After many hours of reading other people's recommendation lists, I've pared the master spreadsheet on Reddit down to the games that interest me. Which is a lot! I'm posting my list here in case you're interested.
# | | Title | Genre | Description |
1 | | 2000:1: A Space Felony | Adventure | Murder mystery courtroom drama set on an interplanetary spacecraft. |
2 | | 2064: Read Only Memories | Adventure | A New Cyberpunk Adventure |
3 | | A Day in the Woods | Puzzle | Slide hex tiles to guide Red through the woods to help her find grandma's house. |
4 | | A Mortician's Tale | Visual Novel | A death-positive game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home |
5 | | A New Life | Visual Novel | When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go. |
6 | | A Normal Lost Phone | Adventure | Exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone you found. |
7 | | A Short Hike | Platformer | A little exploration game about hiking up a mountain |
8 | | Airships: Conquer the Skies | Strategy | Design & fight with steampunk airships |
9 | | All You Can Eat | Adventure | An interactive comic about a man who spends his entire life in a 24/7 diner |
10 | | Anarcute | Strategy | Pikmin-like riot simulator, combining adorable aesthetics with huge-scale chaos! |
11 | | Annwn: the Otherworld | Strategy | Dark first-person stealth strategy game across a surreal archipelago. A new take on the 1986 classic, The Sentinel. |
12 | | Anodyne | Adventure | In this Zelda-like game, explore the wondrous dream world of the human Young. |
13 | | Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story | Adventure | Sequel to A Normal Lost Phone. |
14 | | Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human, The | Action | Metroidvania pixelated action-adventure about the last living human exploring the submerged Earth. |
15 | | Arcade Spirits | Visual Novel | Romcom about managing a video arcade. |
16 | | Astrologaster | Adventure | A comedy about reading people their fortunes. |
17 | | Attrition: Tactical Fronts | Strategy | Turn- and hex-based 5 minute strategy game for 1 or 2 players. Similar to Advance Wars. |
18 | | Away Team, The | Adventure | Text- and puzzle-focused adventure about managing the crew of Earth's last interstellar ship. |
19 | | BasketBelle | Platformer | Tells a story through basketball mechanics. |
20 | | Beacon | Action | Twin-stick shooter with high production values. Collect DNA from enemies and mutate yourself. |
21 | | Beglitched | Puzzle | Pastel-colored game about hacking into a computer through match-3 mechanics. |
22 | | Bit Rat : Singularity | Puzzle | Hack mainframes and advance the story by completing circuits. |
23 | | Bleed | Action | Colorful and intense twin-skick action-platformer starring a girl with pink hair. |
24 | | Bleed 2 | Action | Sequel to Bleed. |
25 | | Broken Minds | Visual Novel | A psychological murder mystery set in 90s Japan. |
26 | | Brushwood Buddies | Puzzle | Test your luck and memory by hunting for objects and crafting them into items by following recipes. |
27 | | Can Androids Pray: Red | Visual Novel | Angry femme mech pilots at the end of the world. |
28 | | Cardiac | Adventure | First-person body horror, and you’re the body. |
29 | | Cardinal Chains | Puzzle | Trace the correct path through a grid of numbers. |
30 | | Catacombs 1: Demon War | Role Playing | Brief but varied RPG by an OOer (MindToyGames aka Simprose Studios) |
31 | | Celeste | Platformer | Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges as you help Madeline survive her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain! |
32 | | Celestial Hacker Girl Jessica | Platformer | Marble roller with lots of collectibles. |
33 | | Cell Tune | Simulation | A life simulation game where you design creatures on a microscopic level and let them fight against other organisms. |
34 | | Changeling | Visual Novel | Mystery and otome romance ensue when you are unwittingly drawn into a dangerous paranormal community |
