- #1 Breezeblox
97% matchVery Positive87% of 90 reviews2015
Dev: Pugsley LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Breezeblox is an addictive puzzle game where the objective is to reach the end cube without moving off the platform. Special cubes throughout the puzzles will trigger different actions on the platform to aid you with progressing. With 150 challenging puzzles to complete, your brain will be plenty busy.
Why similar: Strategy 54%, Casual 25.8%, Indie 20.2%
- #2 Cubiscape 2
96% matchVery Positive90% of 126 reviews2020
Dev: Silver Eye Studios
Windows
Solve hundreds of fun and challenging puzzles in this original turn-based puzzle game. Hide from your enemies or lure them into traps, press buttons to open up new paths or skip obstacles using the teleporter!
Why similar: Strategy 69.1%, Casual 30.9%
- #3 Reprisal Universe
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 401 reviews2014
Dev: electrolyte
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Reprisal Universe places you in charge of the very elements themselves. Raise and lower land to expand your tribes, harness the power of fire and water. Explore the hidden mysteries of the Universe and gather your people together once again.
Why similar: Strategy 71.5%, Casual 28.5%
- #4 Land Above Sea Below
95% matchMostly Positive73% of 145 reviews2023
Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.
Why similar: Strategy 60.2%, Indie 20%, Casual 19.8%
- #5 Land Above Sea Below Prologue
94% matchVery Positive82% of 145 reviews2023
Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Land Above Sea Below Prologue is an atmospheric first chapter of the building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Casual 26.8%, Indie 3.8%
- #6 War Cube
94% matchMixed62% of 82 reviews2016
Dev: Artur Rezende
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
War Cube is a strategy game, each team is on a face of the cube and the player must turn sideways to position your troops so that they stop in an attacking position, being behind or beside the enemy.
Why similar: Strategy 64.8%, Casual 22.7%, Indie 12.5%
- #7 Fate Tectonics
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 208 reviews2015
Dev: Golden Gear GamesPub: Toy Temp
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build up a world piece-by-piece using the power of the god-like Fates, while keeping them happy enough to avoid world-shattering temper tantrums!
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #8 Unitied
92% matchVery Positive98% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: Peter Hijma
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unitied is a minimalistic & relaxing puzzle game
Why similar: Strategy 51.1%, Casual 27.8%, Indie 21.1%
- #9 Nurikabe World
90% matchVery Positive100% of 183 reviews2025
Dev: Hemisquare
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nurikabe World is a relaxing logic puzzle game where you solve puzzles by creating islands and connecting rivers to create beautiful sceneries. Experience different landscapes and seasons, solve puzzle campaigns and create your own levels.
Why similar: Strategy 55.6%, Casual 25.2%, Indie 19.2%
- #10 Hexa Turn
91% matchVery Positive89% of 113 reviews2018
Dev: Abdullah Firat
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Hexa Turn is a turn-based puzzle game with minimalist design. The logic is simple: block the triange. So, think outside of the box and try not to find a solution. Try to break the solution!
Why similar: Strategy 52.9%, Casual 27%, Indie 20.1%
- #11 A MIRROR PUZZLE
89% matchPositive98% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: IMDT
Windows
"A MIRROR PUZZLE" is a puzzle game. Players will play as a water droplet spirit, through the use of various magic mirrors to control the symmetrical growth of plants or the position of certain scene elements change, overcome numerous difficulties, and finally reach the destination
Why similar: Casual 48.1%, Strategy 38.1%, Indie 13.8%
- #12 Hexus
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 89 reviews2014
Dev: iMax-GenPub: HH Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Hexus is a unique game that combines Ancient Egypt mysteries: puzzles and strategy. 120 levels, 15 mini-games.
Why similar: Casual 44%, Strategy 36.9%, Indie 19.1%
- #13 Rayland
88% matchVery Positive91% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Naoka Games
Windows
Your mission is to help the inhabitants of Rayland to transport the energy of the Domus through the various lands contained in the path. For this, you must correctly position the Reflectus and rotate them so that the energy rays reach the necessary Domus.
