- #1 LIT
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: WayForward
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Venture into the dark hallways of a haunted high school and help guide emo teenager Jake as he searches for his lost girlfriend Rachael. Solve light-themed puzzles using a variety of gameplay mechanics including slingshots, light bulbs, windows, matches, lamps, and TV sets.
Why similar: Strategy 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #2 Siege - the card game
71% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: SIA Next Level
Windows · Mac · Linux
Siege is a strategic single-player card game about sieging castles with armies and magic set in the bizarre setting of Circus Empire.
Why similar: Strategy 72.8%, Indie 27.2%
- #3 Devouring Stars
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 40 reviews2015
Dev: NerialPub: BulkyPix
Windows · Mac · Linux
What if you could unhook the stars and fight your battles with black holes? With its mix of adaptative unit combination, space resource harvesting as well as visual and audio refinement, Devouring Stars aspires to bring a different scope to the RTS genre.
Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #4 Cell Command
50% matchVery Positive98% of 154 reviews2025
Dev: Alpherior
Windows
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #5 Dreadful River
50% matchMostly Positive76% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: SureAI
Windows
Lead the kings son on a journey along the river. You must fight enemies, improve your raft and gear, find allies and explore mysteries along the shores. All to find a cure to some strange sickness troubling the land - can you save the kingdom?
- #6 Holoidle
50% matchVery Positive84% of 393 reviews2025
Dev: Kindred InteractivePub: holo Indie
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 62.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A relaxing Hololive idle game. Unlock upgrades, complete your card collection and take care of your idol to increase your influence!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #7 Melon Simulator™
50% matchVery Positive88% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: Delirious & Co.
Windows
Melon Simulator™ is a chaotic, co-op (1 - 4 players), first person melee combat game. Almost anything that isn't nailed down can be used to whack, slice, and throw at the oncoming melon hoard...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #8 Void Sols
50% matchVery Positive96% of 349 reviews2024
Dev: Finite Reflection StudiosPub: Modern Wolf
Windows · Mac
Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.
- #9 Into the Restless Ruins
50% matchVery Positive85% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Ant Workshop LtdPub: Wales Interactive
Windows
A roguelike deckbuilder where you create the dungeon you fight through. Each night use your cards to expand the ruins then battle through them, harvesting Glimour from the lost souls and improving your deck. Can you reach The Warden and defeat it, so The Maiden will grant your heart’s desire?
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #10 Yield! Fall of Rome
50% matchMostly Positive72% of 257 reviews2025
Dev: BillionworldsPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #11 One Iced Latte With Your Breast Milk, Please!
50% matchVery Positive85% of 248 reviews2025
Dev: azaly
Windows
Help the cute barista Moka-san and goth barista Karina-chan make Milk Milk Coffee the most popular place in Tokyo! Brew coffee in a cozy atmosphere, read guests’ wishes, win the hearts of critics and pretty girls! ☆
- #12 Farlands
50% matchVery Positive93% of 1,435 reviews2024
Dev: JanduSoft
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Congratulations, you’ve bought your own planet! An agrarian rock at the edge of the galaxy that, for some reason, was practically being given away for free. So the time has come to leave your hectic, stressful life in an overcrowded metropolis for a more rural and rewarding life.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #13 Monstrous Liberation
50% matchVery Positive86% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: BP GamesPub: TinyHat Studios
Windows
Sasha is a spunky internet streamer who finds herself transported to a fantasy kingdom where lewd acts are forbidden. Armed with a set of magical, curse-breaking scissors, Sasha must cut away the shackles of repression and lead a sexual revolution to save the world!
- #14 Chorus of Carcosa
50% matchMostly Positive79% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: Chameleon 42
Windows
Chorus of Carcosa is a first-person psychological horror game about an anxious sculptor who is trapped in a dark and ever-changing building. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #15 Paper Perjury
50% matchVery Positive88% of 189 reviews2024
Dev: Paper Cat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed. Solve cases and outsmart criminals in a detective story full of lies, confessions, and maybe even a murder or two.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #16 ReSetna
50% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: Today's GamesPub: Module16
Windows
What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #17 Naughty Tales of Rabbits - A Cuckold RPG
50% matchVery Positive86% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Hyanmaru GamesPub: TinyHat Studios
Windows
A whimsical RPG adventure where a loving couple must vanquish the four Elemental Demon Lords! There's just one problem- the girlfriend is lusted after by the denizens of this realm, and the boyfriend has a huge cuckold fetish!