35 | | Chipmonk! | Action | Golden Axe with chipmunks. |
36 | | Cinco Paus | Role Playing | Minimalist roguelike. You start with 5 wands and don’t know what they do until you use them. |
37 | | Circa Infinity | Platformer | A brain-melting platformer in which you jump into concentric circles. Looks like Space Hexagon. |
38 | | Clam Man | Adventure | 50% Man. 50% Clam. 100% sort of funny. |
39 | | Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! | Puzzle | The highest selling and most intense restaurant sim ever made is back! |
40 | | Corinne Cross's Dead & Breakfast | Adventure | A story-driven adventure game about a haunted bed & breakfast. A dead & breakfast! |
41 | | Crescent Loom | Simulation | Design an aquatic creature’s body and brain so that it can navigate the ocean. Designed by a neuroscientist. |
42 | | Death and Taxes | Puzzle | Like Papers Please, but you decide who lives and dies. |
43 | | Death of the Corpse Wizard, The | Strategy | Coffee-break, arena roguelike. Heavy on positional tactics. |
44 | | Democratic Socialism Simulator | Simulation | Swipe left or right to make decisions that will shape society. |
45 | | Depth of Extinction | Strategy | Explore a flooded world in this mix of FTL and X-COM. Maybe it’s not that good though? |
46 | | Dere Evil.exe | Platformer | Platformer with meta-horror. |
47 | | Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor | Adventure | Anti-adventure game, some would say poverty simulator, about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. |
48 | | Dominique Pamplemousse and Dominique Pamplemousse in "Combinatorial Explosion!" | Adventure | Sequel to the below. |
49 | | Dominique Pamplemousse in "It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!" | Adventure | Brief, stop-motion, off-key musical detective game about gender and the economy. |
50 | | Don’t Wake the Night | Adventure | Women gather to perform a ritual to worship you. How will you judge them? |
51 | | Dorfromantik | Strategy | Lay Carcassone-like tiles to expand your terrain and meet your village goals. |
52 | | Double Cross | Platformer | Explore alternate dimensions, fight interdimensional criminals, and solve crimes in this thrilling action platformer! |
53 | | Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist | Adventure | A 15 minute experimental heist game by the maker of The Stanley Parable. |
54 | | Dreaming Sarah | Platformer | A surreal adventure platformer. |
55 | | Dry Drowning | Visual Novel | Like Ace Attorney in a noirish, dystopian world. |
56 | | Dujanah | Adventure | Help a Muslim find her family in this bizarre game with “claypunk” art. |
57 | | Dungeons & Lesbians | Visual Novel | Comedy about women playing Dungeons & Dragons. |
58 | | El Tango de la Muerte | Action | A rhythm game about tango set in 1920s Argentina |
59 | | Enigma Machine, The | Adventure | Hourlong dive into the mind of a glitched AI. Alternates text input with first-person segments. |
60 | | Epic Battle Fantasy 4 | Role Playing | Nonsensical game in the style of 1990s console RPGs. |
61 | | Ethereal | Puzzle | Make your way through an abstract, artistic maze. |
62 | | Extreme Meatpunks Forever | Visual Novel | Gay disaster mech pilots killing fascists. Features simple arcade segments. |
63 | | Eye of Ra | Simulation | Atmospheric space station simulation in which you’re the lonely operator of an orbital laser. |
64 | | Far from Noise | Visual Novel | A conversation on the edge of a cliff. |
65 | | Fate Tectonics | Strategy | Build your world piece-by-piece until the gods go Ragnarok on you, then restart and build it bigger. |
66 | | Flamberge | Strategy | Turn-based tactics RPG featuring free movement and simultaneous turns. |
67 | | Flash Point: Fire Rescue | Strategy | Turn-based tactical fire fighting |
68 | | Floor is Jelly, The | Platformer | What if everything you touched was made out of jelly? |
69 | | Forma.8 | Adventure | Metroidvania on remote alien planet with a unique visual style. |
