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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Sci-fi, Singleplayer, Turn-Based Tactics.

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Play out a Kaiju movie as the (hopelessly) outclassed military in this stylish 2D turn-based strategy game. Construct buildings and defend your city with cannon-fodder tanks, jets and more as the devastating kaiju grow in power with every attack.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 76% — of 272 reviews
Released: 2022-04-28
Developer: Foolish Mortals Games
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 2.0 hrs
Mean playtime: 3.7 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 68%

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    Dev: Subset Games
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    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    Why similar: Mechs 21.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Strategy 6.3%

  2. #2 Xenonauts
    96% matchVery Positive87% of 5,045 reviews2014
    Dev: Goldhawk Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

    Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.8%, Turn-Based 16.2%, Tactical 12.1%, Turn-Based Combat 11.6%

  3. #3 Mechs V Kaijus - Tower Defense
    96% matchVery Positive84% of 540 reviews2022
    Dev: Doble Punch Games
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Mechs V Kaijus is an addictive hardcore tower defense gameplay. In Mechs V Kaijus you take on the role of Commander of a powerful Mechs squadron. Improve your Mech, strategically place towers and factories on the battlefield. Deploy support units on the battlefield, and save our civilization.

    Why similar: Mechs 44%, Tactical 18%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Strategy 9.5%, Sci-fi 5.5%

  4. #4 One-inch Tactics
    95% matchVery Positive95% of 91 reviews2024
    Dev: KOGADO STUDIOPub: KOMODO
    Windows

    Turn the tide of the war with nuanced strategies in One-inch Tactics, introducing players to a unique turn-based strategy experience.

    Why similar: Mechs 19.8%, Turn-Based 14.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Wargame 10.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%

  5. #5 Godzilla Voxel Wars
    94% matchVery Positive95% of 123 reviews2023
    Dev: TOHO CO., LTD.
    Windows · Mac

    Get ready to battle using your brain! A full-fledged turn-based strategy game with a difficulty level: GODZILLA! Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, and more are here to rampage across an 8x8 grid! Control Toho monsters and save the world from the Fungoid mushroom invasion!

    Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 21.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.1%, Isometric 13.8%, Tactical 12%, Puzzle 9%

  6. #6 TINY METAL
    94% matchMostly Positive71% of 290 reviews2017
    Dev: AREA 35, Inc.Pub: Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. / UNTIES
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Craft unique strategies and outmaneuver your foes in TINY METAL, a turn-based Japanese wargame! With new tactical options, you will command over 16 tactically diverse units, flank, assault, deploy heroes from orbital dropships, and focus the firepower of multiple units to even out otherwise disastrous odds.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 21%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Wargame 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Tactical 10.1%

  7. #7 Buggos
    93% matchVery Positive88% of 1,375 reviews2022
    Dev: Intrepid Marmot
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

    Why similar: Wargame 38.7%, Strategy 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Sci-fi 9.4%, 2D 6.1%

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    92% matchVery Positive85% of 341 reviews2025
    Dev: RefinedBearGamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Linux

    Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.

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  9. #9 Codex of Victory
    91% matchMixed69% of 398 reviews2017
    Dev: Ino-Co PlusPub: AKPublish pty ltd
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    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    In this sci-fi turn-based strategy with real-time base-building elements, you’ll be defending human territories against the transhuman Augments. Expand your HQ, and manufacture and upgrade an army of advanced drones to wage interplanetary war for Humanity!

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  10. #10 Xenonauts 2
    89% matchVery Positive82% of 5,407 reviews2026
    Dev: Goldhawk InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.8%, Tactical 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 10.2%

  11. #11 Mech Armada
    90% matchVery Positive81% of 692 reviews2022
    Dev: Lioncode Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.

    Why similar: Mechs 28.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Isometric 11.1%, Tactical 10.1%

  12. #12 Punk Wars
    91% matchMixed61% of 119 reviews2021
    Dev: Strategy Forge S.A.Pub: Salient Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Our civilization has fallen. From the ashes, four new powers emerge. Immerse yourself in a combat-heavy twist on a classic turn-based 4X strategy where steam, steel, atom and diesel-punk corporations clash to spread their technology and the way of life.

