- #1 ROD: Revolt Of Defense
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 546 reviews2016
Dev: Rock Wale
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!
Why similar: Strategy 37.6%, Simulation 31.9%, Action 17.1%, Indie 13.3%
- #2 Escape the Backrooms
50% matchVery Positive91% of 134,051 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Why similar: Action 56.7%, Indie 43.3%
- #3 Path of Exile 2
50% matchMostly Positive73% of 206,647 reviews2024
Dev: Grinding Gear Games
Windows
Median: 48.3 hrsMean: 139.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #4 Delta Force
50% matchMixed58% of 176,903 reviews2024
Dev: Team JadePub: TiMi Studio Group
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 55.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Play for free in operator-based extraction and full-scale combined arms warfare. Become elite Operators, customize an ever-expanding arsenal of weapons, and deploy into thrill-packed missions across multiple modes.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #5 Doodle WHAT?!
50% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Binx.tv
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Stream your canvas on Twitch and turn your chat into a guessing game! Fully integrated with Twitch, this social drawing game lets your viewers compete in real time to guess what you're drawing! Featuring a persistent leaderboard, customizable word bank, and multiple gameplay modes!
Why similar: Strategy 69.4%, Indie 30.6%
- #6 Inscryption
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,012 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #7 Paint the Town Red
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 31,663 reviews2021
Dev: South East Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.
Why similar: Action 68.6%, Indie 31.4%
- #8 NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
50% matchMostly Positive73% of 298,404 reviews2021
Dev: 24 EntertainmentPub: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 122.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Dive into the legends of the Far East in NARAKA: BLADEPOINT; team up with friends in fast-paced melee fights for a Battle Royale experience unlike any other. Find your playstyle with a varied cast of heroes with unique skills. More than 40 million players have already joined the fray, play free now!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #9 Save Home
64% matchMixed58% of 99 reviews2016
Dev: BadWolf GamesPub: HandMade Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
You have inherited a farm! What is waiting for you on arrival at the place ?! Huge field with a bunch of the crop? The big and vast land? Not a bit of it! Your new farm it is - an old junk! Next to that, nestled ancient cemetery! Restore and improve and protect his farm from attack undead!
Why similar: Strategy 31.5%, Simulation 28.7%, Action 25%, Indie 14.7%
- #10 HIDE AND SEEK
51% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jamong Inc.Pub: Jamong Inc.
Windows
HIDE AND SEEK is a stealth action FPS game that is similar to popular asymmetric multi-player games in PC and mobile platforms, however, was reinterpreted into VR platform. The asymmetric match of 1 vs 3 is the major feature
Why similar: Strategy 35.2%, Simulation 31.1%, Action 18.6%, Indie 15.1%
- #11 Underflow
51% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Triple Hill InteractivePub: Grindstone
Windows
Explore the strange, underwater world of Underflow as you build your own biomechanical army by capturing enemy nanobots and recruiting them to your side. Use your own lifeforce to attack enemies – and heal allies – in a real-time strategy adventure like no other!
Why similar: Strategy 34.5%, Simulation 31.5%, Action 19.2%, Indie 14.8%
- #12 DEVOUR
50% matchVery Positive91% of 86,866 reviews2021
Dev: Straight Back Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.
Why similar: Indie 51.3%, Action 48.7%
- #13 Future Simulation World
46% matchMixed57% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: KANNADE
Windows
Drawing on the existing real-world data and current state-of-the-art research and exploration results, and taking into account historical data provided by the World Bank, a streamlined and relatively sensible data model that outlines all possible options for future development is built.
Why similar: Strategy 42.2%, Simulation 39.7%, Indie 18.1%
- #14 Bloons TD 6
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 382,108 reviews2018
Dev: Ninja Kiwi
Windows · Mac
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 75.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Why similar: Strategy 89%, Action 11%
- #15 HUNGER
60% matchMostly Negative32% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: Black Smerch
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 99%
HUNGER: Computer game in the genre of survival, telling the story of a lonely soldier, abandoned to an unexplored island. People say that there is life on this island and the settlers of this island are building their civilization there.
Why similar: Strategy 42.2%, Simulation 39.7%, Indie 18.1%
- #16 XONG VR
47% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Craig BurgessPub: TREEFORT VR
Windows
Xong - A ball skyrockets back and forth between you and another player. You are in a command center controlling a paddle. You can bounce the play ball towards your opponent by simply positioning yourself in front of it and waiting for it to bounce off you. The goal is to get the xong ball into the competitions goal.
