- #1 Northend Tower Defense
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,417 reviews2024
Dev: Northend Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
Why similar: Auto Battler 24.6%, Tower Defense 20.9%, War 14.6%, Military 14.2%, Tactical 6.9%
- #2 Freedom Defender
97% matchMixed67% of 157 reviews2017
Dev: League of Sweat Ent.
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Freedom Defender is a satirical tower defense game set in a fictional country obsessed in keeping it's borders free from foreigners.
Why similar: Satire 27.4% ★, Tower Defense 24%, Politics 19.9% ★, Dark Humor 14.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #3 Russian Warship
96% matchVery Positive94% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Dmitry Zheltobriukhov
Windows
This game is a comic relief in the otherwise tragic war in Ukraine. Based on many popular jokes, it mixes shoot 'em up and tower defense genres to create an action-filled top-down shooting experience which requires tactical thinking and smart resource management
Why similar: Politics 31.5% ★, Tower Defense 25.8%, Dark Humor 24%, Top-Down 8.5%, Strategy 6.1%
- #4 Dictator Simulator: Gradnar
95% matchVery Positive97% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: GortagonGame
Windows
Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your empire. A political dystopia packed with satire and humor!
Why similar: Dystopian 38.9%, War 28.8%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.6%, Stylized 10.4%
- #5 Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator
94% matchVery Positive84% of 3,319 reviews2022
Dev: Konfa GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!
Why similar: Auto Battler 52.5%, Dark Humor 25.8%, Tactical 15%, Strategy 6.8%
- #6 Empires in Ruins
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 145 reviews2021
Dev: Hammer & Ravens
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The bastard child of Grand Strategy and Tower Defense, with a black humor infused plot, set in a grim, disillusioned world. Quell the rebellion, tame the Western Marches, disobey your orders and save your brandy. Not strictly in this order.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, Dark Humor 21.2%, Military 17.9%, Isometric 16.9%, Management 7.3%
- #7 Unconventional Warfare
92% matchVery Positive87% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Nightlife Strangers
Windows · Linux
In this top-down tactical shooter RPG, guide a band of cute soldiers through a warzone to safety. Rescue, train and manage your squad for the upcoming war of survival.
Why similar: World War I 45.6% ★, Military 19%, War 16.3%, Tactical 7.8%, Strategy 6.6%
- #8 Private Military Manager: Tactical Auto Battler
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: 5minlab Corp.
Windows
You are the CEO of a private military company. Recruit capable mercenaries, purchase weapons, and develop your mercenaries according to their roles and characteristics. Observe how your mercenaries perform in combat and plan your tactics to ensure mission success.
Why similar: Auto Battler 32.4%, Military 17.3%, War 14.8%, Tactical 10.6%, Management 10%
- #9 Geo-Political Simulator 2026 Edition
90% matchMixed51% of 237 reviews2025
Dev: Eversim
Windows
The latest expansion of the ultra-realistic world simulator, where you play as the head of state or the opposition! New Features: tourism simulator, party strategies with regime censures, personal wealth management, a European army, AI and robotics.
Why similar: Political Sim 38.2% ★, Politics 13.1% ★, War 9.5%, Military 9.5%, Strategy 8.8%
- #10 Armored Battle Crew [World War 1] - Tank Warfare and Crew Management Simulator
91% matchMostly Negative34% of 656 reviews2019
Dev: Gattai Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Armored Battle Crew is a Tank and Crew Management Simulation game, where your skills as a Tank commander is tested. Customize your tank carefully and make strategic battle choices to achieve mission success! The fate of your crew lies in your hands!
Why similar: World War I 50.3% ★, Military 15.6%, War 12.9%, Tactical 5.7%, Management 5.5%
- #11 Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense
89% matchVery Positive81% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Terryble Interactive
Windows
The best elements of Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and Tower Defense genres combined into a new Base Defense game. Defend against countless waves of enemies while you expand your base, gather resources, and research technologies to defeat the ever strengthening enemy units.