70 | | Fortune-499 | Role Playing | Deckbuilding, rock-paper-scissors battles, and office satire. |
71 | | FutureGrind | Action | Like a futuristic version of the Trials motorcycle game. |
72 | | Gladiabots | Strategy | Program your robots’ AI to fight in arenas. |
73 | | Glittermitten Grove | Strategy | Grow plants and build treehouses in this magical land of faerie delights! |
74 | | GNOG | Puzzle | Tactile puzzle boxes |
75 | | Golden Treasure: The Great Green | Adventure | Live the life of a dragon. Includes hunting and fighting minigames. |
76 | | Golf Peaks | Puzzle | Golf + cards + puzzles |
77 | | Gun Rounds | Strategy | Cute turn-based shooter with a reflex-testing element. |
78 | | Gutwhale | Platformer | Fight your way through a whale's digestive system! |
79 | | Halloween Forever | Platformer | Retro 8-bit spooky Halloween platformer |
80 | | Haque | Role Playing | Glitch fantasy roguelike adventure about cute monsters, low-bit hauntings, and a suspiciously talkative narrator. |
81 | | Headliner: NoviNews | Adventure | Control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. |
82 | | Heavy Bullets | Action | Randomized FPS dungeon crawler with limited but reusable ammunition. |
83 | | Helium Rain | Simulation | Fly starships, build space stations, and trade. |
84 | | Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo | Visual Novel | Horror story. EP1 is available for free, EP3 for purchase. |
85 | | Hermit the Sluggish Caterpillar of the Sea | Action | Protect Hermit’s ocean home in this arcadey shooter. |
86 | | Hex, The | Adventure | Murder mystery by the maker of Pony Island. |
87 | | Hidden Folks | Puzzle | Where’s Waldo but better. |
88 | | Highway Blossoms: Remastered | Visual Novel | A yuri/girls' love kinetic novel in the American Southwest |
89 | | Hive Time | Strategy | A cute and zany bee themed management sim/base builder. |
90 | | House on Holland Hill, The | Adventure | Deliver food to a weird house and learn about the residents' lives. |
91 | | Hyper Sentinel | Action | A face-melting, pixel-pumping arcade shoot 'em up. A new take on the 1986 classic, Uridium. |
92 | | Hyperspace Dogfights | Action | Luftrausers with less flair and more loots. |
93 | | Islands: Non-Places | Toy | Explore surreal, interactive artscapes. |
94 | | J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars | Adventure | Narrative-driven sci-fi adventure game. |
95 | | Jam and the Mystery of the Mysteriously Spooky Mansion | Adventure | Brief, comedic reverse whodunnit point-and-click game. |
96 | | Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass | Role Playing | Earthbound-inspired full-length RPG about childhood, family, dreams, and nightmares. |
97 | | Jumpgrid | Action | White-knuckle speed-Pac-Man. Flashy and brain-melting. |
98 | | Kaiju Big Battel: Fighto Fantasy | Role Playing | Kaiju, professional wrestlers, and time travel. |
99 | | King's Bird, The | Platformer | Graceful and artistic platformer, with good music, in which you fly through the levels. |
100 | | Knightmare Tower | Action | Leap from enemy to enemy as you slay them, flying ever upward to reach the princess. |
101 | | Knights of the Card Table | Strategy | Master over 100 dungeons and 3 worlds in this dungeon crawler card game. |
102 | | Last Word | Role Playing | Sophisticated mystery with conversation battles at an aristocratic party. |
103 | | Lenna's Inception | Action | Procedurally generated, Zelda-like, Gameboy-style action-adventure game |
104 | | Lieve Oma | Visual Novel | It's the season for penny buns, Grandma forced you to come along a bit. But deep down you know it'll do you good. |
105 | | Long Gone Days | Role Playing | Modern-day RPG that imagines the world of war that's coming for us, with a focus on civilians and language barriers. |
106 | | Loot Rascals | Role Playing | Tough but colorful roguelike dungeon crawler featuring offensive and defensive cards. |
107 | | Lost Art of Innkeeping, The | Simulation | RPG Maker game about converting an old mansion to a classy inn. |
