- #1 100 nya
97% matchPositive88% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: .M.Y.W.
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
The game develops logical thinking. Taught to think through the moves in advance.
Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Indie 34.4%, Puzzle 12.9%
- #2 Magic Technology
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: Vulkano Forge
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Playing this game, you will find yourself in a world where there is magic and technology. Helping an insane scientist in search of the unknown, you can visit the most amazing places: from forests, to wild and dangerous lands.
Why similar: Indie 53.2%, Strategy 46.8%
- #3 Dyadic
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: Handsome Dragon Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Two players steal an ancient and priceless relic, awakening an ominous presence deep beneath the earth, and sending them tumbling into long forgotten ruins. You both must work together to escape, yet you both want to be the one with the relic in the end. So, will you two be friends, or foes?
Why similar: Local Co-Op 53.9%, Indie 46.1%
- #4 Starlight Tactics™
95% matchMixed52% of 31 reviews2015
Dev: Escape Hatch Entertainment,LLCPub: Escape Hatch Entertainment, LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Travel a hundred years into the future to command an advanced space fleet in full 3D turn-based tactical space combat through the greatest conflict humankind has ever known. Protect the Sky!
Why similar: Strategy 64.4%, Indie 35.6%
- #5 Doodle WHAT?!
89% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Binx.tv
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Stream your canvas on Twitch and turn your chat into a guessing game! Fully integrated with Twitch, this social drawing game lets your viewers compete in real time to guess what you're drawing! Featuring a persistent leaderboard, customizable word bank, and multiple gameplay modes!
Why similar: Strategy 60.5%, Indie 39.5%
- #6 Pick a Hero
94% matchMixed68% of 59 reviews2016
Dev: vikingfabian
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Card drafting strategy
Why similar: Strategy 62.4%, Indie 37.6%
- #7 Fuego!
94% matchVery Positive90% of 60 reviews2015
Dev: radiostatic
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In Fuego, you and an opponent create a tangled Mexican standoff one animal-bandito at a time. And when everyone’s got their mark, the bullets fly. You shoot a bank, you get the gold. You shoot a bandito, you steal the gold. Just make sure that when the dust settles, your gang walks away with the bigger haul.
Why similar: Strategy 61.3%, Indie 38.7%
- #8 Devouring Stars
93% 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 61.3%, Indie 38.7%
- #9 Elven Legend 2: The Bewitched Tree
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: Growing Grass Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Elven Legend 2 - exciting time-management strategy in a fantasy world, where an evil witch has bewitched the Life Tree of the Elven Kingdom.
Why similar: Strategy 63.4%, Indie 36.6%
- #10 The Battle for Sector 219
91% matchMixed51% of 37 reviews2016
Dev: Large Visible Machine
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
The Battle for Sector 219 is an abstract strategy card game where two players field a sci-fi army battling a rival race for control of a world's capital city. The game is easy to learn and quick to play but has a depth of strategy usually found only in games that takes much longer to play.
Why similar: Strategy 63.3%, Indie 36.7%
- #11 Artillerists
90% 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 60.2%, Indie 39.8%
- #12 Maze Crusher
91% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Firesplash Entertainment
Windows
Trapped in a huge maze you need to find a way out. Fighting your enemies can destroy parts of the maze and make you running out of space. Will you be able to escape?
Why similar: Strategy 41.8%, Indie 36.5%, Arcade 11.2%, Puzzle 10.5%
- #13 Siege - the card game
88% 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 60.2%, Indie 39.8%
- #14 Swapper Tiles
86% match6 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Rynder Games
Windows
Swapper Tiles is a First Person Puzzle game where you find yourself trapped in a cage with your only chance to escape is to complete the challenges set. The game revolves around completing puzzles by swapping tiles around to create a path between them. Demo available on Steam.
Why similar: Strategy 52.9%, Indie 33.5%, Puzzle 13.6%
- #15 The Thing: Tower Defense
87% 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 61.3%, Indie 38.7%
- #16 A Virus Named TOM
89% matchMixed56% of 749 reviews2012
Dev: Misfits Attic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Hack your way through brain scrambling puzzles while maneuvering through a thumb cramping maze of enemies.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 28.6%, Puzzle 24.9%, Indie 23.9%, Strategy 22.6%
- #17 Poly Mole
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Haubna
Windows · Mac · Linux
Poly Mole is a puzzle game in which you have to guide your mole through a ton of different levels. Play levels from the community, create your own or test yourself in the campaign.
Why similar: Strategy 47.7%, Indie 30.1%, Puzzle 22.2%
- #18 Hexcross
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MetaHobby
Windows
Avoid getting hexed in this beautiful puzzle dueler. Players take turns creating lines trying to avoid certain demise. Make a triangle and you're out!
Why similar: Strategy 52.1%, Indie 34%, Puzzle 13.9%
- #19 Refract
84% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: Renaissance Game Studio
Windows · Mac
"Refract" is a puzzle game in which you use the primary colored laser beams and reflect them or refract them to the cuboid of thet corresponding color.
Why similar: Strategy 48.1%, Indie 29%, Puzzle 22.9%
- #20 Desert Ashes
86% matchMixed53% of 80 reviews2014
Dev: Nine Tales Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Desert Ashes is a turn based strategy game with online multiplayer and single player campaigns, it also boasts an innovative menu system allowing you to play multiple games at once. The Day-Night system adds a dynamic twist to turn based battles that affect the battlefield.
