Games Like The Waking Knot

Monument is a turn-based strategy game where you build a town and defend it against raiders. With fast rounds and a steep difficulty curve, the game progresses quickly from a fun little builder game to a real challenge.

Why similar: Hex Grid 24.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Tactical 15.2%, Grid-Based Movement 13.8%

Hex of the Lich is a spellcrafting turn-based roguelike. Forge spells from hexes and find new ones along the way. Gain powerful artifacts that enhance your abilities. Clear dungeons filled with bouncing blobs, eldritch horrors, and otherworldly aliens. Can you break the Hex of the Lich?

Why similar: Hex Grid 27.6% ★, Tactical 18.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Roguelike 11.5%

Auro is a unique turn-based tactical dungeon-crawler all about bumping monsters into the water. Traverse randomly generated maps and create huge spell combos as you compete against rival Kingdoms and rise through the ranks.

Why similar: Hex Grid 37.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.3%, Tactical 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Roguelite 8.4%

Mana Chess is a colorful, turn-based adventure with Roguelite progression. Early Access players traverse three unique areas, and ten stages - collecting randomly offered abilities and items. Manage your resources efficiently to clear stages in as few turns as possible, and earn rewards.

Why similar: Hex Grid 28% ★, Grid-Based Movement 17.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Roguelite 12.1%

Play as an ancient warrior that has been tasked to light the sealed beacons of its millenary Order. Avoid the impending doom and complete 50 different puzzles as you aid the Jade Goddess cleanse the land from the cursed flames of the plague.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 22.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Surreal 14%, Tactical 10.5%

In Godless, you don’t save the world — you end it one turn at a time. Reshape the hex-based battlefield, summon deadly minions, explore endless strategies, and crush mortal heroes in this tactical roguelike!

Why similar: Hex Grid 26.9% ★, Grid-Based Movement 14.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.4%, Tactical 10.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%

Use natural resources in your environment to cast epic elemental spells! In this turn-based RPG, every stone, tree and flame is yours to control. Discover new spell cards and outwit cunning enemies!

Why similar: Hex Grid 27.2% ★, Grid-Based Movement 13.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%, Roguelike 10%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%

Choose your faction and test your skill in this one-player tactical masterpiece, where positioning is everything! Clear forests, pave roads, knock enemies into pits, yank them out from behind their defenders, before the Business Demons burn it all down!

Why similar: Hex Grid 33.1% ★, Tactical 16%, Grid-Based Movement 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%

A grim tactical roguelite set on a dying frontier. Master dual combat styles, shape unique builds through powerful tokens, and lead a small band of heroes across lethal hex-grid battles as the world decays toward its final 28th day.

Why similar: Hex Grid 25.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Roguelite 13.4%, Tactical 11.1%

Shape the turn order in a speed-based tactical roguelike. Adapt to shifting battlefields, overcome unique bosses, and unlock powerful new abilities as you guide a band of idiots through four perilous and distinct regions!

Why similar: Hex Grid 15.6% ★, Roguelite 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Roguelike 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%

Guards of the Gate is a roguelike turn-based game on hexagonal fields. You control a team of heroes aka Guards of the Gate, who are trying to save the world from the evil Dragon Lord.

Why similar: Hex Grid 29.9% ★, Grid-Based Movement 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Roguelite 9.9%

In this small scale, turn based tactics game, you spin Guncho's revolver cylinder to keep his bullets aligned to enemies. Fight your way through randomly generated shootouts. Upgrade your bullets and use tactical abilities to defeat your foes. Ride your donkey and become the ultimate Pistolero.

Why similar: Hex Grid 23.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Grid-Based Movement 14.5%, Roguelike 12.9%

Conquest Tactics: Realm of Sin is a dark-fantasy roguelite tactics game. Command your army and engage in turn-based battles on a hex-based board as you advance step by step to conquer a land shrouded in sin. Your choices carry weight: will you restore order… or allow eternal darkness to reign?

Why similar: Hex Grid 28.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Tactical 11%, Roguelite 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%

A rapidly escalating Minesweeper-inspired roguelike. Gain upgrades, discover new mines, and progress further based on understanding and strategy. Can you avoid running out of probes and clear all the minefields?

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Roguelite 13.5%, Roguelike 12.9%, Minimalist 9.1%

🌋⚔ Terraforming + Into The Breach! An experimental puzzle strategy where you are not commanding your troops - now, you are shaping the battlefield itself! Nothing is random*, everything is predictable*, and the battlefield is changing. Every turn. By you.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Hex Grid 16.4% ★, Tactical 13.5%, Roguelite 12.3%

A small-scale system management game where you move clouds and sun across a tiny world to keep your villagers happy.

Why similar: Hex Grid 35.2% ★, