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  1. #1 Epic battles within 5 seconds!
    97% matchMixed55% of 355 reviews2016
    Dev: YFC games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 54 minMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%

    Constant fun and excitement! Bloody fighting from the start. Epic battles within 5 seconds!

    Why similar: Incremental 41.4%, Strategy 32.2%, Action 20.7%, Indie 5.8%

  2. #2 Boomshine Plus
    96% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
    Dev: Bixense Game Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A simple and easygoing, but addictive puzzle game

    Why similar: Incremental 39.2%, Strategy 26.7%, Puzzle 14.8%, Action 10.7%, 2D 5.5%

  3. #3 Entiled
    95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
    Dev: Grayfox
    Windows

    Entiled is an infinite spatial tile clearing puzzle game built for endless replayability. Clear tiles without collisions, build massive multipliers, compete on Steam Leaderboards, and create, share, and play community made puzzles through the Steam Workshop. Climb the Ranked Steam Leaderboards.

    Why similar: Strategy 38.7%, Incremental 35.1%, Puzzle 16.1%, 2D 6.5%, Indie 2.5%

  4. #4 Monster Clicker : Idle Halloween Strategy
    96% matchMixed50% of 76 reviews2018
    Dev: Autotelic Games LLC
    Windows

    Fight Halloween Monsters in this Idle Clicker! Upgrade your Skills! Defeat Evil!

    Why similar: Incremental 47.3%, Strategy 28.1%, Action 18.3%, Indie 6.3%

  5. #5 Ear Clicker
    94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
    Dev: Black Cat Studio
    Windows

    Ear clicker clicker game to expand your castle

    Why similar: Strategy 31.5%, Incremental 30.8%, Action 20.4%, 1990's 10.9%, 2D 5.7%

  6. #6 Vector Space
    94% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2024
    Dev: Wedomi Games
    Windows

    It is a game about switching squares to make board full

    Why similar: Incremental 40%, Strategy 30.1%, Puzzle 18.3%, 2D 7.4%, Indie 3%

  7. #7 DotLine
    93% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
    Dev: The Selenite Forge
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    DotLine is a challenging minimalist puzzle game. Click on puzzle elements to drive the ball to the exit without falling into the void. Completing the game will require fast thinking and reaction !

    Why similar: Strategy 42%, Action 28.7%, Puzzle 20.3%, Indie 9%

  8. #8 Sunnytime Friends: Episode 1
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: OMS GamingPub: OMS Productions
    Windows

    As a technician working for a local electrical company, you are tasked to restore power to an old animation studio which used to produce the state-wide cartoon Sunnytime Friends. Use your flashlight, Go through obstacles, And, most importantly, Don't. Get. Caught.

    Why similar: 1980s 28.2%, Strategy 26.7%, Puzzle 17.4%, Horror 13.3%, First-Person 9.9%

  9. #9 Three Six Nine
    91% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2024
    Dev: Apptodo12
    Windows

    Solve interesting puzzles based on numbers Three, six, and nine. Solve different types of puzzles where you have to make a sequence in 3,6,9 Based on Roman numbers, drag and drop, music sounds, moving blocks, morse code, alphabet, logic, creativity

    Why similar: Incremental 40.1%, Strategy 30%, Puzzle 18.3%, 2D 7.5%, Indie 2.9%

  10. #10 Mr. Robot
    92% matchVery Positive82% of 97 reviews2008
    Dev: Moonpod
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%

    Asimov is a lowly service mechanoid aboard the interstellar colony ship Eidolon. Carrying hundreds of frozen human colonists to a new world. When the Eidolon's computer brain malfunctions, it falls to Asimov to undertake a perilous journey through the bowels of the massive ship to save his robot friends and the precious human cargo. Mr.

