- #1 Skulls of the Shogun
97% matchVery Positive90% of 870 reviews2013
Dev: 17-BIT
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Enter the Samurai Afterlife and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal monks, and mustachioed samurai generals. It's fast-paced turn-based strategy inspired by Advance Wars, and supercharged with fighting-game flare!
Why similar: Strategy 26.2%, Turn-Based 25.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Indie 9.9%, Tactical 9.3%
- #2 Last Days of Old Earth
96% matchMixed60% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: Auroch DigitalPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Last Days of Old Earth is a rich strategy game set in our far, far future where the sun is dying. Can you command the last noble tribes of humanity as they attempt to survive among the machines and marauding clans?
Why similar: Hex Grid 27.6% ★, Turn-Based 21.2%, Strategy 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%
- #3 Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
95% matchVery Positive90% of 20,576 reviews2018
Dev: The Bearded LadiesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Why similar: Strategy 25.6%, Turn-Based 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Tactical 13%
- #4 Ogre
96% matchMixed65% of 267 reviews2017
Dev: Auroch Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres".
Why similar: Hex Grid 27.1% ★, Turn-Based 17.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Local Multiplayer 8.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%
- #5 Neuroshima Hex
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Baked Games
Windows
Neuroshima Hex is a post-apocalyptic tactical game from the designers of Neuroshima, the board game. It is all about strategy and tactics on one hexagonal battlefield. The game offers many different units, technologies and special abilities that can be used for an effective strategy.
Why similar: Strategy 24.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.7%, Multiplayer 11.5%
- #6 War of the Human Tanks
94% matchVery Positive86% of 543 reviews2014
Dev: Yakiniku BanzaiPub: Fruitbat Factory
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
War of the Human Tanks is a story driven strategy game with a gameplay reminiscent of Battleship and Chess, featuring a story of war, loyalty, sacrifice and human shaped tanks.
Why similar: Hex Grid 47.8% ★, Strategy 24.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.3%, Indie 6.5%
- #7 Hedgewars
93% matchVery Positive89% of 132 reviews2022
Dev: Hedgewars Team
Windows
Turn-based strategy, artillery, action and comedy game, featuring the antics of pink hedgehogs with attitude as they battle from the depths of hell to the depths of space.
Why similar: Strategy 52%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.5%, Multiplayer 8%
- #8 Project Planet - Earth vs Humanity
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 413 reviews2023
Dev: Fifth Harbour Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Destroy Humanity with virus outbreaks, asteroid impacts and more as Planet Earth! Or team up with up to five friends as the World Leaders, Industry, Media, Scientists and Public, and try to survive. Impossible dilemmas and choices-matter create countless paths in this strategy party game!
Why similar: Local Multiplayer 31.8%, Strategy 22.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.1%, Multiplayer 12%, Funny 11.5%
- #9 Worms W.M.D
89% matchVery Positive85% of 14,972 reviews2016
Dev: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Join the fight and command your worm warriors into battle in the iconic 2D arcade artillery shooter where serious strategy and silly weaponry decide who swims or sinks.
Why similar: Strategy 27.4%, Turn-Based 22.3%, Local Multiplayer 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.4%
- #10 Ground Breakers
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: UnitedIndie
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Battle with robots on dynamic, randomly generated battlegrounds, as you attempt to take on the world in this unique turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 32%, Turn-Based 19.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Tactical 9.9%
- #11 Apes Warfare
86% matchVery Positive96% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: GigaQuests
Windows · Mac
Fast-paced tactical battles where every move can turn the tide. Outsmart your opponent, adapt on the fly, and turn the battle in seconds. Inspired by classic strategy games, reimagined for faster, more modern play. Play the solo campaign or challenge players worldwide in online multiplayer.
Why similar: Strategy 24.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.6%, Tactical 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Multiplayer 11.9%
- #12 Codex of Victory
89% matchMixed69% of 400 reviews2017
Dev: Ino-Co PlusPub: AKPublish pty ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
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!
