- #1 War for the Overworld
97% matchVery Positive86% of 8,133 reviews2015
Dev: Brightrock GamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 53.3% ★, Strategy 36.1%, Fantasy 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This is the spiritual successor to the Dungeon Keeper series, offering the most authentic dungeon-building and minion-management experience similar to Impire.
- #2 Dungeon Keeper™ 2
96% matchVery Positive92% of 1,316 reviews2024
Dev: Bullfrog ProductionsPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
Why similar: Strategy 64.4%, Villain Protagonist 35.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: The classic gold standard for dungeon management games that directly inspired the mechanics and villainous tone found in Impire.
- #3 Dungeon Keeper Gold™
96% matchVery Positive93% of 615 reviews2024
Dev: Bullfrog ProductionsPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Build your dungeon & protect it with a labyrinth of dark corridors, a web of deadly traps, an arsenal of powerful spells, and an army of bloodthirsty demons
Why similar: Strategy 57.4%, Villain Protagonist 42.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: The original title that defined the genre, providing the foundational gameplay loop of digging, building, and defending your dungeon.
- #4 Dungeons 3
95% matchVery Positive94% of 18,731 reviews2017
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 56.8% ★, Strategy 43.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep dungeon management with a humorous narrative and real-time strategy elements that mirror the structure of Impire.
- #5 Evil Genius
94% matchVery Positive93% of 3,616 reviews2009
Dev: Elixir StudiosPub: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 56.3% ★, Strategy 43.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic base-building strategy game where you play as a Bond-style villain constructing a secret lair and defending it from agents.
- #6 Dungeons 4
94% matchVery Positive87% of 3,331 reviews2023
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Absolute Evil and its trusted *cough* servant, the Dark Elf Thalya, return in Dungeons 4 after the events of its fabulous predecessor to bring about their triumph over the forces of good once more.
Why similar: Strategy 78.1%, Fantasy 21.9%
Why You'll Like It: The latest entry in the Dungeons series, refining the mix of underground base-building and surface-world RTS combat.
- #7 Dungeons 2
93% matchVery Positive82% of 5,286 reviews2015
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The Dungeon Lord is back – and this time he’s serious! In Dungeons 2, fulfil the Dungeon Lord’s insatiable quest for vengeance by recruiting fearsome new monsters from all corners of the underworld in order to undertake his evil bidding.
Why similar: Strategy 51.5%, Villain Protagonist 39.2% ★, Fantasy 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a dual-layer gameplay system that balances underground management with surface-level RTS combat, much like Impire.
- #8 KeeperRL
92% matchVery Positive83% of 1,814 reviews2024
Dev: Electric Succubi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 62.8% ★, Strategy 37.2%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, complex dungeon management game with roguelike elements that focuses heavily on building and defending a dark fortress.
- #9 Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,502 reviews2021
Dev: Goblinz StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 55.1% ★, Strategy 35.4%, Fantasy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical roguelite that puts you in the shoes of a dungeon master defending your lair from invading heroes.
- #10 Overlord™: Raising Hell
90% matchVery Positive93% of 2,607 reviews2008
Dev: Triumph StudiosPub: Codemasters
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
How evil can you get? Discover how corruptible you are in Overlord, the twisted fantasy action adventure where you can be evil (or really evil). In the game's seriously warped fantasy world, players will become the Overlord and get first-hand experience of how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 65.7% ★, Strategy 22.2%, Fantasy 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to command a horde of chaotic minions to do your bidding, perfectly capturing the villain-protagonist feel.
- #11 Dungeons
91% matchMixed45% of 890 reviews2011
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Assume the role of a mighty (and mighty evil) Dungeon Lord and create your own diabolical demesnes underground. 10 different classes of heroes dare to enter your dungeon where 15 different monsters lurk in the dark.
Why similar: Strategy 66.4%, Villain Protagonist 27.4% ★, Fantasy 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: The first game in the series that established the core concept of managing a dungeon while dealing with heroes and loot.
- #12 Majesty 2 Collection
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,571 reviews2011
Dev: 1C:InoCoPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the Kingdom. Your rule is not absolute, however, as you face subjects that are independent and stubborn. They will need a great deal of persuasion before they carry out your wishes...
Why similar: Strategy 86.2%, Fantasy 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique indirect control RTS experience where you manage a kingdom and influence heroes rather than controlling them directly.
