- #1 Madness of the Architect
97% matchMostly Negative28% of 29 reviews2018
Dev: Podunk StudiozPub: Funbox Media Ltd
Windows
Madness of The Architect is a surreal horror/puzzle game inspired by older point-and-click adventure games such as Myst, Nine Doors and 999: Nine Hours. Players enter a world that seems to be going insane and must solve labyrinths of mind bending puzzles to escape the clutches of the Mad Architect!
Why similar: Strategy 48.1%, Adventure 30.3%, Indie 21.7%
- #2 Maze Walker
96% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Daniel RychlýPub: Fungamesvr
Windows
Seriously big labyrinth for everyone who likes great challenges. This maze is exceptional by the fact that you can add a few interesting elements yourself, such as zombies and moving walls.
Why similar: Strategy 51.9%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 19.8%
- #3 Grey Zone
96% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: A.Lepunov
Windows
Become a member of the first space expedition! Go through the path with the main character from the first landing to the final point. Take under your control the colonist Scipio and prove that it's hard for you to break!
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #4 Space Ship Commander
95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Silver Dog Games
Windows
You and your space buddy must do whatever it takes to make it to your destination, wherever it is... The hard part about this journey is that your space ship is constantly breaking! Make repairs and avoid getting hit by asteroids in order to survive. Rack up points by fixing broken stations and shooting asteroids.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #5 Coffee Pot Terrarium
94% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Brothers Flint
Windows · Mac · Linux
Created by two brothers, Coffee Pot Terrarium is a turn-based puzzle game of tile manipulation. Raise new pathways to traverse the map, drop tiles to eliminate the enemy. Stop and smell the cherry blossoms.
Why similar: Strategy 71%, Indie 29%
- #6 Mad Crown
93% matchVery Positive80% of 148 reviews2018
Dev: S-Game
Windows
Mad Crown is a roguelike RPG set in a post-apocalyptic dieselpunk world. As an explorer, you are in search of the legendary crown. Make use of limited resources and meticulous tactics to battle an eerie enemy through the procedurally generated dungeons of a mutated world.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #7 Abyss
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TBDPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Abyss is an arcade-adventure game telling the story of a teenager who sets off on a dangerous and obstacle-filled journey. Take part in this thrilling adventure, explore 21 different levels, from the gloomy streets of Łódź to the infernal dungeons.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #8 Under The War
92% matchMostly Negative29% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Lightning Zebra
Windows
Cities are ruled by extremist organizations, and here become closed cages. As a leader of a team, you not only need to find enough materials to make your team survive, but also to be responsible for each of your choices. Under your leadership, can your team escape from the city?
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #9 Gotta Get Going: Steam Smugglers VR
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Alligator SL
Windows
In Steam Smugglers, you will be member of a band of thieves that want to return the social class balance by stealing the world's most valuable jewel, owned by one of the richest families in the country.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #10 游离大陆 Uniland
90% matchVery Positive92% of 63 reviews2019
Dev: Ughorse Studio
Windows
It is a multi-play strategy game made by the combination of turn-based and roguelike. Master clever tactics, awaken strong talent, recruit powerful troops, create grand city-states, and so on, quickly enter the Uniland, lead your troops to unravel the ultimate mystery of this chaotic continent.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #11 Safe House
91% matchMostly Negative38% of 34 reviews2018
Dev: Labs Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Slip behind the scenes of a shadowy political conflict and operate a top-secret safe house. Build, upgrade, and run your spy HQ as you shape the course of history … for better or worse!
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #12 Secrets of Deep Earth Shrine
91% matchMixed67% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Chronicle Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Dig your own path in this quirky strategy platformer. Use traps to defeat monsters, blow apart your environment, and collect treasure!
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #13 灵文西游
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: Winturn Games
Windows
《灵文西游》是一款Roguelike和TCG组合玩法的策略卡牌游戏。游戏以中国古典神话故事为背景,选择你的传奇英雄,遭遇随机生成的不同妖魔鬼怪和事件,踏上封神之路!
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #14 The Legend of Slime
88% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: XiaoLongBao Games
Windows
Become the leader of slime, and play a match three puzzle game!
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #15 Displaced
86% matchMixed56% of 216 reviews2017
Dev: GamexyPub: Alawar Casual
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Your mission: lead a group of civilians out of the war-torn country.
Why similar: Strategy 50.5%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 21.2%
- #16 Two For One
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: 2Hyper
Windows
Two For One is a game about 2 brothers who have lost their home planet. It's your job to help them, alone or together with someone else, find their home planet! Puzzle your way trough lots of levels to get back home! Push boxes, open doors and jump on your friend's head to solve all kinds of puzzles!
Why similar: Strategy 50.7%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 21.7%
- #17 TheMovingMaze
82% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Wuzi
Windows
A traditional maze awaits you, and you'll enjoy the old days
Why similar: Strategy 50%, Adventure 28.6%, Indie 21.4%
- #18 Trinity Dungeon
86% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Jonathan Grey
Windows
A turn-based tactical rogue-like dungeon crawler. Fight the monsters, descend the Dungeon, and recover the Amulet!
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #19 DROD: The Second Sky
83% matchPositive96% of 45 reviews2016
Dev: Caravel Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The climactic conclusion to Beethro Budkin's epic DROD adventures! Join Beethro as he races against time and mysterious forces in the Rooted Empire as the dire Grand Event looms near. With a huge amount of novel, quality puzzle content and story, this is the puzzle game to end all puzzle games.
Why similar: Strategy 51.9%, Adventure 27%, Indie 21.2%
- #20 Ramayana
84% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2015
Dev: Rakesh Malik
Windows · Linux
Real-Time-Strategy game based on great Indian epic Ramayana.
Why similar: Strategy 51.7%, Adventure 28.1%, Indie 20.1%
- #21 Horresco Referens
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Spiro Spero Games
Windows · Mac
You are a soldier from an alien race exiled from its native planet. Armed with a deck of cards, your goal is to make sure that your new home never gets colonized by the neighboring civilizations.
Why similar: Strategy 52.2%, Adventure 26.6%, Indie 21.3%
- #22 Prismatic Maze
81% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Bad Monkey Love
Windows · Mac
Prismatic Maze is an experimental evolving maze game where maps are alive, grown organically and naturally arranging themselves into hierarchical mazes. Hidden in each map are tools and ingredients to grow more complex mazes and aid to exploration of their patterns and treasures.
Why similar: Strategy 49.7%, Adventure 28%, Indie 22.4%
- #23 Under Spire 尖塔自走棋
80% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: CoolHeartGame
Windows
Real-time combat, depth strategy. Card formation, explore the maze.
Why similar: Strategy 53.1%, Adventure 26.3%, Indie 20.7%
- #24 Beasts Battle
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 96 reviews2016
Dev: Greenolor StudioPub: Kaser Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Turn-based battles.
Why similar: Strategy 52.9%, Adventure 26.4%, Indie 20.7%
- #25 Doors & Rooms
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: Gameday Inc.
Windows
Best of escape games! Just open the doors and escape!
Why similar: Strategy 49.3%, Adventure 29.5%, Indie 21.1%
- #26 Dimension of Dreams
77% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Kiif Entertainment
Windows
"Dimension of Dreams" is a unique strategy card game with rogue-like elements. You play an adventurer who embarks on an exhilarating journey through the dream world, where you engage in thrilling, fluid combat. Obtain and add cards strategically to your deck via exploration and upgrading existing cards.
Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Adventure 25.8%, Indie 21.5%
- #27 Where's Home?
77% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: RollingStarStudios
Windows
"Where's Home?" Playing as Pumo the little robot and his companion friend Buggie; you're on a mission to find a new way home, as your aircraft mysteriously malfunctioned. Find creative ways to hide and sneak around, use your abilities to put pieces together and get Pumo back home!
Why similar: Strategy 51.1%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 21%
- #28 Soul Elegy
75% matchMixed61% of 253 reviews2021
Dev: Sichuan Fruit Interactive Technology Co., Ltd.Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
This is a very challenging war chess + roguelike game, with random mazes, free combination of teams, and turn-based combat. In the game, players will lead all kinds of undead to counterattack the human world!
Why similar: Strategy 51.4%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 21%
- #29 Abyss Cave
67% matchPositive83% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Piao Jingfu
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
As a member of an elite squad, you are tasked with a mission to penetrate into the great abyss. You are to explore an unknown cave system and eliminate all threats that may arise, Good luck Soldier!