- #18 LingerieS / ランジェリーズ
50% matchVery Positive91% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Ramune Games / ラムネゲームズ
Windows
The main character, Aoi Miyamae, is asked by his twin sister, Riko, to dress up as a woman and work as a clerk at 'LingerieS', a high-end women's lingerie specialty store, in her place. Aoi discovers the depth of women's lingerie and develops a bond with the women who visit the store...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #19 Uncover the Smoking Gun
50% matchVery Positive95% of 428 reviews2024
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #20 108 Silly Ways to Die
50% matchMostly Positive79% of 195 reviews2025
Dev: SEED StudioPub: Liquid Meow
Windows
Caichen made an appointment with a female netizen from the same school to meet at an abandoned medical college, but was caught up in a conspiracy. Caichen planned to explore here and find a way to escape, but the sudden roar and the appearance of zombies implied that there were secrets hidden here.
- #21 Touch Type Tale - Strategic Typing
50% matchVery Positive93% of 105 reviews2024
Dev: Pumpernickel StudioPub: Mythwright
Windows
Touch Type Tale is the strategy game you control by typing! Join a brave new era of strategy — tactical typing. Use a satisfying mesh of mechanics across a range of surprising challenges, with storybook campaigning and online play. You are Paul. (Hi there.) And the keyboard to the kingdom is yours.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #22 桃色武林
50% matchVery Positive80% of 505 reviews2024
Dev: 人型ですカオス
Windows
玩家将扮演一个初出茅庐的江湖小生，在战斗和历练中结识红颜知己，并与她们共同闯荡这个充满危机与机遇的江湖世界。
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 Valley Peaks
50% matchVery Positive97% of 182 reviews2024
Dev: Tub ClubPub: Those Awesome Guys
Windows
Embark on a cozy climbing adventure in Valley Peaks, a ribbiting first-person platformer where each mountain is like a puzzle. Install Radio Towers at the top of every ridge to connect the froggy inhabitants to the wider world, venture further into the Valley, conquer peaks and unravel mysteries!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #24 LISTEN UP! WE TRIED TO MAKE “THOSE GAMES” EVEN MORE EXTREME! SOME THINGS HAVE TO BE LEARNED THE HARD WAY!
50% matchMixed69% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: MONKEYCRAFT Co. Ltd.Pub: D3PUBLISHER
Windows
THOSE GAMES are back, and harder than ever! Play upgraded, more difficult versions of familiar minigames to your heart's content! Are you up to the challenge? Are you ready...for THOSE GAMES EXTREME?!
- #25 Love in Login
50% matchVery Positive91% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: MetacraftPub: Smilegate
Windows
An in-game friend you unexpectedly run into turns out to be a supermodel level hottie!
- #26 Gun Factory Simulator
50% matchMixed67% of 153 reviews2025
Dev: Broken Clock
Windows
Take control of your very own firearms factory. Start with a workshop and a gun shop, and evolve it into a factory of mass destruction. Craft bullets to rockets, handguns to shotguns, hire workers & managers, and become a merchant of death. Get use to the smell of gunpowder and cash.
- #27 Spaceflux
50% matchMixed58% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: Calin Ardelean
Windows
An FPS arena shooter with mind-bending fractal maps! Fight in an impossible battle arena where the map contains itself in a never-ending loop. With online/splitscreen multiplayer deathmatches and a single player horde mode.
- #28 AMEDAMA
50% matchVery Positive86% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: IzanagiGames
Windows
Side-scrolling, soul-shifting sandbox action adventure brought to life with a striking new 2D style! With only his soul remaining, Yushin must fight tooth and nail, possessing body after body on a quest to find his sister. With just seven days left until his soul departs, can he save her in time?
- #29 Death of a Wish
50% matchVery Positive98% of 160 reviews2024
Dev: melessthanthreePub: Syndicate Atomic LLC.
