- #1 Direct Hit: Missile War
97% matchMixed46% of 24 reviews2014
Dev: Polynetix Studio
Windows
Direct Hit: Missile War offers a deep strategic experience to those weary of the never ending stream of Command and Conquer clones that dominate the real-time strategy market. Direct Hit brings many fresh ideas to the table, in particular: separate player maps, and the replacement of classic RTS units by customizable missiles.
Why similar: Strategy 75.5%, Indie 24.5%
- #2 Siege - the card game
96% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: SIA Next Level
Windows · Mac · Linux
Siege is a strategic single-player card game about sieging castles with armies and magic set in the bizarre setting of Circus Empire.
Why similar: Strategy 72.1%, Indie 27.9%
- #3 Devouring Stars
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 40 reviews2015
Dev: NerialPub: BulkyPix
Windows · Mac · Linux
What if you could unhook the stars and fight your battles with black holes? With its mix of adaptative unit combination, space resource harvesting as well as visual and audio refinement, Devouring Stars aspires to bring a different scope to the RTS genre.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #4 Tenshu General
95% matchMixed66% of 32 reviews2015
Dev: SmartArt Game StudioPub: Tenshu General
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Tenshu General, is a simple, elegant, Real Time Strategy (RTS) game for those who favor short play sessions over long sessions. Quick casual game play combined with the challenge of continuously adapting enemies allow for a surprisingly challenging exercise in strategy. It is a cross breed between a board game and a classic RTS.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #5 Artillerists
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 132 reviews2017
Dev: SolarLance
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Artillerists is a turn-based isometric strategy. You should destroy the enemy’s armed forces, capture territories, earn money and upgrade your army. In addition to the main types of units and weapons, player can use radar reconnaissance, volley fire, air strikes, artillery strikes and many others...
Why similar: Strategy 72.1%, Indie 27.9%
- #6 Dominari Empires
93% matchVery Positive98% of 63 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny RTS
Windows
Got 5-10 minutes? Annihilate your enemy in a lightning fast micro 4X/RTS game set in deep space. Gameplay relies heavily on strategy, forward-thinking, and twitch-like reflexes.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #7 Geared
94% matchMixed36% of 11 reviews2015
Dev: Playful Art, LLC
Windows
Geared is a highly addictive, physics-based spatial puzzler. Goal: Power the blue gears.
Why similar: Strategy 72%, Indie 28%
- #8 100 nya
92% matchPositive88% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: .M.Y.W.
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
The game develops logical thinking. Taught to think through the moves in advance.
Why similar: Strategy 72.3%, Indie 27.7%
- #9 The Far Frontier
91% matchMixed61% of 49 reviews2017
Dev: Chillax Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Far Frontier is a combination of two popular game genres: match 3 and strategy. While playing, two players fight using a shared match 3 area. They must use tactics and strategy to win.
Why similar: Strategy 81.8%, Indie 18.2%
- #10 The Base
89% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: GMGame
Windows
PC only tower defence inspired by oldschool RTS games. Build up your defence in realtime under the constant pressure of creeps.
Why similar: Strategy 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #11 The Battle for Sector 219
90% matchMixed51% of 37 reviews2016
Dev: Large Visible Machine
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
The Battle for Sector 219 is an abstract strategy card game where two players field a sci-fi army battling a rival race for control of a world's capital city. The game is easy to learn and quick to play but has a depth of strategy usually found only in games that takes much longer to play.
Why similar: Strategy 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #12 Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition
91% matchVery Positive83% of 245 reviews
Dev: StarChart-Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.
Why similar: Strategy 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #13 Arena
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: FX GAMES
Windows · Mac
Enter the Arena! From the creators of Galaxy Control comes a real-time multiplayer game starring the space stations assault and defence, your favorite Galay Control characters and much, much more.
Why similar: Strategy 74.8%, Indie 25.2%
- #14 Battle Of Worldviews
88% matchMixed43% of 28 reviews2018
Dev: ARGamesPub: Metal Fox
Windows
Battle Of Worldviews - "real time strategy" in which you have to fight with friends or AI, while watching the resources, weather conditions and their development.