Why similar: Hex Grid 29.4% ★, Turn-Based 24.5%, Strategy 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.6%, Tactical 8.8%
- #13 Deep Fringe
85% matchVery Positive92% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Bosoneon StudioPub: Thousand Generation
Windows
Deep Fringe is a deep tactical RPG set in a biopunk post-apocalyptic wasteland. Lead powerful factions in turn-based brutal battles, leveraging the strategic use of an interactive environment. Modify or destroy terrain to achieve tactical supremacy. Craft legendary chapters with the level editor.
Why similar: Hex Grid 27.5% ★, Turn-Based 21.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%
- #14 Beat the Humans
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Dochungryest
Windows
Beat the Humans is the turn-based tactical strategy game. Here you lead an army of aliens against invaders from the human race. Collect your squad, protect planets, strengthen your army with equipment and look for allies if you want to survive and win.
Why similar: Turn-Based 29.6%, Strategy 20.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.9%, Tactical 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%
- #15 1971 PROJECT HELIOS
88% matchMixed47% of 59 reviews2020
Dev: Recotechnology S.L.Pub: Recotechnology S.L.
Windows
1971 Project Heliosis a turn-based strategy game which combines modern warfare military tactics and close combat. Firearms and vehicles are scarce, conflicts and hostilities have no end, and the terrible freezing cold annihilates friends and foes in its path.
Why similar: Strategy 46.8%, Indie 18.7%, Tactical 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.9%
- #16 Mayan Death Robots
87% matchVery Positive91% of 70 reviews2015
Dev: Sileni Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Duke it out with massive alien robots during the peak of the Mayan civilization. Nuke, zap, implode, incinerate and destroy your friends in singleplayer or local multiplayer. Win the adoration of your tiny Mayan tribesmen, and keep an eye out for Mayan Gods who will try to crash your party.
Why similar: Turn-Based 42.5%, Strategy 21.8%, Local Multiplayer 20.1%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Indie 5.2%
- #17 Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator
83% matchVery Positive84% of 3,360 reviews2022
Dev: Konfa GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.6 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: Tactical 26.4%, Strategy 23.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 23%, Turn-Based 15.7%, Indie 11.4%
- #18 Warring States
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 105 reviews2018
Dev: polynation games ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Warring States : Tactics is a turn-based battle strategy game set during the Warring States period of Ancient China. The Warring States period is one of turmoil in China, where various feudal states struggle for control of all of China.
Why similar: Turn-Based 28.3%, Strategy 18.8%, Hex Grid 15.6% ★, Tactical 11.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%
- #19 Epic Little War Game
84% matchVery Positive87% of 66 reviews2017
Dev: Rubicon Development
Windows
The lighter side of turn-based war gaming. Take your time to plan good strategies, deploy your troops in the right places, try not to laugh whilst killing your enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 71.8%, Indie 28.2%
- #20 Pit People®
81% matchVery Positive93% of 8,180 reviews2018
Dev: The Behemoth
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In this fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species! Come master your destiny in this strategic game of positioning.
Why similar: Turn-Based 26.2%, Hex Grid 21.4% ★, Strategy 17.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%, Funny 7.5%
- #21 Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: QED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dive into a top-down, turn-based strategy game with 80's sci-fi flair. Command elite soldiers in multiplayer duels on 24 maps, local hot-seat mode, or a thrilling singleplayer campaign. Master teleportation and gridless movement on the mysterious planet Anthracite.
Why similar: Turn-Based 24.5%, Local Multiplayer 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Strategy 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10%
- #22 Inkulinati
78% matchVery Positive85% of 1,231 reviews2024
Dev: Yaza GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Inkulinati is a turn-based strategy game straight from medieval manuscripts, where a rabbit’s bum can be deadlier than a dog's sword. Become a master of the Living Ink, build your own bestiary, defeat medieval superstars and collect perks to unleash hidden powers.
