- #1 Coffee Pot Terrarium
97% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Brothers Flint
Windows · Mac · Linux
Created by two brothers, Coffee Pot Terrarium is a turn-based puzzle game of tile manipulation. Raise new pathways to traverse the map, drop tiles to eliminate the enemy. Stop and smell the cherry blossoms.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #2 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #3 Tavern Table Tactics
96% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #4 Darkest Mana: Master of the Table
95% 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 69.9%, Indie 30.1%
- #5 50 years
94% matchVery Positive89% of 694 reviews2017
Dev: Aleksandr Golovkin
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 50.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
50 Years is a fast-paced alternative to the bigger, longer turn-based strategy games. You can win or lose a game in a single evening. Either way you'll want to play it again.
Why similar: Strategy 50%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.5%, Indie 16.9%, Turn-Based 14.6%
- #6 Juniper Theory
94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: Juniper TheoryPub: Black Box
Windows
You are a newly appointed defense network engineer in charge of keeping the company of your choosing from harmful outside DDoS attacks. Rival companies want to take your servers offline and its your job to make sure they don't. Expand your network, build defenses, and attack different territory to dominate your opponents.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #7 Robots In The Wild
93% 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 69.9%, Indie 30.1%
- #8 Robot Builder War
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Shitman497
Windows
Lead your robot team to liberate the world from the evil CCP. Customize your robots by different parts and traits.
Why similar: Strategy 60.3%, Indie 24.7%, Turn-Based 9.5%, Tactical 5.5%
- #9 Legions of Ashworld
91% matchMixed67% of 49 reviews2014
Dev: JugilusPub: Wastelands Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Legions of Ashworld is a turn-based war-game, which brings a sense of adventure to strategic war-gaming with its first-person view of an open world environment.
Why similar: Strategy 55.7%, Turn-Based 26.4%, Indie 17.9%
- #10 9 Till Void
89% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Ben Allen
Windows
9 Till Void is a turn-based deckbuilding roguelike that features neither deck nor cards. As the newly-appointed Spellsword of these lands, you must fight your way through the corruption, with an arsenal of carefully chosen spells, to reach the source of darkness and destroy it from within.
Why similar: Strategy 60.1%, Indie 25%, Turn-Based 14.9%
- #11 Ash of Gods: Arena
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AurumDust
Windows
Ash of Gods: Arena is an online game which combines turn-based tactical combat and elements of a card collectibles game. Based on multiplayer mode from the original award-winning game, Ash of Gods: Redemption.
Why similar: Strategy 54.7%, Indie 22.4%, Turn-Based 17.6%, Tactical 5.3%
- #12 Clatter
89% 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 42.6%, Turn-Based 19.5%, Indie 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Tactical 9.6%
- #13 No Offence, But
88% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Maybe Later Games
Windows · Mac
"No Offence, But" is a hilarious turn-based strategy game where you must build a reputation for yourself by tearing down your enemies with insults, burns and put-downs in a series of slanging matches.
Why similar: Strategy 47.4%, Turn-Based 20.3%, Indie 20.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%
- #14 Future Wars
90% matchMostly Negative30% of 310 reviews2010
Dev: Radon Labs
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Battle it out on the proving grounds and get ready for Future Wars. Similar to classic titles such as Advance Wars and Battle Isle, the game takes strategy gaming away from the micro-management overkill that it has become and using simple, proven rock-paper-scissors principles, reopens the genre to everyone.
Why similar: Strategy 60.8%, Turn-Based 22.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Indie 5.2%
- #15 Jagged Alliance Flashback
87% matchMixed47% of 777 reviews2014
Dev: Full Control
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Jagged Alliance Flashback brings back the true spirit of this legendary series: Turn-based tactics meets crazy mercenary personalities and intense battles. Manage your squad of unique mercenaries, secure your income and take back the island - sector by sector, turn by turn.
Why similar: Strategy 39.4%, Turn-Based 28.7%, Tactical 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Indie 7.2%
- #16 Eador: Genesis
84% matchVery Positive84% of 462 reviews2013
Dev: Alexey BokulevPub: Snowbird Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Eador: Genesis is an indie turn-based strategy game created by Alexey Bokulev. It has inspired the development of Eador: Masters of the Broken World.Take the role of a mighty Master and shape the destiny of Eador, on land and within the astral plane itself.
Why similar: Strategy 44.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.1%, Turn-Based 19.4%, Indie 14.7%
- #17 Hex Empire 3
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 109 reviews2018
Dev: Meta Sauce
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hex Empire 3 is turn-based strategy game where you can fulfill all of your deepest dreams of becoming a bloodthirsty dictator. All without even taking your fluffy slippers off your feet!
Why similar: Strategy 55.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.5%, Indie 21%
- #18 Nuclear Arms Race
82% matchMixed62% of 26 reviews2020
Dev: OfficialCH
Windows
Nuclear Arms Race is a revolutionary turn-based game that allows you to produce resources, spy on and sabotage your opponent in order to acquire the nuclear weapon before they can eradicate you.
Why similar: Strategy 64.1%, Indie 26.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%
- #19 Army of Pixels
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Gergely Zsolnay
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Pixel strategy that combines real-time and turn-based gameplay. 17 factions from vampire queens to mechanical golems.