Why similar: Strategy 74.8%, Indie 25.2%
- #15 Atriage
89% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2016
Dev: Batu Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Atriage, a turn-based strategy game inspired by Sci-fi space naval battles in 80s Anime where you command a fleet of ten warships against a rival commander. Master four different ship classes, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and roles in combat in an all-out battle for supremacy.
Why similar: Strategy 74.7%, Indie 25.3%
- #16 Desert Ashes
86% matchMixed53% of 80 reviews2014
Dev: Nine Tales Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Desert Ashes is a turn based strategy game with online multiplayer and single player campaigns, it also boasts an innovative menu system allowing you to play multiple games at once. The Day-Night system adds a dynamic twist to turn based battles that affect the battlefield.
Why similar: Strategy 74.5%, Indie 25.5%
- #17 Defend Your Crypt
84% matchVery Positive81% of 53 reviews2016
Dev: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Defend Your Crypt is a strategy and puzzle game, in which we will have to avoid to lose our treasure by the tomb thieves. We, as the Pharaoh, can use different traps to defeat those damn ambitious humans who are profaning your tomb.
Why similar: Strategy 75.3%, Indie 24.7%
- #18 Urbance Clans Card Battle!
84% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: SteambotPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Street gangs rise up in Neo-City. Time has come to gather your own gang to take over the whole city, district after district. Takedowns will happen, show no mercy if you wanna survive.
Why similar: Strategy 74%, Indie 26%
- #19 Great Big War Game
85% matchVery Positive93% of 74 reviews2012
Dev: Rubicon Development
Windows
Join 2.5 million gamers in this award-winning, BAFTA-Nominated turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 75.2%, Indie 24.8%
- #20 Shadows of War
86% matchMostly Negative34% of 167 reviews2015
Dev: TRI.G
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Shadows of War is a 2D Real-Time Strategy sidescroller game. The game combines classical RTS elements with new ideas into a 2D game.
Why similar: Strategy 74.4%, Indie 25.6%
- #21 Greece Defense TD
83% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: GameArxPub: TCH International Group, LLC
Windows · Mac
Greece Defense is an epic tower defense saga where you play as the general of the united Greek army and your duty is to protect your land from invasion of thousands of mythical creatures driven by mighty Titans who somehow managed to escape from Tartarus.
Why similar: Strategy 74%, Indie 26%
- #22 Colo Grid Zation
82% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Armagedoom Games
Windows · Mac
In Colo Grid Zation will have to plan the best way to expand your grid-body creature to get the most efficient resources and survive!
Why similar: Strategy 74%, Indie 26%
- #23 Asteroid Wars
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Samuel Kunik
Windows
Asteroid Wars is a strategy game at its core. No intro, no story, minimal settings and just pure gameplay. You have your carrier, a bunch of fighters and a whole asteroid field to conquer. But you are not alone. There is always someone who has better carrier, more fighters and needs to be kicked in the …
Why similar: Strategy 74%, Indie 26%
- #24 Rubico
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Runners
Windows
You were in the middle of a dying city, in the center of which a giant monster nestled - the Plague. People infected with it lose their sanity and die over time. In the midst of all this chaos, you have only one friend you can rely on - a mechanical kettle.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #25 Battle for Orion 2
81% matchVery Positive80% of 75 reviews2017
Dev: Infinite Loop Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Earth has been destroyed. Mankind is fractured. The galaxy is at war. But one hope remains: a new home for mankind. Probes detected a habitable planet in the Orion sector. You must fight your way to it, but nothing is as it seems. A more devious plan is underway that threatens the entire galaxy.
Why similar: Strategy 73.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #26 Archamon
80% matchMixed69% of 49 reviews2017
Dev: Vionsoft
Windows
Archamon is a realtime creative/building/survival strategy game from medieval times. You must build villages and you have to acquire food for your people and raw materials. Expand and rise your nation, create an aristocratic family and achieve higher nobility titles.
Why similar: Strategy 73.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #27 TurretCraft
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Antropi
Windows
Build maze, send units, destroy your opponents! TurretCraft is a fast paced, competitive tower defense game with multiplayer, mazing, and mercenaries.