108 | | Luna | Puzzle | VR-friendly game about restoring alien lanscapes. |
109 | | Lyne | Puzzle | Draw lines through geometric shapes. |
110 | | Marie's Room | Adventure | Short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. |
111 | | Master Spy | Platformer | Throw on your invisibility cloak and put your reflexes to the test in this brutal precision platformer |
112 | | Micron | Puzzle | Lay barriers to deflect bullets, which create music as they bounce. |
113 | | MidBoss | Role Playing | A possession-based traditional roguelike with turn-based gameplay. |
114 | | Milkmaid of the Milky Way | Adventure | Award-winning, rhyming point'n'click adventure |
115 | | Minit | Adventure | Peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time. |
116 | | Missing Locksmith, The | Puzzle | Can you solve a heist in this alternate reality game? |
117 | | Mu Cartographer | Toy | Experimental colorful exploration machine |
118 | | Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! | Adventure | Nelly Cootalot is the stupidly named pirate adventurer with a heart of gold. |
119 | | Nepenthe | Role Playing | Snarky RPG Maker game with colored pencil art. |
120 | | Newfound Courage | Adventure | A story-driven game about a gay hero who falls in love with his best friend while the world unravels around them. |
121 | | Night Fisherman, The | Visual Novel | A tense, thought-provoking 3D story |
122 | | Night in the Woods | Adventure | The plights of a college dropout cat. |
123 | | Night Journey, The | Adventure | Surreal, black-and-white walking simulator. |
124 | | No Delivery | Role Playing | RPG Maker game about working at a nasty pizzeria. |
125 | | No More Kings | Puzzle | Chess puzzles. |
126 | | No Thing | Action | Surreal, dystopian maze runner. Looks like an impressionistic German music video. |
127 | | Noise1 | Puzzle | A posthuman stealth/horror terminal-operated unicode space opera. Hope you can type fast. |
128 | | Nonsense at Nightfall | Adventure | Short, funny story with Gameboy graphics. |
129 | | Nuclear Throne | Action | Vlambeer’s classic top-down shooter. |
130 | | Octodad | Adventure | Loving Father. Caring Husband. Secret Octopus. |
131 | | Octodad: Dadliest Catch | Adventure | Sequel to the above. |
132 | | Odd Realm | Simulation | Dwarf Fortress-like, still in development. |
133 | | Oikospiel Book I | Adventure | Surreal, experimental opera about animals trying to unionize. |
134 | | Old Man's Journey | Puzzle | Old man looks back on his life. Beautiful art. |
135 | | Once Upon A Crime in the West | Adventure | Like a Western-themed Return of the Obra Dinn. 1-2 hours long, can’t save game. |
136 | | One Night Stand | Visual Novel | After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you awake the next morning to find a stranger lying beside you. |
137 | | One-Eyed Lee and the Dinner Party | Visual Novel | Help Beracus and Lee escape an underground bunker filled with cultist skeletons! |
138 | | One-Eyed Lee: Prologue | Visual Novel | Prequel to the above. |
139 | | OneShot | Role Playing | Cute, fourth-wall-breaking adventure. Completing it once unlocks an alternate “Solstice” mode. |
140 | | Online Simulator | Adventure | Disturbing comedy in which you explore the depths of a computer to unlock its mysteries. |
141 | | Order A Pizza: A Visual Novel | Visual Novel | A visual novel where you play as a divorced dad trying to order the perfect pizza. |
142 | | Overland | Strategy | A squad-based survival strategy game with procedurally generated levels set in post-apocalyptic North America. |
143 | | Oxenfree | Adventure | A supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift |
144 | | Pagan: Autogeny | Role Playing | Explore an abandoned MMO |
145 | | Palace of Woe | Puzzle | Sort objects in a labyrinth to unlock a mystery. |
146 | | Parallax | Puzzle | Like Portal mixed with Antichamber, looks as trippy as both. |
147 | | Parsnip | Adventure | A hungry rabbit quests for cake. Looks cute. |