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.4%, Isometric 24.2%, Top-Down 11.8%, Strategy 9.4%, 3D 6.5%
- #12 All Quiet in the Trenches
88% matchVery Positive90% of 888 reviews2024
Dev: Totally Not Aliens
Windows · Linux
All Quiet in the Trenches is a narrative turn-based strategy RPG set in World War I. Get to know your soldiers, take care of their needs and lead them in battle, trying to strike a precarious balance between the ambitions of your superiors and the survival of your men.
Why similar: World War I 62.5% ★, War 20.7%, Strategy 6.1%, Management 4.3%, Simulation 4%
- #13 AfterWar
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 143 reviews2023
Dev: Dmytro Lumen
Windows
AfterWar is a strategy about the world in 2028
Why similar: Political Sim 38.7% ★, Politics 21.1% ★, War 18.7%, Management 6.8%, Strategy 6%
- #14 The Political Process
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,120 reviews2019
Dev: Verlumino Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a dynamic world of politics in this turn-based, political simulator. Create a character, run for political office, write legislation, balance budgets, and more as you move up the political hierarchy.
Why similar: Political Sim 62.1% ★, Politics 27.6% ★, Simulation 5.3%, Strategy 5%
- #15 Utopia Must Fall
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,082 reviews2024
Dev: Pixeljam
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.
Why similar: Tower Defense 48%, Dark Humor 32.3%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Stylized 7.5%
- #16 Warpips
84% matchVery Positive87% of 5,087 reviews2022
Dev: Skirmish Mode GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Warpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!
Why similar: Auto Battler 32.3%, Tower Defense 28%, War 19.5%, Tactical 8.9%, Strategy 6.8%
- #17 Politics The Game
82% matchVery Positive95% of 2,352 reviews2025
Dev: Simplicity Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Become a parliamentarian, create a powerful party, and lead it to victory in this humorous adventure game. Manage your popularity and dignity, use unique powers, and navigate a storyline inspired by current events.
Why similar: Politics 41.6% ★, Political Sim 37.2% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7.9%, Stylized 3.9%
- #18 Operation: Polygon Storm
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 288 reviews2024
Dev: Toxic Studio
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!
Why similar: Auto Battler 32.1%, Tower Defense 23.8%, Military 17%, War 10.6%, Tactical 5.3%
- #19 Making History: The First World War
85% matchMixed67% of 114 reviews2021
Dev: Factus Games
Windows · Linux
A turn-based WWI Grand Strategy game. Rush to field new modern weaponry and survive the horrendous attrition battles. Join the global conflict between the Great Powers of the age and forge a new world order for freedom or tyranny.
Why similar: World War I 59.1% ★, War 12.4%, Military 11%, Strategy 6.4%, Management 6%
- #20 FrankenStorm TD: Prologue
83% matchVery Positive88% of 355 reviews2021
Dev: Doodad Games
Windows
Roguelite TD: all towers & enemies start the same, but you have 1 choice per wave affecting BOTH and stacking up for dramatic variance. Gradually salvage and make some choices permanent to build deeper strategies. Also a unique mazing challenge where wires and towers must be linked to a power source
Why similar: Tower Defense 84.4%, Strategy 15.6%
- #21 Epic Auto Towers
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 778 reviews2024
Dev: Aleksandr Golovkin
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Epic Auto Towers is a turn-based strategy game combining elements of autobattler, deckbuilder and roguelike. Purchase uncommon and rare Towers and build the strongest combo to withstand the monster assault! Discover unusual new Tower combinations as you come back for more.
Why similar: Auto Battler 68.6%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Strategy 11.2%
- #22 Ascent of Ashes
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 298 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Dark Humor 33.7%, Isometric 26.7%, Management 16.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 10.1%
- #23 Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense
80% matchVery Positive83% of 1,157 reviews2024
Dev: Swell Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 175.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Endless idle tower defense game full of deep strategy and combat mechanics. Unlock and upgrade dozens of epic fantasy heroes to defeat an infinite swarm of enemy monsters. Strategize hero positions, synergies, and skills for an effective defense, then sit back and let the auto-battler do its thing!
