- #1 Ratergy
97% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Jens BolanzPub: Bolanzarts
Windows
Ratergy is a local multiplayer arena action game. Fill your nest with cheese by using your two rats and put your skills and friendship to the test. Develop the most efficient cheese-gathering tactics by interacting with elements such as conveyor belts, bombs and many other power ups.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 29.6%, Local Multiplayer 21.3%, Action 14.3%, Indie 11%, Family Friendly 7.7%
- #2 Tile Battle
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Masterstrike
Windows · Mac · Linux
A local multiplayer mix inspired by Warcraft III and Lemmings. Play with factions, spells and tiles to outwit your friends in this chaotic new take on the RTS genre.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 29.2%, Strategy 25.4%, Local Multiplayer 19.8%, Action 13.9%, Indie 11.7%
- #3 Chicken Daddy
96% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Studio Halabi
Windows
You are a man in a chicken onesie. You have nothing except your new family of chicks who follow you everywhere you go. Think fast and defend your family against the hordes of giant worms of destruction!
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #4 DEFENDER OF EARTH VS THE ALIEN ARMADA
95% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: MONKEY WRENCH STUDIO INC.
Windows
Defender of Earth vs The Alien Armada is an exciting space themed tower defense game! You play as a general designated as the Defender of Earth, and you will utilize space stations and battle platforms to deploy towers to defend different quadrants of space against 3 alien races.
Why similar: Strategy 50.7%, Action 28.6%, Indie 20.7%
- #5 Yardlings
94% matchVery Positive85% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Yardlings is a local multiplayer battle arena about vegetables in a garden! Build an adorable army, place yourself strategically on the battlefield, using special abilities, capturing potted plants (outposts) and big seed-shooting flowers while you try to gain control over the yard!
Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Indie 23.2%, 4 Player Local 10.8%, Local Multiplayer 7.8%, Action 4%
- #6 Slam Bolt Scrappers
94% matchMixed55% of 55 reviews2013
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Build and brawl in this fast and frantic mash-up! Race your opponents to build the most powerful towers in Slam Bolt City while defending against deceptively adorable baddies and hugely epic bosses. Create weapons that shoot lasers, drills, missiles, and more to annihilate your adversary.
Why similar: Strategy 38.2%, Action 21.6%, Indie 16.6%, 4 Player Local 13.7%, Local Multiplayer 9.9%
- #7 TurretMaster
93% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Hikati GamesPub: Hikati Games LLC
Windows
An invading army that does not stop. One survivor that can turn coffee creamer into a flame thrower and junk metal into shells. Defend the land against ground and air threats and move up the ranks. Become a creator with the level editor and challenge friends from all over the world with your own visions of an impossible invasion.
Why similar: Strategy 70.3%, Indie 29.7%
- #8 Fragmental
92% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2017
Dev: Ruffian Games
Windows
An intense competitive and co-operative, couch-play multiplayer twin-stick shooter with some of the fastest and most frantic gameplay around. It’s a single screen, explosive arcade blast of fun where the weapons and arenas are deadly and the rivalry is fierce.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 29.4%, Action 19.6%, 4 Player Local 16.1%, Local Multiplayer 13.4%, Indie 11.2%
- #9 Guardians Of The Past
91% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Squidpunch Studios
Windows
Guardians of the Past is a fast-paced arena brawler where you use gadgets to battle with or against your friends in a variety of arenas constructed by YOU! Build an array of launch-pads, fields of electrical chaos or even a sea of fire. With hundreds of combinations, every game is unique!
Why similar: Strategy 43.8%, Indie 18.5%, Action 18.2%, 4 Player Local 9.5%, Local Multiplayer 6.2%
- #10 Mars Wars
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lonewolfdesign
Windows
Mars Wars is a top-down shooter game, where you have to defend your base from aliens on Mars. You control a rover with different weapons that you can use to kill the aliens.
Why similar: Strategy 50%, Action 28.3%, Indie 21.8%
- #11 Moonshot
91% matchVery Positive88% of 98 reviews2015
Dev: Pump Action Games
Windows
Moonshot is a furious mash up of Angry Birds Space, Smash Bros, and the vintage classic Scorched Earth. Pilot space tanks and wield physics as a weapon to pull off impossible shots in this fast-paced space battle. An instant party game classic guaranteed to get you and your friends laughing.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 27.4%, Local Multiplayer 18.7%, Action 18.1%, Indie 13.5%, Physics 9.1%
- #12 The Spook Inspectors
90% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: StarvingIndieDeveloper
Windows
You are an aspiring paranormal investigator eager to join the Spook Inspectors Paranormal Society.
