- #1 The Gladhollow Nasties
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Novel Creatures
Windows
A beast stalks the forest by night. It will take cunning, stealth, and strategy to survive long enough to untangle a mystery through one wooded village and many despicable generations. Discover the stories of the sinful, pernicious, malicious morsels themselves: The Gladhollow Nasties.
Why similar: Strategy 38.2%, Indie 25%, Adventure 22.4%, Mystery 14.3%
- #2 Krystopia: A Puzzle Journey
96% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Antler Interactive
Windows
Follow Nova Dune, a space explorer in her quest to find out about the unfamiliar distress signal she received aboard her ship. Determined to investigate it, she finds herself on a desolated planet where all civilization has vanished.
Why similar: Mystery 23.2%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Space 19.7%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 13.9%
- #3 Aeon Command
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 418 reviews2014
Dev: Bat Country Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Aeon Command is a tug of war strategy game, where you play as one of three unique factions to help gain dominance over the Aeon Nebula! Take control of your mother ship to gather resources, produce ships and fight off the enemy mother ship. Grow stronger as you progress through the 24 mission campaign and unlock new upgrades.
Why similar: Strategy 46%, Indie 21.3%, Space 20.4%, Sci-fi 12.3%
- #4 Prismatic Maze
94% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Bad Monkey Love
Windows · Mac
Prismatic Maze is an experimental evolving maze game where maps are alive, grown organically and naturally arranging themselves into hierarchical mazes. Hidden in each map are tools and ingredients to grow more complex mazes and aid to exploration of their patterns and treasures.
Why similar: Strategy 43.7%, Indie 30.5%, Adventure 25.7%
- #5 Two For One
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: 2Hyper
Windows
Two For One is a game about 2 brothers who have lost their home planet. It's your job to help them, alone or together with someone else, find their home planet! Puzzle your way trough lots of levels to get back home! Push boxes, open doors and jump on your friend's head to solve all kinds of puzzles!
Why similar: Strategy 44.8%, Indie 29.8%, Adventure 25.4%
- #6 Abyss
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TBDPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Abyss is an arcade-adventure game telling the story of a teenager who sets off on a dangerous and obstacle-filled journey. Take part in this thrilling adventure, explore 21 different levels, from the gloomy streets of Łódź to the infernal dungeons.
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #7 TheMovingMaze
93% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Wuzi
Windows
A traditional maze awaits you, and you'll enjoy the old days
Why similar: Strategy 44.2%, Indie 29.4%, Adventure 26.4%
- #8 Horresco Referens
92% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Spiro Spero Games
Windows · Mac
You are a soldier from an alien race exiled from its native planet. Armed with a deck of cards, your goal is to make sure that your new home never gets colonized by the neighboring civilizations.
Why similar: Strategy 46.2%, Indie 29.2%, Adventure 24.6%
- #9 Gotta Get Going: Steam Smugglers VR
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Alligator SL
Windows
In Steam Smugglers, you will be member of a band of thieves that want to return the social class balance by stealing the world's most valuable jewel, owned by one of the richest families in the country.
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #10 Doors & Rooms
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 24 reviews2019
Dev: Gameday Inc.
Windows
Best of escape games! Just open the doors and escape!
Why similar: Strategy 43.7%, Indie 29%, Adventure 27.3%
- #11 Displaced
91% matchMixed56% of 217 reviews2017
Dev: GamexyPub: Alawar Casual
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Your mission: lead a group of civilians out of the war-torn country.
Why similar: Strategy 44.7%, Indie 29.1%, Adventure 26.1%
- #12 灵文西游
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: Winturn Games
Windows
《灵文西游》是一款Roguelike和TCG组合玩法的策略卡牌游戏。游戏以中国古典神话故事为背景,选择你的传奇英雄,遭遇随机生成的不同妖魔鬼怪和事件,踏上封神之路!
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #13 Alice Must Find The Key To Escape (Hidden Objects)
89% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Tonee Ltd
Windows · Mac
Alice is locked in here own dream and she needs help to get from her deep level of unconsciousness. While she was taking care of her sick mother in the Garfield's Castle, a bolt strikes from the sky and hit Alice and she falls down in unconsciousness, and that is how her journey begin.
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #14 Under The War
87% matchMostly Negative29% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Lightning Zebra
Windows
Cities are ruled by extremist organizations, and here become closed cages. As a leader of a team, you not only need to find enough materials to make your team survive, but also to be responsible for each of your choices. Under your leadership, can your team escape from the city?