Why similar: Auto Battler 40.2%, Tower Defense 32.9%, Tactical 11.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Management 4.4%
- #24 Kiloton
79% matchVery Positive97% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Jack MorehartPub: spacemann's games
Windows · Mac
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS. Scheme your way through a highly replayable campaign, or conduct some "diplomacy" on your "friends" in multiplayer.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.2% ★, Dystopian 22.7%, Tactical 14.6%, Military 12.3%, War 8.3%
- #25 There Are No Orcs
77% matchVery Positive94% of 1,076 reviews2025
Dev: BaseTrade StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An RTS-Roguelike hybrid with auto-battling troops. Master building placement, swarm your enemies, and smash their defenses with unit-commander combos!
Why similar: Auto Battler 37.5%, Tower Defense 29.4%, Military 16.1%, War 11%, Strategy 6%
- #26 Wooden Battles
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 528 reviews2017
Dev: SP Digital Arts Inc.
Windows
Build a wooden fort, place your units, watch the mayhem!
Why similar: Auto Battler 37.8%, War 18.4%, Military 16.3%, Tactical 8.6%, Strategy 6.1%
- #27 Rising Army
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Arkbits
Windows
Rising Army is a strategy auto-battler game where you can train and equip every single troop, upgrade your camp, and recruit new warriors. Experience a campaign in an open world and take on epic battles.
Why similar: Auto Battler 49.7%, Military 16.8%, War 14.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Management 9.4%
- #28 Defense Task Force - Sci Fi Tower Defense
79% matchMixed66% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: ChillX Ltd
Windows
Defense Task Force Featuring Large Scale Procedurally Generated Tower Defense Battles with FPS Quality Visuals and Infinite Waves. 10 tower types, with different attacks , 3 levels plus boosts. 25 Enemy alien species: Regulars, Swarmers, Racers, Cloakers, Healers, Boss Units and Spawners.
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.2%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 12.4%, Sci-fi 11.4%
- #29 Unholy Heights
78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,637 reviews2013
Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!
Why similar: Auto Battler 31.9%, Tower Defense 23.7%, Dark Humor 18.8%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 8%
- #30 Toy Soldiers: HD
78% matchMixed64% of 165 reviews2021
Dev: Signal StudiosPub: Accelerate Games
Windows
Command antique WWI Toy Soldiers in the trench-filled battlefields of Europe. Deploy an exciting arsenal of guns, artillery, flamethrowers, tanks and planes to defend your WWI toy dioramas. Take direct control of individual units or command the entire battlefield from above.
Why similar: World War I 41.3% ★, Tower Defense 22.9%, Military 10.2%, War 7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #31 Heavyarms Assemble: WWII
77% matchMixed66% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: XR Studio
Windows
This is a strategy game with the theme of WWII. As a battlefield commander, maintaining your army's motivation and satisfaction, promoting your generals, managing your own economy, dealing with your friends' armies, and real time grand battle. What kind of commander will you become in the process?
Why similar: Military 40%, War 34.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.2%, 3D 7.1%
- #32 Grumpy Gaffer
74% matchVery Positive94% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: RC Games Studio
Windows
Join Mr. Gaffer on his mission to protect the peace of his home in this dynamic strategy game. Test your wits and reflexes as you face intense waves of enemies, and compete in thrilling mini-games against other players.
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.9%, Dark Humor 30%, Strategy 14.1%
- #33 Warlords Battle Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
Test your mettle as a commander in a Tactical Roguelike Auto Battler where positioning and unit combinations are key! Write your own story in Roguelike mode, try out over 100 unique challenges or create interesting battles with the Sandbox tool!
Why similar: Auto Battler 37.8%, Military 21.7%, War 18.8%, Management 8.7%, Strategy 4.9%
- #34 Defender Bros
74% matchVery Positive88% of 104 reviews2024
Dev: Lucky DartPub: The Bueno Interactive
Windows
Prepare your defenses during the day and survive until dawn. Defender Bros is a Top-Down Tower Defense Roguelike where you play as a Soldier defending your Base. Pick between multiple abilities as you level up to increase you power, then after each run buy perks and get stronger
Why similar: Tower Defense 37%, Military 29.4%, Tactical 14.4%, Top-Down 10.1%, Strategy 9%
- #35 Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator
76% matchMixed54% of 362 reviews2022
Dev: Screambox Studio
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator is a physics-based tactical strategy game where you must lead a military force in a fantasy medieval world. Build an army. Construct siege equipment. Experience epic battles. Lead your people to victory!!
