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60+ indie games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Action, 2D, Adventure.

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  1. #1 DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
    98% matchVery Positive93% of 12,692 reviews2015
    Developer: Jesse Makkonen
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.0hMean: 4.3h≥1hr: 86%

    DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

  2. #2 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
    88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 386,504 reviews2014
    Developer: Nicalis, Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 43.4hMean: 182.3h≥1hr: 92%

    The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.

  3. #3 Turbo Pug DX
    88% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,834 reviews2016
    Developer: SnowFlamePublisher: Back To Basics Gaming
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.6hMean: 8.6h≥1hr: 82%

    Turbo Pug is back and better than ever! In Turbo Pug DX you'll explore a variety of beautiful, passionately crafted environments. Collect treasures, score boosters, unlock other creatures to play as. Unlock secret mini games. Create custom level skins or enjoy skins created by other players.

  4. #4 Hollow Knight
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 534,538 reviews2017
    Developer: Team Cherry
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 11.3hMean: 41.2h≥1hr: 87%

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

  5. #5 Tumblestone
    86% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,985 reviews2016
    Developer: Ty TaylorPublisher: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.7hMean: 10.0h≥1hr: 90%

    Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.

  6. #6 Hollow Knight: Silksong
    82% matchVery Positive89% of 400,178 reviews2025
    Developer: Team Cherry
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 35.1hMean: 45.2h≥1hr: 93%

    Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.

  7. #7 Hades
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 300,282 reviews2020
    Developer: Supergiant Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 16.0hMean: 37.8h≥1hr: 93%

    Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

  8. #8 Turbo Pug
    82% matchVery Positive90% of 3,354 reviews2015
    Developer: Space Cat StudiosPublisher: Back To Basics Gaming
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 5.3h≥1hr: 83%

    It's time to unleash your inner pug! Turbo Pug is a casual runner with difficult, random, procedurally generated levels. Enjoy random weather and try to avoid getting zapped by lightning. Unlock new costumes for your pug and new characters to play as. Please try not to squish your pug!

  9. #9 Papers, Please
    81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 78,508 reviews2013
    Developer: Lucas PopePublisher: 3909
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.3hMean: 10.2h≥1hr: 85%

    Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

  10. #10 Guns of Icarus Alliance
    81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,437 reviews2017
    Developer: Muse Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 42mMean: 15.5h≥1hr: 44%

    Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.

  11. #11 To the Moon
    79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 84,848 reviews2012
    Developer: Freebird Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.8hMean: 11.3h≥1hr: 79%

    A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.

  12. #12 Make it indie!
    80% matchMixed46% of 1,271 reviews2015
    Developer: Sometimes You
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.7hMean: 3.7h≥1hr: 78%

    Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.

  13. #13 Path Of Wuxia
    78% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,319 reviews2022
    Developer: 香港商河洛互動娛樂股份有限公司
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 9.7hMean: 28.1h≥1hr: 85%

    Path of Wuxia combines classic wuxia world and youthful school life with anime art style, features simulation gameplay well known by Heluo fans. Play as a young Xia who join the academy known as the Hermitic Pavilions of Xia, grow strong along with various schoolmates and seek your own path of Xia.

  14. #14 State of Anarchy
    78% matchVery Positive85% of 1,088 reviews2016
    Developer: LapovichPublisher: New Reality Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.2hMean: 4.8h≥1hr: 87%

    Simplistic top-down shooter that will put a smile on your face. Fulfill your inner sociopath as you mow down enemies with guns and cars alike, in a bid to pull off the world's largest heist!

  15. #15 Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1
    77% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2018
    Developer: Pavel KostinPublisher: HeroCraft PC
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6mMean: 23.5h≥1hr: 31%

    What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.

  16. #16 Undertale
    76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 318,586 reviews2015
    Developer: tobyfox
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.9hMean: 18.9h≥1hr: 81%

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

  17. #17 Palworld
    75% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
    Developer: Pocketpair
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 34.2hMean: 70.0h≥1hr: 97%

    Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

  18. #18 Celeste
    75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,420 reviews2018
    Developer: Maddy Makes Games Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.8hMean: 26.1h≥1hr: 81%

    Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

  19. #19 Dead Bits
    76% matchMixed60% of 8,523 reviews2014
    Developer: Microblast GamesPublisher: SA Industry
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.4hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 92%

    Quilly was abducted by aliens, now, he has to fight for his freedom! Destroy cube aliens with guns, bats and inteligence... avoid traps and more. Dead Bits is a first-person shooter with original dubstep soundtrack for Windows and Mac.

