- #1 Mortal Squad: Portal to Hell
97% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Crematorium of Time
Windows
Control a squad of fearless soldiers with unique abilities to stop a mad scientist who is ready to open a portal for creatures from hell. A classical turn-based system and procedural generation of levels which would require various tactical decisions to beat the game.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #2 Urbance Clans Card Battle!
96% 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 71.5%, Indie 28.5%
- #3 Solmec: Among Stars
96% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Octopus 8 Studios
Windows
Solmec: Among Stars is a resource management game which allows you to play as the Ankazil, giant space roaming beasts. Infected by the Rot, you must travel across the different solar systems to find your way home. However, the Rot has spread across the galaxy making once peaceful environment’s infested with hostile enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #4 BlindOak Prow
92% 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 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #5 Piatka
95% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: iwangr
Windows
The game get 490 words to guess. Try to uncover word simply by uncover every single letter. get lot of bonuses from teddy bear and parrot .Play on a single player or multiplayer mode. Have fun training your mind !
Why similar: Strategy 86.7%, Indie 13.3%
- #6 Space Flowers
94% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Sssjim7
Windows
Space Flowers is an intra-galactic tradewars game. Buy and sell flowers as you upgrade your spaceship and explore the galaxy, locating lost family members along the way. Fight off an evil extra-galactic empire when you are ready. Great fun for all ages!
Why similar: Strategy 71.5%, Space 18.8%, Indie 9.7%
- #7 Archamon
94% 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 71.4%, Indie 28.6%
- #8 Combiner the Card Game
93% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Konstantin Dvornikov
Windows
Digital version of the card game called "Combiner". The playing process is based upon the use of combinations in order to reduce the opponent's score. Play with computer players or on a local network (up to four players).
Why similar: Strategy 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #9 Star Police
91% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Cow Game
Windows
Tower Defense game
Why similar: Strategy 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #10 Hellfire Fortress
87% 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 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #11 5Leaps (Space Tower Defense)
89% matchPositive100% of 32 reviews2019
Dev: DeepDimensionGames
Windows
5Leaps is a retro-futuristic strategy game "Tower Defense" style.
Why similar: Strategy 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #12 Earth Muncher
90% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Odd Ocelot GamesPub: Odd Ocelot Games LLC
Windows
Equal parts Arcade and brain-teaser, play as Norm the Earthworm and collect as much treasure as you can without getting taken out by baddies.
Why similar: Strategy 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #13 Omnipresent
91% matchMixed55% of 28 reviews2015
Dev: Starkey Industries
Windows
What would you do if you had the power of a self-aware AI? Take control of S.E.N.T.I.E.N.T and see what choices you would make. Connect to the Internet and hack into corporations, governments, websites and more...
Why similar: Strategy 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #14 NUVAVULT
89% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Mim Hufford
Windows · Mac · Linux
A perspective altering puzzle game where 2D and 3D collide.
Why similar: Strategy 69.7%, Indie 30.3%
- #15 过关攒将
88% matchMixed62% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: 重庆极娱游科技
Windows
闯关杀这是一款结合了战旗和卡牌创新策略游戏,玩家需要在棋盘中走和合适地点来选择适当卡牌打出。游戏中玩家可以选择一位主公,然后招募自己的武将一起开始闯关之旅。战斗中的各种随机元素使得游戏策略性十足。
Why similar: Strategy 69.6%, Indie 30.4%
- #16 Rhombus Legends
86% matchMixed66% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: Freeway Interactive
Windows
A unique spatial battle system for card games. Unite with friends for clan wars, explore the dungeons and search world map for Bosses. Magical power awaits you!
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #17 Artillerists
85% 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 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #18 Siege - the card game
86% 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 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #19 Chessboard Kingdoms
83% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Hashed Egg
Windows
Chessboard Kingdoms is a multiplayer, turn-based strategy game inspired by the chess mechanics. Employ warriors and engineers, build siege machines, construct walls and towers, consult your court wizard — all while exploring vast landscapes of the realm and satisfying your puzzle-solving appetite.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #20 Shuttle Siege
84% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2016
Dev: Lasmelan
Windows
A sci-fi Tower Defense game where your space shuttle is invaded and you have to build mazes of defensive towers to stop the enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #21 One More Night: BiO Clinic
84% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Stephen Wu
Windows
Everything around you is trying to kill you! Can you survive for One More Night?