Why similar: Strategy 65.2%, Casual 34.8%
- #14 Matris
89% matchVery Positive98% of 66 reviews2016
Dev: Leaghorn
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Matris is an easy to play but challenging logic puzzle game for everyone - casual and hardcore gamers.Relax in Puzzle Mode or fight for the High Score in Combo Mode and Time Attack. Play custom levels or create your own thanks to Level Editor.
Why similar: Strategy 52.2%, Casual 27.9%, Indie 19.9%
- #15 Hero Guider
85% matchVery Positive99% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: BestQ
Windows · Mac
A construction puzzle game about building various facilities and guiding the hero to go through the mazes.
Why similar: Strategy 62%, Casual 30.2%, Indie 7.8%
- #16 Cuit
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 181 reviews2017
Dev: Class-X Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 29%
In CUIT, it is only you and your mind. A challenging and relaxing puzzle game, ready to test you from top to bottom. Navigate a current through a circuit. Power a target, avoid the explosives. Sounds easy? Try it - and guess again. A logical challenge - for everyone.
Why similar: Strategy 49.8%, Casual 29.2%, Indie 20.9%
- #17 Hexagod
84% matchVery Positive89% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
A satisfying roguelike village builder set in the eye of an apocalyptic storm. Place hexagon tiles, unlock adjacency bonuses, and find powerful relics to create game breaking synergies. Prove you are worthy of becoming the next Hexagod… before the storm destroys it all.
Why similar: Strategy 63%, Casual 26.4%, Indie 10.6%
- #18 Reus 2
83% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: Strategy 83.8%, Indie 16.2%
- #19 Euclidean Skies
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 61 reviews2019
Dev: Miro Straka
Windows
Euclidean Skies combines marvelous architecture and turn-based movements to create a beautiful world with mind-bending puzzles. The game’s focus is on shifting and rotating the world to gain tactical advantage and overpower the enemies in 55 elegant, but incredibly challenging levels.
Why similar: Strategy 57.1%, Indie 26.2%, Casual 16.7%
- #20 Can't Live Without Electricity
84% matchVery Positive94% of 241 reviews2023
Dev: MELOVITY
Windows · Mac
Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.
Why similar: Strategy 59.3%, Casual 23.1%, Indie 17.6%
- #21 HueBots
86% matchVery Positive94% of 72 reviews2015
Dev: Huebotics
Windows · Mac · Linux
HueBots is a deceptively challenging top-down puzzle game. You control a team of colorful robots that will only interact with objects that match their color; they will also keep moving in one direction until they collide with something that matches their color.
Why similar: Strategy 55.1%, Casual 25.6%, Indie 19.3%
- #22 Leaf's Odyssey
81% matchVery Positive98% of 118 reviews2024
Dev: ludobloom
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based puzzle game with combat and exploration
Why similar: Casual 66.4%, Indie 33.6%
- #23 INVERT
82% matchVery Positive97% of 65 reviews2021
Dev: Naoka Games
Windows
In INVERT the player will be challenged to solve several logic challenges. You must move in a limited way and make all bases turn white or all bases turn black. When jumping over a base, the same color changes and you'll use this to your advantage.
Why similar: Strategy 66.7%, Casual 30.7%, Indie 2.6%
- #24 qop 2
79% matchVery Positive95% of 585 reviews2017
Dev: Quiet River
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
qop 2 is a minimalistic puzzle which goal is to get the cube to finish using 4 directions in space.
Why similar: Casual 58%, Indie 42%
- #25 Astral Towers
80% matchVery Positive85% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: Apus Software
Windows · Linux
A turn-based card game mixing strategy and puzzle elements: find approach for each of 78 missions.
Why similar: Strategy 76.7%, Indie 23.3%
- #26 Altered
79% matchVery Positive100% of 123 reviews2021
Dev: GlitchheartPub: Rooftop Panda
Windows · Linux
Solve difficult puzzles in a soothing atmosphere by altering your characters in multiple ways, forcing you to think outside the box.
Why similar: Strategy 82.2%, Indie 17.8%
- #27 Growth
77% matchVery Positive91% of 315 reviews2023
Dev: VoodooDuckPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Growth is a cozy, hexagonal-grid based soft-strategy game. Explore and populate a procedurally generated world by utilizing unique abilities of animals. Growth blends the beauty of cozy exploration with challenging navigation around obstacles.
