- #1 Direct Hit: Missile War
97% 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 65.8%, Indie 34.2%
- #2 Siege - the card game
96% 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 61.7%, Indie 38.3%
- #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 62.8%, Indie 37.2%
- #4 Ghostlight Manor
95% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2016
Dev: Digital Future LabPub: Functional Unicorn
Windows · Mac
Ghostlight Manor is a strategic puzzler with 60 hauntingly challenging levels. Encounter a cast of beloved classic monsters while locating the source of the monster invasion before it’s too late! In multiplayer test your skills against our brand new A.I.
Why similar: Strategy 46.1%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.2%
- #5 Mad Crown
94% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #6 Gripper's Adventure
94% 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 41.2%, Indie 24.4%, Adventure 21.4%, Puzzle 13%
- #7 Umiro
93% 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 40.7%, Indie 24.2%, Adventure 22.2%, Puzzle 12.9%
- #8 Where's Home?
91% 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 46%, Indie 27.5%, Adventure 23.9%, Puzzle 2.6%
- #9 LIT
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: WayForward
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 64.9%, Indie 35.1%
- #10 The Blackbird of Amor
91% 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 44.8%, Indie 27%, Adventure 23.3%, Puzzle 4.9%
- #11 Prismatic Maze
90% 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 45.6%, Indie 29.9%, Adventure 24.5%
- #12 Two For One
89% 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 46.7%, Indie 29.1%, Adventure 24.2%
- #13 Horresco Referens
89% 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 48.1%, Indie 28.5%, Adventure 23.4%
- #14 TheMovingMaze
88% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Wuzi
Windows
A traditional maze awaits you, and you'll enjoy the old days
Why similar: Strategy 46.1%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.2%
- #15 Abyss
82% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #16 DROD: The Second Sky
87% 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 47.9%, Indie 28.4%, Adventure 23.7%
- #17 Gotta Get Going: Steam Smugglers VR
81% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #18 游离大陆 Uniland
85% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #19 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 46.6%, Indie 28.5%, Adventure 24.9%
- #20 Madness of the Architect
86% 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 44.3%, Indie 29.1%, Adventure 26.6%
- #21 Safe House
84% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #22 灵文西游
83% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #23 Under The War
84% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #24 Secrets of Deep Earth Shrine
82% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #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 45.6%, Indie 28.4%, Adventure 26%
- #26 The Legend of Slime
81% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #27 Alice Must Find The Key To Escape (Hidden Objects)
79% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Tonee Ltd
Windows · Mac
Alice is locked in here own dream and she needs help to get from her deep level of unconsciousness. While she was taking care of her sick mother in the Garfield's Castle, a bolt strikes from the sky and hit Alice and she falls down in unconsciousness, and that is how her journey begin.
Why similar: Strategy 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #28 Under Spire 尖塔自走棋
78% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: CoolHeartGame
Windows
Real-time combat, depth strategy. Card formation, explore the maze.
Why similar: Strategy 49.1%, Indie 27.8%, Adventure 23.2%
- #29 Beasts Battle
78% 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 48.9%, Indie 27.8%, Adventure 23.3%
- #30 Dimension of Dreams
75% 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 48.5%, Indie 28.8%, Adventure 22.7%
- #31 Soul Elegy
73% 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 47.5%, Indie 28.2%, Adventure 24.4%
- #32 Airborne: Trials
73% 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 47.2%, Indie 28.3%, Adventure 24.5%
- #33 The Rabbit Hole Remastered
76% 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 46.2%, Indie 27.4%, Adventure 26.3%
- #34 Trinity Dungeon
80% 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 47.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 24.6%
- #35 Dark Mystery
76% 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 46.2%, Indie 27.4%, Adventure 26.4%
- #36 Don't Feed The Slimes!
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: ChillFun
Windows
Moving from one continent to another, through all levels, solving physics puzzles and overcome all obstacles, you will understand why you are not allowed to feed the Slimes.
Why similar: Strategy 36.9%, Indie 21.9%, Adventure 19.2%, Cartoon 14.8%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #37 Ramayana
77% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2015
Dev: Rakesh Malik
Windows · Linux
Real-Time-Strategy game based on great Indian epic Ramayana.