Windows · Mac · Linux
THE NEO-SANCTUM SHALL FALL. Claim retribution against the theocratic Faiths as you master vicious hack-and-slash combat in this action-RPG where style is salvation.
- #30 Riviera: The Promised Land
50% matchVery Positive89% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: Sting
Windows
The long-awaited "Riviera: The Promised Land" is back with many added features for easier play! The story unfolds like flipping through a picture book with various variations of music color the adventure. Let's set out on the journey to protect Riviera from the devastation of the "The Retribution."
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #31 YOHANE THE PARHELION -BLAZE in the DEEPBLUE-
50% matchVery Positive93% of 1,005 reviews2023
Dev: INTI CREATES CO., LTD.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 54.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Yohane the Parhelion is an official spin-off of "Love Live! Sunshine". Yohane's fantasy world sets the stage for a 2D metroidvania in "Yohane the Parhelion: Blaze in the Deepblue"!
- #32 Claymores of the Lost Kingdom
50% matchMostly Positive73% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Ultaan Games
Windows
Adventure Roguelike Deckbuilder infused with classless RPG progression. Forge your hero, increase your attributes, and craft a deck that evolves based on your unique build. Level up, hunt bandits, and face the Harbinger of Doom!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #33 The Legend of Skye
50% matchVery Positive95% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: Point & Pixel AdventuresPub: Point and Pixel Adventures
Windows · Linux
We will step into the shoes of a young druid who will be called upon by her tribe to undertake an important mission. After some events in her village, she will have to leave behind the safety of the forest and venture into a world full of dangers. The fate of the grove will be in her hands.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 Stellar Orphans
50% matchMostly Positive72% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: Artifex Parvus
Windows
"Explore 'Stellar Orphans', a captivating deck-building game where every choice determines the fate of your crew lost in infinite space. Forge alliances, manage resources, and resolve crises to guide your 'Stellar Orphans' to survival. Ready to defy the stars?"
Why similar: Strategy 82.3%, Indie 17.7%
- #35 KONOSUBA - God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Love For These Clothes Of Desire!
50% matchVery Positive87% of 266 reviews2024
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: PQube
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 120.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
It's time for a Visual Novel Quest with a twist! Join Kazuma, a reincarnated adventurer, and spend turbulent days with his unfortunate party members. Prepare for waifus, dress-up and resource management and get ready for an Isekai comedy that’s out of this world!
- #36 Countless Army
50% matchMostly Positive78% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Dos Estrellas
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the villain and raise an army of undead in this real-time reverse tower defense strategy game. Send waves of monsters to battle and aid them with your evil magic until they break your enemies’ defenses. It’s time for you to rule over the continent with an iron fist as its Dark Lord!
Why similar: Strategy 78.5%, Indie 21.5%
- #37 Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire
50% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Interactive FatePub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Monster Run is a dark fantasy beat’em up with roguelite elements. Fight as a giant monster cat protecting your home forest. Destroy massive armies of human soldiers and their allies. Evolve your attacks, master non-human tactics, and discover the joy of breathing fire.
- #38 Chess
50% matchMostly Positive79% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: Popoko VM Games
Windows · Mac
Chess: The Grand Strategy Game - Your Pocket Edition for Mastery and Fun!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #39 REPLAY BOYS
50% matchVery Positive95% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Split Narrative Inc.
Windows · Mac
Band emergency! This was supposed to be Hannah’s day off, but now she’s been roped into managing The Replay Boys, an up-and-coming boy band. Make choices to stoke multi-timeline romances, keep the band from killing each other, and fight a resurrected ’80s pop star ghost. Can you manage?
- #40 虚构未来（Imaginary future）
50% matchVery Positive85% of 118 reviews2024
Dev: Seventeen horns
Windows
Embark on the journey to your envisioned future! In this Japanese-style role-playing game infused with elements of microcosm and yuri, you will take on the perspective of Koushuki, a former gang girl. Experience the profound changes unfolding in the Serbian town through a series of events.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 Rebel Transmute
50% matchMostly Positive75% of 270 reviews2024
Dev: Fatal Fawn GamesPub: JanduSoft
Windows
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
- #42 Perfect Round Disc Golf
50% matchMostly Positive78% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: Tree Branch Games
Windows · Linux
A disc golf simulation by the disc golfer, for the disc golfer! Inspired by classic golfing games, updated for our favorite sport. Collect real discs, upgrade skills, and keep hunting the perfect round!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 MACHI KORO With Everyone
50% matchMixed64% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: Grounding Inc.
