- #1 Siege - the card game
97% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: SIA Next Level
Windows · Mac · Linux
Siege is a strategic single-player card game about sieging castles with armies and magic set in the bizarre setting of Circus Empire.
Why similar: Strategy 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #2 100 nya
96% matchPositive88% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: .M.Y.W.
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
The game develops logical thinking. Taught to think through the moves in advance.
Why similar: Strategy 73.1%, Indie 26.9%
- #3 Devouring Stars
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 40 reviews2015
Dev: NerialPub: BulkyPix
Windows · Mac · Linux
What if you could unhook the stars and fight your battles with black holes? With its mix of adaptative unit combination, space resource harvesting as well as visual and audio refinement, Devouring Stars aspires to bring a different scope to the RTS genre.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #4 LIT
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 30 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 75.5%, Indie 24.5%
- #5 Merchants & Mercenaries
94% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2016
Dev: Echidna Studios
Windows
Merchants and Mercenaries is a hectic real-time strategy that looks and feels like the board games you love, with none of the waiting. There’s no one way to play, or even to win, but you’d better be fast!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #6 Artillerists
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 132 reviews2017
Dev: SolarLance
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Artillerists is a turn-based isometric strategy. You should destroy the enemy’s armed forces, capture territories, earn money and upgrade your army. In addition to the main types of units and weapons, player can use radar reconnaissance, volley fire, air strikes, artillery strikes and many others...
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #7 Geared
94% matchMixed36% of 11 reviews2015
Dev: Playful Art, LLC
Windows
Geared is a highly addictive, physics-based spatial puzzler. Goal: Power the blue gears.
Why similar: Strategy 72.8%, Indie 27.2%
- #8 Defend Your Crypt
92% matchVery Positive81% of 53 reviews2016
Dev: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.3 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 76.1%, Indie 23.9%
- #9 Arena
91% 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 75.6%, Indie 24.4%
- #10 Great Big War Game
91% 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 75.9%, Indie 24.1%
- #11 Battle Of Worldviews
90% 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 75.6%, Indie 24.4%
- #12 The Base
88% 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 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #13 The Battle for Sector 219
89% 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 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #14 Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition
89% matchVery Positive83% of 248 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 75.5%, Indie 24.5%
- #15 Atriage
87% 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 75.4%, Indie 24.6%
- #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 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #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 75.2%, Indie 24.8%
- #18 Colo Grid Zation
84% 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 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #19 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 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #20 Shadows of War
86% matchMostly Negative35% of 168 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 75.1%, Indie 24.9%
- #21 Greece Defense TD
82% match6 user reviews50% of 6 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 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #22 Battle for Orion 2
82% matchVery Positive80% of 76 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 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #23 Dominari Empires
79% 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 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #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 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #25 Archamon
80% 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 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #26 Magic Pixel Picross
81% 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 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #27 Tile Conqueror
78% 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 74.4%, Indie 25.6%
- #28 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 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #29 Card Brawl
77% 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 74.4%, Indie 25.6%
- #30 Rezist: Tower Defense
75% 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #31 Twinfold
75% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac
A roguelike about merging golden babies and squashing angry faces.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #32 Don't Panic!
77% 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 74.4%, Indie 25.6%
- #33 Card Battle Spirit Link
74% 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #34 Shattered Throne
76% 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 74.3%, Indie 25.7%
- #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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #36 Strazeal
73% 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #37 Sector 724
76% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2016
Dev: Fedor Votrin
Windows
Median: 4.2 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 78.7%, Indie 21.3%
- #38 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #39 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #40 Dark Rising
72% matchMostly Negative31% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Clear Light Games
Windows
Upgrade your castle, build towers, expand your village and train loyal pledges who will fight, and die at your command. Dark Rising is a tower defense game for anyone who's looking for a more in-depth approach to the popular genre.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #41 Rampart Tactics
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Aaron Saluk
Windows
Indie Turnbased Strategy, solo or online.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #42 TurretMaster
71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Hikati GamesPub: Hikati Games LLC
Windows
An invading army that does not stop. One survivor that can turn coffee creamer into a flame thrower and junk metal into shells. Defend the land against ground and air threats and move up the ranks. Become a creator with the level editor and challenge friends from all over the world with your own visions of an impossible invasion.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #43 Mercs
71% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Munchkin's Lair
Windows
Assemble a team of mercenaries and challenge the computer or another player in a quick turn-based battle. Unlock new mercs, find the best skill combos, and watch your adorable tiny soldiers blow themselves up in a variety of hex-mapped, low-poly environments.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #44 The Escape
71% 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #45 ManGuin – Penguin Apocalypse
73% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Gary & EddyPub: EGCL
Windows
A real-time strategy (RTS) game which comes from our love of 50s Sci-fi films. Set in Antarctica you control a team of top scientists researching penguins. Disaster strikes when a satellite carrying an unknown space virus crashes near a penguin colony.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #46 Epic Little War Game
70% 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #47 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #48 Mortal Squad: Portal to Hell
69% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Crematorium of Time
Windows
Control a squad of fearless soldiers with unique abilities to stop a mad scientist who is ready to open a portal for creatures from hell. A classical turn-based system and procedural generation of levels which would require various tactical decisions to beat the game.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #49 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 73.1%, Indie 26.9%
- #50 Kingdom Elemental
72% matchMixed55% of 33 reviews2014
Dev: Scott ThuneliusPub: Chronic Logic
Windows
Kingdom Elemental takes core game play elements from real-time strategy, tactics, and role-playing games and combines them into a game that is easy to pick up and play. It is designed to be lighthearted and humorous with fun, re-playable game play. Try out the Destiny Mode and challenge levels for more variety.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #51 Lost Frontier
65% matchVery Positive97% of 58 reviews2018
Dev: Mika Mobile, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Turn-Based Tactics in the Weird West.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #52 stepbystep
67% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Evgeny PetrovPub: Not a Prototype games
Windows · Linux
stepbystep is a minimalistic programming puzzle platformer with experimental turn-based mechanics where you must write a command sequence to complete the levels that will be run automatically.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #53 Hellfire Fortress
58% 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 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #54 Minda
65% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Sunho Kim
Windows · Mac
Online Abalone board game.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #55 Stratus: Battle For The Sky
69% matchMixed53% of 39 reviews2016
Dev: Storm Isle Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stratus: Battle for the sky is a fast paced RTS game set in a fantasy world of warring priests seeking to gain favor of the fickle Gods.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #56 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 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #57 Guide The Ball
68% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Eldritch Phantasmagoric Games
Windows
Plan and build your path through physics based puzzles. Create your own solutions to over 300 levels spread out through 10 distinct areas, each with their own unique hazards, effects and game-play.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%