Why similar: Strategy 63.1%, Indie 36.9%
- #21 Concept 20
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Aaron Leal
Windows
Concept 20 is a mix of gameplays with just one objective, get the ball or block into the yellow box.
Why similar: Strategy 56.3%, Indie 36.2%, Puzzle 7.5%
- #22 Meld
83% matchPositive97% of 30 reviews2016
Dev: Axis Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Meld is a mind-bending puzzle game featuring 200+ levels and a build-in editor so you can create your own and play levels made by others!
Why similar: Strategy 57.9%, Indie 26%, Puzzle 16.1%
- #23 Shift
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 342 reviews2016
Dev: Black Lime Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.
Why similar: Indie 39.6%, Strategy 37.5%, Puzzle 22.9%
- #24 Dolphin Up
81% matchPositive100% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: Rawkins Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A fun, vibrant, 2-minute game with surprising depth, Dolphin Up lets you do amazing tricks with a porpoise. Successful flips, spins and tailslides build speed, allowing you to jump higher and soar into the stars.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Banana for Scale
80% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Marco GiammettiPub: Hypothermic Games
Windows
A Virtual Reality game where you measure things with bananas.
Why similar: Strategy 57%, Indie 36.6%, Puzzle 6.4%
- #26 Direct Hit: Missile War
84% matchMixed46% of 24 reviews2014
Dev: Polynetix Studio
Windows
Direct Hit: Missile War offers a deep strategic experience to those weary of the never ending stream of Command and Conquer clones that dominate the real-time strategy market. Direct Hit brings many fresh ideas to the table, in particular: separate player maps, and the replacement of classic RTS units by customizable missiles.
Why similar: Strategy 64.4%, Indie 35.6%
- #27 Disparity
79% matchPositive85% of 34 reviews2017
Dev: tamationgames
Windows
Disparity is an extreme precision 2D Puzzle Platformer based around one core mechanic: swapping the polarity of levels.
Why similar: Strategy 58.1%, Indie 41.9%
- #28 Swap Swap
78% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: MediaPod
Windows · Mac
Help our 4 friends to get out from this evil world using switches, teleports, bumpers and many machiavelic tricks...
Why similar: Strategy 58.8%, Indie 41.2%
- #29 Mad Carnage
77% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: Drageus Games
Windows
Can YOU survive the Mad Carnage?
Why similar: Strategy 59.1%, Indie 40.9%
- #30 MAZE LORD
77% matchMostly Positive87% of 408 reviews2016
Dev: Jetdogs Studios
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Become the part of the legend and save the stolen princess!
Why similar: Strategy 51%, Indie 29.1%, Puzzle 19.9%
- #31 Hellfire Fortress
70% 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 60.2%, Indie 39.8%
- #32 Rule Your School
79% matchMixed44% of 88 reviews2016
Dev: WeersProductions
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rule Your School is a game in which you create and manage a school. Choose the correct decisions at the right time and become the best school in town! You are the headmaster, you decide what happens. Organize proms, hire teachers, force students to work in the gardens or be a generous Headmaster and let them play football.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #33 RED Fuse: Rolling Explosive Device
78% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2015
Dev: Meteor Shock
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Unleash strings of volatile bombs known as Rolling Explosive Devices, and use them against each other in creating chain reactions to blast open deposits of priceless jewels!
Why similar: Strategy 47.4%, Indie 30%, Puzzle 22.7%
- #34 BlindOak Prow
68% 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 60.5%, Indie 39.5%
- #35 THE GREY MAN
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2016
Dev: ATTACK MOUNTAIN
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
An extra dimensional experience through the campgrounds of Tinderboone National Park. The Grey Man has a job to do, but what could it be?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Chessboard Kingdoms
73% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #37 Dice Defenders
73% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #38 Operation Valderon
73% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #39 Broken Metal
71% matchPositive87% of 15 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #40 Wizard King
74% match9 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #41 Robots In The Wild
75% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #42 One More Night: BiO Clinic
74% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #43 Geared
75% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #44 FrogStatue
72% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #45 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 60%, Indie 40%
- #46 NUVAVULT
69% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Mim Hufford
Windows · Mac · Linux
A perspective altering puzzle game where 2D and 3D collide.
Why similar: Strategy 60.4%, Indie 39.6%
- #47 Darkest Mana: Master of the Table
72% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #48 Quantum Multiverse
70% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #49 Volantia
71% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #50 Wagers of War
71% 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 60.1%, Indie 39.9%
- #51 5Leaps (Space Tower Defense)
67% matchPositive100% of 32 reviews2019
Dev: DeepDimensionGames
Windows
5Leaps is a retro-futuristic strategy game "Tower Defense" style.
Why similar: Strategy 60.5%, Indie 39.5%
- #52 Rhombus Legends
69% matchMixed66% of 50 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 60.2%, Indie 39.8%
- #53 过关攒将
69% matchMixed62% of 52 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 60.2%, Indie 39.8%
- #54 Star Police
67% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Cow Game
Windows
Tower Defense game
Why similar: Strategy 60.5%, Indie 39.5%
- #55 Earth Muncher
68% 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 60.5%, Indie 39.5%
- #56 Shuttle Siege
70% 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 60.2%, Indie 39.8%
- #57 Wequer
65% matchVery Positive91% of 78 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 61.3%, Indie 38.7%
- #58 Combiner the Card Game
68% 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 60.5%, Indie 39.5%
- #59 Rubico
57% 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 61.3%, Indie 38.7%