Windows
Gather up to THREE friends to join you in "MACHI KORO With Everyone"! The multi-million selling hit game from Japan is now on Steam! Online, offline, play how you like with whom you like!
Why similar: Strategy 81.7%, Indie 18.3%
- #44 Kingdom of Atham: Crown of the Champions
50% matchMostly Positive76% of 360 reviews2024
Dev: Sofa Mauve Studio Inc.
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
"Kingdom of Atham: Crown of the Champions - Embark on a medieval fantasy survival odyssey. Reclaim the stolen Crown, battle dark forces, and explore diverse lands. Uncover secrets, wield magic, and craft your destiny. Will you become the true champion of Atham?"
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #45 EmyLiveShow: Dragon & Mistresses Tale
50% matchMostly Positive77% of 44 reviews2024
Dev: Team Emily
Windows · Mac
Join four hot Vtuber girls on a kinky fantasy role-playing adventure. Roll the dice and break hearts in the new EmyLiveShow hentai visual novel!
- #46 Cookie Clicker
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 88,978 reviews2021
Dev: OrteilPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 89.4 hrsMean: 370.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Why similar: Strategy 62.9%, Indie 37.1%
- #47 Yoiyami Dancers: Twilight Danmaku Dancers
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 659 reviews2022
Dev: tripper_roomPub: Mediascape Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Dodge bullets to the rhythm and take down everything that moves! A rhythmical danmaku action game.
- #48 Love Delivery
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,566 reviews2022
Dev: Cometsoft Inc.Pub: Smilegate
Windows
A coming-of-age romance simulation that follows the raw, relatable journey of a real loser.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Hyper Gods
50% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Ground Control Studios
Windows
Hyper Gods is a 2D cinematic 80's-influenced shoot'em up that places you in frantically fast 1v1 battles against the Gods. Dodge, boost and shoot your way to protect Mankind and prevent its extinction!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 Arcadie: Second-Born
50% matchVery Positive95% of 385 reviews2022
Dev: Arcadie & Utopie
Windows · Mac
In this interactive tale of love and war, be the force of reason that your kingdom needs, or perpetuate its reputation as a force of destruction. Find love and weave friendships, or cast it all away for the sake of retribution.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Her World
50% matchVery Positive97% of 481 reviews2022
Dev: TALESSHOP Co., Ltd.
Windows
We invite you to experience this chillingly sweet romance.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 Jorel’s Brother and The Most Important Game of the Galaxy - Complete Edition
50% matchVery Positive85% of 240 reviews2023
Dev: Double Dash Studios
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
“Jorel’s Brother and The Most Important Game of the Galaxy” is a point-and-click adventure about an eight-year-old boy who lives with his eccentric family in the shadow of Jorel, his handsome and popular brother. Based on the award-winning Brazilian animation “Jorel’s Brother”.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Rubico
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Runners
Windows
You were in the middle of a dying city, in the center of which a giant monster nestled - the Plague. People infected with it lose their sanity and die over time. In the midst of all this chaos, you have only one friend you can rely on - a mechanical kettle.
Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #54 BlindOak Prow
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PositionMatters
Windows · Mac · Linux
BlindOak Prow is a competitive strategy card game with unique, subtle tactics that mirror the political maneuvers of the setting. Form a party of four characters mixing and matching the six different classes however you'd like, then outwit your foes for control of the city and for your survival on a new land.
Why similar: Strategy 73.1%, Indie 26.9%
- #55 Hellfire Fortress
50% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gold & Lumber Games UG
Windows · Mac
In the Hellfire Fortress classic 1 vs 1 mode you’ll face sheer endless waves of demons and thus the goal is straight forward: Your Fortress needs to survive longer than your opponent’s! It’s your task to set up an army and strategically invest in economy while constantly leveling up your Fortress.
Why similar: Strategy 72.8%, Indie 27.2%