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #15 Mad Crown
86% matchVery Positive80% of 148 reviews2018
Dev: S-Game
Windows
Mad Crown is a roguelike RPG set in a post-apocalyptic dieselpunk world. As an explorer, you are in search of the legendary crown. Make use of limited resources and meticulous tactics to battle an eerie enemy through the procedurally generated dungeons of a mutated world.
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #16 Trinity Dungeon
88% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Jonathan Grey
Windows
A turn-based tactical rogue-like dungeon crawler. Fight the monsters, descend the Dungeon, and recover the Amulet!
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #17 游离大陆 Uniland
83% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2019
Dev: Ughorse Studio
Windows
It is a multi-play strategy game made by the combination of turn-based and roguelike. Master clever tactics, awaken strong talent, recruit powerful troops, create grand city-states, and so on, quickly enter the Uniland, lead your troops to unravel the ultimate mystery of this chaotic continent.
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #18 The Legend of Slime
85% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: XiaoLongBao Games
Windows
Become the leader of slime, and play a match three puzzle game!
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #19 Secrets of Deep Earth Shrine
84% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2016
Dev: Chronicle Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Dig your own path in this quirky strategy platformer. Use traps to defeat monsters, blow apart your environment, and collect treasure!
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #20 Safe House
84% matchMostly Negative38% of 34 reviews2018
Dev: Labs Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Slip behind the scenes of a shadowy political conflict and operate a top-secret safe house. Build, upgrade, and run your spy HQ as you shape the course of history … for better or worse!
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #21 Proxima Divide
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Emberline Studios
Windows
A first-person sci-fi survival game where you explore a mysterious alien planet, manage oxygen and resources, craft tools, and uncover the secrets of a lost research colony.
Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Space 21.8%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Mystery 17.8%, Adventure 12.9%
- #22 Memoria
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Diagonal Games
Windows · Mac
Your crew is still sleeping, you’re alone in a spaceship, stuck in the void. Will you survive?
Why similar: Indie 31.6%, Adventure 28.3%, Space 24.2%, Sci-fi 15.9%
- #23 Bleak
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Interdiction Studios
Windows
Bleak is a Sci-Fi survival game. You must fight the planetary environments to survive and thrive. Currently available features are basic base building and mining with Researching new technology and discovering new flora and fauna coming soon. Play alone or coop with friends, its up to you.
Why similar: Indie 26.9%, Adventure 23.3%, Space 18.7%, Survival 16.3%, Sci-fi 14.8%
- #24 Beasts Battle
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 96 reviews2016
Dev: Greenolor StudioPub: Kaser Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Turn-based battles.
Why similar: Strategy 47%, Indie 28.5%, Adventure 24.5%
- #25 DROD: The Second Sky
82% matchPositive96% of 45 reviews2016
Dev: Caravel Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The climactic conclusion to Beethro Budkin's epic DROD adventures! Join Beethro as he races against time and mysterious forces in the Rooted Empire as the dire Grand Event looms near. With a huge amount of novel, quality puzzle content and story, this is the puzzle game to end all puzzle games.
Why similar: Strategy 47.1%, Indie 28.5%, Adventure 24.4%
- #26 Under Spire 尖塔自走棋
81% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: CoolHeartGame
Windows
Real-time combat, depth strategy. Card formation, explore the maze.
Why similar: Strategy 47.2%, Indie 28.5%, Adventure 24.4%
- #27 Star-Twine
81% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2016
Dev: SPARSE//GameDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Star-Twine is a real-time strategy game where you control a point of light created by a dying star. Battles unfold on sprawling three-dimensional maps as you collect energy and build structures to attack your opponent. Chill out to the atmospheric visuals and soundtrack as you plan your next move.
Why similar: Strategy 47.4%, Indie 31%, Space 21.6%
- #28 Defect
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: Three Phase Interactive Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Create the most powerful ship in the galaxy piece by piece, take it into battle and then lose your ship to a traitorous crew in an endless cycle of punishment and revenge.
Why similar: Strategy 43.8%, Space 21.2%, Indie 19.7%, Sci-fi 15.3%
- #29 The Rabbit Hole Remastered
79% matchMixed67% of 39 reviews2017
Dev: VRMonkey
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
You find yourself in a strange place, a place full of darkness and mad things. After falling down the rabbit hole, what mysteries lies beyond? Are you ready to escape it? Be fast, be smart and survive this grim reality! Now Remastered!