Why similar: War 49.9%, Tactical 18%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 9.8%, 3D 8.9%
- #36 Firework War
73% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: 正方形劳伦斯Pub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Use a variety of fireworks to fend off misfortune and protect your family!
Why similar: Tower Defense 68%, Strategy 21.1%, Stylized 11%
- #37 Beetle Uprising
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: Iocane Games, LLCPub: Disco Slug
Windows
Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.
Why similar: Dark Humor 43.3%, Management 26.5%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 13.6%
- #38 Yap Wizards Tower Defence
71% matchVery Positive97% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: Noffty Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dynamic tower defence with an ever-scaling battlefield and unexpected twists!
Why similar: Tower Defense 73.6%, Strategy 26.4%
- #39 Warnament
71% matchVery Positive85% of 439 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based grand strategy game, simple for newbies yet challenging for masters. As the leader of a nation, you will conquer territories and advance in military, technology, culture, or politics. Choose from historical scenarios or create your own with an editor.
Why similar: World War I 46% ★, Politics 24% ★, Military 18.1%, Simulation 6.1%, Strategy 5.9%
- #40 Beholder 3
72% matchMixed65% of 2,752 reviews2022
Dev: Paintbucket GamesPub: Alawar
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.
Why similar: Political Sim 38.1% ★, Dystopian 20.1%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Isometric 11.8%, Management 6%
- #41 Bot Wars
71% matchVery Positive86% of 730 reviews2021
Dev: Frompy GamesPub: Big Play Games
Windows
Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map. Featuring corporate kill bot armies, ranging from a firearms and beverage manufacturer to a lovecraftian burger cult.
Why similar: Dystopian 57.6%, Sci-fi 21.4%, Strategy 21%
- #42 VOENKOMAT
72% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2023
Dev: pvt. Singer
Windows
VOENKOMAT is a social game. This game makes it possible to become a worst enemy of teens and guys from CIS countries - military comissar. You need to send to the army as many as possible soldiers, protect yours military HQ from foreign spies and save your soul from karmic devastation.
Why similar: Dark Humor 53.3%, War 46.7%
- #43 PowerSimulator
73% matchMixed42% of 209 reviews2023
Dev: SHIT MAKER
Windows
Do you want to be a upright official or corrupt officials?Choose your choice,Reaching the pinnacle of power.
Why similar: Political Sim 49% ★, Dark Humor 39.7%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 3.4%
- #44 Invasion Machine
73% matchMixed66% of 624 reviews2020
Dev: Pixel Machine
Windows
Modern-warfare RTS/sandbox game inspired by the real conflicts in the Middle East. Fight a counter-insurgency war, protect the civilian population, casevac your wounded and decide how the world sees your struggle. And remember - no one gets left behind.
Why similar: Military 43.4%, War 21.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Tactical 10.5%, Simulation 10.3%
- #45 Stickman Trenches
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,810 reviews2023
Dev: Big Play Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Stickman Trenches is a Real Time Strategy game in which you need to manage your men and weapons and build up your defenses in the brutal trenches of Stick World War 1.
Why similar: World War I 59.8% ★, Tower Defense 12.4%, Military 11.6%, War 10.3%, Strategy 5.9%
- #46 Beholder
69% matchVery Positive92% of 30,475 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Why similar: Political Sim 42.3% ★, Dystopian 24.1%, Dark Humor 18.6%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 5.1%
- #47 Konfronto
67% matchVery Positive90% of 115 reviews2026
Dev: Flaming Fowl Studios
Windows
A sci-fi roguelike auto-battler. Build a powerful intergalactic starship by interlocking different technologies, then battle through a galaxy populated with other players' creations.