    Why similar: Strategy 44.9%, Action 26.5%, Puzzle 17.9%, Indie 10.7%

  11. #11 Sudoku Starry Sky
    90% matchMixed58% of 35 reviews2020
    Dev: GuangZhou Hezhi Co.ltd
    Windows

    A Sudoku game with the best look

    Why similar: Incremental 46.1%, Strategy 25%, Puzzle 21.7%, Indie 5.2%, Singleplayer 2%

  12. #12 Starlaxis Supernova Edition
    89% matchMixed59% of 63 reviews2015
    Dev: Spiderwork Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Prepare yourself for mind-blowing puzzle strategy in new dimensions! You think Starlaxis is just a small puzzle game? THINK AGAIN! Master breath-taking challenges, win seemingly impossible boss fights, complete multiple missions goals, overcome dozens of enemies, and last but not least: Save EARTH!

    Why similar: Strategy 48.2%, Action 27.9%, Puzzle 14.2%, Indie 9.6%

  13. #13 Idle Dungeons
    89% matchMostly Negative32% of 238 reviews2019
    Dev: ChimpLabs
    Windows

    Crawl your way through multiple layers of dungeons and defeat countless enemies for their blood. Upgrade your sword and use spells to progress faster and defeat the various bosses and obstacles you will encounter.

    Why similar: Incremental 53.4%, Strategy 24.7%, Action 16%, Indie 6%

  14. #14 Cubetractor
    88% matchMostly Positive74% of 480 reviews2013
    Dev: Ludochip
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 12 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 19%

    WINNER: IGF China award for BEST GAME!Cubetractor is a neo-retroesque action-strategy-puzzle hybrid where you defeat enemies through an unconventional cube-pulling, turret-buildling mechanic. The game carries elements of a reverse tower defence and a grounded bullet-hell dodger to deliver a unique gameplay experience presented in a...

    Why similar: Strategy 48.5%, Action 26.3%, Puzzle 14%, Indie 11.2%

  15. #15 Zone 10
    86% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2019
    Dev: Core Reaction Studios
    Windows

    Take command of your faction's only Starbase in Zone 10. In this innovative, arcade style, tower defense game you can build your own maze using specialty blocks and defend your Starbase against spaceships and ground troops that can blow up parts of your defenses.

    Why similar: Strategy 51.8%, Action 29.5%, Indie 10.5%, Puzzle 8.2%

  16. #16 RoBros
    85% matchMixed54% of 85 reviews2017
    Dev: Team B.R.O.S.
    Windows

    Robros is a robot-themed, action-strategy escort shooter where you control two robots to get them to fight their way out of a factory filled with rogue robots. The gameplay is split in two phases: planning and action. The first phase is planning your escape by plotting a vector path on a 2D map.

    Why similar: Strategy 57.8%, Action 32%, Indie 10.2%

  17. #17 Lords of War
    84% 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 55.3%, Action 34%, Indie 10.7%

  18. #18 APOX
    86% matchMostly Negative29% of 180 reviews2011
    Dev: BlueGiant Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    A Real-Time Strategy game with First-Person Shooter tactics.

    Why similar: Strategy 59.9%, Action 30.5%, Indie 9.6%

  19. #19 Vertex Dispenser
    84% matchMostly Positive75% of 36 reviews2011
    Dev: Michael Brough
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 12 minMean: 42 min≥1hr: 17%

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    Why similar: Strategy 58%, Action 31.6%, Indie 10.4%

  20. #20 Aether Way
    82% 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 56.2%, Action 33.1%, Indie 10.7%

  21. #21 Raid On Coasts
    83% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2017
    Dev: Outlaw Wars
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 10.7 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 54.8%, Action 34.4%, Indie 10.7%

  22. #22 DEFENDER OF EARTH VS THE ALIEN ARMADA
    81% 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 55.4%, Action 33.7%, Indie 10.9%

  23. #23 UNHALLOWED: THE CABIN
    81% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2018
    Dev: Tom AdamsPub: TREEFORT VR
    Windows

    Jump into this creepy VR horror title. Investigate you family’s ancestral cabin and collect clues as eldritch secrets are revealed and you discover what grotesque fate has befallen your brother and his missing family.

    Why similar: Strategy 51.6%, Action 31.9%, Indie 10.5%, Horror 6%

  24. #24 Defend Your Kingdom
    79% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2017
    Dev: Burning Pick Entertainment
    Windows

    Fight legendary monsters, customizing your defensive strategy with different spells and equipments! Throw lightnings to your enemies, summon stone guardians, rise the mercenaries of darkness from the dead to fight on your side to save your Kingdom from the mystic shadow!

