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AdventureIndieExplorationAtmosphericAction

Kena: Bridge of Spirits: a story-driven, action adventure combining exploration with fast-paced combat. Untangle the past as Kena, a young Spirit Guide in search of the sacred Mountain Shrine. Help free the spirits trapped in a forgotten vi

81 rating1 list9 h main storyOften paired

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A third-person exploratory action/adventure title in which a boy ends up on a mysterious island and makes his way through its highly stylized environments, containing puzzles and slight navigation challenges, to get to the bottom of why he'

74 rating6 lists5.5 h main storyOften paired

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AdventureIndiePuzzleExplorationAtmospheric

Bramble: The Mountain King is a grim adventure set in a world inspired by dark, Nordic fables. Explore the beautiful yet dangerous and twisted land of Bramble in your endeavour to rescue your sister. Traverse a wondrous landscape and survi

76 rating2 lists4 h main storyOften paired

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AdventureBirdSwimmingStarfishAction

The world of Risen 3 is abandoned by all gods and suffers from the Titan Wars when a new threat rises from the soil. A young warrior is attacked from the shadows and deprived of his soul. He sets off to reclaim what is lost amidst the darkn

61 rating3 lists25 h main storyOften paired

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AdventureIndieSharkRobotsBird

Cuphead is a run-and-gun action game focused primarily on boss battles. Its visual style is modeled after 1930s cartoons, using traditional hand-drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings. Players control Cuph

86 rating1 list8 h main storyOften paired

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The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

87 rating10 lists16 h main storyOften paired

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AdventureIndieBirdCollectiblesSecret area

Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16­-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much gra

85 rating8 lists5 h main storyOften paired

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AdventureIndiePuzzleExplorationAction

Manifold Garden is a game that reimagines physics and space. Explore a world of beautiful Escher-esque architecture where the laws of physics are different. Geometry repeats infinitely in every direction and falling down leads you back to

83 rating6 lists5 h main storyOften paired

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AdventureIndiePuzzleExplorationBird

Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

81 rating12 lists14 h main storyOften paired

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ActionAdventureIndieAtmosphericFantasy

Become the witch of the woods in Blacktail. Slavic myth comes to life in this first-person open world action adventure. Discover Yaga’s story and guide her along the path to become a fearsome guardian of the forest or the dark legend that h

80 rating1 list8 h main story

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AdventureIndieExplorationAtmosphericAction

In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death. As Sherlock, your legacy is writ

76 rating3 lists15 h main story

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AdventureIndieExplorationAtmosphericAction

In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death. As Sherlock, your legacy is writ

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AdventureIndieExplorationUnderwaterAtmospheric

Capcom presents a fresh and original undersea exploration game, filled with unique visual and audio experiences for you to discover. The land has slowly but steadily been covered with ice, forcing mankind to take refuge in the ocean. Even

71 rating2 lists

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Ecco 2: Sentinels of the Universe was a planned sequel to Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future for Dreamcast that got canceled around the time SEGA announced that they would be stopping production on the console and focus on being a thi

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AdventureIndieExplorationAtmosphericAction

A rogue-lite river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators. Travel by foot and by raft down a procedurally-generated river as you scrounge for resources, craft tools, remedy affli

76 rating5 lists8.5 h main story

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ActionIndieRobotsFantasyThird person

Following right after the ending of the original Spark the Electric Jester, you'll take control of Fark, now in the third dimension, in his quest to find out his true identity! Speed through several fast paced platforming stages, action pac

77 rating2 lists2.5 h main story

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AdventurePuzzleBirdScripted eventsAction

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made. In

72 rating3 lists12 h main story

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Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother t

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AdventureIndieAtmosphericSwimmingAction

In a fantastical Venice, The Corpus are deceived by a cunning necromancer. Transformed into an undead fiend, the conniving imposter is hell-bent on destroying the reinstated Death and the council of Corpus. Only Scarlett, the daughter of De

54 rating2 lists19 h main story

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AdventurePuzzleSharkDolphinTurtle

Somewhere there is a place called the Endless Sea. There lives a giant whale named Big Blue. To find Big Blue, you have to open the Crystal Doors called Glyphs. To open the Crystal Doors, you must satisfy their wish. Guide Ecco and his frie

69 rating4 lists

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Enter the Gungeon is a top-down bullet hell roguelike where players take control of one of several characters known as Gungeoneers and fight their way through the procedurally generated floors of the Gungeon. Combat revolves around shooting

79 rating2 lists23 h main story

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SpongeBob HeroPants is an action game with a focus on platforming, exploration, light puzzles and combat. Each of its six playable characters–SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy, Mr. Krabs and Plankton–can morph into a unique superpowered

80 rating7 lists

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AdventureIndiePuzzleDolphinBird

Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother t

58 rating2 lists2.5 h main story

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AdventureIndiePuzzleExplorationLow-poly

Unwind and enjoy the slow life in Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, a relaxing open-world adventure game. Yonder is set in the world of Gemea. A natural island paradise with eight distinct environments ranging from tropical beaches to s

72 rating5 lists7 h main story

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AdventureIndiePuzzleBirdSwimming

Brothers is presented from a third-person view overlooking the two brothers. The brothers are moved individually by two thumbsticks on the controller. The controller triggers also cause the respective brother to interact with the game world

82 rating10 lists3 h main story

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Densetsu no Starfy 4 is a platforming video game developed by TOSE and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is the fourth game in the Legendary Starfy series, which first started on the Game Boy Advance. As with the other games in

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IndieScuba divingUnderwaterSharkAquatic

Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding

63 rating2 lists2 h main story

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AdventureUnderwaterSharkDolphinBird

Life was an adventure for Ecco, the young dolphin. The ocean seemed endless with rolling breakers to race through! At high speed Ecco could burst through the waves leaping through the air – almost flying! Until one day, all of that changed.

