- #1 Defend Your Crypt
77% matchVery Positive81% of 53 reviews2016
Dev: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Defend Your Crypt is a strategy and puzzle game, in which we will have to avoid to lose our treasure by the tomb thieves. We, as the Pharaoh, can use different traps to defeat those damn ambitious humans who are profaning your tomb.
Why similar: Strategy 78.4%, Indie 21.6%
- #2 The Battle for Sector 219
77% matchMixed50% of 36 reviews2016
Dev: Large Visible Machine
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
The Battle for Sector 219 is an abstract strategy card game where two players field a sci-fi army battling a rival race for control of a world's capital city. The game is easy to learn and quick to play but has a depth of strategy usually found only in games that takes much longer to play.
Why similar: Strategy 77.8%, Indie 22.2%
- #3 Survival Kingdom
76% matchMixed61% of 44 reviews2016
Dev: Bat Byte
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Survival Kingdom is a turn-based, retro strategy game. You are the ruler of a kingdom in a medieval fantasy-pixel world. Embark on an adventure and test your ruling abilities. Will your kingdom escape death and achieve glory? Will you be able to survive? It all depends on you!
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #4 Atriage
77% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2016
Dev: Batu Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Atriage, a turn-based strategy game inspired by Sci-fi space naval battles in 80s Anime where you command a fleet of ten warships against a rival commander. Master four different ship classes, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and roles in combat in an all-out battle for supremacy.
Why similar: Strategy 77.8%, Indie 22.2%
- #5 Desert Ashes
76% matchMixed53% of 80 reviews2014
Dev: Nine Tales Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Desert Ashes is a turn based strategy game with online multiplayer and single player campaigns, it also boasts an innovative menu system allowing you to play multiple games at once. The Day-Night system adds a dynamic twist to turn based battles that affect the battlefield.
Why similar: Strategy 77.7%, Indie 22.3%
- #6 Satisfactory
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 264,678 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.7 hrsMean: 108.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Strategy 81.9%, Indie 18.1%
- #7 V Rising
50% matchVery Positive89% of 131,808 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
- #8 Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,154 reviews2022
Dev: Huw Millward
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warsim is a deep, rich text based kingdom ruling sim unlike anything else, complete with charming ASCII graphics. Navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.
Why similar: Strategy 81.8%, Indie 18.2%
- #9 Mercury Fallen
50% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #10 Trivia Night
50% matchMixed62% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: Timberwolf StudiosPub: My Way Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Play trivia game on your own or with your friends and challange them. Up to 6 player battle!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #11 The Slimeking's Tower
50% matchMostly Positive75% of 279 reviews2021
Dev: RevampedPRO
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Slimeking's Tower is an action/roguelike game where you have to explore a procedural generated tower, collect over 300 different items and slay over 100 different enemies in five different gamemodes to retrieve your people's moustaches back from the Slimeking.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #12 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 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #13 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 75.7%, Indie 24.3%
- #14 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 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #15 Tyran
50% matchMixed44% of 66 reviews2021
Dev: Dragon's Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
A combination of tactical elements from familiar strategic genres, with the ability to develop the character as in RPG games out of combat.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #16 Void Source
50% matchMostly Positive78% of 114 reviews2020
Dev: Xitilon
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Classic multi-directional (360°) shoot 'em up. Navigate your UFO through hazardous environments with dangerous enemies and beat huge bosses!
- #17 Astral Battlefield / 星界战场
47% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Bitca
Windows · Linux
A Turn-based Strategy Sci-Fi Board Game.
Why similar: Strategy 81.9%, Indie 18.1%
- #18 Heart in the Cell: Rebirth
42% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Team Gingerbread Man
Windows
“Heart in the Cell: Rebirth” is a real-time strategy (RTS) game which integrates the UI itself into the combat system. Players will act as rebels and explore the secrets beneath the vast wings of Oniros Corporation in a world Of highly advanced artificial intelligence.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #19 Life is Strange 2
50% matchVery Positive87% of 39,044 reviews2018
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Square Enix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.
- #20 CrossWorlds: Escape
51% matchMixed64% of 157 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
- #21 Ancient Guardian
50% matchMostly Positive72% of 159 reviews2019
Dev: North Lab
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ancient Guardian - action adventure in procedurally-generated locations. You play as father, who have to find his lost daughter, avoiding meeting dangerous enemies, bypassing traps and solving puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #22 Card Battle Spirit Link
50% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Speedrobo Games
Windows
Get ready for a new kind of digital multiplayer card game. No shuffled decks, no random card packs. In Card Battle Spirit Link, strategy is the key!
