameplay.
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%
- #34 DOGOS
74% matchMixed67% of 66 reviews2016
Dev: OPQAMPub: INTERNET URL S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
DOGOS innovates the classic shmup gameplay incorporating 3D graphics, dynamic camera, and the ability to move through scenarios as if it were an open world. If you like fast-paced, thrilling videogames, then DOGOS is just for you.
Why similar: Action 62%, Indie 38%
- #35 Spaceforce Rogue Universe HD
75% matchMixed58% of 53 reviews2015
Dev: Dreamatrix
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 100%
Spaceforce Rogue Universe HD is an action RPG space simulation game, with emphasis on key elements such as ship development, exploration of an immersive universe and freedom of choice. After the pilot leaves the starting zone, Spaceforce opens an almost unlimited space for exploration.
- #36 Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Obsessive Science Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
When the Golden Sneeze is stolen from the Museum of Ancient History, it’s up to you, Detective Hank, to catch the thief. That will not be easy, as the culprit changes every new game. Puzzle your way through this steampunk themed, interactive whodunnit visual novel and bring the thief to justice!
Why similar: Adventure 60.2%, Indie 39.8%
- #37 Super Navecitas 2
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZYX Studio
Windows
This video game is a space shooter in which all the elements are made in cardboard. The game tells the story of Cafard a Martian cockroach on his journey to Silcon Valley where the fate of his race and humanity will be decided.
Why similar: Action 40.8%, Adventure 36.5%, Indie 22.8%
- #38 Myths Of Orion: Books of Power
73% matchVery Positive83% of 59 reviews2014
Dev: Cateia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Use your sharp eye and brave heart to stop a dark wizard in Myths of Orion — a richly illustrated Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #39 Mortido
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BigGame StudioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
This is an action-adventure game, the story about sinful soul in search of redemption. Your whole purpose is to redeem yourself by saving souls of people whose lives you ones ruined.
Why similar: Action 40.7%, Adventure 36.6%, Indie 22.8%
- #40 FreezeME
73% matchMixed64% of 78 reviews2015
Dev: Rainy Night Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
FreezeME is a A 3D platformer in the style of the 90s-era but wait there is a twist! The main character “R” has one special tool – a camera around her neck. This camera allows her to literally freeze the objects she photographs.
Why similar: Action 39.6%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 24.3%
- #41 Wanderer of Teandria
71% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: Silentplaygames
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Wanderer of Teandria is challenging 2D platform game inspired by classic representatives of the genre. Find crystals and fragments of the map, avoid enemies and traps, and defeat giant bosses to succeed on the way to your destiny!
Why similar: Action 38%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #42 The Legend of Excalipurr
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wisp Entertainment
Windows
With magical cats as your weapons, you will never fight alone!
Why similar: Action 41.5%, Adventure 36%, Indie 22.4%
- #43 Combat Racers
72% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: The Major Game Company
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A hectic, fast-paced car combat game for up to four players. Drive your own customized car to outmaneuver and outgun your opponents. Quick reactions are essential as one wrong move can be the difference between winning and becoming a smoking wreck.
Why similar: Action 64%, Indie 36%
- #44 Bathory - The Bloody Countess
71% matchMixed67% of 58 reviews2016
Dev: Absolutist Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Stop the blood rite before something darker than the myth itself comes to live in Bathory: The Bloody Countess, a haunted hidden object adventure game.
Why similar: Adventure 80%, Indie 20%
- #45 Squareboy vs Bullies: Arena Edition
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 37 reviews2017
Dev: Rohan NarangPub: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows
Squareboy vs Bullies is an old school beat 'em up by Rohan Narang that follows the titular Squareboy and his quest for Justice!
Why similar: Action 40.3%, Adventure 38%, Indie 21.7%
- #46 Secret Of The Royal Throne
72% matchNegative12% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: Apar GamesPub: Libredia
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Hidden object adventure set in mystical India discovering the ancient secrets.
- #47 Werther Quest
70% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Blueberry StudioPub: HCP Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Werther Quest is a fairy tale style puzzle adventure game. In the game, players will take on the role of a little tree frog named Werther and begin a magical adventure in a miniature world. This game covers the first part of a trilogy.
Why similar: Action 39.1%, Adventure 36.9%, Indie 24%
- #48 Mystery Maze Of Balthasar Castle
71% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2015
Dev: Caipirinha GamesPub: Libredia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Friends always manage, because they stick together, no matter what.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #49 Flatspace IIk
69% matchMixed67% of 27 reviews2017
Dev: Cornutopia Software
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Flatspace IIk is a top-down space trading game with the emphasis on free exploration. In Flatspace, you choose your profession and are given a small spaceship with a scattering of random weapons, then you are free to earn a living, explore, hunt, trade, grow; upgrading your ship and equipment.
Why similar: Action 40%, Adventure 38.3%, Indie 21.7%
- #50 FIREWORK
66% matchPositive93% of 44 reviews2018
Dev: Ivan Zanotti's MyMadnessWorks
Windows
Follow Yan the Defective One through his fight against the Fire Troops and let him unveil the Facility's mystery in this action platformer.
Why similar: Action 39.5%, Adventure 37.7%, Indie 22.8%
- #51 Gladiator: Blades of Fury
67% match9 user reviews33% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Yash Future Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
Windows
Gladiator: Blades of Fury is a melee combat action fighting game set during the medieval period. Players can play as a gladiator from four different clans, namely the Barbarians, the Assassins, the Knights, and the Dwarves. All heroes are unique and have their own weapons, skills, and fighting styles.
Why similar: Action 40%, Adventure 37.6%, Indie 22.4%
- #52 Spectrum: First Light
70% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2015
Dev: Mido Basim
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
It's the comic book platformer you have been waiting for! Phase between colors to solve puzzles and uncover the story of Tadashi and Saki. Inspired by the classic game Comix Zone™.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Lapya
67% matchMixed50% of 28 reviews2019
Dev: Team MetroshockPub: Ahlman Game Studio
Windows
In a ruined world where people and robots have retreated to the underground, Lapya has a mission - to keep their sun shining.
Why similar: Action 41.8%, Adventure 36.4%, Indie 21.7%
- #54 C15
66% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: aDeCon Production
Windows
This is a simple horror game, with an additional cooperative mode and an easy story about a scientist and his experiment on the brain.
Why similar: Action 38.9%, Adventure 38.3%, Indie 22.8%
- #55 Virus Z
68% matchMixed56% of 66 reviews2017
Dev: Falco Software
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 34%
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 41%, Adventure 37%, Indie 22%