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AdventurePuzzleSharkDolphinSwimming

At the dawn of the 30th Century, dolphins and humans had been together in a cross-species society for 500 years. Together, they had set out to explore space, offering peace and friendship to all who would welcome it. But space had its dange

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AdventureExplorationSharkScuba divingSwimming

Endless Ocean is a game based on the exploration of an underwater world. The main focus of the game is exploring the game world and cataloguing the various species of animals found there.

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AdventureExplorationUnderwaterSharkScuba diving

Everblue is an adventure game based on scuba diving. The player takes the role of a scuba diver salvaging items from sunken ships and photographing underwater wildlife while either avoiding or confronting predators like sharks. The game als

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Titans have imprisoned Neptina, Neptune's daughter! They've shattered his magical Trident and scattered its pieces far and wide. Without his trident, Neptune is powerless. Proteus, a member of Neptune's Court, longs to free the lovely merm

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AdventureIndiePuzzleSharkRobots

Jazzpunk is a single-player, first-person adventure game, focusing on exploration and comedy over puzzle-solving. Each mission has one central objective, but the player is free to explore the game world at their own pace, which is populated

78 rating2 lists2 h main story

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AdventureIndiePuzzleSharkFrog

With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.

81 rating5 lists8.5 h main story

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ActionDolphinAquaticUnderwater gameplayGiant squid

Listen! An endangered dolphin is calling you! Only by learning the dolphin's sonic language can you guide her through schools of seahorses, battling a monstrous squid, to gain magic powers from and elusive seagull. Hurry! Lend an ear... Yo

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AdventureIndieFrogTurtleJellyfish

Downwell is a curious game about a young man with guns for boots venturing down a well in search of untold treasures. Make your way further and further down into a darkness filled with nasty creatures and mysterious secrets and collect the

76 rating4 lists6.5 h main story

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AdventureIndiePuzzleExplorationAction

Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep

80 rating3 lists4 h main story

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ActionSharkAquaticUnderwater gameplayArcade

You have discovered a long-sought-after buried treasure, and just when you thought you have discovered a long-sought-after troubles were over, things get really tough! There's a persistent shark who thinks that the treasure belongs to him,

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Owlboy is a platform/action-adventure video game created by Norwegian developer D-Pad Studio. Explore a vibrantly crafted pixel world in this flying adventure platformer. Being a mute, Otus struggles living up to the expectations of owl-hoo

84 rating5 lists8 h main story

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ActionSharkUnderwater gameplayCrabJellyfish

In Shark! Shark! you control a fish! Your goal is to earn as many points as possible while staying alive. Swimming in the ocean with you are other fish of various sizes, lobsters, crabs, jellyfish, and a very fast shark. You are able to eat

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AdventureIndiePuzzleExplorationUnderwater

An underwater exploration game: Explore the depths of a surreal, hand-drawn abyss. Possess sea creatures and make use of their unique abilities to solve environmental puzzles, traveling ever deeper into the void…

62 rating4 lists3 h main story

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AdventureIndiePuzzleUnderwaterShark

SOMA is a sci-fi horror game from Frictional Games, the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It is an unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human. Enter the world of SOMA and face horrors buried deep ben

82 rating10 lists9 h main story

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A metroidvania-style action-adventure game following a young girl’s quest into the unknown to find her missing father.

72 rating3 lists7 h main story

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AdventureSharkScuba divingUnderwater gameplayAction

The gameplay in Treasures of the Deep focuses on underwater exploration in a variety of wetsuits and gradually more powerful one-man submarines, in order to fulfill objectives such as capping underwater oil leaks, exploring shipwrecks, and

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ActionAdventureUnderwaterDolphinBird

Ecco must stop the Vortex! He is “the stone that splits the stream of time.” He now faces his most dangerous quest yet. For it is not just his dolphin pod at stake, but the Earth and all living beings!

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AdventureIndieAtmosphericActionFantasy

A 2D metroidvania with an emphasis on close combat and exploration in which the player enters the once-prosperous now-bleak insect kingdom of Hallownest, travels through its various districts, meets friendly inhabitants, fights hostile ones

92 rating13 lists16 h main story

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AdventureIndieUnderwaterFantasyVisual novel

Explore an ocean that exists before the beginning of time and meet creatures with hidden powers waiting to be released. How you choose to influence them will change the fate of the world.

70 rating1 list3.5 h main story

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AdventureIndieExplorationUnderwaterSwimming

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more, all while trying to survive.

83 rating12 lists26 h main story

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