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #23 Re-O-Ri
49% matchVery Positive92% of 78 reviews2019
Dev: Get Out Games
Windows
Do you have what it takes to become the next Re-O-Ri? Battle to claim the title of “King of Kings” in this turn-based single and multiplayer strategy VR card game!
Why similar: Strategy 76.1%, Indie 23.9%
- #24 Broken Metal
50% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Armadillo Game Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight with a small team through floors of hostile machines, tweak your team to overcome increasingly more powerful enemies, live with the consequences of your actions, learn from your mistakes as you are overwhelmed and plan better for your next attempt.
Why similar: Strategy 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #25 Wequer
50% matchVery Positive91% of 78 reviews2019
Dev: Ben Allen
Windows
Chess has evolved! Hatch units from eggs, make ranged attacks, cast dastardly spells, and take control of the board to win in Wequer.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #26 NUVAVULT
50% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Mim Hufford
Windows · Mac · Linux
A perspective altering puzzle game where 2D and 3D collide.
Why similar: Strategy 75.6%, Indie 24.4%
- #27 Injustice™ 2
50% matchVery Positive86% of 23,865 reviews2017
Dev: NetherRealm StudiosPub: WB Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and power up the ultimate version of your favourite DC legends in INJUSTICE 2. This is your Legend. Your Journey. Your Injustice.
- #28 Tile Conqueror
51% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Firenja
Windows
Tile Conqueror is a strategy game. Build your base, expand your army, conquer tiles and get crystals. Buy permanent upgrades with the crystals you collect to upgrade your army and buildings to conquer stronger tiles.
Why similar: Strategy 76.9%, Indie 23.1%
- #29 Minda
50% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Sunho Kim
Windows · Mac
Online Abalone board game.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #30 5Leaps (Space Tower Defense)
50% matchPositive100% of 32 reviews2019
Dev: DeepDimensionGames
Windows
5Leaps is a retro-futuristic strategy game "Tower Defense" style.
Why similar: Strategy 75.7%, Indie 24.3%
- #31 Rezist: Tower Defense
50% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: SparkGames
Windows
Protect your server from the malicious software intrusion. Improve your utility programs in time, rollout patches — and you will stand fearless even against the algorithms of your most devious enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #32 Star Police
50% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Cow Game
Windows
Tower Defense game
Why similar: Strategy 75.7%, Indie 24.3%
- #33 Sector Six
50% matchVery Positive93% of 261 reviews2018
Dev: V3663L
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Sector Six is a side-scrolling, sci-fi shooter with a silhouette aesthetic, procedural loot, extensive customization, and story missions.
- #34 Blaze Revolutions
47% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: Little Chicken Game CompanyPub: Kanolio Ventures Ltd
Windows · Mac
Roll up, Light Up, Rise up! Live the story of Janet and Winston Blaze, follow in their quest to liberate their captured father. Unravel the mysteries of a world in which the giant SomaCorp rules over the people and bring it down. Welcome to the Green Revolution!
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #35 Rest House
50% matchMostly Negative29% of 38 reviews2020
Dev: studio Don Quixote
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
“All wrong.” Game consists of five stories that are connected with mysterious characters and events. The main character is trying to discover the meaning each of them. He gets sucked in the events that will lead him to the strange places where he meets strange people, fairy tale creatures and landscapes.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Chessboard Kingdoms
50% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Hashed Egg
Windows
Chessboard Kingdoms is a multiplayer, turn-based strategy game inspired by the chess mechanics. Employ warriors and engineers, build siege machines, construct walls and towers, consult your court wizard — all while exploring vast landscapes of the realm and satisfying your puzzle-solving appetite.
Why similar: Strategy 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #37 Arena
51% matchMixed70% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: FX GAMES
Windows · Mac
Enter the Arena! From the creators of Galaxy Control comes a real-time multiplayer game starring the space stations assault and defence, your favorite Galay Control characters and much, much more.