- #13 Iratus: Lord of the Dead
88% matchVery Positive86% of 8,273 reviews2020
Dev: UnfrozenPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 48.2% ★, Strategy 47.7%, Fantasy 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy turn-based RPG where you play as a necromancer building an army of undead to conquer the world.
- #14 MachiaVillain
89% matchMixed66% of 810 reviews2018
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
Why similar: Strategy 52%, Villain Protagonist 48% ★
Why You'll Like It: A management simulation game where you build a haunted mansion and manage a household of monsters to terrorize victims.
- #15 Dungeon Warfare
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,023 reviews2015
Dev: Valsar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 51.7% ★, Strategy 38.1%, Fantasy 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging tower defense game that focuses on creating lethal traps to protect your dungeon from waves of adventurers.
- #16 Sea Salt
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 733 reviews2019
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Sea Salt is a dark fantasy reverse horror action-strategy game where you play as the nightmarish force of Dagon by controlling and growing a horde of minions.
Why similar: Strategy 52.8%, Villain Protagonist 47.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: An action-strategy game where you control a swarm of Lovecraftian horrors to destroy those who oppose you.
- #17 Dwelvers
84% matchMixed69% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: Rasmus LjunggrenPub: Dancing Devils
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 57.8% ★, Strategy 30.4%, Fantasy 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A real-time dungeon management game that focuses on complex production chains and base construction.
- #18 Underworld Overseer
83% matchVery Positive91% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Myron Games
Windows
Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 61.1% ★, Strategy 38.9%
Why You'll Like It: A modern take on the dungeon management genre that emphasizes god-game elements and tactical combat.
- #19 Cult of the Lamb
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 130,055 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Why similar: Fantasy 100%
Why You'll Like It: Features a compelling mix of base-building and action-strategy where you manage a cult of followers to serve your dark deity.
- #20 Dungeons - The Dark Lord
86% matchMixed40% of 325 reviews2011
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Dungeons: The Dark Lord is the sequel to Dungeons, the game where the more evil you are, the better! There are a slew of exciting new features, including four-player multiplayer in four modes!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
Why You'll Like It: An expansion-turned-standalone that adds multiplayer and new dungeon-building mechanics to the original Dungeons formula.
- #21 Majesty 2
84% matchMixed68% of 1,307 reviews2009
Dev: 1C:InoCoPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. In fact, Majesty is the only game where your heroes decide on their own what should be done and when, leaving you to try to control them through...
Why similar: Strategy 85.1%, Fantasy 14.9%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic fantasy simulation that emphasizes indirect control and kingdom management in a whimsical yet dangerous world.
- #22 Overlord™
82% matchVery Positive94% of 6,750 reviews2007
Dev: Triumph StudiosPub: Codemasters
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt you become depends on how you handle any given situation. Your actions impact the game world. With incredible power at your disposal and a team of evil minded minions to do your evil bidding, how will you resist the temptation to be incredibly despotic?
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 59.1% ★, Strategy 31.6%, Fantasy 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: The original action-strategy hybrid that lets you play as a dark lord commanding minions to solve puzzles and defeat heroes.
- #23 Impossible Creatures Steam Edition
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,850 reviews2015
Dev: Relic EntertainmentPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
Why You'll Like It: An RTS that allows for creative unit customization, appealing to players who enjoy the tactical unit management of Impire.
- #24 Solium Infernum
80% matchVery Positive88% of 1,728 reviews2024
Dev: League of Geeks
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Take the Infernal Throne in this hellish turn-based grand strategy game. The Prince of Darkness has vanished, leaving Archfiends to conspire: muster your legions while intoning dark sorceries, devilish schemes, and machiavellian plots. Who will be the new ruler of Hell and ascend the Throne?
Why similar: Strategy 100%
Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game set in Hell that focuses on politics and diplomacy between archfiends vying for the throne.
- #25 Gord
81% matchMixed54% of 1,013 reviews2023
Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy strategy game that combines settlement management with exploration and combat in a grim, folklore-inspired world.
- #26 Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
79% matchVery Positive85% of 14,063 reviews2014
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic roguelike that requires careful resource management and base defense to survive in a hostile environment.
- #27 Castle Doombad Classic
78% matchVery Positive93% of 198 reviews2024
Dev: Grumpyface Studios
Windows · Mac
BE THE VILLAIN and slay any hero who dares enter your dark domain! Deck out your castle with traps and minions as the ultimate diabolical dungeon keeper in this strategy / TD puzzler. Includes the original Castle Doombad game, rebuilt and remastered, plus brand new content.