Why similar: Auto Battler 63.3%, Stylized 13.1%, Top-Down 12.5%, Strategy 11.1%
- #48 Social Credit Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 96 reviews2022
Dev: Fasu Studio
Windows
In Social Credit Simulator, you make life-altering decisions by assigning social credit scores based on people’s actions and status. Satirizing real-world social rating systems, your choices determine your survival in a dystopian regime.
Why similar: Political Sim 74% ★, Management 15.8%, Simulation 9.3%, Dystopian 0.9%
- #49 Battle of Empires : 1914-1918
70% matchMixed69% of 2,101 reviews2015
Dev: Great War TeamPub: Best Way Soft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 is a story-driven RTS that brings to life some of the most brutal battles of the Great War. Each mission showcases the era’s most devastating weaponry — sabotage, stealth, trench warfare, gas attacks, artillery, and mobile infantry. BoE delivers the full WWI experience.
Why similar: World War I 66.8% ★, War 18.2%, Strategy 7.2%, Military 5%, Simulation 2.7%
- #50 Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,907 reviews2023
Dev: JoySpark Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!
Why similar: Political Sim 35.8% ★, Auto Battler 25.6%, Politics 23.1% ★, Top-Down 5.4%, Strategy 5.1%
- #51 Tiny Tactics
68% matchVery Positive83% of 669 reviews2022
Dev: Tiny Forge Gaming
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Tiny Tactics is a Tower Defense game with a heavy focus on mazing, with mechanics inspired by the Auto Chess genre.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.9%, Auto Battler 24.4%, Tactical 11.7%, Top-Down 10.1%, Strategy 8.4%
- #52 Tactical Combat Department
70% matchMixed63% of 115 reviews2022
Dev: LukasHPub: Render System
Windows
Tactical Combat Department is a tactical turn-based strategy game inspired by Swat games. You command a special intervention squad that intervenes in various situations and environments.
Why similar: Military 41.7%, Isometric 29.8%, Tactical 16.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 3.4%
- #53 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 149,906 reviews2021
Dev: Landfall
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: War 56.8%, Simulation 18.4%, Strategy 17%, 3D 7.9%
- #54 Escape the Dynasty
66% matchVery Positive87% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: CoolStar Games
Windows
A Roguelike Deckbuilder meets Turn-Based Auto-Battler! Trapped in a dark Three Kingdoms tower, command your army on a strategic 3x10 grid. Equip cards with unique "Wine" skills, master the Art of War, and make crucial choices in random events. Break the seal and Escape the Dynasty!
Why similar: Strategy 45.9%, Stylized 28.4%, Management 25.7%
- #55 Toy Shire
66% matchVery Positive88% of 701 reviews2024
Dev: Bluespy StudiosPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Are you prepared for a thrilling toy army tower defense adventure? Welcome to the Toy Shire! Battle diverse foes in various locations, defend your family, and repel foes from your area. Save the world by strengthening your defense with toy towers!
Why similar: Tower Defense 31%, Military 24.9%, War 20.9%, Tactical 11%, Strategy 7.3%
- #56 Becoming Saint
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 172 reviews2025
Dev: Open Lab GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows · Mac · Linux
Choose your doctrine and preach across medieval Italy in this real-time strategy roguelike. Gather your diverse cast of followers, venture out to convince and convert new believers, conquer towns, and strive to become a saint in your lifetime—or die trying.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.7% ★, Auto Battler 23.8%, Dark Humor 14.7%, War 8.4%, Management 5.7%
- #57 World Warfare & Economics
68% matchMixed61% of 677 reviews2023
Dev: Okron Studio
Windows · Mac
Take control of any nation and shape its future. Manage resources, trade, and taxes, engage in real-time warfare, navigate global diplomacy, and react to dynamic world events. Build a thriving economy, forge alliances, and command armies in a constantly evolving world!
Why similar: Political Sim 32% ★, Politics 16.8% ★, Military 15.4%, War 13.4%, Tactical 6.5%
- #58 Total Tank Simulator
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,653 reviews2020
Dev: Noobz from PolandPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.
Why similar: War 51.2%, Strategy 26.8%, Simulation 22%