    Why similar: Strategy 54%, Action 35%, Indie 10.9%

  25. #25 Shadow Heroes: Vengeance In Flames
    80% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2016
    Dev: Allied Games Inc.
    Windows

    A new style of strategy game with a fast paced gameplay. This is not your usual tug of war game, be prepared for a head to head slug-fest!

    Why similar: Strategy 54%, Action 35%, Indie 10.9%

  26. #26 Bounty Hunter: Space Detective
    79% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2018
    Dev: SalsawiPub: Salsawi Games
    Windows

    Take the role as the new Detective on Space Port Aurexia, your assigned with checking the traffic coming into the Port and ensure that no bad eggs get through, we know who we're looking for but it get's really difficult when rush hour hits, you're our only hope detective!

    Why similar: Strategy 54%, Action 35%, Indie 10.9%

  27. #27 Stabby Machine
    78% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2018
    Dev: Challenge Yourself GamingPub: Challenge Yourself Productions
    Windows

    Fast-paced action survival game! Stay alive by collecting batteries, which are dropped by enemies. You must choose wisely how many enemies to spawn. Too few and you'll run out of batteries, but too many and you'll be overrun! HOW LONG CAN YOU SURVIVE??

    Why similar: Strategy 54%, Action 35%, Indie 10.9%

  28. #28 Conran - The dinky Raccoon
    78% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2017
    Dev: Nifty Productions
    Windows

    Blast your way through waves of enemies. Kill bots, collect their scraps to upgrade your weapons, take advantage of the dynamically changing arena and, eventually, buy yourself free.

    Why similar: Strategy 54%, Action 35%, Indie 10.9%

  29. #29 Little Gold Miner
    76% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2018
    Dev: Lastwhirlwind
    Windows · Linux

    Little Gold Miner is a short indie puzzle game in which you'll have to draw a path through a strange mine using randomly generated rails. 25 levels to solve to recover your freedom! A random mode is available as a challenge if you feel capable. LGM is a "one man game" and my first being published.

    Why similar: Strategy 38.3%, Incremental 35.4%, Puzzle 16.2%, Indie 8.1%, Singleplayer 2%

  30. #30 MEG 9: Lost Echoes
    77% matchMostly Negative22% of 18 reviews2017
    Dev: Skunkwerks Kinetic
    Windows

    Within the hostile environment of the Probability Aperture, a high-tech research complex called Horizon vanishes from the grid. Take control of the Rig, a massive 10-ton remote-operated vehicle outfitted with the latest in military hardware, to get Horizon back online.

    Why similar: Strategy 54.1%, Action 34.9%, Indie 11%

  31. #31 Kachinka
    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Buttfish Games
    Windows

    Kachinka is a game of skill and chance. Based off the game of plinko, Kachinka brings you into a pixelated and relaxing world where gambling meets a healthy lifestyle near the fireplace. Destroy tiles, collect balls, buy customizations and upgrades and cash out!

    Why similar: Incremental 30.3%, Strategy 28.9%, Puzzle 13.6%, 1980s 11.4%, 1990's 7.8%

  32. #32 Final Core
    75% matchMixed69% of 26 reviews2017
    Dev: Tabc3dd
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Final Core is a top down arena shooter game in which you get to build your battleships from a selection of diverse parts, each carefully designed to ensure a wide range of viable strategies. Build your battleship part by part and dominate the arena!

    Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Action 34.7%, Indie 11%

  33. #33 Village Feud
    73% matchMostly Positive71% of 395 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 54.8%, Action 34.1%, Indie 11.1%

  34. #34 Starlight Tactics™
    75% 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 59.1%, Action 30.5%, Indie 10.5%

  35. #35 Zombie Rush : Extinction
    72% 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 55%, Action 33.9%, Indie 11.1%

  36. #36 Eleven Prophecies
    74% matchNo user reviews2020
    Dev: Ryan LayfieldPub: 7th Strike, Ltd.
    Windows · Linux

    Defend colonists against relentless waves of ruthless insects with nothing more than your wits, your determination, and a sub-orbital 3d-printer. In a distant corner of the galaxy, what was meant to be a routine repair job has turned into a nightmarish scenario for a young technician thrust upon the front lines of a crisis.