Why similar: Strategy 47.9%, Indie 27.2%, Adventure 24.9%
- #38 Captive
73% 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 47%, Adventure 29%, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 11.4%
- #39 Pix
74% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel After Pixel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pix jumps through perilous platformer levels on a quest to collect colorful, sparkling pixels. Death lurks around every corner in each risky mission to recover the glowing goodness!
Why similar: Strategy 46.2%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.1%
- #40 Hexcross
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MetaHobby
Windows
Avoid getting hexed in this beautiful puzzle dueler. Players take turns creating lines trying to avoid certain demise. Make a triangle and you're out!
Why similar: Strategy 53.9%, Indie 33.1%, Puzzle 13%
- #41 Geared
74% 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 61.6%, Indie 38.4%
- #42 Swapper Tiles
71% match6 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Rynder Games
Windows
Swapper Tiles is a First Person Puzzle game where you find yourself trapped in a cage with your only chance to escape is to complete the challenges set. The game revolves around completing puzzles by swapping tiles around to create a path between them. Demo available on Steam.
Why similar: Strategy 54.7%, Indie 32.5%, Puzzle 12.8%
- #43 Poly Mole
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Haubna
Windows · Mac · Linux
Poly Mole is a puzzle game in which you have to guide your mole through a ton of different levels. Play levels from the community, create your own or test yourself in the campaign.
Why similar: Strategy 49.6%, Indie 29.4%, Puzzle 21%
- #44 Bird of Light
72% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2016
Dev: Roach Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Bird of Light is an action-strategy platformer with a twist. Place bridge tiles to create paths through levels in the sky, then run through avoiding obstacles in your path. Leap over vast chasms, collect loot, and discover new lands on your journey.
Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Indie 25.6%, Adventure 21.4%, Puzzle 11.9%
- #45 100 nya
72% 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 54.5%, Indie 33.4%, Puzzle 12.1%
- #46 Ring the City
70% 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 53.9%, Adventure 27.1%, Indie 19%
- #47 Mirrors - Tomblight Edition
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: MONOCOOL
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mirrors is a light reflection puzzle game where you play as an adventurer navigating your way through the tombs of Ancient Egypt. By reflecting light off mirrors onto a receptacle, you can progress deeper into the tombs where danger waits. Can you find the Pharaoh’s treasure?
Why similar: Strategy 40.9%, Indie 25.8%, Adventure 21.3%, Puzzle 12%
- #48 Abyss Cave
57% 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 48.5%, Indie 27.5%, Adventure 24%
- #49 Dominari Empires
68% 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 63.7%, Indie 36.3%
- #50 Sproots
68% 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 47.9%, Indie 28%, Adventure 24.1%
- #51 Refract
69% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: Renaissance Game Studio
Windows · Mac
"Refract" is a puzzle game in which you use the primary colored laser beams and reflect them or refract them to the cuboid of thet corresponding color.
Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, Indie 28.3%, Puzzle 21.6%
- #52 Purgatory II
71% 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 45.3%, Indie 31.1%, Adventure 23.6%
- #53 Baldina's Basis in Education Literary Grammar
67% 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 45.7%, Indie 29.6%, Adventure 24.8%
- #54 Ever Forward
65% matchVery Positive82% of 278 reviews2020
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A girl trapped in a strange world somewhere between reality and imagination. Help her find her way in this adventure puzzle game.
Why similar: Strategy 42%, Indie 26%, Adventure 22.7%, Puzzle 9.3%
- #55 PERFECT ANGLE: The puzzle game based on optical illusions
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 338 reviews2015
Dev: Ivanovich Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Challenge your mind with puzzles based on optical illusions. Find the perfect angle by rotating the camera to clean up the chaos and find a shocking story fraught with twists.
Why similar: Strategy 42.5%, Indie 26.6%, Adventure 20.2%, Puzzle 10.7%
- #56 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 61.7%, Indie 38.3%
- #57 Baby Bee
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: MomentumPub: Momentum Games
Windows · Mac
Guide Baby Bee on a quest to get all the flowers with the minimum effort. Simple mechanics, complex puzzles. Think hard!
Why similar: Strategy 39.1%, Indie 24.4%, Adventure 20.3%, Puzzle 16.2%