Top Kickstarter Games
60+ kickstarter games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Indie, Adventure, Crowdfunded.
Recommended Kickstarter Games

The Banner Saga
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Broken Age
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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- #1 The Banner Saga98% matchVery Positive89% of 15,850 reviews2014Developer: StoicPublisher: Stoic StudioPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 4.2hMean: 8.9h≥1hr: 85%
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
- #2 Broken Age98% matchVery Positive84% of 8,134 reviews2014Developer: Double Fine ProductionsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 4.0hMean: 8.2h≥1hr: 91%
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
- #3 Yooka-Laylee98% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,364 reviews2017Developer: Playtonic GamesPublisher: Playtonic FriendsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 4.0hMean: 23.0h≥1hr: 84%
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
- #4 Tales of the Neon Sea98% matchVery Positive86% of 4,825 reviews2019Developer: YiTi GamesPublisher: Thermite GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 2.5hMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 62%
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
- #5 Mighty No. 998% matchMixed50% of 3,407 reviews2016Developer: ComceptPublisher: Deep SilverPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.6hMean: 5.1h≥1hr: 84%
Mighty No. 9 is a 2D Side-scrolling Action game that takes the best elements from 8 and 16-bit classics that you know and love and transforms them with modern tech, fresh mechanics, and fan input into something fresh and amazing!
- #6 Street Legal Racing: Redline v2.3.196% matchVery Positive89% of 4,097 reviews2016Developer: Invictus Games Ltd.Publisher: Activision Value Publishing Inc.Platforms: WindowsMedian: 3.5hMean: 11.6h≥1hr: 93%
The most popular vehicle mechanic simulator in the world got a second life in the new Steam version! Build cars, tune them, crash, repair and race against other racers!
- #7 Wasteland 2: Director's Cut96% matchVery Positive83% of 8,092 reviews2014Developer: inXile EntertainmentPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 14.4hMean: 22.4h≥1hr: 90%
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
- #8 The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed94% matchVery Positive83% of 1,520 reviews2016Developer: Cloudhead Games Ltd.Platforms: WindowsMedian: 1.2hMean: 1.9h≥1hr: 53%
Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.
- #9 Lords of Xulima86% matchVery Positive81% of 1,252 reviews2014Developer: Numantian GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 8.7hMean: 23.0h≥1hr: 86%
Lords of Xulima is a challenging Role-playing game set on the mythical continent of Xulima, where Gods and humans once walked side by side. Experience a genuine RPG featuring over 100 hours of gameplay, and discover one of the most epic sagas ever told.
- #10 Foolish Mortals82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 526 reviews2025Developer: Inklingwood StudiosPlatforms: Windows, Mac
Louisiana, 1933. Thirty years ago an entire wedding suddenly & mysteriously vanished on the island of Devil's Rock, and with it went the location of the lost treasure of Bellemore Manor. To find it, you might need to die too. A cozy, story-driven, point & click adventure game of the merry & macabre.
- #11 MASSIVE CHALICE83% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,892 reviews2015Developer: Double Fine ProductionsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.0hMean: 5.1h≥1hr: 84%
MASSIVE CHALICE is a tactical strategy game set on an epic timeline from Double Fine Productions. As the Immortal Ruler of the nation, you'll take command of its heroes, forge heroic marriages to strengthen your Bloodlines, and battle a mysterious enemy known as the Cadence in a 300 year war.
- #12 The Dwarves82% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,072 reviews2016Developer: KING ArtPublisher: THQ NordicPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 1.4hMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 54%
A few heroes are facing hundreds of foes – are you even able to lead the coolest fantasy people to victory against the dark hordes? Explore a vast world, fight tactical real-time battles, and experience the fantastic story based on the bestseller "The Dwarves".
- #13 Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star- HD79% matchVery Positive94% of 382 reviews2017Developer: FavoritePublisher: Sekai ProjectPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 5.1hMean: 21.6h≥1hr: 83%
A Japanese love adventure game, as you follow the story of Kogasaka You, his hometown and a promise he made.
