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

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  1. #1 The Banner Saga
    98% matchVery Positive89% of 15,850 reviews2014
    Developer: StoicPublisher: Stoic Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #2 Broken Age
    98% matchVery Positive84% of 8,134 reviews2014
    Developer: Double Fine Productions
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #3 Yooka-Laylee
    98% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,364 reviews2017
    Developer: Playtonic GamesPublisher: Playtonic Friends
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #4 Tales of the Neon Sea
    98% matchVery Positive86% of 4,825 reviews2019
    Developer: YiTi GamesPublisher: Thermite Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #5 Mighty No. 9
    98% matchMixed50% of 3,407 reviews2016
    Developer: ComceptPublisher: Deep Silver
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #6 Street Legal Racing: Redline v2.3.1
    96% matchVery Positive89% of 4,097 reviews2016
    Developer: Invictus Games Ltd.Publisher: Activision Value Publishing Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #7 Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
    96% matchVery Positive83% of 8,092 reviews2014
    Developer: inXile Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #8 The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed
    94% matchVery Positive83% of 1,520 reviews2016
    Developer: Cloudhead Games Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #9 Lords of Xulima
    86% matchVery Positive81% of 1,252 reviews2014
    Developer: Numantian Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #10 Foolish Mortals
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 526 reviews2025
    Developer: Inklingwood Studios
    Platforms: 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. #11 MASSIVE CHALICE
    83% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,892 reviews2015
    Developer: Double Fine Productions
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #12 The Dwarves
    82% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,072 reviews2016
    Developer: KING ArtPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #13 Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star- HD
    79% matchVery Positive94% of 382 reviews2017
    Developer: FavoritePublisher: Sekai Project
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #14 CLANNAD Side Stories
    77% matchVery Positive88% of 397 reviews2016
    Developer: VisualArts/KeyPublisher: Sekai Project
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #15 Adventures of Pip
    77% matchVery Positive87% of 275 reviews2015
    Developer: Tic Toc Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #16 Battle Worlds: Kronos
    77% matchMixed67% of 323 reviews2013
    Developer: KING Art
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #17 TOKYO CHRONOS
    72% matchVery Positive87% of 336 reviews2019
    Developer: MyDearest Inc.Publisher: Sekai Project
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #18 Shenmue III
    72% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,392 reviews2020
    Developer: YS NETPublisher: ININ
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #19 Memory's Dogma CODE:01
    72% matchMostly Positive78% of 371 reviews2016
    Developer: Liz-ArtsPublisher: Sekai Project
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #20 Chuck's Challenge 3D 2020
    72% matchVery Positive85% of 215 reviews2014
    Developer: Niffler Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #21 Dragon Fin Soup
    72% matchMixed57% of 294 reviews2015
    Developer: Grimm Bros, LLC
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #22 Jagged Alliance Flashback
    72% matchMixed47% of 775 reviews2014
    Developer: Full Control
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #23 Arcana Heart 3 LOVEMAX SIXSTARS!!!!!! XTEND
    70% matchVery Positive85% of 421 reviews2017
    Developer: Team ArcanaPublisher: Arc System Works
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #24 WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.02
    70% matchVery Positive95% of 249 reviews2015
    Developer: Spicy TailsPublisher: Sekai Project
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #25 Guard Duty
    68% matchVery Positive91% of 257 reviews2019
    Developer: Headware Games
    Platforms: 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. #26 Dwarrows
    68% matchMostly Positive77% of 134 reviews2020
    Developer: 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. #27 Legend of the 9 Swords: Side Story
    67% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2019
    Developer: Christopher RodriguesPublisher: Sunstar Gaming Productions
    Platforms: 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. #28 Mister Versatile: A Gay Superhero Visual Novel
    66% matchVery Positive89% of 139 reviews2020
    Developer: Y Press Games
    Platforms: 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. #29 Morningdew Farms: A Gay Farming Game
    65% matchVery Positive83% of 139 reviews2019
    Developer: Y Press Games
    Platforms: 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. #30 Shadows of Adam
    65% matchVery Positive90% of 260 reviews2017
    Developer: Something Classic Games LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #31 Adventurezator: When Pigs Fly
    65% matchMostly Positive70% of 105 reviews2015
    Developer: Pigasus GamesPublisher: Degica
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #32 A Clockwork Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk
    63% matchVery Positive92% of 83 reviews2017
    Developer: Unison Shift: BlossomPublisher: Sekai Project
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #33 Shining Song Starnova
    62% matchVery Positive95% of 340 reviews2018
    Developer: Love in SpacePublisher: Sekai Project
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.9hMean: 9.8h≥1hr: 87%

    Take the stage in Shining Song Starnova!

  34. #34 Clumsy Fred
    64% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2017
    Developer: BeshevGames
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Meet Fred, a good and honest guy. Fred only ever wanted to get to the finish without falling down.

  35. #35 A Rite from the Stars
    62% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2018
    Developer: Risin' GoatPublisher: Phoenix Online Publishing
    Platforms: 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. #36 Cellyon: Boss Confrontation
    61% matchVery Positive81% of 58 reviews2022
    Developer: Sentry Games
    Platforms: 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. #37 Moebius: Empire Rising
    63% matchMostly Positive75% of 331 reviews2014
    Developer: Phoenix Online StudiosPublisher: Phoenix Online Publishing
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #38 Sunset
    62% matchMixed69% of 289 reviews2015
    Developer: Tale of Tales
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #39 Before the Echo
    58% matchVery Positive86% of 1,447 reviews2011
    Developer: Iridium Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 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. #40 Walkerman
    58% matchMostly Positive79% of 39 reviews2017
    Developer: ScalemaiLPublisher: Sekai Project
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Hunt monsters by discovering and exploiting their rules in this Visual Novel from ScalemaiL.

  41. #41 Extreme Real Reality HD Remix
    57% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2017
    Developer: Step Dad Productions
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    ERRHDR is a heartfelt journey all gamers can relate to.

  42. #42 Starlight Inception™™
    60% matchMostly Negative21% of 62 reviews2014
    Developer: Escape Hatch Entertainment, LLC
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #43 Killer Gin
    56% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2020
    Developer: The Killer Gin
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Classic Epic Fantasy Adventure - A JRPG with optional dating and farming mechanics

  44. #44 Patchman vs. Red Circles
    56% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2017
    Developer: Naturally Intelligent
    Platforms: 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. #45 Sumer
    55% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2017
    Developer: Studio Wumpus
    Platforms: 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. #46 Keep It Safe 2
    56% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2017
    Developer: BeshevGames
    Platforms: 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. #47 Windswept
    50% matchVery Positive95% of 479 reviews2025
    Developer: 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. #48 A.N.N.E
    55% matchMixed53% of 38 reviews2019
    Developer: 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. #49 Endless Maneuver
    55% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2019
    Developer: GGaming
    Platforms: Windows

    Cool and addictive game in which you can compete with other players on two difficulty levels.

  50. #50 Green Ember: Helmer in the Dragon Tomb
    50% matchVery Positive96% of 50 reviews2025
    Developer: Brazen GamesPublisher: Longtreader Games
    Platforms: 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. #51 System Shock
    50% matchVery Positive91% of 12,269 reviews2023
    Developer: Nightdive StudiosPublisher: Atari
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.1hMean: 13.3h≥1hr: 74%

    A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!

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