- #1 Aurora Trail
97% matchVery Positive87% of 112 reviews2017
Dev: Screenhit Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
A new epic game where the perspective of the camera changes everything. Do not let your body parts get in the same view as a wall with the same color, or you’ll lose it! Puzzle your way through challenging and appealing surroundings and try to stay in one piece!
Why similar: RPG 40.8%, Strategy 39.2%, Indie 20%
- #2 Shadownest
96% matchMixed55% of 507 reviews2021
Dev: Briny Boi StudiosPub: Briny Boi Studios
Windows
Asymmetric multiplayer meets atmospheric horror
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #3 Card Hunter
96% matchVery Positive86% of 5,302 reviews2015
Dev: The Knights of Unity
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 24.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.
Why similar: Board Game 42.4%, Strategy 27.2%, RPG 26.6%, Indie 3.8%
- #4 Jacob
95% matchMostly Negative36% of 102 reviews2016
Dev: Duck Duck ZeusPub: Centre For Longitudinal Studies
Windows
Jacob: an evidence-based puzzle
Why similar: Strategy 69.4%, Indie 30.6%
- #5 Sin Castle
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 98 reviews2017
Dev: Primary cells studio
Windows
Sin Castle is a slightly high difficulty adventure game that focus on puzzling, contains various policy elements, rigorous rules. The key of puzzle this game is reasonable attributes assignment, props use, and equipment collocation. As the grids opened, game player will encounter all sorts of strategic monsters and puzzling design.
Why similar: RPG 41.6%, Strategy 41.2%, Indie 17.2%
- #6 Project Hunter
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: AstroChimps Games
Windows
Stealth and tactic game that give you the control of an alien that evolves, adquire new abilities and face levels in various ways.
Why similar: Strategy 84.2%, Indie 15.8%
- #7 Radical Dungeon Sweeper
93% matchVery Positive80% of 205 reviews2018
Dev: Benjamin Soulé
Windows
Explore every floors. Find the key. Find the door. Escape. And make sure to use the safest path. Monsters are everywhere.
Why similar: Strategy 42.3%, RPG 39.7%, Indie 18%
- #8 Fate Hunters
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 875 reviews2019
Dev: Tower Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Fate Hunters is a hardcore mix of strategy card battles and a roguelike adventure. Build your deck, explore the dangerous dark fantasy world and face fearsome foes! Risk your life to get powerful treasures!
Why similar: Strategy 60.8%, Indie 21.1%, RPG 18.1%
- #9 Your Quest
92% matchMixed60% of 164 reviews2015
Dev: Oblivionburn Productions
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Your Quest is a casual 2D Strategy/RPG with progressive gameplay where you gather resources to construct a village, craft new weapons and armor, and try to survive the depths of a procedurally generated dungeon under the surface.
Why similar: RPG 41.8%, Strategy 40.1%, Indie 18.1%
- #10 Card Dungeon
91% matchMixed57% of 54 reviews2015
Dev: Playtap Games
Windows · Mac
Take on the invading hordes of the Nethermists as The Crusader and fight, think, and strategize to clear the monster infested, randomly created, dungeons in this card, board, and turn-based rogue-like.
Why similar: RPG 45.6%, Strategy 38.7%, Indie 15.7%
- #11 Lightmatter
89% matchVery Positive91% of 2,873 reviews2020
Dev: Tunnel Vision GamesPub: Aspyr
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #12 Shadow of Fear
89% matchMixed66% of 61 reviews2023
Dev: 抖音-小六热游
Windows
In 'Shadow of Fear', your only purpose is to solve puzzles and then escape; You can also continue to survive, whether you can survive until the end depends on yourself
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #13 Expect The Unexpected
90% matchMixed67% of 92 reviews2016
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Expect The Unexpected is a roguelike, fast-paced, turn-based game with RPG elements. Interact with random generated maps in which you have to deal with hundreds of different events and situations. What will you be? What will you become?
Why similar: RPG 43.9%, Strategy 40.9%, Indie 15.1%
- #14 Shelley Manor
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Terrors StudioPub: ESAT
Windows
Find your way through a puzzle filled manor while barely dodging human-eating monsters. You wake up in a dark room with one objective: escape those sharpened teeth. However, you should not worry; you will meet friends along the way.