    Why similar: Strategy 54.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 11.1%

  37. #37 Starscape
    72% matchVery Positive82% of 100 reviews2008
    Dev: Moonpod
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 45%

    Moonpod's Starscape mixes old school arcade game play values with characterization and an involving plot to deepen the whole experience. With most of its crew missing and its weapons systems ruined, the space research station Aegis is all but lost.

    Why similar: Strategy 52.5%, Action 36.4%, Indie 11.1%

  38. #38 Tryst
    74% matchMostly Negative25% of 63 reviews2012
    Dev: BlueGiant Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 18 minMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 30%

    Tryst is a competitive Real Time Strategy Game that provides a unique, fast paced spin to the established strategy model.

    Why similar: Strategy 57.9%, Action 31.3%, Indie 10.8%

  39. #39 Prism Collider
    70% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2017
    Dev: Gestmorph Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    In this adventure your objective is simple: reach the end of each level. While it may be simple, it's not going to be easy. Using both the white and red layers you'll have to travel across all 30 levels as the game turns from basic puzzles to the hardest challenges you have ever faced.

    Why similar: Strategy 63.3%, Action 27.3%, Indie 9.4%

  40. #40 Chess Arena-象棋竞技场
    70% 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 56.6%, Action 32.3%, Indie 11.1%

  41. #41 Pixel Sentry
    69% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2019
    Dev: RedOrb Studios
    Windows

    Do you have nothing to do? Don't want to load up a game where it takes a while to get into it? Well here is the perfect solution for you.

    Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Action 36%, Indie 11.2%

  42. #42 YUT YUT
    69% match9 user reviews80% of 10 reviews2019
    Dev: Benjamin Nielsen
    Windows · Mac

    YUT YUT is a game about TANKS containing TANKS in which many TANKS die. Fight through this TANKy TANK game to face your mortal TANK enemy and reclaim your TANK village's lost cabbage god. TANKS

    Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Action 36%, Indie 11.2%

  43. #43 The Blitzkrieg: Weapons of War
    68% 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 55%, Action 33.6%, Indie 11.3%

  44. #44 TANK SOULS
    69% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2018
    Dev: wHDinc.
    Windows

    A fun souls-like game in which you will kill your time in hundreds of dungeons, pumping your skills and knocking out randomly-generated things.

    Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Action 36%, Indie 11.2%

  45. #45 The Last Tower
    70% matchMixed41% of 64 reviews2018
    Dev: SalsawiPub: Salsawi Games
    Windows
    Median: 6 minMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 11%

    The Last Tower is an Arcade tower defense infinite runner game, your job is to prevent the invading alien armies from destroying mankinds last stronghold, the goal of The Last Tower is to get the highest score possible

    Why similar: Strategy 52.9%, Action 35.9%, Indie 11.2%

  46. #46 Moonlight Warrior
    68% 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 55.8%, Action 32.9%, Indie 11.3%

  47. #47 Sacraboar
    71% matchMostly Negative26% of 66 reviews2009
    Dev: Makivision Games
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 20%

    Sacraboar is an RTS game in which players have to capture their opponent's boar trophy. Featuring an intuitive and easy to use resource management system, the game offers fast-paced game play without lengthy and tedious construction phases.

    Why similar: Strategy 56.8%, Action 32.1%, Indie 11%

  48. #48 Planet 1138
    68% 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 55.8%, Action 32.9%, Indie 11.3%

  49. #49 GL1TCH
    67% 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 55.8%, Action 32.9%, Indie 11.3%

  50. #50 TRANCE VR
    67% 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 55.8%, Action 32.9%, Indie 11.3%

  51. #51 The Thing: Tower Defense
    67% 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 55.8%, Action 32.9%, Indie 11.3%

  52. #52 Pick Your Poison
    62% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ranmantaru Games
    Windows

    Pick a disadvantage each level, how far can you go in this roguelike?

    Why similar: Strategy 55%, Action 33.5%, Indie 11.5%

  53. #53 Mars Wars
    62% 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 55%, Action 33.5%, Indie 11.5%

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