- #14 CLANNAD Side Stories77% matchVery Positive88% of 397 reviews2016Developer: VisualArts/KeyPublisher: Sekai ProjectPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 1.5hMean: 156.6h≥1hr: 54%
Delve further into the world of CLANNAD and experience the stories beyond the original visual novel adventure. Known as CLANNAD Hikari Mimamoru Sakamichi de in Japan, This Steam version features high resolution assets and is translated into English for the very first time.
- #15 Adventures of Pip77% matchVery Positive87% of 275 reviews2015Developer: Tic Toc GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 1.2hMean: 3.8h≥1hr: 52%
Play as the ultimate digital underdog in the Adventures of Pip,an action-platformer with a fresh gameplay twist inside a retro 32-bit world. Alas, Pip is an unlikely 1-pixel hero yet has the unique ability to absorb the pixels of his defeated enemies to evolve into three different forms.
- #16 Battle Worlds: Kronos77% matchMixed67% of 323 reviews2013Developer: KING ArtPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 5.1hMean: 7.5h≥1hr: 88%
Battle Worlds: Kronos is a classic turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle, Advance Wars and Panzer General. Have you ever wondered what games like that would look like today? Well, we did. As a result, we decided to develope Battle Worlds: Kronos.
- #17 TOKYO CHRONOS72% matchVery Positive87% of 336 reviews2019Developer: MyDearest Inc.Publisher: Sekai ProjectPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.0hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 78%
TOKYO CHRONOS is the VR game that has multiple-choice decision points as well as more than one ending. The game takes place in Shibuya, Tokyo, which has only eight people, including you, the protagonist, Kyosuke Sakurai. Why are they there?
- #18 Shenmue III72% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,392 reviews2020Developer: YS NETPublisher: ININPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 54mMean: 13.8h≥1hr: 46%
Shenmue III sees the eagerly anticipated continuation of the epic story-driven saga. Take control of Ryo Hazuki, a teenage martial artist, determined to unravel the mystery behind his father's murder and to exact revenge on the killer.
- #19 Memory's Dogma CODE:0172% matchMostly Positive78% of 371 reviews2016Developer: Liz-ArtsPublisher: Sekai ProjectPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 6.9hMean: 18.2h≥1hr: 95%
Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased. With only one week left before his best friend’s memories are deleted, can Hiroki uncover the truth behind Sorano’s death?
- #20 Chuck's Challenge 3D 202072% matchVery Positive85% of 215 reviews2014Developer: Niffler Ltd.Platforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 1.5hMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 66%
From the veteran puzzle designer behind the classic game Chip's Challenge, comes Chuck’s Challenge 3D 2020, a fiendishly addictive game that’s packed with features that will tease the brain and challenge the fingers.
- #21 Dragon Fin Soup72% matchMixed57% of 294 reviews2015Developer: Grimm Bros, LLCPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 24mMean: 5.0h≥1hr: 37%
Dragon Fin Soup seamlessly blends genres to create a fresh experience: half story-driven tactical RPG and half high-stakes roguelike, with a pinch of crass humor and a heaping helping of murder & madness set in a procedurally generated fantasy world.
- #22 Jagged Alliance Flashback72% matchMixed47% of 775 reviews2014Developer: Full ControlPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.9hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 93%
Jagged Alliance Flashback brings back the true spirit of this legendary series: Turn-based tactics meets crazy mercenary personalities and intense battles. Manage your squad of unique mercenaries, secure your income and take back the island - sector by sector, turn by turn.
- #23 Arcana Heart 3 LOVEMAX SIXSTARS!!!!!! XTEND70% matchVery Positive85% of 421 reviews2017Developer: Team ArcanaPublisher: Arc System WorksPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 1.2hMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 55%
New playable character "Minori Amanohara" and new Arcana "Ichor" the Blood joins the battle in "Arcana Heart 3 LOVEMAX SIXSTARS!!!!!!"! More new characters to join in future updates!
