- #1 Merchants & Mercenaries
97% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2016
Dev: Echidna Studios
Windows
Merchants and Mercenaries is a hectic real-time strategy that looks and feels like the board games you love, with none of the waiting. There’s no one way to play, or even to win, but you’d better be fast!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #2 It Pays To Be A Winner
96% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Alan Goff
Windows
Simple on the surface, but complex deep below, It Pays To Be A Winner is a 1v1 turn-based strategy game that pits players brain against brain across a square-tile landscape. It's kind of like chess, but not at all.
Why similar: Strategy 79.2%, Multiplayer 20.8%
- #3 Starlight Tactics™
96% matchMixed52% of 31 reviews2015
Dev: Escape Hatch Entertainment,LLCPub: Escape Hatch Entertainment, LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Travel a hundred years into the future to command an advanced space fleet in full 3D turn-based tactical space combat through the greatest conflict humankind has ever known. Protect the Sky!
Why similar: Strategy 89.7%, Indie 10.3%
- #4 Trains & Things
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: bitshift
Windows · Linux
Build a logistics company from the ground up in this real time multiplayer focused economic strategy game
Why similar: Strategy 92.1%, Indie 4.1%, Multiplayer 3.8%
- #5 Planets Under Attack
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,248 reviews2012
Dev: Targem GamesPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.
Why similar: Strategy 97.3%, Indie 1.4%, Multiplayer 1.4%
- #6 Little fight
93% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: FunnyNetWork
Windows
《Little fight》 is a magic theme, heroes battle, heavy athletics, turn-based SLG game. Proficient in the technical, strategic requirements, followed by competitive game skills design, strategy skills diversification: can be forced, dizziness, treatment, crawling, combat range, stealth, clear skills and so on.
Why similar: Strategy 95.8%, Indie 4.2%
- #7 RoBoRumble
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 309 reviews2015
Dev: MetropolisPub: TopWare Interactive ACE
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build powerful battle robots from components like Chassis, Weapon and Booster. The battle’s starting and you’re right in it – with freely definable camera perspectives, spectacular effects, unlimited zoom and scroll, colored light sources, terrain morphing and 3D sound. Pure action – pure excitement!
Why similar: Strategy 97.3%, Indie 2.7%
- #8 三国时代2
89% matchPositive89% of 44 reviews2019
Dev: 陈文龙
Windows
This is a lightweight strategy game
Why similar: Strategy 95.7%, Indie 4.3%
- #9 Interloper
91% matchVery Positive84% of 408 reviews2015
Dev: Monogon Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Interloper is an online multiplayer real-time strategy game with matches that take only 5 minutes. Instead of destroying your opponent, you win by claiming domain. By predicting your opponent's movements, you corner them to claim the entire map.
Why similar: Strategy 91.5%, Multiplayer 5.6%, Indie 2.8%
- #10 Swords and Soldiers HD
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,054 reviews2010
Dev: Ronimo GamesPub: Atari
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods! Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities.
Why similar: Strategy 98%, Multiplayer 1.1%, Indie 0.9%
- #11 Shields Up! VR
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LesInk Productions
Windows
Shields Up! is a real-time mining construction VR strategy game. Shields Up! is a tower defense-style challenge where you land, build, mine, defend, and get out with your valuable cargo while fending off the hazards of space debris and the impending war machine.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #12 Darkwinds
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MEGO GamesPub: Mego Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this new online card game, you must sail the dangerous seas of Thard, infested with ferocious pirates, dark spells and terrible creatures that will seek to sink you into the depths of oblivion. To survive, you must choose your crew wisely and create a powerful deck to defeat your opponents in order to become the most respected pirate...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #13 World War III: Black Gold
90% matchMixed63% of 916 reviews2013
Dev: Reality PumpPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Actual Armies. Actual Weapons. Actual Political Issues.World War III - Black Gold takes the player to the near future. The political crisis has been going on for months, leading to worldwide turmoil. A secret conference of the UN Central Geological Commission reveals that worldwide oil reserves have reached dangerously low levels: Oil...