Why similar: Strategy 51%, Turn-Based 28%, Indie 20.9%
- #20 Artillerists
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 132 reviews2017
Dev: SolarLance
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #21 Minda
79% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Sunho Kim
Windows · Mac
Online Abalone board game.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #22 Secret Santa
80% matchVery Positive91% of 111 reviews2016
Dev: Daniel Jonathan BourkePub: Project Tranquil
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Sneak around children, pets, and the elderly as you deliver Christmas joy. Complete the list of deliveries, and have some cookies.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #23 Rubico
72% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #24 Dogs of War Online
82% matchMixed63% of 713 reviews2014
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Dogs Of War Online is a multiplayer tactical game, based on the classic board game "Confrontation". Build your own company of mercenaries from the wide range of units available and challenge thousands of players in intense battles.
Why similar: Strategy 57.1%, Turn-Based 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Tactical 5.9%
- #25 Survival Kingdom
81% matchMixed61% of 44 reviews2016
Dev: Bat Byte
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Survival Kingdom is a turn-based, retro strategy game. You are the ruler of a kingdom in a medieval fantasy-pixel world. Embark on an adventure and test your ruling abilities. Will your kingdom escape death and achieve glory? Will you be able to survive? It all depends on you!
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #26 Cat Defense
78% matchMostly Positive63% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Red twice potato
Windows
An army of the undead attacked the defenseless village of cute kittens
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #27 Alteil: Horizons
78% matchMixed49% of 116 reviews2016
Dev: Apocoplay LLC
Windows
Alteil Horizons combines Tactical RPGs (like Final Fantasy Tactics) with the deck-building and collecting elements of card dueling games.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #28 Grimante
76% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: aftermonk
Windows · Mac
50+ levels of tactical combat boiled down to its addicting, puzzle-like core. Solve the battlefield.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #29 Aetherspace
77% matchMixed63% of 84 reviews2017
Dev: Munchkin's Lair
Windows
Aetherspace is a game about turn-based battles between outlaw gangs. In space. With starships.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #30 Defend the Highlands: World Tour
76% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Kilted CamelPub: KISS ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command Alfredo and his band of Scotsmen as they travel the globe, freeing their oppressed countrymen wherever they go. In a hybrid of Tower Defense and RTS, you'll build defenses, manage resources and command your troops, as you show the world what happens if you mess with Scotland.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #31 Pocket God vs Desert Ashes
77% matchMixed43% of 23 reviews2015
Dev: Nine Tales Digital
Windows · Mac
It's "Clash of the Titans!" Or, rather, "Clash of the Pygmies and Landians!" In cooperation with Bolt Creative, Nine Tales Digital brings you a new spin on their popular Desert Ashes turn-based strategy game, guest starring a powerful Pygmy army defending their territory.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #32 TurretMaster
75% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #33 Epic Little War Game
73% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #34 Navalia
75% matchMixed46% of 41 reviews2017
Dev: Luotsi EntertainmentPub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Design, build and command your fleet of spaceships! Navalia allows you to freely design ships for your fleet, lead them in battle against formidable foes and gradually conquer the galaxy. Unleash your creativity with the innovative Navalia ship editor and bring your creations into battle!
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #35 Guide The Ball
74% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #36 Module TD. Sci-Fi Tower Defense
73% matchMixed66% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: Gyro-Games Inc.
Windows
This is Sci-fi Tower Defense created by gamers for gamers.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #37 Mercs
72% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #38 Witch of the Woods
71% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Druidic, LLC
Windows · Mac
In Witch of the Woods, you play as a witch who must gather ingredients in the forest in order to cast custom spells on the flora and fauna. Can you maintain the forest's ecosystem while fending off the corruption that is plaguing your woods?
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #39 Battleships at Dawn!
73% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #40 Rampart Tactics
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Aaron Saluk
Windows
Indie Turnbased Strategy, solo or online.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #41 BlindOak Prow
61% 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 70.2%, Indie 29.8%
- #42 Radar Defense
71% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Adage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Radar Defense is the first Strategy Tower Defense Game with a “seek and destroy” game mechanic. Use your Radar to find and identify the threat, or use your intuition to guess the position and the types of the enemy units. Destroy them with the right weapon.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #43 The Astonishing Game
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: Turbo Tape Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Astonishing is a turn-based tactical board-game that will challenge new to veteran gamers. Participate in competitions for great prizes, including signed albums, tickets and post-concert passes, available to players during the Dream Theater tours.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #44 Hellfire Fortress
59% 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 69.9%, Indie 30.1%
- #45 stepbystep
69% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #46 Barbarroja
69% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #47 Stratus: Battle For The Sky
70% matchMixed53% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #48 Twinfold
67% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac
A roguelike about merging golden babies and squashing angry faces.
Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #49 Mortal Squad: Portal to Hell
68% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #50 炎黄战纪之三国烽烟
68% matchMixed66% of 291 reviews2018
Dev: 上海班图网络科技有限公司
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 17.1 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #51 Devouring Stars
69% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #52 The Escape
68% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #53 Wequer
65% matchVery Positive90% of 80 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #54 Prototype TD
67% 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 70.9%, Indie 29.1%