  20. #20 Skul: The Hero Slayer
    75% matchVery Positive93% of 56,905 reviews2021
    Developer: SOUTHPAW GAMESPublisher: NEOWIZ
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.9hMean: 23.2h≥1hr: 85%

    Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.

  21. #21 Spikit
    75% matchVery Positive80% of 435 reviews2016
    Developer: Blastoid EntertainmentPublisher: Back To Basics Gaming
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.0hMean: 3.5h≥1hr: 88%

    Spikit is a bullet hell game developed by a single developer, Igor Petrović. With a soundtrack composed by Dario Malešević. In this game, the player will have to dodge a constant barrage of spikes coming from the side of the screen.

  22. #22 Vampire Survivors
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 260,765 reviews2022
    Developer: poncle
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 19.1hMean: 39.7h≥1hr: 95%

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

  23. #23 The Binding of Isaac
    74% matchVery Positive95% of 62,009 reviews2011
    Developer: Edmund McMillen
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.0hMean: 28.0h≥1hr: 85%

    Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!

  24. #24 妄想破绽 Broken Delusion
    74% matchMixed60% of 4,043 reviews2019
    Publisher: bilibili
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 32.5h≥1hr: 70%

    《妄想破绽》是一款文字冒险(AVG)游戏,数十万字精彩原创剧情,将带给大家一段近未来架空科技都市的幻想冒险体验。游戏中,玩家将扮演普通高中生与顶级黑客的双重身份。有一天“我”抱着玩笑心理在网络上虚构了一个不存在的假人,不料却因此带来了惊天巨变……

  25. #25 AI: Rampage
    75% matchMostly Negative39% of 541 reviews2016
    Developer: Sekerin ProductionsPublisher: New Reality Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 5.3h≥1hr: 89%

    Fight against the robots and reclaim the land! Attempt to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where it seems like everything wants you dead! Tactical stealth action in a post-apocalyptic settings!

  26. #26 Broken Dreams
    74% matchMixed70% of 486 reviews2016
    Developer: Mihai MorosanuPublisher: New Reality Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.5hMean: 5.0h≥1hr: 92%

    A darkly-enticing story about unrequited love; Broken Dreams is a casual platforming game featuring full voice-acting, beautiful hand-drawn environments and a twist on the original platforming mechanic!

  27. #27 Project Starship
    74% matchVery Positive81% of 466 reviews2016
    Developer: Panda Indie Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.4hMean: 4.1h≥1hr: 92%

    Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?

  28. #28 LIMBO
    73% matchVery Positive92% of 60,454 reviews2011
    Developer: Playdead
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.6hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 73%

    Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

  29. #29 Heaven Island Life
    73% matchMixed60% of 796 reviews2016
    Developer: Fabio FerraraPublisher: Chubby Pixel
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 7.2h≥1hr: 92%

    "Heaven Island VIVE" is an experience designed for the HTC Vive in which you'll explore wonderful places. The inspiration for the environments comes from the book "Origins of Architectural Pleasure" in which the welfare is of primary importance. The game requires the HTC Vive device.

  30. #30 The Tower Of Elements
    73% matchMixed59% of 358 reviews2015
    Developer: Wulo GamesPublisher: Back To Basics Gaming
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.4hMean: 4.0h≥1hr: 90%

    Master the magic of Elements. Defend your tower against sneaky goblins using magic attacks. Upgrade the Tower to earn more mana points and Gems! Compare with your friends in versus mode or fight together in coop mode. Try to become the best on the Steam leaderboards and collect all the Achievements!

  31. #31 GRIS
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 93,692 reviews2018
    Developer: Nomada StudioPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.4hMean: 7.5h≥1hr: 78%

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

  32. #32 Don't Starve
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
    Developer: Klei Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.2hMean: 28.2h≥1hr: 82%

    Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

  33. #33 The Plan
    71% matchVery Positive92% of 23,443 reviews2014
    Developer: Krillbite Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 12mMean: 2.4h≥1hr: 5%

    A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.

  34. #34 Magma Tsunami
    72% matchMixed65% of 321 reviews2016
    Developer: StrangeLight Games
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 6.6hMean: 7.0h≥1hr: 98%

    Magma Tsunami is a frenzied arcade platformer game. Beat your records in 1P or Co-op mode, and don't get caught by the Magma Tsunami!!! Could you stay alive for more than one minute??

  35. #35 AVICII Invector
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,364 reviews2019
    Developer: Hello There Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 8.2h≥1hr: 89%

    Soar through vocal melodies, sweep each fade and attack every beat in 25 of AVICII’s biggest hits, in this enthralling futuristic rhythm-action experience – AVICII Invector.