Why similar: Strategy 98.8%, Multiplayer 1.2%
- #14 Civil War: Bull Run 1861
89% matchMixed48% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Bull Run recreates the first major battle of the American Civil War between the Union and Confederate armies. Take command of an Union army of Northeast Virginia or the Confederate army of Potomac and Shenandoah and engage in the largest battle fought on American soil to date.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #15 Wars of the Roses
86% matchMostly Positive68% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Fight the various battles of the Wars of the Roses throughout the Medieval ages. Each campaign is themed around fights between the Lancaster and Yorkist houses during various different periods of the countries rule
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #16 Morps
88% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Random developers
Windows
Morps game is 2D pixel art strategy with simple principies of fight and defense. Use your king to control Morp´s world. The future of little creatures and end tyranny of king Gark is in your hands.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #17 Clash of Magic: Spectator Only
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Narvalous Inc
Windows
On the United Island of Magic, there is an Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Students with magic powers, regardless of their ethnicity and background, can apply to this university. The acceptance rate is lower than Harvard.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #18 Holodeck Arena
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yan Hildebrand
Windows
Compete for supremacy in this fast-paced cyberspace-RTS with exotic units and supply chains of your own making.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #19 Clash of Magic
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Narvalous Inc
Windows
On the United Island of Magic, there is an Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Students with magic powers, regardless of their ethnicity and background, can apply to this university. The acceptance rate is lower than Harvard.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #20 Ancient Battle: Successors
82% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Ancient Battle: Successors is the latest edition to the Ancient Battle series. Alexander the Great died on 13 June 323 B.C., leaving no heir. Perhaps foreseeing the many great conflicts that would follow his demise, he left the Macedonian Kingdom 'To the best man'.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #21 Civil War: 1865
84% matchMixed52% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows · Mac
After Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina, fell to the Union, in early 1865, Jefferson Davis belatedly handed over the supreme command or the army to General Lee. This could not stop the Union armies pressing on through North Carolina, capturing Fayetteville, Bentonville, Goldsboro and Raleigh by mid-April.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #22 Tank Battle: Normandy
83% matchMixed64% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Land your troops on the beaches of northern France, lay bridges to cross flooded enemy defences, avoid tanktraps, clear the area of dangerous minefields, overcome the enemy and claim the beachhead for the Allies!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #23 Chronostorm: Siberian Border
84% matchMixed58% of 134 reviews2015
Dev: Ulysses GamesPub: ESDigital Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A dynamic real-time strategy, tells about the hot battles that could happen in the near future on the eastern borders of Russia.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #24 Gettysburg: The Tide Turns
81% matchMixed66% of 68 reviews2017
Dev: Shenandoah StudioPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Gettysburg: The Tide Turns is a hex-based wargame set in one of the most decisive and iconic battles of the Civil War. 150 years ago, brave soldiers fought across this idyllic battlefield, and, now, we put you in their shoes.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #25 Galaxy Union
81% matchMixed53% of 19 reviews2015
Dev: cybercritics
Windows
Economic based 4x, puts you in a large galaxy with hundreds of systems as a CEO of a colony destined to rule over all competitors, features dozens or more opponent CEOs.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #26 Tank Battle: East Front
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 35 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Use hex based tactical combat to dominate foes on the Russian front of the Second World War. Fight as the Germans or the Soviets in a series of ever more complex missions.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #27 Heart in the Cell: Rebirth
66% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Team Gingerbread Man
Windows
“Heart in the Cell: Rebirth” is a real-time strategy (RTS) game which integrates the UI itself into the combat system. Players will act as rebels and explore the secrets beneath the vast wings of Oniros Corporation in a world Of highly advanced artificial intelligence.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #28 Empire - Wargame of new Century
78% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Artur PodzorskiPub: Linkart Artur Podzorski
Windows
Empire - remake of the 80' bestseller "Empire - Wargame of the century".
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #29 Mosby's Confederacy
82% matchMixed64% of 39 reviews2008
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
As John Singleton Mosby, one of the Civil War's most interesting and dynamic leaders, you are charged, not with leading vast armies into battle, but with commanding small bands of skirmishers, scouts, and guerilla fighters on opportunistic missions to scout, ambush, steal supplies, and harass a larger and better-armed force of Union soldi
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #30 Ancient Battle: Alexander
76% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Ancient Battle: Alexander delivers a unique wargaming experience on PC and Mac.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #31 Dominus 2
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 45 reviews2018
Dev: Superstruct
Windows · Mac · Linux
A free multiplayer strategy game. Grow in power by capturing castles. Climb the tree to become Dominus and win the game.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #32 Great Battles of the American Civil War
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Great Battles of the American Civil War is based on the ‘Great Battles of the American Civil War’ board games, which started with the classic game ‘Terrible Swift Sword’. This game recreates the significant battles of the American Civil War.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #33 Widgets and Gidgets
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Dwarf Haven Games
Windows
You are a lowly gnome, making parts, earning shinnies, building (and repairing) machines on a quest to earn 1 million shinnies.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #34 Akabeth Tactics
75% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: Daisu Games
Windows
Akabeth Tactics is a turn-based tactical puzzle game where you play as the vampire Liel, trying to infiltrate into King Cassius' castle and usurpe the throne. Solve challenging positioning puzzles through fixed levels, in a gothic tone.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #35 Rebels & Redcoats
74% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Rebels and Redcoats recreates the battlefields of the American Revolutionary War. The war began in 1775 when the American colonies rebelled against the British Empire, declaring their independence in 1776.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #36 100 Years’ War
73% matchMostly Positive64% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Fight the various battles of the 100 Years Was throughout the Medieval ages.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #37 Ruthless Conquest
70% matchVery Positive87% of 100 reviews2019
Dev: Candy Rufus Games
Windows
Send the fleet to capture planets and expand your empire, until you vanquish them all! No ads, no in-app purchases, completely free. Local and internet multiplayer is supported in this galactic strategy game. Six levels of challenging AI await you for practice matches and for making up numbers.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #38 Astro4x
71% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: MrGrak
Windows
A Single Player Turn-Based 4X Strategy Indie Game. It's like Chess in Space.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #39 Hold the Line: The American Revolution
73% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows · Mac
Hold the Line covers battles fought during the American Revolution. This game is a careful conversion of the board game of the same name developed by Worthington Publishing. Jump in and take command of the American or British forces during this pivotal moment in the history of nations!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #40 Hexaverse
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Stefan Elsen
Windows
Hexaverse is a turn based, multiplayer strategy game. You'll strive to conquer volumetric planets against an AI or other players. Players are free to expand any way around the globe. Use your terraformers to build walls and bridges, excavate tunnels, or submerge your bases beneath mountains.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #41 Elven Legacy: Magic
76% matchMixed65% of 37 reviews2009
Dev: 1C:InoCoPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The era of Elven Legacy is coming to an end. The relentless wave of demonic magical energy triggered by the death of the demon Farrakh has swept the world and has now reached the free city of Sylent. Powerless, the Masters of the Academy of Magic are being driven insane.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #42 ASCII Wars
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: James Oliver
Windows
Protect the servers. Locate the vulnerabilities. Exterminate the viruses. This fast paced strategy game lets you enter terminal commands from a VR interface to defeat the viruses before you become overrun.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #43 Cyborg Tower Defense
72% matchMixed60% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Big Fun Games
Windows
Futuristic 3D Tower Defense Game where evil Cyborgs try to take over the space ship Andromeda deck by deck. Zoom right into the action and glide over the surface to see the spectacular weapons and explosions at your disposal. Kill 'em all!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #44 RTSM
68% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: Gatskop Software
Windows
Take charge of your army and conquer South Africa in this epic RTS game.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #45 Fallen Empires
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Lightning Man Media
Windows · Mac
Command your forces and lead your kingdom to victory! Guide your troops through foreboding environments ranging from forests to desert villages to lava infernos in this RTS with a twist.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #46 Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
73% matchMixed53% of 116 reviews2014
Dev: Accolade, Inc.Pub: Atari
Windows
Colonize A Planet. Dominate A World.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #47 Sanguo: War Under Heaven
69% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Telestic StudiosPub: Second March, LLC
Windows
Sanguo: War Under Heaven is a real-time strategy game set in ancient China, featuring rapid-fire battles and extensive customization.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #48 Battles of the Ancient World
71% matchMixed60% of 30 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
The ‘Battles of the Ancient World’ game system is a tactical simulation of some of the greatest and most important battles from 1457 B.C. to 378 A.D.. Each scenario features one of these great battles and players may play as either side. The game has been designed to ensure maximum playability and historical accuracy, in that order.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #49 Wars and Battles: Normandy
69% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Battle FactoryPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Wars and Battles: Normandy is a turn-based wargame that simulates historical battles and campaigns around the battle for Normandy in June and July 1944.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #50 Essence Defenders
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Other Side Worlds
Windows
The Void has come to devour the world - and only Essence can stop it. Command a fleet to protect remaining islands from Demons of the Void who come to deplete the Essence Source.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #51 Warlock: Tower Defence
68% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Snowdon Games
Windows
Warlock: Tower Defence is a story driven tower defence game, giving players access to 6 elemental magics to face challenges spread across 5 chapters.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #52 Physica-E
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Electro Maniac
Windows
Escape is the one thing you know. Craft, defend, and survive in this unique horror.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #53 Bandit Kings of Ancient China
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 39 reviews2017
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
"Suikoden: Tenmei no Chikai" was released in Japan in 1988 and later in the US as "Bandit Kings of Ancient China." It is a simulation game based on the novel "Suikoden" or "Water Margin," a Chinese classic. Players play as a bandit being pursued by imperial officers.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #54 Twilight's Last Gleaming
65% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Twilights Last Gleaming recreates some of the pivotal battles of the War of 1812 between the United States and the British Empire.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #55 Frontline : Longest Day
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 21 reviews2014
Dev: 88mmPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
In Frontline: The Longest Day, players command the Allied forces through some of the most famous battles of the war, freeing Europe from the hands of the German Army. The game takes place over five massive, engaging and challenging missions, all inspired by historical missions which took place during operation Overlord: Utah, Omaha,...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #56 Ancient Battle: Rome
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar Games LtdPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Designed from the ground up Ancient Battle: Rome gives a unique wargaming experience. Use Roman legionaries, elephants, catapults, heavy and light cavalry, archers, slingers, fanatics and many other unit types to engage in classic battles.
Why similar: Strategy 100%