- #24 WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.0270% matchVery Positive95% of 249 reviews2015Developer: Spicy TailsPublisher: Sekai ProjectPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.6hMean: 8.2h≥1hr: 96%
From the creator of Spice and Wolf, Isuna Hasekura, comes World End Economica. Haru woke up with his life but without his dream. 4 years after the incident, he finds a new cause, as a driven young lady offers him a chance to return to investing and to find justice.
- #25 Guard Duty68% matchVery Positive91% of 257 reviews2019Developer: Headware GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Guard Duty is a comedy adventure about love, loss and the end of the world. Experience an unforgettable story spanning across two radically different time periods.
- #26 Dwarrows68% matchMostly Positive77% of 134 reviews2020Developer: Lithic Entertainment Inc.Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
A peaceful 3rd person adventure and town-building game. Gather, build, puzzle, explore, and quest in a beautifully handcrafted world.
- #27 Legend of the 9 Swords: Side Story67% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2019Developer: Christopher RodriguesPublisher: Sunstar Gaming ProductionsPlatforms: Windows
Legend of the 9 Swords: Side Story is a 2-Dimensional illustrated narrative role-playing game that is hand animated to give every hero and enemy there own style and feel.
- #28 Mister Versatile: A Gay Superhero Visual Novel66% matchVery Positive89% of 139 reviews2020Developer: Y Press GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
A gay superhero visual novel! The Lone Wolf Mister Versatile thinks super teams are a pain in the ass, but four super-hotties have decided they want to watch his back anyway! Date a villain, a rookie, a symbiote, and a superman-ish alien. Loaded with explicit CGs.
- #29 Morningdew Farms: A Gay Farming Game65% matchVery Positive83% of 139 reviews2019Developer: Y Press GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Sweet southern boy Cody always dreamed of living off the land. Now he's taken over his granddaddy's farm and can begin a wonderful new life in the village of Morningdew--a notorious Gayborhood! Loaded with interactive farming and sizzling gay romance!
- #30 Shadows of Adam65% matchVery Positive90% of 260 reviews2017Developer: Something Classic Games LLCPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.3hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 82%
Gorgeous pixel art. Intense, blazing fast battles. An epic adventure. This is the must-play retro indie JRPG built for the modern era.
- #31 Adventurezator: When Pigs Fly65% matchMostly Positive70% of 105 reviews2015Developer: Pigasus GamesPublisher: DegicaPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 2.0hMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 95%
The Adventurezator is an emergent adventure game about creating emergent adventure games! When Pigs Fly is our adventure campaign of courage, intrigue, and betrayal (and dumbness) - created using the Adventurezator itself!
- #32 A Clockwork Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk63% matchVery Positive92% of 83 reviews2017Developer: Unison Shift: BlossomPublisher: Sekai ProjectPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.5hMean: 11.7h≥1hr: 85%
In a mysterious school where day and night are two separate worlds, a mismatched trio work to resolve magic-related incidents. A world of magic, intrigue, mystery and the occult awaits you!
- #33 Shining Song Starnova62% matchVery Positive95% of 340 reviews2018Developer: Love in SpacePublisher: Sekai ProjectPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 5.9hMean: 9.8h≥1hr: 87%
Take the stage in Shining Song Starnova!
- #34 Clumsy Fred64% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2017Developer: BeshevGamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Meet Fred, a good and honest guy. Fred only ever wanted to get to the finish without falling down.
- #35 A Rite from the Stars62% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2018Developer: Risin' GoatPublisher: Phoenix Online PublishingPlatforms: Windows, Mac
A Rite from the Stars is a 3D point & click adventure game that poses an incredibly terrifying challenge to Kirm, its protagonist: becoming an adult! To achieve this goal, he will have to master three paths: Wisdom, Courage and Spirit. Each one featuring different mechanics, characters and story.
- #36 Cellyon: Boss Confrontation61% matchVery Positive81% of 58 reviews2022Developer: Sentry GamesPlatforms: Windows
Cellyon: Boss Confrontation is a 100% Bossfight, 0% Farming cooperative game, inspired by MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy 14 or Starwars the Old Republic. By teams of 4 or in solo, come and try the experience now!