- #15 Boogey Hunters
87% matchVery Positive86% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Keep The Engine GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Boogey Hunters is a strategic ammo-building game where you travel the world hunting mythical creatures from different folklore. Plan your moves carefully, combine bullets to unleash powerful moves, battle terrifying boogies, and save the world in the shortest day possible!
Why similar: Strategy 61.4%, RPG 38.6%
- #16 Draft of Darkness
86% matchVery Positive93% of 358 reviews2023
Dev: Crawly Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #17 The wild darkness
84% matchVery Positive80% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: popeyed inc
Windows
Explore a survival-roguelike RPG set in an unknown and bizarre world. To withstand its many dangers, you'll need to gain new knowledge, scavenge for food, and acquire useful items. Craft, build, and learn your way through a crucial adventure to uncover the world's secrets.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #18 Darkest Hunters
86% matchMixed53% of 116 reviews2017
Dev: ECC GAMES S.A.Pub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Choose your hero, grab a weapon, learn new spells and… HUNT! Eliminate every nasty beast you meet, collect loot and find the rarest and the greatest equipment ever made. Remember, it’s the live of a Hunter you’ve become, only you are able to defeat the essence of evil.
Why similar: Strategy 73%, Indie 27%
- #19 REALITY
85% matchMixed68% of 106 reviews2016
Dev: Grey Reality Studios
Windows
REALITY is a FREE short First-Person horror game, it uses a graphical style to represent the present mood of the game. It gives the player the ability to choose and get slightly different results. The game has many mysteries you might want to uncover.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 Free Will
82% matchVery Positive97% of 344 reviews2024
Dev: Kipps In A BoxPub: Meowdy
Windows
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: RPG 75.8%, Indie 24.2%
- #21 Bone Marrow
84% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2020
Dev: HugePixel
Windows
Bone Marrow is a game in the genre of role-playing board logic puzzle. During a certain time, combine the figures, increase your characteristics and do away with evil but consider the wrong step can lead to irreversible consequences!
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #22 Sneaky Sneaky
83% matchVery Positive90% of 282 reviews2014
Dev: Naiad Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sneak through the shadows, dash to cover, pick your moment and strike! Unleash your inner thief in this strategic stealth adventure.
Why similar: Strategy 46%, RPG 39.4%, Indie 14.6%
- #23 Shiner
81% matchVery Positive91% of 202 reviews2023
Dev: Team ShinerPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Learn every attack that gets used against you in this turn-based strategy game. Meet (and battle) a colorful cast of fully voice-acted characters as you search for the bully who wronged you.
Why similar: RPG 52.1%, Strategy 47.9%
- #24 Dungeon Raid: Zero Floor
79% matchVery Positive93% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: 4Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dungeon Raid is an adventure card roguelike. Dive deeper and deeper into the dungeon. Use everything you find to defeat enemies and kill the final boss. Good luck! And try not to die... from hunger.
Why similar: Strategy 78.5%, Indie 21.5%
- #25 Seek Or Die
82% matchMixed67% of 175 reviews2018
Dev: FlashynuravPub: FLNStudios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 41%
You are an investigator hired to find evidence about the missing children in the manor off the road. Once you enter, the door locks behind you, and you can hear something, lurking...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 Inkshade
78% matchVery Positive88% of 612 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Vezelle
Windows
Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.
Why similar: Board Game 44.3%, RPG 29%, Strategy 26.6%
- #27 Lord of the Dark Castle
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 178 reviews2015
Dev: Craze Creative StudiosPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Lord of the Dark Castle is a casual turn-based retro style roguelike dungeon crawler with elements of strategy. Randomized levels, lots of skills without dependencies and lots of spells to cast. Challenging Monster AI - play it smart or die. Remember: Death is Permanent!
Why similar: RPG 44.9%, Strategy 40%, Indie 15.1%
- #28 • Dread Chess ✣
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: • NullTalePub: • NullTale Scape
Windows
✣ Dread Chess is an original and strange narrative story-puzzle game with sandbox elements. Uncover mysteries by speaking with gods in Latin. Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of madness, and reach one of many endings in an unfair game against Death that can be played ONLY ONCE...
- #29 Rencounter
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 374 reviews2016
Dev: SPVDPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.