Why similar: Strategy 73.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #28 Tile Conqueror
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Firenja
Windows
Tile Conqueror is a strategy game. Build your base, expand your army, conquer tiles and get crystals. Buy permanent upgrades with the crystals you collect to upgrade your army and buildings to conquer stronger tiles.
Why similar: Strategy 73.6%, Indie 26.4%
- #29 Magic Pixel Picross
79% matchMostly Negative33% of 24 reviews2017
Dev: Shandong Jerei Digital Technology Co.,LTD.
Windows
A game of numerical reasoning for practicing your logical thinking. A game of exploration and collection which may recall your childhood memories. A drawing game for you to paint your dreams freely.
Why similar: Strategy 73.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #30 Ziggurat 3D Chess
79% matchMixed56% of 32 reviews2017
Dev: Michael LampelPub: Lampel Enterprises
Windows
Ziggurat Three Dimensional Chess(TM), is a true three dimensional environment which combine the familiar movements of standard chess and exciting new moves never seen before. The rules of movement are easy to learn so beginners will be playing their first game in minutes.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #31 Card Brawl
77% matchMixed69% of 29 reviews2019
Dev: MyDreamForever_old
Windows
A mix of Сard games and Roguelikes. Fight with monsters, craft your unique deck and kill bosses. Try experimenting with different combinations and strategies to complete all raids. Start monster hunting in this new deckbuilding game!
Why similar: Strategy 73.6%, Indie 26.4%
- #32 Strazeal
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Tradosoft
Windows · Linux
A digital strategy board game for 2 - 4 players. Capture your opponent's bases while protecting all of your own using land, water and special weapons.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #33 Don't Panic!
77% matchMixed53% of 45 reviews2017
Dev: V34D4RPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Don't Panic! a logical strategy with top view. Your goal is to kill all the people on the level by limited number of zombies.
Why similar: Strategy 73.6%, Indie 26.4%
- #34 Shattered Throne
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 43 reviews2016
Dev: Checkmark Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Shattered Throne is a turn based fantasy strategy game that will challenge your skills as a general. No luck to blame, only your ability to master the unique units and leaders to exploit the combo system will decide if you are victorious.
Why similar: Strategy 73.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #35 The Wizard's Tower
74% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Paul Kearley
Windows · Mac
The Wizard's Tower is a Tower Defence game that gives you direct control over the Towers. Using three different elements to maximum effect to stop your foes from destroying your main Tower.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #36 Cat Defense
74% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Red twice potato
Windows
An army of the undead attacked the defenseless village of cute kittens
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #37 Minda
73% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Sunho Kim
Windows · Mac
Online Abalone board game.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #38 stepbystep
73% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Evgeny PetrovPub: Not a Prototype games
Windows · Linux
stepbystep is a minimalistic programming puzzle platformer with experimental turn-based mechanics where you must write a command sequence to complete the levels that will be run automatically.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #39 Project GR-5LYR: Galactic Relocation
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Team GRPub: Incandescent Workshop LLC
Windows
You are a part of Project GR-5LYR: Galactic Relocation. Your mission is to land on an Earth-like planet, codenamed 5LYR, and prepare it for human habitation. Start a colony and use your resources wisely on the world map, and "take care" of any hostile local lifeforms in tactical turn-based combat.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #40 Our Children - Escaping Earth
76% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: NonyDev
Windows
You are J.E.S. An AI put to protect what's left of earth. Defend bunkers, gather resources, and unlock new technologies to preserve our children and escape to mars.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #41 Goblin Storm
71% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: Nemeton Singularity Simulations
Windows
Command the armies of Men, Goblins and the Dead as they battle for supremacy on battlefields across the lands of Arcwellion. Will you build a mighty kingdom and lead the armies of men to stand against the storm? Or will you command the invading hordes on the path to conquest?