Why similar: Turn-Based 34.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Local Multiplayer 9.7%
- #23 Fallen: A2P Protocol
82% matchMostly Negative38% of 226 reviews2015
Dev: Red Katana
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A post-apocalyptic, turn based, tactical combat and strategy game where you lead your caravan on a quest for revenge.
Why similar: Turn-Based 32.1%, Strategy 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Tactical 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%
- #24 Gobs and Gods
77% matchVery Positive96% of 90 reviews2024
Dev: Space Peons
Windows · Linux
Hire a band of almost-heroic goblins to fight and die for you in tactical turn-based battles, accomplish silly quests for the weird inhabitants of this fantastic world, and truly become a god - at least by goblin standards.
Why similar: Hex Grid 34.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 21.9%, Strategy 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Funny 6.9%
- #25 Retro Commander
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 374 reviews2023
Dev: Noble Master LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).
Why similar: Strategy 72.1%, Multiplayer 27.9%
- #26 Punk Wars
79% matchMixed59% of 124 reviews2021
Dev: Strategy Forge S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.9%, Strategy 27.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.6%
- #27 Army General
80% matchMixed57% of 67 reviews2017
Dev: Phobetor
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Army General is a turnbased strategy game that depicts the desert warfare in Northern Afrika and parts of the Mediterranean sea during World War II.
Why similar: Strategy 29.1%, Hex Grid 26.8% ★, Turn-Based 22.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%
- #28 WARMACHINE: Tactics
79% matchMixed44% of 1,166 reviews2014
Dev: WhiteMoon DreamsPub: Privateer Press Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Turn-based tactical combat set in the award-winning world of the Iron Kingdoms. Command your custom squad of steam-powered robots and elite warriors in raging battles dominated by magic and mechanika. Battle in online multiplayer and play the epic 21-mission single player campaign!
Why similar: Turn-Based 35.6%, Strategy 30.8%, Tactical 13.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Indie 3.9%
- #29 Vactics
74% matchVery Positive98% of 51 reviews2023
Dev: The Lemur Conspiracy
Windows · Mac
Build the mech to fight against robotic Vactics in tactical chess-like combat. The war is already over and the heroes of the city have fallen. Take on a new randomly generated challenge every time you play and join with the citizens to fight for a better future.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 25.4%, Tactical 23.1%, Strategy 21.5%, Hex Grid 16.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%
- #30 Tactical Breach Wizards
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 12,205 reviews2024
Dev: Suspicious Developments
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Why similar: Turn-Based 33.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.3%, Tactical 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #31 Z Dawn
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 292 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
Why similar: Hex Grid 32% ★, Turn-Based 27%, Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
- #32 Frozen Cortex
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 273 reviews2015
Dev: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
A hard-hitting simultaneous-turn-based tactical game from the creators of Frozen Synapse. Defeat your opponent’s plans on a randomly-generated playfield in this brutal futuresport.
Why similar: Turn-Based 32.9%, Strategy 22.4%, Tactical 18.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Indie 7.5%
- #33 Clatter
73% matchVery Positive83% of 1,271 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Create and command your own customizable squads of fighting robots in this turn-based, arena tactics game.
Why similar: Strategy 31.9%, Turn-Based 23.7%, Indie 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%
- #34 WARBORN
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 81 reviews2020
Dev: Raredrop Games LtdPub: PQube
Windows · Mac
Deploy for battle in the Variable Armour, a technologically advanced suit of war. With turn-based tactics and quick-fire clashes, lead a strike force of deadly mecha to bring peace to the solar system in a 40-mission campaign. Create your own maps, practice in skirmish, or battle across multiplayer.
Why similar: Turn-Based 25.7%, Hex Grid 24.1% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%
- #35 Farabel
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 116 reviews2016
Dev: Frogames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Farabel is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story. Develop your cleverness, your strategic prowess, and your inventive capabilities in order to survive!
Why similar: Hex Grid 30.5% ★, Turn-Based 24.1%, Strategy 17.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.3%
- #36 Meteorfall: Rustbowl Rumble
70% matchVery Positive92% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: Slothwerks
Windows
Meteorfall: Rustbowl Rumble is a wild, no-holds barred card brawl in the wacky world of Meteorfall. Build a face-melting deck, break the rules, and stomp your opponents in this fast-paced & fresh take on roguelike deckbuilders.