148 | | Pendula Swing: The Complete Journey | Adventure | A point & click adventure with isometric view set in a fantasy version of the American Roaring 1920s |
149 | | Petty Puny Planet | Simulation | Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible! |
150 | | Pikuniku | Platformer | Cute, casual, amusing platformer about doing quests for others. |
151 | | Please | Adventure | A horror short |
152 | | Please Follow | Adventure | Sequel to the above. |
153 | | Plunge | Strategy | Turn-based dungeon plunge with great art and animation. |
154 | | Polymute | Puzzle | Wizard can morph into the objects he sees to navigate a dangerous world. Retro graphics. |
155 | | Pyre | Role Playing | Party-based RPG from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. |
156 | | Quadrilateral Cowboy | Adventure | Cyberpunk adventure from the maker of Atom Zombie Smasher and Thirty Flights of Loving. |
157 | | Quench | Puzzle | Change the environment to guide herds of animals and restore their home in this colorful narrative puzzle game. |
158 | | Rainsdowne Players, The | Role Playing | A creativity-driven RPG about a rundown theatre and pleasing its unruly clientele. |
159 | | Receiver | Action | Fight drones and search for clues in an unending high-rise, with ultra realistic gun mechanics |
160 | | Reky | Puzzle | Minimalist logic challenges with sleek graphics. |
161 | | Retrace | Adventure | Freya tries to escape a deadly dimension, solving puzzles and having the chance to retrace and change her path when she dies. |
162 | | Runner3 | Action | Endless runner with high production values. |
163 | | Ruya | Puzzle | Relaxing match-3 about dreams and motherhood |
164 | | Sagebrush | Adventure | Explore a cult compound in this narrative Gone Home-like story. |
165 | | Secret Little Haven | Visual Novel | A game about a trans girl discovering herself through fandom, chats, and the early internet. |
166 | | Seduce Me The Complete Story | Visual Novel | Otome dating sim involving incubi. |
167 | | Semblance | Platformer | Puzzle platformer in which you can bend the platforms. |
168 | | Serre | Visual Novel | A visual novel about a girl and an alien drinking tea and falling in love! |
169 | | Shipwreck | Adventure | Zelda-like about being stranded on an island. |
170 | | Shrug Island: The Meeting | Adventure | A warmly wistful adventure about reconnecting nature, friendship and hidden pasts |
171 | | Sidewords | Puzzle | Word puzzles, like Scrabble meets Sudoku. |
172 | | Signs of the Sojourner | Role Playing | An introspective deck-builder about friendship, travel, and collecting snacks. |
173 | | Silicon Zeroes | Puzzle | Make a computer from scratch. Logic game similar to Shenzhen IO or TIS-100 |
174 | | Silk | Role Playing | Huge openworld RPG with elements of Lords of Midnight and King of Dragon Pass. By maker of Discworld Noir. |
175 | | Sky Rogue | Action | A fwooshy, intense, procedurally generated combat flight sim. |
176 | | Space Between, The | Adventure | Short and spooky game about an architect who is obsessed with the walls/divides between people. |
177 | | Speed Dating for Ghosts | Visual Novel | Wholesome horror conversation sim about death and robbing banks |
178 | | Spring Falls | Puzzle | A peaceful puzzle game about water, erosion, and watching things grow. |
179 | | Stardrop | Adventure | First-person exploration of an unidentified space vessel, high production values. |
180 | | StarFighter R&D HD Edition | Action | Vertical shmup in which you research ship upgrades, test them out, and gain research points to unlock more upgrades. |
181 | | Starseed Pilgrim | Platformer | A pleasant mystery box. a soft puzzle game. |
182 | | Stillness of the Wind, The | Simulation | Brief, story-driven farming sim about the loneliness of the elderly. |
183 | | Strawberry Cubes | Platformer | Intentionally glitchy game that you have to break. May induce seizures. |
184 | | Super Bernie World | Platformer | Super Mario World but with Bernie Sanders. |
185 | | Super Hexagon | Action | Super-hard, minimalist, brain-melting arcade game. How many seconds can you last? |