Why similar: RPG 42.9%, Strategy 39.4%, Indie 17.7%
- #30 Shadow of Kingdoms
81% matchMostly Negative32% of 110 reviews2015
Dev: TernGamePub: Admax Game
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Can you defeat the shadow of your kingdom? Play as the last of the survivors of a former glorious dynasty to defeat evil and restore the honor and glory to your land!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #31 Dungeon Divers
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: Wilson The BallPub: GIGATANK 3000
Windows · Linux
Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed roguelike puzzle game about clearing derelict dungeons. As the newest employee of Dungeon Divers Inc., you must advance through multiple levels, use your wits, and tools you acquire along the way to get to the core to defuse it and bring home the cash.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #32 Onirim - Solitaire Card Game
78% matchVery Positive85% of 265 reviews2017
Dev: InPatience
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Wander through the chambers of dreams, hoping that chance will reveal the doors, or linger in each type of room. In either case, you will have to deal with the slithering Nightmares which haunt the hallways of the labyrinth.
Why similar: Strategy 68.5%, Board Game 31.5%
- #33 Dice Eater: A Supernatural Mystery Card Game
76% matchMixed61% of 371 reviews2025
Dev: Team Tetrapod
Windows
Dice Eater is a mystery card game based around supernatural powers where players must use their power to uncover the other player's tricks. Use your opponent's tricks against them to turn the tables and win.
Why similar: Board Game 56.3%, Strategy 43.7%
- #34 Island Marauder
77% matchVery Positive81% of 183 reviews2019
Dev: MSOL
Windows
Indie Puzzle Game
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Ardor
75% matchVery Positive95% of 196 reviews2022
Dev: Thaddeus Psarris
Windows
A hex-grid puzzle-tactics card game. Outwit and outlive your enemies, while upgrading your deck. A lightweight game of bite-sized encounters.
Why similar: Strategy 82.6%, Indie 17.4%
- #36 Karisvale
74% matchVery Positive94% of 193 reviews2022
Dev: Brendan Tighe
Windows
Your next job awaits in Karisvale, detective. Will you fulfill your duty? Or become lost in the mystery... Explore a retro top-down world, question its citizens, and collect hidden items to uncover Karisvale's dark secret.
Why similar: RPG 81.5%, Indie 18.5%
- #37 Kaamos: Puzzle Roguelike
73% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Pepperbox StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Kaamos is a bite-sized turn-based puzzle roguelike where battles are fought by matching tiles on a grid with looping rows and columns. Build your character and deck of tiles by looting equipment from your foes. Traverse a dark medieval world where the Sun went down and never rose again.
Why similar: RPG 51.9%, Strategy 48.1%
- #38 Blade Walker
75% matchMixed58% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: JW Eel Slug
Windows
Find clues and solve puzzles to escape
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #39 Shadow Alchemist
72% matchVery Positive96% of 100 reviews2024
Dev: PostHuman Interactive
Windows
Explore a mystical, ever-changing dungeon in this isometric puzzle-adventure game. Master self-transmutation abilities and solve increasingly complex challenges as you uncover the secrets of your past.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 Lucky Hunter
71% matchVery Positive90% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: 159 StudioPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Lucky Hunter is a deck-building auto battler Roguelike game. Your pieces are automatically played on the board, and players will focus on building unique decks and artifacts, making the best of the synergies between pieces to defeat increasingly powerful prey.
Why similar: Board Game 40.5%, RPG 31.5%, Strategy 28%
- #41 Forbidden Terror: Board Game
70% matchVery Positive92% of 164 reviews2025
Dev: Elite Lords Studios
Windows
A psychological horror game where you take the role of Jonah, an 18 year old trying out a new board game, The Ouija Board, with his friend Emily. Little did they know, it was far from a simple board game.
- #42 The Detective Reaper Invites
73% matchMixed52% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: SHIZU KANO UMIPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Use various cards to solve randomly generated murder cases in this roguelite deduction adventure game. The culprit always lies, and the innocent always tell the truth. Make too many mistakes, and it's back to square one. Put your wits to the test and solve as many cases as you can!
Why similar: Strategy 59.4%, Indie 40.6%
- #43 The Fortress
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 147 reviews2026
Dev: Baryonyx Games
Windows · Mac
The Fortress is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler with turn-based combat, mixing strategy and risk. Choose a class, delve into cursed chambers, roll dice to fight brutal enemies, and grab loot. Face tough choices, survive epic bosses, and fight to escape... or fall to the shadows
Why similar: RPG 93.3%, Indie 6.7%
- #44 Diablo The Abyss
71% matchVery Positive84% of 216 reviews2023
Dev: Friday Night
Windows
Diablo The Abyss is a strategic RPG full of random and roguelike elements. Within this randomized world, you can freely make strageties at your own pace and conquer formidable challenges, while shaping your unique adventure journey.