Why similar: Strategy 78%, Indie 22%
- #38 The Kingdom of God
38% matchMixed69% of 216 reviews2023
Dev: 明枭网络
Windows · Mac
The Kingdom of God: Creation is an independent game integrating territory management, resource management, strategic chess and exploration. As a new God, players develop their own country in the dangerous universe and eventually become the king of the new generation of gods.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #39 抵抗组织
49% matchMostly Negative27% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: BoardgameProgramPlan
Windows
玩家将扮演二战法国抵抗组织的一员，在法西斯控制的城镇中完成组织提供的任务，为将德国人逐出家园而奋战
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #40 Orbiz
50% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Anoman Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Orbiz is a local coop multiplayer game with rogue-like elements. The primary objective of the game is to engage in three levels of combat with various zombies on each spherical world before locating the portal to travel to the next one.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 Lost Frontier
50% matchVery Positive96% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: Mika Mobile, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Turn-Based Tactics in the Weird West.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #42 Strazeal
50% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Tradosoft
Windows · Linux
A digital strategy board game for 2 - 4 players. Capture your opponent's bases while protecting all of your own using land, water and special weapons.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #43 Operation Valderon
50% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Ryo Suzuki
Windows
The people of Valderon need you. The planet is under attack. The emperor has personally selected you to command the defenses. Design your fleet. Create your own path. Save Valderon from an endless wave of enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #44 Draw The Way
51% matchPositive94% of 33 reviews2018
Dev: OverjoyedGameDevs
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Draw The Way is a hardcore platforming game. Draw your platforms and shields with your mouse. Choose from different heroes and play solo or team up with a friend.. either way it won't be easy! So.. are you up for the challenge?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 Dice Defenders
50% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Full Screen Sorcery
Windows · Mac
Dice Defenders brings the classic old school feel of many early tower defense games and adds a new level of strategy and planning through the thousands of possible different combinations of different towers, tower sizes, and dice to offer a unique challenge to veterans of the genre and newcomers alike.
Why similar: Strategy 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #46 Yardlings
46% matchVery Positive85% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Yardlings is a local multiplayer battle arena about vegetables in a garden! Build an adorable army, place yourself strategically on the battlefield, using special abilities, capturing potted plants (outposts) and big seed-shooting flowers while you try to gain control over the yard!
Why similar: Strategy 76.1%, Indie 23.9%
- #47 Call of VII
48% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2020
Dev: Trevor AlexPub: EAE VII小队
Windows
VII is a puzzle adventure game with mysterious cult story inspired by the concept of Ludum Dare 45. Play as curious adventurers, follow the mythical and unnameable power lurking beneath, step into the deep unknown.
Why similar: Strategy 79.9%, Indie 20.1%
- #48 Dominari Empires
51% matchVery Positive98% of 63 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny RTS
Windows
Got 5-10 minutes? Annihilate your enemy in a lightning fast micro 4X/RTS game set in deep space. Gameplay relies heavily on strategy, forward-thinking, and twitch-like reflexes.
Why similar: Strategy 77.1%, Indie 22.9%
- #49 Card Brawl
51% matchMixed69% of 29 reviews2019
Dev: MyDreamForever_old
Windows
A mix of Сard games and Roguelikes. Fight with monsters, craft your unique deck and kill bosses. Try experimenting with different combinations and strategies to complete all raids. Start monster hunting in this new deckbuilding game!
Why similar: Strategy 76.9%, Indie 23.1%
- #50 Cat Defense
50% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Red twice potato
Windows
An army of the undead attacked the defenseless village of cute kittens
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #51 TY the Tasmanian Tiger
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,669 reviews2016
Dev: Krome Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
G'day, Mate. Explore the wilds of Australia with TY the Tasmanian Tiger, the charming Aussie platformer.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 Geometry Dash
50% matchVery Positive93% of 563,428 reviews2014
Dev: RobTop Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 97.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!
Why similar: Strategy 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #53 Heidentum
50% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Kirchesch
Windows · Mac · Linux
Heidentum is a multiplayer strategy game where you choose your Paganism and fight for it until your enemies are defeated.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #54 Twinfold
50% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac
A roguelike about merging golden babies and squashing angry faces.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #55 Blast-off
50% matchVery Positive87% of 419 reviews2018
Dev: Quad-Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Blast-off is a hardcore jumper/runner/shmup, where your alter ego will be a ball of anti-matter seeking to leave our Universe. Anti-matter is extremely difficult to exist in our universe, because when it contact with matter it annihilates.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Quantum Multiverse
50% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: RipTyde GamesPub: RipTyde Studio
Windows
If you're looking for a immersive experience of Evading a predator hunting for you in a futuristic science facility, this is for you.
Why similar: Strategy 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #57 The Wizard's Tower
50% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Paul Kearley
Windows · Mac
The Wizard's Tower is a Tower Defence game that gives you direct control over the Towers. Using three different elements to maximum effect to stop your foes from destroying your main Tower.
Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