Why similar: Strategy 34.1%, Simulation 32.1%, Action 18.6%, Indie 15.1%
- #17 Disobey - Revolt Simulator
47% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tunnel Vision Studio
Windows · Mac
"When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty" - Are you ready to lead a Revolt? Disobey is a hybrid game between a real time strategy and a third person action game.
Why similar: Strategy 34.3%, Simulation 32.8%, Action 18.2%, Indie 14.7%
- #18 EXPLOITATION: Corporate Greed
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JUNE STUDIO
Windows
A third person sandbox action-adventure tactical game that blends in tycoon mechanics. In Exploitation: Corporate Greed, you take the helm of a small intergalactic company, tasked in carving your path to becoming a galactic conglomerate in a universe where only the ruthless survive.
Why similar: Strategy 34.9%, Simulation 31.8%, Action 18.4%, Indie 14.9%
- #19 The Floor is Lava
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KokashoPub: Cat Launch Studio
Windows
The Floor is Lava is a parkour and adventure game with mountains, rocks and even floating objects that defy the law of physics! But remember, if you fall in the lava. You'll have to do it all again!
Why similar: Strategy 40.2%, Simulation 37.5%, Action 22.3%
- #20 nan
46% matchNo user reviews
Windows
Fight against weird purple objects with no end goal!
Why similar: Strategy 36.2%, Simulation 34.1%, Indie 16.6%, Action 13.2%
- #21 Blinding Blade
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boondoggle Interactive
Windows
Blinding Blade is a multiplayer indie game with that allows players to use precision and finesse to defeat opponents ● Engage in skillful swordplay ● Take manual control of your blade to execute precision attacks and block blaster shots ● Multiplayer focused
Why similar: Strategy 33.9%, Simulation 30.9%, Action 19.8%, Indie 15.5%
- #22 MULE Returns
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kotori Studios LtdPub: Comma 8 Studios
Windows
MULE is a ridiculously fun and addictive strategy game that combines real-time and turn-based styles as you battle for land and resources on a newly colonized planet. The game is easy to grasp but provides great depth of game-play.
Why similar: Strategy 42.4%, Simulation 38.6%, Indie 19%
- #23 Prison Planet
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SpringloadedPub: Springloaded
Windows
Intergalactic prison building adventure! Design and build your own intergalactic space-prison!
Why similar: Strategy 42.6%, Simulation 38.8%, Indie 18.7%
- #24 BIGHARDSUN
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Smushkovich
Windows
You were exiled to an old castle in the desert. Command people, monitor their condition, explore, improve the castle, and make tough decisions - all to survive! And while you're struggling with the hottest summer, the temperature is only rising, and the storms won't subside.
Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, Simulation 38.9%, Indie 18.3%
- #25 Twisty Tumble (VR)
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel After Pixel
Windows
It's a tricky puzzle game in Virtual Reality. Chill out in the calm, hypnotic undersea environment, and challenge your mind to reassemble the pyramids!
Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, Simulation 38.9%, Indie 18.3%
- #26 Initiative
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Indelve
Windows · Mac
Initiative is an Aerospace Company Manager. Build and grow your aerospace company on Earth and be the first to establish a self-sustainable colony on Mars.
Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, Simulation 38.9%, Indie 18.3%
- #27 The Parchment - For The Realm
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PatuTec
Windows
The Parchment is a turn-based strategie game, pitting different houses against each other in the fight for the crown. Use diplomacy, intrigue, trade and your military to subjugate other houses into vassalship or wipe them from history altogether.
Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, Simulation 38.9%, Indie 18.3%
- #28 Space Battle Core
46% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Korion
Windows · Mac · Linux
Space Battle Core is a new 4X sci-fi game combining turn based hex combat gameplay with a real-time exploration experience.After the Earth’s demise, it is your task to recreate and spread human civilization in space.
Why similar: Strategy 43%, Simulation 39.2%, Indie 17.8%
- #29 Hentai Girl Karen
50% matchVery Positive94% of 4,509 reviews2019
Dev: GirlGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 54.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Relax class puzzle game to keep you in a good mood
Why similar: Simulation 58.9%, Indie 41.1%
- #30 SE VR World Demo
40% matchMostly Positive77% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: Sektan
Windows
This game is a playable technology showcase that introduces game mechanics which will be in a new game.