  36. #36 Once in Yaissor
    71% matchVery Positive85% of 1,264 reviews2016
    Developer: Valera Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.2hMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 91%

    Summer, 2020, Ya'issor. Most people have become youtubers, streamers, and other scum, and almost no one wants to be a working bum. Nobody has an opinion of their own. Everyone thinks they are nihilists, atheists, reading intellectuals, and other elites.

  37. #37 Atonement: Scourge of Time
    71% matchMixed69% of 398 reviews2015
    Developer: Astronomic GamesPublisher: New Reality Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 96%

    The last king was killed over 400 years ago and the global rule of the land ceased to exist. The Vindicator is coming. ~a decadent, dark fantasy world with a new take on the concepts of Angels and Demons!

  38. #38 A Detective's Novel
    71% matchMixed68% of 890 reviews2016
    Developer: Amaterasu Software
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.6hMean: 7.9h≥1hr: 96%

    On a cold November night in a desolate estate deep in the mountains an innocent life has prematurely perished and its up to the player to find out who did it.

  39. #39 Cuphead
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 206,677 reviews2017
    Developer: Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 7.1hMean: 23.1h≥1hr: 89%

    Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.

  40. #40 Firework
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 43,818 reviews2021
    Developer: Shiying StudioPublisher: Gamirror Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.6hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 85%

    An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

  41. #41 Game Dev Tycoon
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,663 reviews2013
    Developer: Greenheart Games 💚
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 8.0hMean: 15.4h≥1hr: 94%

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

  42. #42 Helltaker
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 126,940 reviews2020
    Developer: vanripper
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.4hMean: 18.5h≥1hr: 64%

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

  43. #43 Megabonk
    68% matchVery Positive95% of 99,563 reviews2025
    Developer: vedinad
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 15.7hMean: 29.9h≥1hr: 95%

    Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!

  44. #44 Another Adventure
    70% matchVery Positive91% of 4,339 reviews2017
    Developer: ThankCreate Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.2hMean: 1.7h≥1hr: 76%

    Just another stupid adventure game

  45. #45 Lup
    71% matchMixed45% of 387 reviews2016
    Developer: Leo BPublisher: Back To Basics Gaming
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 3.8h≥1hr: 91%

    Lup is a 2D platformer with heart, throughout the game you'll have to overcome enemies and challenges using weapons and items.

  46. #46 Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
    69% matchVery Positive88% of 87,654 reviews2018
    Developer: Landfall
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.1hMean: 8.8h≥1hr: 52%

    Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.

  47. #47 Hotline Miami
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 121,152 reviews2012
    Developer: Dennaton GamesPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.4hMean: 10.4h≥1hr: 86%

    Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

  48. #48 OMORI
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 85,929 reviews2020
    Developer: OMOCAT, LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 10.9hMean: 24.5h≥1hr: 84%

    Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

  49. #49 旅燕归航 Swallow Homing
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 842 reviews2019
    Developer: 吃了就睡工作室
    Platforms: Windows

    Space opera is a love letter written by humans to the stars.

  50. #50 POLYWAR
    70% matchMostly Positive71% of 519 reviews2016
    Developer: exagongamesPublisher: New Reality Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 3.5h≥1hr: 85%

    A fast paced multiplayer FPS game that focuses on creative weapons and game mechanics that reward skillful killing!

  51. #51 Goose Goose Duck
    68% matchVery Positive87% of 79,400 reviews2021
    Developer: Gaggle Studios, Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.2hMean: 22.0h≥1hr: 75%

    Goose Goose Duck is a game of social deduction for up to 16 players. Players are separated into different groups that are each assigned a different objective. Complete your team’s objective to win!

  52. #52 Minimalism
    69% matchMixed67% of 3,936 reviews2017
    Developer: PixelMouse
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.5hMean: 9.2h≥1hr: 82%

    Minimalism - platformer with a lot of levels, made in minimalist style - which is a cube protogonist. The game is a kind of labyrinth consisting of levels, to go between them you need to open the doors with collected keys.

  53. #53 Pressured
    70% matchMixed48% of 558 reviews2014
    Developer: Paul MarrablePublisher: Funbox Media Ltd
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.4hMean: 2.9h≥1hr: 73%

    Pressured is a unique and intense number puzzler. Hit your targets to unlock pieces of the dark story, all told via the poetry of Nicholas Gordon. Created by Paul Marrable With music from Matt Mcfarland.

  54. #54 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 147,242 reviews2021
    Developer: Landfall
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.2hMean: 20.0h≥1hr: 80%

    Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

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