Why similar: Strategy 79.7%, Fantasy 20.3%
Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game where you play as the villain protecting your kidnapped princess from heroes.
- #28 My Infamous Dungeon
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: BoxFox Studios
Windows
Be evil. Build your dungeon and grow your empire in this roguelite dungeon builder. Hire monsters, set traps, battle heroes, and conquer the overworld with an ever expanding legion of evil.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 55% ★, Strategy 37.7%, Fantasy 7.3%
- #29 Oh My Gore!
79% matchVery Positive87% of 547 reviews2016
Dev: bumblebee.Pub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Control the Powers of Evil to crush the Good Guys! Take control of the revived God of War Raelius, recruit evil minions, build bastions of doom and command your groveling servants.
Why similar: Strategy 52.3%, Villain Protagonist 39.6% ★, Fantasy 8%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced tower defense game with a violent, dark aesthetic that fits the theme of an evil overlord.
- #30 Empires of the Undergrowth
74% matchVery Positive94% of 18,977 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #31 Eador. Masters of the Broken World
78% matchMixed68% of 2,816 reviews2013
Dev: Snowbird Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.
Why similar: Strategy 98.2%, Fantasy 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that offers deep fantasy world-building and management elements for fans of strategic conquest.
- #32 Buggos 2
75% matchVery Positive84% of 703 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #33 Overlord II
77% matchVery Positive89% of 4,990 reviews2009
Dev: Triumph StudiosPub: Codemasters
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Overlord II, sequel to the critically acclaimed cult hit, sees the return of the chaotic Minions and their new Dark Master. Bigger, badder and more beautifully destructive, Overlord 2 has a Glorious Empire to smash, a massive Netherworld to revive, Minion mounts to mobilize, a trio of mistresses to woo, War Machines to crush opposition...
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 66.2% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Fantasy 13%
- #34 Countless Army
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Dos Estrellas
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the villain and raise an army of undead in this real-time reverse tower defense strategy game. Send waves of monsters to battle and aid them with your evil magic until they break your enemies’ defenses. It’s time for you to rule over the continent with an iron fist as its Dark Lord!
Why similar: Strategy 78.6%, Fantasy 21.4%
- #35 Reverse Crawl
76% matchVery Positive89% of 578 reviews2015
Dev: Nerdook Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
A dungeon crawl where YOU are the dungeon! Lead your minions in tactical turn-based combat against the pesky heroes, and unlock a variety of evil Powers. With a dynamic campaign system and a branching storyline, "Reverse Crawl" lets you experience an RPG from a whole new angle!
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 54% ★, Strategy 34%, Fantasy 12%
- #36 Atre: Dominance Wars
73% matchVery Positive85% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Ironward
Windows
A fantasy strategy with turn-based tactical combat where your goal is to become a God. Build your empire, forge alliances, ascend to godhood, then watch every ally turn on you the moment you're about to win.
Why similar: Strategy 75.3%, Fantasy 24.7%
- #37 Escape The Mad Empire
72% matchVery Positive88% of 433 reviews2025
Dev: XperimentalZ Games
Windows
Escape the Mad Empire is a party-based, rogue-like dungeon crawler with intense and deeply tactical combat. Overcome the challenges as a band of heroes, and preserve their lives and sanity by managing resources and growing your base. Can you Escape the Mad Empire?
Why similar: Strategy 77%, Fantasy 23%
- #38 Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999
71% matchVery Positive91% of 285 reviews2026
Dev: Cuddle Code
Windows
A brutally challenging puzzle novel RPG. Reincarnate as a dark lord, plan your path, and conquer the world. *NOT a passive idle game*
Why similar: Strategy 87.1%, Fantasy 12.9%
- #39 Tomb of Tyrants
75% matchVery Positive81% of 329 reviews2015
Dev: Jake Huhman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Claim and defend the Tomb of Tyrants against greedy adventurers by matching tiles to build a deadly dungeon full of traps, minions, and more!
Why similar: Strategy 52.6%, Villain Protagonist 37% ★, Fantasy 10.3%
- #40 The Wratch's Den
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: PUNKCAKE Delicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
A byte-sized Dungeon Keeping roguelike: dig out your lair, populate it with monsters and protect the Wratch from heroes come for easy prestige.
