- #1 Partial Control
97% matchPositive89% of 35 reviews2019
Dev: Cavern Head
Windows
Overcome the limitations of having a hacked brain and still survive. Most of the time you have no control, but at key moments you can take decisions that are vital: think them through very carefully. The rest of the time, watch your body act and hope you make it out alive...
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 33.2%, Strategy 27.4%, Simulation 23.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Indie 3.7%
- #2 Raivo
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Utopos Games
Windows
Collect a team of robots called Raivos. These highly advanced creatures are quick at learning. They start with no knowledge, so everything they learn, through advanced machine learning, they learn from you. Enter your Raivos in an online arena fight against Raivos trained by other players.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 35.5%, Strategy 34.7%, Simulation 29.9%
- #3 历史模拟器:崇祯
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 青干工作室
Windows
本作的初衷不在于让崇祯单纯地赢,而是编写一部属于你的王朝兴衰故事。虽然历史绝对不可改写,但在世界模型的推演下,你的每一次抉择都将引发蝴蝶效应,书写出全新的篇章。我们希望玩家在体验演义故事的疯狂与逻辑博弈的残酷时,能在直面王朝或崩塌或强盛的激荡中,悄悄生出对真实历史的敬畏。
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 42.5%, Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #4 Provisional Authority: An AI Governance Simulation
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Clifford KnopikPub: Synthetic Mandate
Windows
Balance growth, stability, and public trust while an AI observes your every move. Guide a nation through economic crises and political pressure — but be prudent, because the system you rely on may decide it can govern better than you.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.8%, Grand Strategy 21.9% ★, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 14.8%, Resource Management 13.1%
- #5 More than words
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 29 reviews2023
Dev: Soul Shell
Windows
Marian Anderson is an experimental android created by Soul Shell Corporation. However, she was abandoned in the laboratory facilities. Your mission is to contact her, persuade her to trust you and escape from the laboratory.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 47.6%, Simulation 24.3%, Cyberpunk 17.9%, Sci-fi 9%, Indie 1.2%
- #6 rush
94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: rush
Windows
This is a competitive game with exquisite art style and a relaxed and enjoyable experience.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 57.2%, Simulation 26.6%, Strategy 14.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #7 Global Fortune
93% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: 9th Floor ArcadePub: 9th Floor Arcade Inc
Windows · Mac
Global Fortune is a business management game on a global scale. Build and manage a global supply chain, take advantage of regional specialties in production, and ship your products around the world to maximize your profits. How large can your corporate empire be?
Why similar: Strategy 45%, Simulation 37.5%, Resource Management 17.5%
- #8 Dope Wars - The Dopest
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JohnDou
Windows · Linux
Hustle 6 cities. Dodge the cops. Stack millions. The dopest trading game — premium edition, no ads, no IAP, no PTW.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.3% ★, Strategy 28.5%, Simulation 27%, Cyberpunk 11.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #9 Nonstop
92% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Sensy
Windows
This is a "This War of Mine" like game with 2D pixel art style. You need to manage your resources and find a way to survive on Planet Carol.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.6%, Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 19.1%, Resource Management 18%, Sci-fi 17.1%
- #10 Deep Board Go
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DeepBoardGo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience Go (围棋 / 圍棋 / 바둑 / 囲碁) in beautiful 3D with handcrafted boards, smooth camera controls, and smart AI. The physical beauty of Go is a big part of its charm, and DeepBoardGO brings that tactile elegance into the digital world for a fresh, closer experience.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 34.6%, Simulation 31.4%, Strategy 31.4%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #11 Command by Voice: World Conquest
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Xideimeicai Studio
Windows
Rule a nation by issuing voice or text commands to an AI and conquer the world. Voice input supports Chinese and English; text input supports all languages.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 45.6%, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 13.4%, Top-Down 4.1%
- #12 Unclaimed World
91% matchMixed50% of 216 reviews2016
Dev: Refactored Games OÜ
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
Why similar: Strategy 41.7%, Simulation 39.6%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Indie 4.8%
- #13 Elegy of the Vast Land
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Ripple Game Technology
Windows
Rewrite history with LLMs and natural language. Command any figure through dynamic AI events: type custom orders or choose your path. Deploy characters for AI-calculated outcomes and expand across a lat-long grid. With RAG tech, the world remembers your legacy. From 1644 and beyond.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 47.5%, Grand Strategy 27% ★, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 5.1%, Indie 0.8%
- #14 Free Towns
89% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Vlad Cristian
Windows
Free Towns is city-building / military / political strategy game where you control a group of citizens who decide to restart their lives in a new land. Citizens are recruited and die and depends on you to keep them healthy, happy, and well-fed.