Why similar: Strategy 42.4%, Action 26.9%, Indie 19.7%, Funny 11%
- #13 Pick Your Poison
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ranmantaru Games
Windows
Pick a disadvantage each level, how far can you go in this roguelike?
Why similar: Strategy 50%, Action 28.3%, Indie 21.8%
- #14 Raid On Coasts
89% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Outlaw Wars
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Raid On Coasts is a real time strategy game set in a massive Middle East themed land mass to cause chaos and carnage on !
Why similar: Strategy 50.2%, Action 29.3%, Indie 20.5%
- #15 Basic Warfare
88% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Bog Iron Games
Windows · Linux
Basic Warfare is a combination of RTS and Action genres featuring realtime multiplayer action combat and strategic economic simulation.
Why similar: Strategy 48.2%, Action 26.4%, Indie 20%, Multiplayer 5.5%
- #16 Where the Money Is
89% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Flaming Bat Studios
Windows
'Where the Money Is' puts you in control of a gang of notorious bank robbers as you attempt to score the biggest payout of your career. Using each member's special ability, you will make your way through 50+ puzzling levels and ensure everyone escapes unscathed.
Why similar: Strategy 49.6%, Action 28.5%, Indie 21.9%
- #17 Simple RTS
87% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Gal Hajaj
Windows
A Simple Real-Time-Strategy Game Like in the good old days, with 20 types of units. The goal is simply to conquer all territories on the map, which is also your AI opponent's goal...
Why similar: Strategy 70.3%, Indie 29.7%
- #18 Defense Warfare
85% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Martin Mitov
Windows
Defense Warfare is a large-scale hero defense, with stunning graphics, unique level environments, and different game mods. Customize your Gunship’s abilities and appearance, choose the tower or trap that fits best, upgrade it in your own direction and leave nothing but a wasteland behind you.
Why similar: Strategy 50%, Action 28.3%, Indie 21.8%
- #19 The Blitzkrieg: Weapons of War
84% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Loui Eriksson
Windows
Become commander and defend the motherland from invading enemy forces. Utilise a devastating arsenal of weaponry, and survive the blitzkrieg!
Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, Action 28.4%, Indie 21.5%
- #20 Death Rpg
83% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2019
Dev: Ruskija game experiencePub: Tero Lunkka
Windows
Top Down drag & drop RPG strategy game. Help 3 survivor to kill enemies in different worlds.
Why similar: Strategy 49.6%, Action 28.5%, Indie 21.9%
- #21 Ichor
82% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Luke Palmer
Windows · Mac
Fluid dynamics shoot-em-up
Why similar: Strategy 49.6%, Action 28.5%, Indie 21.9%
- #22 Hexen Hegemony
82% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Simurg Games
Windows
Hexen Hegemony is a TPS (Third Person Shooter) game that makes it possible to fight against other witches with hundreds of different magic combinations. Enjoy team strategy, competition and spoils in 4 vs 4 matches. Remember, winners takes everything on the world of hexen.
Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, Action 28%, Indie 21.9%
- #23 Pumpkin Death Garden
81% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2018
Dev: Challenge Yourself GamingPub: Challenge Yourself Productions
Windows
Action-packed bug shooting game! Grow your pumpkin patch ever larger by defending it from the swarms of insects! Try out guns to find your favourite. Shotgun, sniper rifle, or assault rifle? Each has a unique play style with pros and cons, and different mods to choose from as you level up.
Why similar: Strategy 49.6%, Action 28.5%, Indie 21.9%
- #24 Sentinels
81% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2017
Dev: MindWalker Games
Windows
Sentinels is a tower defense game lovingly spliced with a first person shooter. Prepare your defenses, then jump into the fray yourself!
Why similar: Strategy 49.6%, Action 28.5%, Indie 21.9%
- #25 Radical Gear
80% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Miriel
Windows
Equip with powerful gears to enhance yourself, and destroy your enemies by recruiting various squads to reinforcement! Welcome to the battlefield where you can win against anybody with a great fortune.