Why similar: Strategy 69.2%, Casual 22.5%, Indie 8.2%
- #28 Storm
81% matchMixed67% of 104 reviews2013
Dev: Eko Software
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take a deep breath and prepare for a tranquil journey through the seasons with Storm, an atmospheric, ethereal experience where you use natural phenomena to guide a simple seed to fertile soil so it can take root and spring to life.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 CUBOTS The Origins
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Street Lamp Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Be a part of an adventurous journey in Cubots: The Origins. Explore and survive in beautiful, atmospheric environments!
Why similar: Strategy 49.4%, Casual 27.3%, Indie 23.3%
- #30 Little Postman
75% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Atlas Imaginal
Windows
Puzzle game where you rotate islands to find your way around different archipelagos.
Why similar: Casual 56.2%, Indie 43.8%
- #31 CrossCells
75% matchVery Positive83% of 887 reviews2017
Dev: Matthew Brown
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
CrossCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.
Why similar: Strategy 46.5%, Casual 30.5%, Indie 23%
- #32 Weather Lord: Following the Princess Collector's Edition
76% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Casual
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The power of the elements is in your hands! Use it to reclaim your kingdom!
Why similar: Strategy 64.2%, Casual 30.5%, Indie 5.3%
- #33 Reus
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,900 reviews2013
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
Why similar: Strategy 65.2%, Indie 21.9%, Casual 12.9%
- #34 Land of Puzzles: Battles
77% matchMostly Negative37% of 78 reviews2018
Dev: Ripknot Systems
Windows
In Land of Puzzles: Battles the king and queen need your help. To avoid war the king has accepted a challenge of puzzles to solve. He needs you to solve 15 sets of challenging puzzles and help him secure the kingdom.
Why similar: Casual 40.7%, Indie 32.7%, Strategy 26.6%
- #35 Power of Love
76% matchMixed69% of 163 reviews2015
Dev: Yang Sun
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
This is a novel puzzle game. It creatively asks you to control two people simultaneously. The game consists of three chapters and the levels become more and more difficult. Its a perfect game to exercise your brain.
Why similar: Strategy 52.6%, Casual 29%, Indie 18.5%
- #36 Epicinium
72% matchVery Positive88% of 308 reviews2020
Dev: A Bunch of Hacks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Epicinium is a strategy game where nature is a finite resource. No need to wait for your move, thanks to fast, simultaneous turns. Your economy and troops are influenced by the environment and increasingly severe weather effects. Is it worth winning a war when you end up conquering dirt and ash?
Why similar: Strategy 78.1%, Indie 21.9%
- #37 Cubicolor
73% matchVery Positive94% of 203 reviews2016
Dev: Moltenplay
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Cubicolor is a minimalist puzzle game. The rules are simple: Match the color patches on the board and reach the exit, all on one single path. The game gets harder as the levels progress, always accompanying you with soothing piano tunes.
Why similar: Casual 40.4%, Strategy 29.8%, Indie 29.8%
- #38 LUXIS
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Dumbfounded
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
LUXIS is a game of memory, reflexes, intuition, and problem solving. Get lost in the atmospheric music and glowing world, then find your way out.
Why similar: Strategy 57.9%, Casual 23.7%, Indie 18.5%
- #39 Dice of God
70% matchVery Positive93% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Dog Works.
Windows
Roll the dice, will the outcome be a blessing or a punishment?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 Land of Puzzles: Knights
73% matchMixed61% of 79 reviews2018
Dev: Ripknot Systems
Windows
In Land of Puzzles: Knights the king and queen need your help. To avoid war the king has accepted a challenge of puzzles to solve. He needs you to solve 15 sets of challenging puzzles and help him secure the kingdom.
Why similar: Casual 41.1%, Indie 32.1%, Strategy 26.8%
- #41 Isotiles - Isometric Puzzle Game
72% matchVery Positive89% of 231 reviews2017
Dev: Robert Alvarez
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.
Why similar: Strategy 53.6%, Casual 33.4%, Indie 13%
- #42 Chronescher
71% matchVery Positive86% of 58 reviews2022
Dev: PurpleSloth
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.