Why similar: Strategy 40.2%, Simulation 34.7%, Resource Management 25.1%
- #15 PROTOZOA
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oplexity Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Protect the asteroid mine's reactor from swarms of supersized alien protozoa. This game's groundbreaking AI system uses machine learning to adapt to your strategy in real-time as you build and upgrade your defenses. Fight evolution itself.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 43.9%, Strategy 30.9%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Top-Down 7.2%, Indie 1.2%
- #16 Need For Conquest
88% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: Michal WojcikPub: Warp Dynamics Limited
Windows
Need for Conquest is a turn-based strategy game with a very simple objective - to capture all enemy territories on a map and achieve global domination. If you like RISK® style games but you want to enjoy the freedom of procedurally generated maps and level editor, this game is for you.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 55.7%, Strategy 23.3%, Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #17 Scolionophobia
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: sydneycrusher
Windows
Scolionophobia is a horror puzzle game where you've found yourself trapped in an abandoned school. But as you navigate the eerie hallways, you realize you're not alone.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 66.6%, Strategy 29%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #18 AI Protocol
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Little Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
AI Protocol is a minimalist strategy game. Control an emerging AI through a single evolving interface. Grow too slowly and you’re left behind. Grow too fast and you’re discovered. Conquer all or lose everything to Detection or runaway AGI. How powerful can you become… without being seen?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 28.4%, Strategy 27.4%, Simulation 25.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #19 In Search of a Home
85% matchMostly Negative33% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Ghostly Bear Games
Windows
In Search of a Home (ISH) is a strategy rogue-like space exploration game where you lead a small fleet of ships and people out into unknown galaxies to find a new home. Not everyone will make it to your new home, and not everything is essential.
Why similar: Strategy 47%, Simulation 27%, Sci-fi 19.5%, Indie 6.5%
- #20 Lukewarm Ironclad
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ethereal Crack
Windows
You thought that you've had terrible bosses before? Wrong. It is now up to you to lay tracks, harass unionized workers, build resorts, blow up towns, bring in tourists, irreparably alter the weather, and overall make a lot of cash. Puzzle meets strategy in this live-action business simulation game.
Why similar: Strategy 56.1%, Simulation 43.9%
- #21 Abyss Manager
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 73 reviews2019
Dev: D4 Laboratory
Windows
Take over a small dungeon that no adventure is interested in as a new manager. You'll start with almost nothing and recruit minions, accumulate money, construct facilities, develop technology, explore the realm, have the dungeon's name up, defeat other dungeons and win the championship of the Dungeon League.
Why similar: Strategy 41.1%, Simulation 33.3%, Resource Management 20.2%, Indie 5.5%
- #22 Star Merchant
84% matchMixed66% of 180 reviews2017
Dev: SimProse StudiosPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Star Merchant is a galactic trading sim where you become a space entrepreneur. Buy and sell items, fight pirates, upgrade your ship and try to meet your goal without going broke!
Why similar: Strategy 46.1%, Simulation 26.8%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Indie 4.2%
- #23 Hard Work
82% matchMostly Negative25% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: ZarioSide
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hard Work is a 3D factory simulation game.