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #42 Alteil: Horizons
72% matchMixed49% of 116 reviews2016
Dev: Apocoplay LLC
Windows
Alteil Horizons combines Tactical RPGs (like Final Fantasy Tactics) with the deck-building and collecting elements of card dueling games.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #43 The Astonishing Game
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: Turbo Tape Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Astonishing is a turn-based tactical board-game that will challenge new to veteran gamers. Participate in competitions for great prizes, including signed albums, tickets and post-concert passes, available to players during the Dream Theater tours.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #44 Radar Defense
70% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Adage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Radar Defense is the first Strategy Tower Defense Game with a “seek and destroy” game mechanic. Use your Radar to find and identify the threat, or use your intuition to guess the position and the types of the enemy units. Destroy them with the right weapon.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #45 炎黄战纪之三国烽烟
69% matchMixed66% of 290 reviews2018
Dev: 上海班图网络科技有限公司
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
《炎黄战纪》是一款开放式的水墨历史风集换式卡牌游戏。 我们设计这款游戏的初衷对华夏五千年来那一个个青史留痕的人物的向往和致敬,希望能记录和纪念这些炎黄之魂以及他们的故事,同时也希望能提供一个平台将同好者们聚在一起来共同开发和完善这个游戏,青梅煮酒,共论天下英雄,评说功过是非。
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #46 Pocket God vs Desert Ashes
72% matchMixed43% of 23 reviews2015
Dev: Nine Tales Digital
Windows · Mac
It's "Clash of the Titans!" Or, rather, "Clash of the Pygmies and Landians!" In cooperation with Bolt Creative, Nine Tales Digital brings you a new spin on their popular Desert Ashes turn-based strategy game, guest starring a powerful Pygmy army defending their territory.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #47 Grimante
68% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: aftermonk
Windows · Mac
50+ levels of tactical combat boiled down to its addicting, puzzle-like core. Solve the battlefield.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #48 BlindOak Prow
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PositionMatters
Windows · Mac · Linux
BlindOak Prow is a competitive strategy card game with unique, subtle tactics that mirror the political maneuvers of the setting. Form a party of four characters mixing and matching the six different classes however you'd like, then outwit your foes for control of the city and for your survival on a new land.
Why similar: Strategy 72.3%, Indie 27.7%
- #49 Wequer
65% matchVery Positive90% of 79 reviews2019
Dev: Ben Allen
Windows
Chess has evolved! Hatch units from eggs, make ranged attacks, cast dastardly spells, and take control of the board to win in Wequer.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #50 Defend the Highlands: World Tour
68% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Kilted CamelPub: KISS ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command Alfredo and his band of Scotsmen as they travel the globe, freeing their oppressed countrymen wherever they go. In a hybrid of Tower Defense and RTS, you'll build defenses, manage resources and command your troops, as you show the world what happens if you mess with Scotland.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #51 ManGuin – Penguin Apocalypse
71% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Gary & EddyPub: EGCL
Windows
A real-time strategy (RTS) game which comes from our love of 50s Sci-fi films. Set in Antarctica you control a team of top scientists researching penguins. Disaster strikes when a satellite carrying an unknown space virus crashes near a penguin colony.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #52 Stratus: Battle For The Sky
70% matchMixed51% of 39 reviews2016
Dev: Storm Isle Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stratus: Battle for the sky is a fast paced RTS game set in a fantasy world of warring priests seeking to gain favor of the fickle Gods.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #53 Hellfire Fortress
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gold & Lumber Games UG
Windows · Mac
In the Hellfire Fortress classic 1 vs 1 mode you’ll face sheer endless waves of demons and thus the goal is straight forward: Your Fortress needs to survive longer than your opponent’s! It’s your task to set up an army and strategically invest in economy while constantly leveling up your Fortress.
Why similar: Strategy 72.1%, Indie 27.9%
- #54 Navalia
69% matchMixed46% of 40 reviews2017
Dev: Luotsi EntertainmentPub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Design, build and command your fleet of spaceships! Navalia allows you to freely design ships for your fleet, lead them in battle against formidable foes and gradually conquer the galaxy. Unleash your creativity with the innovative Navalia ship editor and bring your creations into battle!
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #55 Heart in the Cell: Rebirth
51% 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%
- #56 Rezist: Tower Defense
64% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: SparkGames
Windows
Protect your server from the malicious software intrusion. Improve your utility programs in time, rollout patches — and you will stand fearless even against the algorithms of your most devious enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #57 Cute War:Zero 萌系战争:零
67% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: F chord 繁弦
Windows
Polygon style SLG game.You can choose knight Viking samurai one of them for victory.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%