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #22 Broken Metal
82% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: Armadillo Game Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight with a small team through floors of hostile machines, tweak your team to overcome increasingly more powerful enemies, live with the consequences of your actions, learn from your mistakes as you are overwhelmed and plan better for your next attempt.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #23 Dice Defenders
82% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Full Screen Sorcery
Windows · Mac
Dice Defenders brings the classic old school feel of many early tower defense games and adds a new level of strategy and planning through the thousands of possible different combinations of different towers, tower sizes, and dice to offer a unique challenge to veterans of the genre and newcomers alike.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #24 Rubico
74% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #25 Wizard King
81% match8 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Maru Games
Windows
Wizard King is a strategy collectible card game. (CCG / TCG) However, instead of playing cards, you will play the game with real summon creature and magic. Therefore, you can enjoy more easy and active games than ordinary card games.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #26 Darkest Mana: Master of the Table
81% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: IKINAGAMES
Windows
Darkest Mana: Master of the Table is a card duel game. Create a deck and play online against players from around the world. You can also play solo in 20+ stages.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #27 Operation Valderon
78% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Ryo Suzuki
Windows
The people of Valderon need you. The planet is under attack. The emperor has personally selected you to command the defenses. Design your fleet. Create your own path. Save Valderon from an endless wave of enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #28 Quantum Multiverse
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: RipTyde GamesPub: RipTyde Studio
Windows
If you're looking for a immersive experience of Evading a predator hunting for you in a futuristic science facility, this is for you.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #29 FrogStatue
79% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: yeyinggame
Windows
No one knows when the sea that was made up of several small islands was discovered. Most of the islands are made up of desert, gobi or volcanoes. No matter which season the outside is, there will always be snowflakes. The cold weather and hard harsh living environment deter the explorers.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #30 Robots In The Wild
80% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Heatbox Games
Windows · Mac
Robots In The Wild is a challenging puzzle/strategy game about creatively dropping Blocks to build Robot fortresses. Travel to distant planets and construct huge, interconnected Robot strongholds to protect and rescue the HEARTS from the Monsters of the Wild.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #31 Wagers of War
77% matchMixed57% of 65 reviews2018
Dev: Jumb-O-Fun Games Inc
Windows
Jump into a competitive battleground as you face off against your opponent in rounds of war. Based on the classic card game War, battle head-to-head as you work to anticipate your opponent’s next move while making gains to outsmart them and bring home the victory.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #32 Volantia
77% matchMixed68% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: Tangled Mess Games
Windows · Mac
Transport yourself to a lush kingdom in the sky as you create, explore, build, and optimize a thriving new ecosystem amongst the clouds. Amidst the lush greenpunk landscape, rotate and conjoin fragments of land onto your floating island to stabilize it, and stop it from crumbling to its demise.
Why similar: Strategy 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #33 Geared
78% 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 69.5%, Indie 30.5%
- #34 Tavern Table Tactics
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Double Digit Games
Windows
Tavern Table Tactics is a tactical computer board game that combines a traditional two-player board game setting with tactical RPG combat.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #35 Devouring Stars
76% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #36 In The Dead Of Night - Urszula's Revenge
75% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2015
Dev: Axed Game Studio
Windows
In The Dead of Night is a story driven top down game that merges the best elements of RTS with Tower Defence. Take control of the town to gather resources and build your defences before Urszula’s zombies charge upon you at nightfall.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #37 Strazeal
71% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #38 炎黄战纪之三国烽烟
72% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #39 Goblin Storm
73% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #40 Squid Vs Vexus
76% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: JammSoft
Windows
As the Sun starts to transform into a red giant, every planet, except Pluto, is joining forces to save the Solar System from certain demise. The Plutonians, feeling left behind and undermined, decide to send Squid, their strongest warrior, to finish off the 8 Emperors of the Solar System, that form Vexus.
Why similar: Strategy 69.4%, Indie 30.6%
- #41 ManGuin – Penguin Apocalypse
74% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #42 Dark Rising
72% matchMostly Negative31% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Clear Light Games
Windows
Upgrade your castle, build towers, expand your village and train loyal pledges who will fight, and die at your command. Dark Rising is a tower defense game for anyone who's looking for a more in-depth approach to the popular genre.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #43 Project GR-5LYR: Galactic Relocation
71% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #44 stepbystep
70% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #45 The Escape
71% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: The Escape Team
Windows
The Escape is a challenging online co-op strategy game for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #46 Our Children - Escaping Earth
73% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #47 Barbarroja
70% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: MCD
Windows
Barbarroja is a classic turn-based strategy game for one or two playes, allows you to play in full turns, or in real time (only for Internet game), allows both players to play simultaneously.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #48 Wequer
66% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #49 Prototype TD
68% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Elijah Goering
Windows
Prototype TD is a tower defense game which includes rogue-like elements to make each game different. Different towers will be available each game and the starting map is randomly generated as well so it's not possible to win the same way every time.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #50 TurretMaster
69% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #51 Mercs
68% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Munchkin's Lair
Windows
Assemble a team of mercenaries and challenge the computer or another player in a quick turn-based battle. Unlock new mercs, find the best skill combos, and watch your adorable tiny soldiers blow themselves up in a variety of hex-mapped, low-poly environments.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #52 Wars Across The World: Russian Battles
73% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: StrategiaePub: Plug In Digital
Windows
The Russian Battles DLC pack from Wars Across the World focuses on 5 key campaigns of the Russian army in our collection, including an exclusive and unique one not available as regular DLC. Ownership of WAW is required to play this package.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #53 Stratus: Battle For The Sky
69% 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #54 Twinfold
66% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac
A roguelike about merging golden babies and squashing angry faces.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #55 Puzzle Strike
67% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2015
Dev: Sirlin Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Puzzle Strike is an online deckbuilding puzzle game from David Sirlin, lead designer of Puzzle Fighter HD Remix and creator of the Fantasy Strike universe. Improve your deck (of chips!) as the game unfolds and crush your opponents under a mountain of gems!
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #56 Guide The Ball
67% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Eldritch Phantasmagoric Games
Windows
Plan and build your path through physics based puzzles. Create your own solutions to over 300 levels spread out through 10 distinct areas, each with their own unique hazards, effects and game-play.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #57 Battleships at Dawn!
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: Mintaka SoftworksPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Capture and hold resources, secure and defend strategic locations, explore large maps and try to outsmart a cunning AI in this new turn-based naval strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%