Why similar: Strategy 49.5%, Action 28.9%, Indie 21.6%
- #26 Zombie Rush : Extinction
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 24 reviews2019
Dev: MoonlightGames
Windows
The top of strategy battle game! Build villages and train units to defeat zombies
Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, Action 28.7%, Indie 21.1%
- #27 World Of Undead
79% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: ZK-Tech
Windows
Fast and Action packed First Person Shooter with Tower Defense Game MechanicsPlay the Campaign cooperative with up to four friends or check out our new and exciting asymmetrical Game Mode "Attack and Defense"
Why similar: Strategy 49.5%, Action 28.9%, Indie 21.6%
- #28 Siege Hammer
78% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2016
Dev: MyDream Interactive, Inc.
Windows
Siege Hammer is an entry-level VR game created for the entire family to enjoy. Uniquely-designed for comfort, it delivers hours of fun-filled playtime. Are you the hammer…. Or the anvil?
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #29 GL1TCH
77% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: whatthehal Games, LLC
Windows
GL1TCH shrinks you down to a bit and sends you into circuits to overload and disable them by utilizing arcade-style controls and smart-thinking strategy.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #30 Planet 1138
75% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: Bionic PonyPub: Triskelia Games
Windows
Planet 1138 is a vehicle based action game with a heavy emphasis on strategy. Players control a heavily armed ATV as they fight to destroy their opponents base while defending their own. Players can build outposts and turrets along the way in order to manufacture troops and amass an army.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #31 Alien Invasion Tower Defense
75% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2016
Dev: guyhezi
Windows · Mac
Alien Invasion TD is a new strategy 3D game with an exciting new design, campaign mode, endless mode, players custom-built levels and PVP online multiplayer, defend against waves of approaching enemies by placing your defense towers, recruiting units,use special attacks, boosts and more.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #32 The Thing: Tower Defense
74% matchMixed64% of 77 reviews2016
Dev: booblycPub: Booblyc OU
Windows
With over 50,000,000 plays over the previous parts, the Incursion series has enthralled and challenged many players over the years. Now you can save your world from darkness in new Incursion: The Thing. Bigger! Faster! Stronger!
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #33 TRANCE VR
74% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Fatmoth
Windows
Going for the biggest and fastest VR experience available. Make massive jumps to collect checkpoints and race against time as you dodge and shoot drones.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #34 Deadweight
73% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2016
Dev: DK VIP Lounge
Windows · Mac
Play as one of many clones condemned to fight each other in perpetuity for the amusement of the robot lord, King Mechanicus.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #35 TankCraft
73% matchMixed68% of 60 reviews2017
Dev: Snowdon Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
TankCraft is an action game based around gladiatorial style tank battles, but skill alone won't be enough to succeed here, the unique thing about TankCraft is the player crafts their own tanks however they choose with no restrictions to shapes, sizes or design.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #36 LazerGrrl
55% matchPositive97% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Sandwich Generation
Windows
Fast paced PVP strategy. Bomberman meets RTS.
Why similar: Strategy 47.6%, Action 26.5%, Indie 20%, Multiplayer 5.9%
- #37 OneHit
76% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Felix Schröder
Windows
In this multiplayer game you fight against each other in fast and action-packed battles. Choose one of the four characters and use the variety of attack and defense skills to defeat your opponents and smash them out of the arena. The clou: just a single hit kills you, so be careful!
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #38 Village Feud
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 391 reviews2019
Dev: Veelhoek Studios
Windows
The 2 villages on the island don't get along very well. You are the mayor of one of these cities, grow your city, earn gold, buy troops and attack the other village. Defeat the other mayor and claim the island, play against your friends or try out singleplayer.
Why similar: Strategy 50%, Action 28.9%, Indie 21.1%
- #39 PlanetFate
72% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Aaron Matthies
Windows
Defend your planet against aliens and asteroids in this room-scale VR game. Set mines, position orbital laser and torpedo defense units and watch out for threats from any direction. Do you have what it takes to prevent the destruction of your planet?