Why similar: Strategy 52.4%, Adventure 27.2%, Indie 20.4%
- #30 The Rabbit Hole Remastered
79% matchMixed68% of 37 reviews2017
Dev: VRMonkey
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
You find yourself in a strange place, a place full of darkness and mad things. After falling down the rabbit hole, what mysteries lies beyond? Are you ready to escape it? Be fast, be smart and survive this grim reality! Now Remastered!
Why similar: Strategy 49.9%, Adventure 29.7%, Indie 20.4%
- #31 Airborne: Trials
75% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Stealfy
Windows
Airborne is a game with a series of trials that get progressively harder. The trials contain parkour and puzzles that you must surpass. In these trials you will encounter many platforms that can be friend or foe, or there just kind of there and don't do anything but that usually doesn't happen.
Why similar: Strategy 51.1%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 21.1%
- #32 Dark Mystery
78% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Yash Future Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
Windows
Dark Mystery is a Puzzled Platformer Game in which player faces different types of difficulties to find his true love.
Why similar: Strategy 49.8%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 20.3%
- #33 Marinatide
78% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Viistopro
Windows · Mac · Linux
Marinatide is a sea fishing and exploration game, combining elements of strategy and adventure. Roam the sea, catch fish and complete the quest to fishing glory!
Why similar: Strategy 64.8%, Adventure 35.2%
- #34 Ring the City
76% matchMixed68% of 123 reviews2019
Dev: Giant Games
Windows
Wear rings and fight! How many rings can you wear on one hand? In Ring the City, you use rings to fight. Charge the rings and cast powerful magic!Choose your rings wisely and build your own ring squard! Loot the dungeon! Collect powerful rings and discover the truth of the world!
Why similar: Strategy 56.5%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 13.7%
- #35 Train Defense
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WildLabs
Windows
Train Tower Defense is a reverse Tower-Defense game! The thing here is, YOU would need to cross the entire map on your train and destroy the Enemies. Only 7% of the people can do this! Think YOU can do it?
Why similar: Strategy 64.8%, Adventure 35.2%
- #36 The Blackbird of Amor
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: BCETracks
Windows
When there is an unsolved mystery, Stein can't let it go, he must pursue it till the end. In Amor there is a certain woman that interests him, she is rumored to have eternal youth. To solve the mystery of this woman he must tear heaven from earth. His journey will take him far beyond the world he has known.
Why similar: Strategy 51%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 21.2%
- #37 Solmec: Among Stars
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Octopus 8 Studios
Windows
Solmec: Among Stars is a resource management game which allows you to play as the Ankazil, giant space roaming beasts. Infected by the Rot, you must travel across the different solar systems to find your way home. However, the Rot has spread across the galaxy making once peaceful environment’s infested with hostile enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 71%, Indie 29%
- #38 The Gladhollow Nasties
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Novel Creatures
Windows
A beast stalks the forest by night. It will take cunning, stealth, and strategy to survive long enough to untangle a mystery through one wooded village and many despicable generations. Discover the stories of the sinful, pernicious, malicious morsels themselves: The Gladhollow Nasties.
Why similar: Strategy 50.4%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 21.2%
- #39 Sproots
73% matchMixed50% of 32 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Sproots is a colony management survival game where you control a group of 'sproots' - small pikmin-like creatures - that are in constant need of food and water. They can explore different biomes, pick up objects and study them, learn skills, craft structures and items and teach each other about their findings.
Why similar: Strategy 51.9%, Adventure 27.3%, Indie 20.8%
- #40 Electric Sheep: A Cyberpunk Dystopia
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cross-Media Productions
Windows
In the near future, humanity has been minimalized, as the rise of android-rule crushes any threats to its near-term dominance. As part of the resistance, it’s your goal to undermine the automated dictatorship, and help free mankind from its robotic bonds.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #41 Broken of Darkness
72% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: VoidStudio
Windows
30 Heroes, 30+Boss, 30+Boss, 150+ different monsters, 390 Hero's Skills, 300+ Runes, 300+ passive effect for equipment, 500+ synthetic skill scrolls for equipment, Infinite randomly generated equipment Only by matching different equipment and props reasonably can heroes be more powerful.
