- #1 Sector 724
97% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2016
Dev: Fedor Votrin
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Sector 724 - space strategy game featuring real-time tactical warfare. You can assume supreme command of the military forces of a corporation, and help it gain dominance in space. Your actions will determine your corporation's success, or failure, in attaining its paramount objective: to leave the planetary system ahead of its...
Why similar: Strategy 77.9%, Indie 22.1%
- #2 Shattered Throne
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 43 reviews2016
Dev: Checkmark Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Shattered Throne is a turn based fantasy strategy game that will challenge your skills as a general. No luck to blame, only your ability to master the unique units and leaders to exploit the combo system will decide if you are victorious.
Why similar: Strategy 73.4%, Indie 26.6%
- #3 The Battle for Sector 219
95% matchMixed51% of 37 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 74.5%, Indie 25.5%
- #4 Survival Kingdom
94% 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #5 Defend Your Crypt
94% 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 75.2%, Indie 24.8%
- #6 Meld
93% matchPositive97% of 30 reviews2016
Dev: Axis Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Meld is a mind-bending puzzle game featuring 200+ levels and a build-in editor so you can create your own and play levels made by others!
Why similar: Strategy 79.1%, Indie 20.9%
- #7 Party Saboteurs: After Party
92% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2016
Dev: The Glitch Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Party Saboteurs is a local multiplayer espionage party game for up to four players. Each player controls a spy who is trying to blend in an exclusive cocktail party to complete the missions. The catch? At the same time, they are all controlling snipers trying to identify and eliminate each other’s spies.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #8 Tower Dwellers
91% matchMixed54% of 46 reviews2016
Dev: ECC GAMES SP. Z O.O.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Tower Dwellers is a unit crafting tower defence that features lots of micromanagement and keeps the player engaged in the battle throughout the entire game.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #9 Tenshu General
91% matchMixed66% of 32 reviews2015
Dev: SmartArt Game StudioPub: Tenshu General
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Tenshu General, is a simple, elegant, Real Time Strategy (RTS) game for those who favor short play sessions over long sessions. Quick casual game play combined with the challenge of continuously adapting enemies allow for a surprisingly challenging exercise in strategy. It is a cross breed between a board game and a classic RTS.
Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #10 The Base
89% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: GMGame
Windows
PC only tower defence inspired by oldschool RTS games. Build up your defence in realtime under the constant pressure of creeps.
Why similar: Strategy 74.5%, Indie 25.5%
- #11 Ranger of the jungle
90% matchMostly Negative40% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: miqu studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
The elves in Jade Forest possess the Eternal Power, which was coveted by the King of demons who summoned the Demonic Circle and commanded Hellhounds, Fallen Angels and Orcs to invade the realm of elves.The elves were outnumbered and you must convene your former colleagues, lead the team, control the battle, guarantee the supplies, then...
Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #12 Arena
87% matchMixed70% of 56 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 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #13 LIT
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: WayForward
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #14 Battle Of Worldviews
86% matchMixed43% of 28 reviews2018
Dev: ARGamesPub: Metal Fox
Windows
Battle Of Worldviews - "real time strategy" in which you have to fight with friends or AI, while watching the resources, weather conditions and their development.
Why similar: Strategy 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #15 Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition
89% matchVery Positive83% of 247 reviews
Dev: StarChart-Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.
Why similar: Strategy 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #16 Urbance Clans Card Battle!
84% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: SteambotPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Street gangs rise up in Neo-City. Time has come to gather your own gang to take over the whole city, district after district. Takedowns will happen, show no mercy if you wanna survive.
Why similar: Strategy 73.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #17 Desert Ashes
86% matchMixed53% of 80 reviews2014
Dev: Nine Tales Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 74.4%, Indie 25.6%
- #18 Asteroid Wars
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Samuel Kunik
Windows
Asteroid Wars is a strategy game at its core. No intro, no story, minimal settings and just pure gameplay. You have your carrier, a bunch of fighters and a whole asteroid field to conquer. But you are not alone. There is always someone who has better carrier, more fighters and needs to be kicked in the …
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #19 Great Big War Game
84% matchVery Positive93% of 75 reviews2012
Dev: Rubicon Development
Windows
Join 2.5 million gamers in this award-winning, BAFTA-Nominated turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 75%, Indie 25%
- #20 Greece Defense TD
82% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: GameArxPub: TCH International Group, LLC
Windows · Mac
Greece Defense is an epic tower defense saga where you play as the general of the united Greek army and your duty is to protect your land from invasion of thousands of mythical creatures driven by mighty Titans who somehow managed to escape from Tartarus.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #21 Shadows of War
85% matchMostly Negative34% of 167 reviews2015
Dev: TRI.G
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Shadows of War is a 2D Real-Time Strategy sidescroller game. The game combines classical RTS elements with new ideas into a 2D game.
Why similar: Strategy 74.2%, Indie 25.8%
- #22 Colo Grid Zation
82% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Armagedoom Games
Windows · Mac
In Colo Grid Zation will have to plan the best way to expand your grid-body creature to get the most efficient resources and survive!
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #23 Battle for Orion 2
81% matchVery Positive80% of 75 reviews2017
Dev: Infinite Loop Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Earth has been destroyed. Mankind is fractured. The galaxy is at war. But one hope remains: a new home for mankind. Probes detected a habitable planet in the Orion sector. You must fight your way to it, but nothing is as it seems. A more devious plan is underway that threatens the entire galaxy.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #24 TurretCraft
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Antropi
Windows
Build maze, send units, destroy your opponents! TurretCraft is a fast paced, competitive tower defense game with multiplayer, mazing, and mercenaries.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #25 Dominari Empires
78% 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 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #26 Archamon
79% matchMixed68% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Vionsoft
Windows
Archamon is a realtime creative/building/survival strategy game from medieval times. You must build villages and you have to acquire food for your people and raw materials. Expand and rise your nation, create an aristocratic family and achieve higher nobility titles.
Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #27 Magic Pixel Picross
80% matchMostly Negative33% of 24 reviews2017
Dev: Shandong Jerei Digital Technology Co.,LTD.
Windows
A game of numerical reasoning for practicing your logical thinking. A game of exploration and collection which may recall your childhood memories. A drawing game for you to paint your dreams freely.
Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #28 Tile Conqueror
77% 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 73.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #29 Ziggurat 3D Chess
79% matchMixed56% of 32 reviews2017
Dev: Michael LampelPub: Lampel Enterprises
Windows
Ziggurat Three Dimensional Chess(TM), is a true three dimensional environment which combine the familiar movements of standard chess and exciting new moves never seen before. The rules of movement are easy to learn so beginners will be playing their first game in minutes.
Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #30 Card Brawl
76% 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 73.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #31 Secret Santa
75% matchVery Positive91% of 110 reviews2016
Dev: Daniel Jonathan BourkePub: Project Tranquil
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Sneak around children, pets, and the elderly as you deliver Christmas joy. Complete the list of deliveries, and have some cookies.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #32 Don't Panic!
76% matchMixed53% of 45 reviews2017
Dev: V34D4RPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Don't Panic! a logical strategy with top view. Your goal is to kill all the people on the level by limited number of zombies.
Why similar: Strategy 73.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #33 Card Battle Spirit Link
73% 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #34 Epic Little War Game
75% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2017
Dev: Rubicon Development
Windows
The lighter side of turn-based war gaming. Take your time to plan good strategies, deploy your troops in the right places, try not to laugh whilst killing your enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #35 StoneDefence
74% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: RenZhai(人宅)Pub: RenZhai
Windows
There is a mysterious continent full of songs and laughter, a huge God stone stands in the center of the continent, guarding the local residents from generation to generation, the good scenery is not long, the God stone is missing, the mainland without the God stone Guardian lost the vitality of the past, a large number of evil forces hit
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #36 Direct Hit: Missile War
78% matchMixed46% of 24 reviews2014
Dev: Polynetix Studio
Windows
Direct Hit: Missile War offers a deep strategic experience to those weary of the never ending stream of Command and Conquer clones that dominate the real-time strategy market. Direct Hit brings many fresh ideas to the table, in particular: separate player maps, and the replacement of classic RTS units by customizable missiles.
Why similar: Strategy 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #37 The Wizard's Tower
73% 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #38 Rezist: Tower Defense
71% 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #39 Navalia
73% matchMixed46% of 41 reviews2017
Dev: Luotsi EntertainmentPub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Design, build and command your fleet of spaceships! Navalia allows you to freely design ships for your fleet, lead them in battle against formidable foes and gradually conquer the galaxy. Unleash your creativity with the innovative Navalia ship editor and bring your creations into battle!
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #40 Simple RTS
72% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Gal Hajaj
Windows
A Simple Real-Time-Strategy Game Like in the good old days, with 20 types of units. The goal is simply to conquer all territories on the map, which is also your AI opponent's goal...
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #41 Rubico
63% 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #42 Vol'Talkes - The AI War
74% 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #43 Witch of the Woods
69% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Druidic, LLC
Windows · Mac
In Witch of the Woods, you play as a witch who must gather ingredients in the forest in order to cast custom spells on the flora and fauna. Can you maintain the forest's ecosystem while fending off the corruption that is plaguing your woods?
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #44 Cat Defense
69% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Red twice potato
Windows
An army of the undead attacked the defenseless village of cute kittens
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #45 Aetherspace
70% matchMixed63% of 84 reviews2017
Dev: Munchkin's Lair
Windows
Aetherspace is a game about turn-based battles between outlaw gangs. In space. With starships.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #46 Puzzle Strike
71% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2015
Dev: Sirlin Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Puzzle Strike is an online deckbuilding puzzle game from David Sirlin, lead designer of Puzzle Fighter HD Remix and creator of the Fantasy Strike universe. Improve your deck (of chips!) as the game unfolds and crush your opponents under a mountain of gems!
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #47 Coffee Pot Terrarium
72% 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #48 Goblin Storm
70% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: Nemeton Singularity Simulations
Windows
Command the armies of Men, Goblins and the Dead as they battle for supremacy on battlefields across the lands of Arcwellion. Will you build a mighty kingdom and lead the armies of men to stand against the storm? Or will you command the invading hordes on the path to conquest?
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #49 The Escape
70% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: The Escape Team
Windows
The Escape is a challenging online co-op strategy game for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #50 Battleships at Dawn!
71% 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #51 Barbarroja
68% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: MCD
Windows
Barbarroja is a classic turn-based strategy game for one or two playes, allows you to play in full turns, or in real time (only for Internet game), allows both players to play simultaneously.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #52 BlindOak Prow
59% 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 72.2%, Indie 27.8%
- #53 Hellfire Fortress
59% 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 71.9%, Indie 28.1%
- #54 Minda
65% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Sunho Kim
Windows · Mac
Online Abalone board game.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #55 Heidentum
66% matchMixed62% of 13 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #56 Tavern Table Tactics
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Double Digit Games
Windows
Tavern Table Tactics is a tactical computer board game that combines a traditional two-player board game setting with tactical RPG combat.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%