Why similar: Strategy 44.3%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 27.6%
- #30 Chronostation
77% matchPositive88% of 26 reviews2020
Dev: Manfromstars
Windows
Sci-fi Tower Defense real-time strategy with pleasant adaptive music. Play as a commander of a space station which got stuck in a time anomaly.
Why similar: Strategy 44.3%, Indie 29.1%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Space 9.6%, Survival 6.7%
- #31 Dimension of Dreams
76% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Kiif Entertainment
Windows
"Dimension of Dreams" is a unique strategy card game with rogue-like elements. You play an adventurer who embarks on an exhilarating journey through the dream world, where you engage in thrilling, fluid combat. Obtain and add cards strategically to your deck via exploration and upgrading existing cards.
Why similar: Strategy 46.6%, Indie 29.5%, Adventure 23.9%
- #32 Soul Elegy
75% matchMixed61% of 254 reviews2021
Dev: Sichuan Fruit Interactive Technology Co., Ltd.Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
This is a very challenging war chess + roguelike game, with random mazes, free combination of teams, and turn-based combat. In the game, players will lead all kinds of undead to counterattack the human world!
Why similar: Strategy 45.6%, Indie 28.8%, Adventure 25.6%
- #33 Dark Mystery
78% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Yash Future Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
Windows
Dark Mystery is a Puzzled Platformer Game in which player faces different types of difficulties to find his true love.
Why similar: Strategy 44.3%, Indie 28%, Adventure 27.7%
- #34 Where's Home?
76% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: RollingStarStudios
Windows
"Where's Home?" Playing as Pumo the little robot and his companion friend Buggie; you're on a mission to find a new way home, as your aircraft mysteriously malfunctioned. Find creative ways to hide and sneak around, use your abilities to put pieces together and get Pumo back home!
Why similar: Strategy 45.3%, Indie 28.9%, Adventure 25.8%
- #35 Airborne: Trials
74% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Stealfy
Windows
Airborne is a game with a series of trials that get progressively harder. The trials contain parkour and puzzles that you must surpass. In these trials you will encounter many platforms that can be friend or foe, or there just kind of there and don't do anything but that usually doesn't happen.
Why similar: Strategy 45.3%, Indie 28.9%, Adventure 25.7%
- #36 Ramayana
78% matchMixed61% of 18 reviews2015
Dev: Rakesh Malik
Windows · Linux
Real-Time-Strategy game based on great Indian epic Ramayana.
Why similar: Strategy 46%, Indie 27.8%, Adventure 26.2%
- #37 Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
77% matchMixed66% of 622 reviews2013
Dev: Digital Eel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat.
Why similar: Strategy 32.5%, Indie 23.7%, Adventure 16%, Space 15.1%, Sci-fi 12.7%
- #38 Deliver Us The Moon
70% matchVery Positive88% of 9,543 reviews2019
Dev: KeokeN InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future where Earth's natural resources are depleted. In an effort to solve the energy crisis, global powers created the World Space Agency and secured a promising new source of energy on the moon.
Why similar: Space 31.2%, Adventure 20.3%, Indie 19.1%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Mystery 9.1%
- #39 The Blackbird of Amor
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: BCETracks
Windows
When there is an unsolved mystery, Stein can't let it go, he must pursue it till the end. In Amor there is a certain woman that interests him, she is rumored to have eternal youth. To solve the mystery of this woman he must tear heaven from earth. His journey will take him far beyond the world he has known.
Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Indie 29.1%, Adventure 25.7%
- #40 Into the Stars
75% matchMixed40% of 541 reviews2016
Dev: Fugitive GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.
Why similar: Space 33.5%, Strategy 26%, Survival 16.5%, Indie 14.3%, Adventure 9.7%
- #41 Ring the City
71% matchMixed68% of 123 reviews2019
Dev: Giant Games
Windows
Wear rings and fight! How many rings can you wear on one hand? In Ring the City, you use rings to fight. Charge the rings and cast powerful magic!Choose your rings wisely and build your own ring squard! Loot the dungeon! Collect powerful rings and discover the truth of the world!
Why similar: Strategy 51.9%, Adventure 28.6%, Indie 19.5%
- #42 Happy Empire 2 – The Lost Relic
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AEL Entertainment
Windows
Find mysterious relics inside an ancient chamber and progress through the Empire by using the power of those relics. Unite the Empire! Defeat the Evil Wizard and return home victorious!