Why similar: Strategy 69.7%, Indie 30.3%
- #43 Dobbel Dungeon
66% matchVery Positive93% of 391 reviews2026
Dev: Gamepie
Windows
Gather your party, roll your dice and battle across the islands to put an end to a powerful curse once and for all in this roguelike turn-based tactical RPG!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #44 Ash of Gods: The Way
69% matchVery Positive82% of 483 reviews2023
Dev: AurumDust
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.
- #45 One-inch Tactics
69% matchVery Positive94% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: KOGADO STUDIOPub: KOMODO
Windows
Turn the tide of the war with nuanced strategies in One-inch Tactics, introducing players to a unique turn-based strategy experience.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #46 Strata
71% matchVery Positive87% of 360 reviews2014
Dev: GraveckPub: GLITCH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Simple. Elegant. Challenging.
Why similar: Strategy 52.3%, Casual 28.7%, Indie 19%
- #47 LOGistICAL
71% matchVery Positive84% of 251 reviews2017
Dev: Sacada
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 77.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LOGistICAL is a strategy puzzle game where you transport different cargoes to complete all the towns throughout the country. The whole game is a huge puzzle while each town is its own little piece of puzzling. Plenty of towns are easy enough. LOGistICAL covers all of Australia.
Why similar: Strategy 54.1%, Casual 28%, Indie 17.9%
- #48 Creo God Simulator
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 237 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: Strategy 71.2%, Indie 28.8%
- #49 Crab God
67% matchVery Positive84% of 285 reviews2024
Dev: Chaos Theory GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Crab God is an atmospheric underwater strategy game. Guide your Crabling colony through wild ocean depths, and defend the egg of the next Crab God.Restore and protect diverse coral reefs, making a difference in the real world as you progress in-game. Make waves, praise the claw!
Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #50 Jacob
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 102 reviews2016
Dev: Duck Duck ZeusPub: Centre For Longitudinal Studies
Windows
Jacob: an evidence-based puzzle
Why similar: Strategy 53.8%, Casual 25%, Indie 21.3%
- #51 SiNKR 2
68% matchVery Positive95% of 263 reviews2019
Dev: Robert WahlerPub: Wahler Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
SiNKR 2 is a minimalist puzzle game evolved from the award winning SiNKR. There is just you, hooks, pucks, and various contraptions. Subtle differences within level themes drive different solutions to superficially similar scenarios.
Why similar: Strategy 61.9%, Casual 20.3%, Indie 17.8%
- #52 Land of Puzzles: Castles
70% matchMixed60% of 72 reviews2018
Dev: Ripknot Systems
Windows
In Land of Puzzles: Castles the king and queen need your help. To avoid war the king has accepted a challenge of puzzles to solve. He needs you to solve 15 sets of challenging puzzles and help him secure the kingdom.
Why similar: Casual 41.1%, Indie 30.2%, Strategy 28.7%
- #53 Beasts Battle
69% 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 74.2%, Indie 25.8%
- #54 Citizens: Far Lands
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: RedKar DevsPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #55 Forests, Fields and Fortresses
66% matchVery Positive95% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: 9 Eyes Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Forests, Fields and Fortresses - is a mix of a puzzle and a board game in which you have to build your kingdom.
Why similar: Strategy 53.6%, Casual 37.9%, Indie 8.5%
- #56 Skyward Collapse
70% matchMixed46% of 328 reviews2013
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?
Why similar: Strategy 76.9%, Indie 23.1%
- #57 Archipel Logic Infinite
64% matchVery Positive94% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: WanderLux Games
Windows
「Archipel Logic Infinite」 is a challenging puzzle game inspired by the popular Nurikabe. Explore legendary archipelagos by marking cells as land or sea to unchart maps. Enjoy challenging puzzles and endless procedurally generated content for limitless exploration.
Why similar: Strategy 49.7%, Casual 30.4%, Indie 19.9%
- #58 cityglitch
68% matchVery Positive100% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: mindfungus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fly across haunted cities, solve rooftop puzzles and light magical runes. Cityglitch is a shimmery pixel puzzler with simple movement and deep challenge.
Why similar: Strategy 43.1%, Casual 32.4%, Indie 24.5%