Why similar: Strategy 47.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Tactical 14.5%, Funny 8.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.6%
- #37 Apewar
69% matchVery Positive92% of 8,541 reviews2023
Dev: Radatomic StudiosPub: Weakfish Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Apewar is an online tactical and action FPS/TPS monkey war game adapted from real life. Build your monkey team and fight against your enemies. By playing in a coordinated way, you can have fun and win with a good strategy. Monkeys are strong together!
Why similar: Multiplayer 41.6%, Funny 32.5%, Indie 25.9%
- #38 Ground Pounders
75% matchMostly Negative40% of 54 reviews2014
Dev: Kerberos Productions Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Ground Pounders is a turn-based, strategy wargame. Inspired by classic strategy games like Panzer General, and steeped in the lore of the Sword of the Stars universe, Ground Pounders offers a new generation of gamers an updated taste of turn-based strategic warfare.
Why similar: Strategy 36%, Hex Grid 22.6% ★, Turn-Based 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Indie 10.4%
- #39 Fantasy Wars
73% matchVery Positive86% of 319 reviews2010
Dev: Ino-CoPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Fantasy Wars is a turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world. Combining both classic strategy gameplay and sophisticated 3D graphics players can experience epic battles like never before. Taking place in a fantasy world of Human kingdoms, Orc clans, Dwarfs' citadels and Elven forests the player is thrust into a world of war and...
Why similar: Strategy 33%, Turn-Based 29.2%, Hex Grid 19.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Tactical 6.3%
- #40 Attack of the Earthlings
72% matchVery Positive83% of 453 reviews2018
Dev: Team JunkfishPub: Junkfish Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.
Why similar: Strategy 47%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.6%, Indie 17.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.5%, Tactical 4.7%
- #41 OUTTA GAS
71% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Trevor KelloggPub: Good Steward Games
Windows
OUTTA GAS is a post-apocalyptic RPG featuring a turn-based SHOOTING GALLERY combat mechanic where blasting away body tiles damages monster health and decreases their combat stats. Explore four unique acts to find gas and get back on the road to the Party at the End of the World!
Why similar: Turn-Based 30.9%, Indie 30.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Strategy 13.6%, Funny 6.9%
- #42 Warhounds
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 904 reviews2026
Dev: Everplay DMCCPub: Brightika, Inc.
Windows
Warhounds is a turn-based tactical game about an elite mercenary squad with an old-school action movie vibe, inspired by XCOM and Jagged Alliance. Recruit unique fighters, upgrade your base, and fight for Africa’s future. Less fake RNG, more true ballistics and lethal tactics.
Why similar: Turn-Based 33.4%, Strategy 18.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.5%, Tactical 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%
- #43 Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
70% matchVery Positive85% of 938 reviews2017
Dev: Team Jolly RogerPub: Black Smoke Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In this turn-based strategic artillery game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive barrages through the unpredictable gravity fields of the solar system.
Why similar: Strategy 33%, Turn-Based 29.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Indie 9.2%
- #44 Agent Awesome
72% matchMixed63% of 949 reviews2015
Dev: Chaos IndustriesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Agent Awesome is a humorous strategy game in which you will have to help Agent A plan the perfect strategy to take down E.V.I.L., all of this in order to win a drunk dare. Awesome, right?
Why similar: Strategy 44.6%, Tactical 21.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Indie 8.2%
- #45 Star Vikings Forever
71% matchVery Positive89% of 108 reviews2016
Dev: Rogue SnailPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Star Vikings Forever is a humorous Puzzle/RPG developed by the award-winning creators of Chroma Squad, Dungeonland, and Relic Hunters Zero.
Why similar: Turn-Based 26.3%, Strategy 23.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Tactical 14.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%
- #46 Hogs of War
73% matchMixed52% of 550 reviews2015
Dev: Infogrames Entertainment SAPub: Alternative Software Ltd.