Why similar: Strategy 46%, Indie 29.1%, Adventure 24.9%
- #43 Sproots
71% matchMixed53% of 34 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Sproots is a colony management survival game where you control a group of 'sproots' - small pikmin-like creatures - that are in constant need of food and water. They can explore different biomes, pick up objects and study them, learn skills, craft structures and items and teach each other about their findings.
Why similar: Strategy 46%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.3%
- #44 Abyss Cave
61% matchPositive81% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Piao Jingfu
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
As a member of an elite squad, you are tasked with a mission to penetrate into the great abyss. You are to explore an unknown cave system and eliminate all threats that may arise, Good luck Soldier!
Why similar: Strategy 46.6%, Indie 28.1%, Adventure 25.3%
- #45 Survival Maze
68% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: Sergey JakovlevPub: TAC Games
Windows
A visual novel-clicker. You are the mayor, choosing laws under pressure from a dictator. Illustrated reforms, a social simulator of society, and a story that changes with your clicks. Can you save the city and your conscience?
Why similar: Strategy 40.9%, Indie 25.9%, Adventure 17%, Survival 16.2%
- #46 Baldina's Basis in Education Literary Grammar
70% matchMixed69% of 76 reviews2019
Dev: Kourov Vyacheslav
Windows
Do you like reading the books of great writers? How many books have you read in school over the past year? Baldina is a teacher who makes you love books the way she loves them!
Why similar: Strategy 43.8%, Indie 30.2%, Adventure 26%
- #47 Purgatory II
72% matchMixed41% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In this indie strategy game, command your mighty legions of hellish creatures! Fight your way through the real world and seek vengeance for those who have wronged you!
Why similar: Strategy 43.5%, Indie 31.8%, Adventure 24.7%
- #48 Observation
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,189 reviews2020
Dev: No CodePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
Why similar: Indie 28%, Space 25.1%, Adventure 24.2%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Mystery 6.5%
- #49 Broken of Darkness
70% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: VoidStudio
Windows
30 Heroes, 30+Boss, 30+Boss, 150+ different monsters, 390 Hero's Skills, 300+ Runes, 300+ passive effect for equipment, 500+ synthetic skill scrolls for equipment, Infinite randomly generated equipment Only by matching different equipment and props reasonably can heroes be more powerful.
Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Indie 29.1%, Adventure 25.7%
- #50 Bulleto Master
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Browith
Windows
Bulleto Master is a game in the wild wild west style. You shoot and control your bullets and try to move them to bunce and hit your targets.You can also go into slow motion for a limited time to gain additional controls over them. Defeat all the enemies and keep your town safe at all cost.
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #51 Electric Sheep: A Cyberpunk Dystopia
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cross-Media Productions
Windows
In the near future, humanity has been minimalized, as the rise of android-rule crushes any threats to its near-term dominance. As part of the resistance, it’s your goal to undermine the automated dictatorship, and help free mankind from its robotic bonds.
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #52 The Roaring Empire
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArGeymsPub: Komiker Media
Windows · Mac
How about entering an epic and fantastic medieval world than you've ever seen before. In the legendary world of The Roaring Empire, you can talk to dragons, charm and guide your adventure with countless characters. Add a new color of RPG with this game.
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, Indie 28.7%, Adventure 25.8%
- #53 Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars
71% matchMixed69% of 130 reviews2015
Dev: Digital Eel
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sea of Stars is a starship roguelike, a sandbox adventure game of interstellar exploration and combat. Travel from star to star, upgrade your ship with new systems and weapons, build up your flotilla with allies and mercenaries, and take on a variety of alien menaces.
Why similar: Adventure 34.2%, Indie 33.8%, Space 32%
- #54 Umiro
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 178 reviews2018
Dev: Diceroll StudiosPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Huey and Satura find themselves lost in the colorless world of Umiro with no memory of their past or how they arrived in this mysterious place. Draw your way through beautiful puzzles and guide Huey and Satura as they restore color to Umiro.
Why similar: Strategy 44.9%, Indie 28.4%, Adventure 26.7%
- #55 Space Warfare
66% matchMixed58% of 95 reviews2021
Dev: Little Stories
Windows · Mac · Linux
2D casual strategy
Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Indie 27.7%, Space 27%
- #56 Hellfire Fortress
57% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #57 Avalon: The Journey Begins
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: NewHopeGames
Windows
Depart your home world of Avalon to embark on the longest journey ever attempted by mankind, to find the end of the universe. What is at the end of the universe and where is the end of the universe? This is where your journey begins.
Why similar: Indie 30.5%, Space 26.7%, Adventure 26.5%, Sci-fi 16.3%