Why similar: Simulation 48.8%, Action 28.3%, Indie 22.9%
- #31 Battle Buddies VR
45% matchNo user reviews
Dev: C5A
Windows
Battle Buddies is a local co-op Tower defence and VR first person shooter in one.
Why similar: Strategy 34.8%, Simulation 30.2%, Action 20.1%, Indie 14.9%
- #32 Hentai Girl Linda
50% matchVery Positive93% of 4,766 reviews2018
Dev: GirlGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Relax class puzzle game to keep you in a good mood
Why similar: Simulation 56.9%, Indie 43.1%
- #33 Hentai Girl Hime
50% matchVery Positive93% of 4,172 reviews2018
Dev: GirlGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Relax class puzzle game to keep you in a good mood
Why similar: Simulation 62.6%, Indie 37.4%
- #34 MODERN NAVAL COMBAT
45% matchMixed59% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: 黑丝带制作组Pub: 电钮组
Windows
This game is a simulation real-time strategy game with the theme of modern naval warfare. Players can control all kinds of active naval equipment of the three camps, and use the common tactics and tactics of the navy in reality to start a fierce confrontation with the computer.
Why similar: Strategy 35%, Simulation 32.2%, Action 18%, Indie 14.8%
- #35 The Cursed Forest
50% matchVery Positive89% of 875 reviews2019
Dev: KPy3OPub: Grable Team
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Active Crowds
43% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuganBoB
Windows
Active Crowds is a physics-based strategy game where you can interact with large groups of people.
Why similar: Strategy 34.1%, Simulation 32.1%, Action 18.6%, Indie 15.1%
- #37 Narco Tycoon
43% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TBDPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Narco Tycoon is a simulation game about building a drug empire. Manage and develop your own drug factories. Employ the best people in the "industry" and invest in new technologies. Influence local politics, destroy your rivals or take over their business. Become the real Drug Lord!
Why similar: Strategy 43.2%, Simulation 38.6%, Indie 18.1%
- #38 Haunted Showers
43% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nullnut
Windows
Prepare for the worst showers of your life. Your Great Grand Uncle’s will notifies you that his estate will be passed on to you, that is if you’re still alive to enjoy it. Survive the trials and terrors of the five showers in his mansion, and his wealth is yours.
Why similar: Strategy 34.9%, Simulation 31.8%, Action 18.4%, Indie 14.9%
- #39 Lumbermill
43% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BW Games
Windows
Build, Manage and Maintain a Lumber Mill deep in the Forest!
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Simulation 39.7%, Indie 19.1%
- #40 NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4
50% matchVery Positive91% of 90,046 reviews2016
Dev: CyberConnect2 Co. Ltd.Pub: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The latest opus in the acclaimed STORM series is taking you on a colourful and breathtaking ride. Take advantage of the totally revamped battle system and prepare to dive into the most epic fights you’ve ever seen !
Why similar: Action 100%
- #41 Figure Simulator War
50% matchMostly Positive80% of 99 reviews2019
Dev: H-GIRL
Windows
Battle of siege towers and pushers with cute figure ~~ On the battlefield of strategy games ~~ Playing action games ~~( ◔ ڼ ◔ ) level editor: intuitive and convenient, create your own battlefield, overthrow the level of players
Why similar: Strategy 34.9%, Simulation 31.4%, Action 18.9%, Indie 14.8%
- #42 TankCraft
54% matchMixed68% of 60 reviews2017
Dev: Snowdon Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
TankCraft is an action game based around gladiatorial style tank battles, but skill alone won't be enough to succeed here, the unique thing about TankCraft is the player crafts their own tanks however they choose with no restrictions to shapes, sizes or design.
Why similar: Strategy 51.1%, Action 27%, Indie 21.9%
- #43 Badland Envoys
42% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brave New GamesPub: ARP Games
Windows
Become a Badland Envoy. Gather your crew, arm your rides, and travers the desolated wastelands filled with danger, high octane destruction, and fast paced chases. Manage expeditions in tactical mode or take direct control over the action.