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Hogs of War is a turn-based tactical warfare game. Take turns controlling members of your squad of hogs to engage in combat with the opposition based on World War 1. With 3D graphics, vehicles, a career-based single-player mode, and voice-over (narration and for characters) by British comedian Rik Mayall.
Why similar: Turn-Based 48.8%, Strategy 42.1%, Funny 9.1%
- #47 Fort Triumph
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,003 reviews2020
Dev: CookieByte Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A strategy game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with the world exploration of HOMM. Build towns, collect artifacts, improve your heroes, and influence your tactical surroundings using physics!
Why similar: Turn-Based 26.7%, Local Multiplayer 14.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.6%, Tactical 11.3%
- #48 The Wanderer
71% matchMixed69% of 65 reviews2019
Dev: Cult Software
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Enter a dark wasteland and fight mutants to survive.
Why similar: Hex Grid 26.2% ★, Strategy 21.8%, Turn-Based 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%
- #49 Dead Grid
63% matchVery Positive94% of 534 reviews2026
Dev: Atom Void
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, infused with an 80s retro vibe. Lead a squad of elite mercenaries, fight relentless hordes, discover survivors, and build up your camp with hundreds of scavenged upgrades.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 29.9%, Strategy 26.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.5%, Tactical 19%
- #50 Earth vs Mars
64% matchVery Positive87% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Relic EntertainmentPub: Relic Labs
Windows
Faced with a terrifying Martian invasion, you must lead Earth’s forces in a battle for our planet’s future. Create powerful human-creature super soldiers to fight an alien menace in this turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 28.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.7%, Strategy 19.6%, Tactical 18.2%, Multiplayer 10.4%
- #51 Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion – Turn-Based Strategy
66% matchMixed61% of 157 reviews2025
Dev: QuadCom InteractivePub: Brightika, Inc.
Windows
Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion - a turn-based strategy where you command SOF forces against an alien threat. Investigate disappearances, fight the invaders, and uncover the mystery. Every decision affects the fate of humanity.
Why similar: Turn-Based 37.9%, Strategy 22.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Tactical 6.4%
- #52 Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,878 reviews2022
Dev: VDimension
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The ultimate physics-based, sandbox battle simulator where you can create funny battles between all sorts of ragdoll creatures! You can also make your own monsters with the unit creator or even join the battles yourself in the first-person mode!
Why similar: Strategy 37.4%, Tactical 29.9%, Indie 16.9%, Funny 15.7%
- #53 Dog Duty
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 126 reviews2020
Dev: Zanardi and LizaPub: SOEDESCO
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
As some evil bigwig Octopus Commander and his army are threatening world-peace, it’s up to you and your squad of misfits to eliminate that octo-scum. Liberate outposts, defeat bosses and wreck these wicked squids up, but beware, they’re well-armed.
Why similar: Strategy 36%, Tactical 30.9%, Indie 18.7%, Funny 14.4%
- #54 Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 311 reviews2017
Dev: Home Net Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Build an army and lead your heroes into battle in an epic fantasy strategy game. Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes is a turn-based strategy game that will put you right in the middle of war between Humans, Orcs, Goblins, Elves, Dwarves and the undead.
Why similar: Turn-Based 31.7%, Strategy 30.2%, Hex Grid 27.3% ★, Indie 10.8%
- #55 Punk Wars: Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Strategy Forge S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows
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.
Why similar: Strategy 29.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 26.1%, Post-apocalyptic 23%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.5%
- #56 Twilight Wars
64% matchMostly Positive75% of 255 reviews2025
Dev: Comrade Bear Games
Windows
Twilight Wars is a tactical dungeon crawler set in a neon-drenched cyberpunk future. Corporations rule the world. Rebuild a shattered spy agency, assemble a team of elite operatives, and wage a covert war to reclaim the world from the shadows.
Why similar: Turn-Based 33.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.5%, Tactical 14.2%