Why similar: Strategy 51%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 21.2%
- #42 Bulleto Master
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Browith
Windows
Bulleto Master is a game in the wild wild west style. You shoot and control your bullets and try to move them to bunce and hit your targets.You can also go into slow motion for a limited time to gain additional controls over them. Defeat all the enemies and keep your town safe at all cost.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #43 The Roaring Empire
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArGeymsPub: Komiker Media
Windows · Mac
How about entering an epic and fantastic medieval world than you've ever seen before. In the legendary world of The Roaring Empire, you can talk to dragons, charm and guide your adventure with countless characters. Add a new color of RPG with this game.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #44 Baldina's Basis in Education Literary Grammar
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 71 reviews2019
Dev: Kourov Vyacheslav
Windows
Do you like reading the books of great writers? How many books have you read in school over the past year? Baldina is a teacher who makes you love books the way she loves them!
Why similar: Strategy 49.7%, Adventure 28.2%, Indie 22.1%
- #45 Purgatory II
74% matchMixed41% of 49 reviews2018
Dev: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In this indie strategy game, command your mighty legions of hellish creatures! Fight your way through the real world and seek vengeance for those who have wronged you!
Why similar: Strategy 49.6%, Adventure 27%, Indie 23.4%
- #46 Happy Empire 2 – The Lost Relic
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AEL Entertainment
Windows
Find mysterious relics inside an ancient chamber and progress through the Empire by using the power of those relics. Unite the Empire! Defeat the Evil Wizard and return home victorious!
Why similar: Strategy 51.9%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 21.2%
- #47 Umiro
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 174 reviews2018
Dev: Diceroll StudiosPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Huey and Satura find themselves lost in the colorless world of Umiro with no memory of their past or how they arrived in this mysterious place. Draw your way through beautiful puzzles and guide Huey and Satura as they restore color to Umiro.
Why similar: Strategy 50.6%, Adventure 28.8%, Indie 20.6%
- #48 Darkest Mana: Master of the Table
72% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: IKINAGAMES
Windows
Darkest Mana: Master of the Table is a card duel game. Create a deck and play online against players from around the world. You can also play solo in 20+ stages.
Why similar: Strategy 70%, Indie 30%
- #49 Battleships at Dawn!
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: Mintaka SoftworksPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Capture and hold resources, secure and defend strategic locations, explore large maps and try to outsmart a cunning AI in this new turn-based naval strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 71%, Indie 29%
- #50 Reignman(掌控者)
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 28 reviews2018
Dev: Winturn Games
Windows
"The Reignman" is a strategy card game based on exploration and fighting, the game combines the traditional RPG and Roguelike elements.
Why similar: Strategy 61.5%, Adventure 22%, Indie 16.5%
- #51 Gripper's Adventure
71% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Gripper's Studio
Windows · Mac
Over 40 challenging puzzles. Can you get to the treasure that lies at the end. Help Gripper get to the end of each room by collecting all the keys. Gameplay that eases you into new mechanics, that will eventually combine for more difficult puzzles.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #52 Vol'Talkes - The AI War
73% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2015
Dev: HyperDrive Games
Windows
SciFi RTS Space Combat game with a HUGE focus on the storyline in an open world (galaxy) gameplay mode. 4 different career paths, chosen by your actions during the story, force you to rethink your tactics and develop new strategies.
Why similar: Strategy 71%, Indie 29%
- #53 Captive
68% matchMixed50% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: KennexPub: Kennex Software
Windows
You wake up in a bright, but mysterious room. You don't know what is happening or how you got there.
Why similar: Strategy 55.2%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 9.2%
- #54 天罡星宿海 The sea of TianGang XinSu
69% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: GamerGG
Windows
“The sea of TianGang XinSu” is an individually developed independent space game. The story takes place after the war between the earth and the robot world. The earth was reduced to the bargaining chip of the robots and was locked at a place of black holes. The core aim of this pre-launched version is to release the earth from the robots.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 25.2%
- #55 Grimante
70% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: aftermonk
Windows · Mac
50+ levels of tactical combat boiled down to its addicting, puzzle-like core. Solve the battlefield.
Why similar: Strategy 71%, Indie 29%
- #56 CULT
69% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Salt & Pixel LLC
Windows
Chosen to be sacrificed. A kidnapped girl must use her wits and strength to escape a cult of demon worshipers.
Why similar: Strategy 51.9%, Adventure 27%, Indie 21.2%
- #57 Minimancer
69% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: James Flannery
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your team, fight your way through the land, unlock minions and become the ultimate Minimancer!
Why similar: Strategy 61.4%, Adventure 21.6%, Indie 17%