Why similar: Strategy 34.7%, Simulation 31.8%, Action 18.7%, Indie 14.9%
- #44 Squirrel Forest
42% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Squadrant Games
Windows
Deforestation is an apocalypse for squirrels. Only a few trees are left standing. Squirrels are put in danger and forced to act. Two brothers Zen and Ven decide to restore harmony in the forest by uniting fellow survivors and embarking on a journey to replant the forest. They need you to help them!
Why similar: Strategy 42.3%, Simulation 39.2%, Indie 18.4%
- #45 Outbreak Story
41% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Individual JKs
Windows
Player acts as a state administrator to make decisions on epidemic prevention and then a mathematical model can simulate the impact of your decision. Consider your decision carefully and try to lose less lives to win the battle.
Why similar: Strategy 42.5%, Simulation 39.4%, Indie 18.2%
- #46 Pick Your Poison
42% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ranmantaru Games
Windows
Pick a disadvantage each level, how far can you go in this roguelike?
Why similar: Strategy 50.3%, Action 27.5%, Indie 22.2%
- #47 Mars Wars
42% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lonewolfdesign
Windows
Mars Wars is a top-down shooter game, where you have to defend your base from aliens on Mars. You control a rover with different weapons that you can use to kill the aliens.
Why similar: Strategy 50.3%, Action 27.5%, Indie 22.2%
- #48 Tank Wars: Anniversary Edition
47% matchMostly Positive79% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Stefan Fleischer
Windows
In Tank Wars: Anniversary Edition, a player has to control a (stationary) artillery tank in order to take down opponents with ballistic shots from a selection of different weapons. We paired old school, pixelated, low-resolution 2D graphics with some modern-ish concepts and effects.
Why similar: Strategy 36%, Simulation 30.7%, Action 18.4%, Indie 14.9%
- #49 Viscera Cleanup Detail
50% matchVery Positive92% of 23,372 reviews2015
Dev: RuneStorm
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.
Why similar: Simulation 82.7%, Indie 17.3%
- #50 WAVESHAPER
50% matchVery Positive88% of 2,179 reviews2017
Dev: GAMES FOR HUMANS
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
WAVESHAPER is a minimalist score attack game in which you attempt to stop the 2D vector menace, one obstacle at a time.
Why similar: Action 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #51 Showtime! 2
42% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Myrtilus Entertainment
Windows
"Showtime! 2" let's you run your very own movie studio! Build your studio from the ground up and compete against rival studios to create movies your audiences want to see and develop new technology to stay relevant in the film industry.
Why similar: Strategy 42.9%, Simulation 39.1%, Indie 18%
- #52 Pinkman
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 691 reviews2017
Dev: Viridino Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Pinkman is a fast-paced, action platformer about a lost man with pink skin and an incredible skill to fart.
Why similar: Action 56%, Indie 44%
- #53 Blue Screen Adventures
41% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bacq StellanPub: OtakuMaker.com
Windows
BSA is a text adventure game. You will play the nephew or niece of one of the three greatest genius of computer developement from the years 1970/1980.
Why similar: Strategy 34.1%, Simulation 32.6%, Action 18%, Indie 15.3%
- #54 礎の楯 -AEGIS-
51% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Kotoshiro
Windows
"AEGIS" The fusion of tower defense and action shmup! "Defense shmup"! You can only fight, build, protect. Defeat the approaching enemy, make friends and protect the core. You will be a shield to protect the foundation core.
Why similar: Strategy 33.3%, Simulation 30.3%, Action 21.3%, Indie 15%
- #55 Prism Collider
53% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Gestmorph Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In this adventure your objective is simple: reach the end of each level. While it may be simple, it's not going to be easy. Using both the white and red layers you'll have to travel across all 30 levels as the game turns from basic puzzles to the hardest challenges you have ever faced.
Why similar: Strategy 58.8%, Action 22.8%, Indie 18.4%
- #56 Tom Clancy’s The Division™
50% matchMostly Positive71% of 95,768 reviews2016
Dev: Massive EntertainmentPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 25.4 hrsMean: 94.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #57 The Descendant
50% matchVery Positive89% of 7,313 reviews2016
Dev: Gaming Corps ABPub: Microids Indie
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #58 Cat or Bread?
50% matchVery Positive92% of 758 reviews2017
Dev: Casioqu
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A game about cat and bread.
Why similar: Indie 100%