Why similar: Strategy 40.9%, Simulation 35.3%, Resource Management 18.1%, Indie 5.7%
- #24 Police Tactics: Imperio
81% matchMixed62% of 423 reviews2016
Dev: CyberphobX Ltd.Pub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In POLICE TACTICS: IMPERIO you start your career as an aspiring police chief in Newport Falls, a city that is dirty and corrupt to its core. You are responsible for upholding law and order. Coordinate the emergency vehicles and personnel of the municipal precinct and put a stop to crime.
Why similar: Strategy 55.4%, Simulation 44.6%
- #25 TerTD
80% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: TeraHard
Windows
TerTD is a mix of tower defense and real-time strategy. The player can build various types of towers and choose your favorite upgrades. Defeat the enemy and get the victory!
Why similar: Strategy 55%, Simulation 45%
- #26 IndustrySim Virtual Platform
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IndustrySim Ltd.
Windows
IndustrySim Virtual Platform is an award-winning, industry-themed serious game about constructing, operating and managing an industrial environment. The professional-level simulation engine, along with real-life events and gamification, enables you to learn and experiment while having a lot of gameplay fun.
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #27 Dungeon Manager ZV
78% matchMixed68% of 76 reviews2015
Dev: StudioGIWPub: Zoo Corporation
Windows
Japan’s megahit dungeon simulation game is now in English and available globally. Manage your own dungeon and micro-manage your zombies, monsters, minions and traps. Think strategically to summon your forces, level them up and defend against endless invaders and boss units.
Why similar: Strategy 54.8%, Simulation 45.2%
- #28 Lords of the Realm III
77% matchMixed55% of 49 reviews2015
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Rebellion
Windows
When it comes to medieval real-time strategy, Lords of the Realm III flies the flag high. Whether it's maneuvering troops on the battlefield, negotiating trade and alliances, or overseeing armies across the lands, RTS fans will find plenty here to enjoy.
Why similar: Strategy 58%, Simulation 42%
- #29 Antiquitas
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a thriving Roman empire in this offline city-building simulation game.
Why similar: Strategy 54.5%, Simulation 45.5%
- #30 Nature Zen
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Octane
Windows · Linux
Nature Zen the first game created by Team Octane. In the game the player plays as god, manipulating the terrain that animals live on. Will you create an ecosystem full of happy animals, or will everything go extinct because of a lack of food in the area.
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #31 Noble In Exile / 落魄之家
74% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: LemoNeko Software
Windows
As one of a once noble family, design and build your own ancient Chinese town using your remaining resources and influence. Plan and manage every industry and every store individually. Casual on simulation, hardcore on management.
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #32 Industry Transporters
75% matchMostly Negative25% of 48 reviews2015
Dev: Markus FickPub: MK game production
Windows
An economic simulation where you build up production chains as effectively as possible on a large scale terrain. You can choose from a large variety of wares and buildings to build up your production chain and use up to 4 types of transportation.
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #33 Oligopoly: Industrial Revolution
73% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Viny Game Studio
Windows · Linux
Oligopoly is a strategy game where you have to set up the production, distribution and trade of various goods. Exploit natural resources, build factories and infrastructures, produce goods and distribute them using trucks, trains or ships.
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #34 Cosmic Cash
72% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Rabbit Hole Studios
Windows
Ever wonder what baby a slot machine and a classic shooter would make? Well wonder no more! Cosmic Cash combines the retro action packed feel of arcade shooters with the thrill of winning big at the slots.
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #35 Shop Tycoon The Boss
71% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: JNA Game
Windows
Shop tycoon the Boss is a store simulation.You have to run your store as well as possible.There are as few as possible when running the storerestrictions. Making it pretty realistic.Every decision you take has always consequences.In the rest of the game.Will you become our new Shop owner?