Why similar: Strategy 45.4%, RPG 38.2%, Indie 16.4%
- #45 Heroes of Shadow Guard
74% matchMixed52% of 62 reviews2016
Dev: Iron 27
Windows
Experience both sides of dungeon crawling! Navigate deadly labyrinth dungeons and design your own in this ground-breaking MMO. Unlock new heroes, new gear, and new labyrinth guards. Conquer single player sagas, climb multiplayer leaderboards, and challenge friends to custom matches.
Why similar: RPG 71%, Indie 29%
- #46 Lord Ambermaze: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive96% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: Potata CompanyPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Lord Amber maze: Prologue is a free entry to a turn-based dungeon-crawler set in a labyrinth of frozen time. Plan each move carefully, battle quirky monsters, and solve intricate puzzles, one dungeon at a time.
Why similar: RPG 56.7%, Strategy 43.3%
- #47 Shine Within
70% matchVery Positive90% of 147 reviews2021
Dev: Ayetoons
Windows
A top-down action-adventure game as you collect & solve puzzles in order for you to explore & unravel this mysterious world.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #48 Armello
68% matchVery Positive82% of 16,002 reviews2015
Dev: League of Geeks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 30.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Armello is a grim fairy-tale board game come to life, with every match combining deep, tactical card play, rich tabletop strategy and RPG elements. Leverage subterfuge, spells and careful strategy to wrangle control of the game's chaotic odds as you quest for the throne.
Why similar: Board Game 45.9%, RPG 27.3%, Strategy 26.8%
- #49 Blackout Hospital
67% matchVery Positive97% of 174 reviews2023
Dev: arcadekitten
Windows
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #50 Shadow of Pharos
68% matchMixed69% of 90 reviews2024
Dev: Team Gaivot
Windows
Shadow of Pharos is a short first-person horror game.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Roots Devour
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 544 reviews2026
Dev: Rewinding GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
Why similar: Strategy 81.2%, Indie 18.8%
- #52 Project H
67% matchVery Positive88% of 444 reviews2021
Dev: HollowPixels
Windows
Project H is a horror escape room game. Solve various puzzles while being haunted by a spirit that would prefer you not to leave.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Luna : The Dimension Watcher
69% matchMixed57% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: Dave Studio
Windows · Mac
'The Luna Expeditionary Force's Dimension Crack Adventure!
Why similar: Strategy 43.1%, RPG 41%, Indie 15.9%
- #54 Snake Eyes Dungeon
69% matchMixed57% of 562 reviews2017
Dev: TetabesterPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Enter the dungeon, get lost and roll the dice against the monsters! Play your chances against dangerous monsters like ghosts, werewolves or even the frankenstein monster himself!
Why similar: Board Game 34%, Strategy 31.5%, RPG 23.9%, Indie 10.6%
- #55 Visibility
70% matchMixed61% of 93 reviews2015
Dev: Zeritum
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Visibility is a platformer that is completely dark until you place your lights. Each level has a limited set of lights which you must strategically place around the level in order to illuminate your path to the exit.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Shuffle Tactics
66% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Club SandwichPub: The Arcade Crew
Windows
Shuffle Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding tactical RPG. Strategize to survive tough battles, pick the right cards to create powerful synergies, and bond with your sidekicks to get an edge in battle. Adventure awaits! Will you rise as Asteria's new King?
Why similar: Strategy 68.8%, Indie 31.2%
- #57 The Foretold: Westmark Legacy
67% matchMixed58% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Nodbrim Interactive
Windows
Fight to investigate another day in this gothic horror adventure card game. Equip items and relics. Acquire cards and use them wisely to survive what lurks in the darkest corners of town. Take a short and mind-bending dive into the unknown with a cosy horror atmosphere.
Why similar: Board Game 66.9%, Strategy 33.1%
- #58 Seek Etyliv
68% matchVery Positive81% of 67 reviews2018
Dev: Rokas
Windows · Mac · Linux
A puzzle game where every move counts, confined in a three by three grid you move about. A dungeon crawling poem reader, exploring just how far I could ever lead her.
Why similar: RPG 71.4%, Indie 28.6%