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  13. #13 Templar Battleforce
    89% matchVery Positive93% of 980 reviews2015
    Dev: Trese Brothers
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Dev: Han ZhiyuPub: ChaosGalaxyStudio
    Windows

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    Dev: UnitedIndie
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%

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    Windows

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    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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    84% matchVery Positive86% of 636 reviews2024
    Dev: RocketPunch Games
    Windows

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  19. #19 Armed to the Gears
    85% matchMixed63% of 215 reviews2020
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    Windows
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 33.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!

    Why similar: Isometric 31.7%, Sci-fi 18%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Strategy 14.9%, 2D 5.7%

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    Windows

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    80% matchVery Positive81% of 4,325 reviews2023
    Dev: Brace Yourself Games
    Windows
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    Windows
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    Why similar: Turn-Based 23.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.1%, Tactical 14.7%, Turn-Based Combat 11%

  24. #24 Molten Armor
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    Windows

    Molten Armor is an action tower defense game with a non-linear story in sci-fi setting! Command defenses and stop hordes of enemies! Fight on land, sea and in the skies!Decisions taken in the heat of battle will change the course of the war.

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    81% matchVery Positive87% of 778 reviews2020
    Dev: Synthetic Domain
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 179 reviews2014
    Dev: bumblebeePub: Application Systems Heidelberg
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    79% matchVery Positive98% of 51 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac

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    78% matchMostly Positive78% of 65 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    77% matchVery Positive89% of 887 reviews2020
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    75% matchVery Positive84% of 32,899 reviews2018
    Dev: Harebrained SchemesPub: Paradox Interactive
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    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 43.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

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    74% matchMixed70% of 902 reviews2025
    Dev: Ground ShatterPub: Raw Fury
    Windows
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    76% matchMostly Positive73% of 81 reviews2020
    Dev: Raredrop Games LtdPub: PQube
    Windows · Mac

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    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 65.6%, 2D 17.8%, Indie 8.6%, Singleplayer 8%

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    73% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2023
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

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    74% matchMixed70% of 122 reviews2023
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    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

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    76% matchMixed68% of 93 reviews2016
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    Windows · Mac
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    71% matchVery Positive93% of 1,084 reviews2022
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    72% matchVery Positive95% of 3,969 reviews2008
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    Windows
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    Windows

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    68% matchVery Positive87% of 262 reviews2026
    Dev: Some Sugar Studio
    Windows

    Mech Fortress is a sci-fi tower defense game where each turret has unique mechanics. You can freely place them on a 5×5 grid, and your goal is to eliminate all enemies!

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    72% matchMostly Positive77% of 244 reviews2021
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    75% matchMixed43% of 141 reviews2017
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    73% matchMixed66% of 315 reviews2015
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    Dev: Arcen Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 28.1%, Mechs 20.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Strategy 10%, Tactical 9.9%

  56. #56 Taur
    68% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,096 reviews2020
    Dev: Echo Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

    Why similar: Strategy 30.1%, Tactical 25.1%, Sci-fi 23.5%, Action 9.3%, Indie 7.7%

  57. #57 Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
    69% matchMostly Positive77% of 410 reviews2019
    Dev: Tortuga Team
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.

    Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Tactical 16.6%, Isometric 14.5%, Turn-Based Combat 12.1%

  58. #58 Firebase Defence
    70% matchMostly Positive75% of 61 reviews2019
    Dev: Rasmus Agergaard
    Windows

    Firebase Defence is a new spin on the traditional tower defence gameplay. You have to defend yourself from the waves upon waves of incoming enemies. You are free to build, place and manage your available resources and units in any way you want. But failing to balance those will result in defeat!

    Why similar: Strategy 35%, Tactical 25.6%, Action 16.3%, Indie 13.7%, 2D 5.7%

  59. #59 Ash of Gods: The Way
    67% matchVery Positive80% of 496 reviews2023
    Dev: AurumDust
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.

    Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 31.1%, Tactical 22.3%, Isometric 20.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Story Rich 7.4%

  60. #60 Dark Deity
    67% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,034 reviews2021
    Dev: Sword & Axe LLCPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...

    Why similar: Tactical 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.7%, Turn-Based Combat 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

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