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A short, single-player action-adventure about a space hauler exploring a beautiful alien planet for resources, with a colorful world but average gameplay.

Lost Nova
A cute, relaxing single-player alien-planet adventure about exploring, salvaging, crafting, trading, and upgrading your way home in roughly six hours.
2022-05-11
- Action
- Platform

Adventure

Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Simulator

Open world

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Creatures of Ava

An empathic creature-taming action-adventure through colorful ecosystems, offering a casual ~12-hour quest to cleanse a life-consuming infection—though its core mechanics can feel repetitive.

2024-08-07

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Indie

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Low Oxygen

A compact single-player puzzle adventure exploring an abandoned alien facility with moderately challenging plant-based puzzles.

2023-03-16

Adventure
Indie

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Steel Seed

A dark sci-fi stealth-action adventure featuring Zoe and her drone Koby, mixing stealth, combat, and platforming in an underground facility, with a short-to-medium campaign praised for its visuals and smooth gameplay.

2025-04-22

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Third person
Role-playing (RPG)
Stealth

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Journey To The Savage Planet

A ~15-hour, colorful, comedic action-adventure about surveying an alien planet as an under-equipped recruit, playable solo or in co-op.

2021-01-28

Shooter
Action
First person
Adventure

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Distant Bloom

A serene single-player management game about restoring a ruined alien planet with plant powers and building a community, with a roughly 7-hour playtime and a peaceful tone.

2024-03-27

Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Indie
Sandbox

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Revenge of the Savage Planet

A satirical sci-fi action-adventure about exploring colorful alien worlds, collecting upgrades, and uncovering secrets, with strong co-op appeal in a roughly 13–16 hour playthrough.

2025-05-08

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Third person

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Solar Ash

A beautiful, ~7.5-hour high-speed gravity-bending action-adventure with emotive story and some rough platforming.

2022-12-08

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Third person
Indie

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Scars Above

A linear sci-fi third-person action-adventure shooter on an alien world, with crafting, puzzles, and a story-driven campaign that reviewers found decent but generic, lasting around 8 hours.

2023-02-28

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Horror
Third person

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Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator

A relaxing single-player cleaning sim about restoring nature through cleaning, puzzles, animal help, and plant growing, with a slow-paced loop that reviewers found repetitive but satisfying at higher speed.

2022-12-20

Action
First person
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Kids

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Deliver Us Mars

A roughly 9-10 hour atmospheric single-player sci-fi adventure on Mars, blending exploration and puzzles with a mixed narrative and technical reception.

2023-02-02

Action
First person
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Survival
Third person
Indie
Mystery

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Slime Rancher 2

A relaxed, colorful slime-ranching adventure set on Rainbow Island, focused on collecting slimes and building a ranch, with reviewer playtimes averaging around 19–26 hours.

2025-09-23

Shooter
Action
First person
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Simulator
Open world