186 | | Supper, The | Adventure | Brief, dark fantasy about serving food to disturbing clientele. |
187 | | Switch 'N' Shoot | Action | Shmup controlled by a single button. |
188 | | Tamashii | Platformer | Puzzle platformer in a corrupted temple. Grotesque horror imagery. |
189 | | Tangrams Deluxe | Puzzle | Chinese jigsaw puzzles. |
190 | | Task Force Kampas | Action | Psychedelic shmup with adjustable difficulty. No storyline. |
191 | | Test Tube Titans | Action | Create kaiju and control them to destroy towns. Features social commentary. |
192 | | Testimony of Trixie Glimmer Smith, The | Visual Novel | Sequel to Parsnip |
193 | | There Will Be Ink | Action | Stick figure armies battling in a notebook, just like you used to draw in class instead of paying attention! |
194 | | They Bleed Pixels | Platformer | Fiendishly difficult platforming slash'em up inspired by weird fiction and gothic horror. |
195 | | Thing-in-Itself | Adventure | Interactive short story about the struggles of understanding another human being. |
196 | | This Strange Realm Of Mine | Action | Short, retro first person shooter with poetry and psychological horror |
197 | | Three Lesbians in a Barrow | Visual Novel | Sequel to Testimony of Trixie Glimmer Smith |
198 | | Tonight We Riot | Action | Lead communist rioters against capitalist forces in this beat-em-up that even the National Review wrote about. |
199 | | Trolley, The | Adventure | First-person point and click narrative game about the sudden closure of a public transportation system in the American Rust Belt. |
200 | | Un Pas Fragile | Adventure | Follow the journey of Camille, a frog who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer! |
201 | | Underhero | Platformer | No relation to Undertale, but it’s a cute platformer with a multifaceted combat system. |
202 | | Unobelisk | Adventure | Freaky sci-fi survival horror with a photo-collage/borrowed asset aesthetic. |
203 | | Verdant Skies | Simulation | Sci-fi take on Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon |
204 | | Vignettes | Toy | Fiddle with objects to make them transform. |
205 | | Vilmonic | Simulation | Artificial life and genetics evolution sandbox game. Sci-fi setting with retro graphics. |
206 | | Visual Out | Platformer | Metroidvania inside a dying computer. Has glitch aesthetic. |
207 | | Voyageur | Adventure | Procedurally generated, narrative-driven space exploration with trading. Comparable to Fallen London/Sunless Sea, and supported by the publisher of those games. |
208 | | Wakamarina Valley, New Zealand | Adventure | Realistic, VR-friendlly walking simulation in New Zealand countryside. |
209 | | Walden, a Game | Adventure | Experience Henry David Thoreau's life in Walden Woods. |
210 | | Watch Me Jump | Visual Novel | Basketball player struggles with her friendships. |
211 | | Whirlibird | Action | Arcade helicopter save-'em-up with a chill summer vibe. Inspired by 1985 classic Cyclone, but also reminiscent of the Strike series of the 1990s. |
212 | | White Door, The | Adventure | A Rusty Lake puzzle adventure |
213 | | Wide Ocean Big Jacket | Adventure | A Camping Story starring: Uncle Brad, Aunt Cloanne, Mord (and Ben) |
214 | | Windosill | Toy | The classic point-and-click puzzle-toy. |
215 | | Wishing Sarah | Adventure | Mini-sequel to Dreaming Sarah, prelude to upcoming Awakening Sarah. |
216 | | Witch Thief | Action | 3D bullet hell shooter with dark fantasy art. |
217 | | Witches Tea Party, The (Light Version) | Adventure | RPG Maker game with collecting, cooking, and detective work. |
218 | | WitchWay | Platformer | Save the bunnies in this polished and cute puzzle platformer with unique mechanics. |
219 | | Wordsum Blitz | Puzzle | Tetris with words |
220 | | Yi and the Thousand Moons | Adventure | A 20-minute video game musical with original interactive songs, featuring a full cast and live band. |
221 | | Your Future Self | Role Playing | A conversation battle with your future self. |