Why similar: Strategy 77.1%, Fantasy 22.9%
- #41 Evil Genius 2: World Domination
73% matchMixed69% of 13,253 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 54.1% ★, Strategy 45.9%
- #42 Dungeon Warfare 3
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 689 reviews2025
Dev: Excidium Inc.
Windows · Mac
Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!
Why similar: Strategy 69%, Villain Protagonist 24.5% ★, Fantasy 6.5%
- #43 Ghost Keeper
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: Quest Craft
Windows
Become a Ghost Keeper and lead your fearsome minions against the living. Use diverse scare tactics, manage demonic creatures and harness dozens of skills. Oh, and don’t let the Brotherhood catch you! The ultimate scaring experience begins…
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 59% ★, Strategy 41%
- #44 Horripilant
67% matchVery Positive92% of 3,073 reviews2026
Dev: Alexandre Declos Pub: Black Lantern Collective
Windows · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.
- #45 Ruinarch
71% matchMixed63% of 1,421 reviews2023
Dev: Maccima Games LLCPub: Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 66.9% ★, Strategy 33.1%
- #46 Dungeon Tycoon
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,953 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: Strategy 75.5%, Fantasy 24.5%
- #47 非常魔王(Beelzebub)
71% matchVery Positive91% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: 王韋Pub: RMAsia
Windows
This is an RPG strategy game that plays the role of a devil to find a way to conquer the world. Let evil descend on this beautiful and peaceful world!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #48 Immortal Darkness: Curse of The Pale King
72% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Giant Space Monster
Windows
A dark fantasy RPG dungeon crawler, with challenging real-time tactical combat, a wide variety of spells, and a dark and brooding dungeon full of lethal enemies, sadistic traps, and mind-bending puzzles.
Why similar: Strategy 66.9%, Fantasy 33.1%
- #49 Hellslave
69% matchVery Positive85% of 3,423 reviews2022
Dev: Ars GoetiaPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Hellslave is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler where you make a pact with the Devil to fight back a demon invasion. Customize your character with powerful demonic abilities, explore a cursed world, and battle nightmarish enemies to save humanity if you can resist the darkness.
- #50 The Deadly Path
70% matchMixed46% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Owlskip EnterprisesPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension. Gather grim materials, construct defences and expand the underworld to appease the rage of the gods in The Deadly Path, a unique building management and roguelike strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #51 None Shall Intrude
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,016 reviews2025
Dev: Aeterna LudiPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Venture into None Shall Intrude, a roguelite deck-builder with tile-based combat where you become a powerful Raid Boss. Epic battles, intricate strategies, and the ever-present threat of heroic challengers seeking to vanquish your reign. Will you conquer all or fall to valiant heroes?
Why similar: Strategy 62.6%, Villain Protagonist 26.8% ★, Fantasy 10.6%
- #52 Throne of Bone
66% matchVery Positive85% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Windmill Slam
Windows · Mac
Draft minions to defeat all who oppose the noble art of necromancy. Wield spells, discover dark relics, and reclaim your castle to unite the land through undeath in this unholy amalgam of roguelike, deckbuilder, and autobattler.
Why similar: Strategy 77.3%, Fantasy 22.7%
- #53 None Shall Intrude: Descent
66% matchVery Positive88% of 272 reviews2024
Dev: Aeterna LudiPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
None Shall Intrude: Descent is a free Prologue version of None Shall Intrude. A roguelite deck-builder with tile-based combat where you become a powerful Raid Boss. Epic battles, intricate strategies, and the ever-present threat of heroic challengers seeking to vanquish your reign.
Why similar: Strategy 86%, Fantasy 14%
- #54 Whispers of the Eyeless
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 269 reviews2026
Dev: VenrisPub: Anshar Publishing
Windows
Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG. You are the villain - you command disciples, outwit enemies in combat, and shape the fate of the fallen city as you awaken the Dead Gods — Wrath, Desire, and Madness.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #55 Overboss
67% matchMixed52% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: BlanketGamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a villain in this retro-inspired board game. Draft terrain tiles, recruit monsters, build your dungeon, and become the OVERBOSS!
Why similar: Strategy 86.6%, Fantasy 13.4%
- #56 Worshippers of Cthulhu
64% matchVery Positive81% of 1,552 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #57 The Hive
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 439 reviews2016
Dev: Skydome Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?
Why similar: Strategy 73.1%, Fantasy 26.9%