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #36 ALVAROK
71% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: StudioGIWPub: Zoo Corporation
Windows
Japanese Indie developer StudioGIW is back with ALVAROK, a fun and easy-to-play Tactical Defense game. Play locally with friends or hone your skills against the computer with its built-in deep learning AI system. Adapt and strategize, utilize your various troops to defend and attack simultaneously.
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #37 Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear
70% matchMixed59% of 39 reviews2016
Dev: Western Civilization SoftwarePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
This exciting new release is a faithful adaptation of the renowned Conflict of Heroes board game that won the Origins Historical Game of the Year, Charles Roberts Wargame of the Year and the James F. Dunnigan Design Elegance Award, as well as many others!
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #38 Wars of Succession
69% matchPositive84% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Ageod’s Wars of Succession is a new game designed to cover two major wars that consumed Europe at the eve of the 18th Century.
Why similar: Strategy 53.2%, Simulation 46.8%
- #39 Hotel Giant
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 24 reviews2019
Dev: QLOCPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Become the ultimate hotel-mogul! You now have the chance to prove your managerial and planning skills in the hotel industry.
Why similar: Strategy 53.1%, Simulation 46.9%
- #40 Idle Cooking Emperor
68% matchMixed54% of 145 reviews2019
Dev: Shugasu GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 118.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You live in a world where cooking is everything. You start out weak and then train with the goal to become the best cook in the world. Fight cooking battles, raise fairies, own restaurants, become rich!
Why similar: Strategy 59.7%, Simulation 40.3%
- #41 The Great Art Race
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 177 reviews
Dev: Ascaron Entertainment ltd.Pub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The famous art collection of your family was stolen. By investing the profits of your coffee or tobacco plantations you might have the chance to save the heritage of your ancestors – but only if you manage your colonial enterprise wisely.
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 46.3%
- #42 Traffic Giant
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 164 reviews2018
Dev: QLOCPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Traffic Giant is an amazing simulation game that brings public transport on the right track.
Why similar: Strategy 52.6%, Simulation 47.4%
- #43 Time of Fury
69% matchMixed60% of 92 reviews2014
Dev: Wastelands InteractivePub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Time of Fury takes you right into the European Theater of Operations. Strategic Command is the essence of winning the war and in Time of Fury the World War 2 is just huge, ideal for every strategy game fan.
Why similar: Strategy 59.2%, Simulation 40.8%
- #44 High Strategy: Urukon
64% matchVery Positive85% of 109 reviews2020
Dev: Iron Boar Labs Ltd.
Windows
Urukon is an experimental grand strategy game inspired by Euro-style board games. You play as one of 32 factions on a dying alien world. Each turn, you get to take just one of 10 actions. To achieve your chosen faction's goal, you'll need to carefully juggle multiple interactive systems.
Why similar: Strategy 42.9%, Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Indie 6.2%
- #45 Ironclads 2: War of the Pacific
67% matchMixed63% of 38 reviews2016
Dev: Totem GamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Create your fleet and army, hunt the enemy's fleet, hide your weak squadrons in protected ports until reinforcements arrive, blockade enemy trade routes, struggle for dominance over the seas! Command a battle formation and experience the power of iron and steam!
Why similar: Strategy 52.6%, Simulation 47.4%
- #46 The Race for the White House 2016
67% matchMixed45% of 29 reviews2016
Dev: Eversim
Windows
Play as a real-world candidate and completely immerse yourself into the 2016 presidential election! Travel around the United States, try to woo voters across the country, create your own political agenda, skillfully manage your campaign budget... and perhaps you will be the next White House occupant!
Why similar: Strategy 52.6%, Simulation 47.4%
- #47 Space Battle Core
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Korion
Windows · Mac · Linux
Space Battle Core is a new 4X sci-fi game combining turn based hex combat gameplay with a real-time exploration experience.After the Earth’s demise, it is your task to recreate and spread human civilization in space.
Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, Simulation 43.2%, Indie 6.7%