- #37 Moebius: Empire Rising63% matchMostly Positive75% of 331 reviews2014Developer: Phoenix Online StudiosPublisher: Phoenix Online PublishingPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 5.0hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 97%
Moebius: Empire Rising is a contemporary adventure that merges classic point-and-click puzzle solving with Jane Jensen’s sophisticated storytelling. Travel the world using Malachi’s unique deductive powers to analyze suspects, make historical connections, and uncover the truth behind a theory of space and time the government will defend...
- #38 Sunset62% matchMixed69% of 289 reviews2015Developer: Tale of TalesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.7hMean: 4.5h≥1hr: 88%
It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you clean the swanky bachelor pad of the wealthy Gabriel Ortega.
- #39 Before the Echo58% matchVery Positive86% of 1,447 reviews2011Developer: Iridium StudiosPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 2.3hMean: 4.9h≥1hr: 85%
Before the Echo combines elements of both rhythm and role-playing games to create an entirely unique experience.
- #40 Walkerman58% matchMostly Positive79% of 39 reviews2017Developer: ScalemaiLPublisher: Sekai ProjectPlatforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Hunt monsters by discovering and exploiting their rules in this Visual Novel from ScalemaiL.
- #41 Extreme Real Reality HD Remix57% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2017Developer: Step Dad ProductionsPlatforms: Windows, Mac
ERRHDR is a heartfelt journey all gamers can relate to.
- #42 Starlight Inception™60% matchMostly Negative21% of 62 reviews2014Developer: Escape Hatch Entertainment, LLCPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 2.6hMean: 3.7h≥1hr: 89%
Travel a hundred years into the future to pilot advanced starfighters through the greatest conflict humankind has ever known. The next generation of space combat is here. . Light up the Sky!
- #43 Killer Gin56% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2020Developer: The Killer GinPlatforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Classic Epic Fantasy Adventure - A JRPG with optional dating and farming mechanics
- #44 Patchman vs. Red Circles56% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2017Developer: Naturally IntelligentPlatforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Help Patchman rescue the Sheeple from enslavement by the Drone army! But... who is Patchman, and why shouldn't you be him? Find out in the game they don't want you to play!
- #45 Sumer55% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2017Developer: Studio WumpusPlatforms: Windows, Mac
A new type of digital board game where strategic planning and swift platforming meet. As nobles vying for power in a mysterious ancient civilization, players harvest resources and bid in real-time auctions in a contest to worship the almighty goddess Inanna!
- #46 Keep It Safe 256% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2017Developer: BeshevGamesPlatforms: Windows
Keep It Safe is a game, where the players take control of a vehicle, racing through a hilly terrain, so that they can transport various cargo to the market
- #47 Windswept50% matchVery Positive95% of 479 reviews2025Developer: WeatherFellPublisher: Top Hat Studios, Inc.Platforms: Windows
🦆 Marbles and 🐢 Checkers need your help finding their way home after being swept away in a storm. In this 90s buddy-platformer there's a ton of stuff to do and even more to collect!
- #48 A.N.N.E55% matchMixed53% of 38 reviews2019Developer: Gamesbymo Inc.Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Explore the mysterious and beautiful planet Gomi on foot or with your spaceship in this action packed platformer and space shooter hybrid. Your mission is simple, retrieve A.N.N.E and escape.
- #49 Endless Maneuver55% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2019Developer: GGamingPlatforms: Windows
Cool and addictive game in which you can compete with other players on two difficulty levels.
- #50 Green Ember: Helmer in the Dragon Tomb50% matchVery Positive96% of 50 reviews2025Developer: Brazen GamesPublisher: Longtreader GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac
Swords up! Level up your character, solve puzzles, and defeat bosses in this Bunny Brawler Dungeon Crawler, set in the world of the best-selling Green Ember series.
- #51 System Shock50% matchVery Positive91% of 12,269 reviews2023Developer: Nightdive StudiosPublisher: AtariPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.1hMean: 13.3h≥1hr: 74%
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