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #40 Snailiens
71% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: 562 InteractivePub: 562 Interactive LLC.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Introducing Snailiens! The adorably terrifying monsters aimed at stealing all of Earth’s cabbages. In this VR tower defense game, you play as the commander of the S.A.L.T. defense network. In virtual reality you construct towers, equip guns, and fight off the Snailien invaders.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #41 Hammer Dongers
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vice Grip Games
Windows · Linux
The ultimate local multiplayer party game with destroyable terrain. It supports one player on keyboard and up to 4 on controller. Top down perspective and charming cartoony pixel art. Join the mayhem and beat your friends in the most creative ways possible!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 21.8%, Local Multiplayer 15.5%, Destruction 15.2%, Strategy 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #42 Combine War Toys
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: HAYATO YANGPub: HayatoWorks
Windows
VR Game "Combine War Toys" is a Strategy-base game about toys fighting on the table . Using your hands , combining parts on the workspace to build complete toys , and then throw them to join the war . There are many kinds of toys and each of them havs different abilities .
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #43 Orbit Defender
71% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Frostflake Studios
Windows
You are in the control of the Planetary Defense System of Earth. Your job is to protect Earth using turrets orbitting the planet. You have gotten full control of the planet and you are responsible to keep the planet intact.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #44 Moonlight Warrior
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: MoonlightGames
Windows
One person developer made marvelous turn-based game which can beat 43 stages
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #45 Light Strike Array
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Unwieldly Systems
Windows
Light Strike Array is a crystalpunk battle arena inspired by martial arts—and powered by VR. Featuring a one-of-a-kind movement system, a dynamic multiplayer game mode, and a wide spectrum of hyper-physical weapons, Light Strike Array shines like nothing else—in any reality.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #46 Tower Dwellers
72% matchMixed53% of 45 reviews2016
Dev: ECC GAMES SP. Z O.O.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Tower Dwellers is a unit crafting tower defence that features lots of micromanagement and keeps the player engaged in the battle throughout the entire game.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #47 C.R.E.E.P.S
73% matchNegative17% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: BRINK 3D
Windows
C.R.E.E.P.S is a FPS TOWER DEFENSE game that lets the player deploy squad members and equipment as he defends objectives and defeats horde of enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Action 27.8%, Indie 21.4%
- #48 CaveDuel
70% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: Hemball Studio
Windows · Linux
Design your cave around your strategy. Raid caves and steal gold.
Why similar: Strategy 50.3%, Action 27.5%, Indie 22.2%
- #49 Out of Hand: Deluxe
52% matchPositive90% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: Dazed Games
Windows
Out of Hand is a fast paced action party game with a unique controllable physics based hand, and a very physics based dodge roll. 2-8 players fight to be the last one standing in short rounds on a variety of islands with tons of different and unique items
Why similar: 4 Player Local 21.5%, Twin Stick Shooter 18.5%, Action 18.4%, Physics 13.4%, Multiplayer 12.6%
- #50 ECHOES OF WAR: The Last Heartbeat
67% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: MPixels
Windows
ECHOES OF WAR is an action packed shooter with strategic elements for virtual reality devices. Set up your defences, lay waste to hundreds of drones and mechs and use all you can salvage to repair your ship.
Why similar: Strategy 48.8%, Action 29.5%, Indie 21.7%
- #51 Chess Arena-象棋竞技场
67% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: HideChara
Windows
这是一款下棋和动作游戏结合的创意作品,传统的象棋棋子们将化身为真正的战士,在棋盘上决斗。
Why similar: Strategy 51.6%, Action 27.4%, Indie 21.1%
- #52 Battle of the Bookworms
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erikduss
Windows
Command your wriggling worm army in an epic battle for supremacy! Face off against rival worm legions, and evolve your units through the ages to gain a strategic edge. Obtain powerful power-ups, master cunning strategies, and outmaneuver your opponents to claim ultimate victory!
Why similar: Strategy 46.2%, Action 25.3%, Indie 19.5%, Multiplayer 9%
- #53 Aether Way
64% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Fearless Donut
Windows
Aether Way is a 2D space RTS with action/roguelike elements. You play as some abstract life form that travels across the space and evolves.
Why similar: Strategy 51.5%, Action 28.2%, Indie 20.3%
- #54 Lords of War
66% matchMixed63% of 49 reviews2018
Dev: WeMakeApp Studio
Windows
Lords of War is a fast-paced strategic card game that supports real-time PvP battles. Although game design may resemble turn-based TCG/CCG games, game mechanics is more like a real-time 3D card-based roleplaying game – this combination provides an entirely new gaming experience.
Why similar: Strategy 50.6%, Action 28.9%, Indie 20.4%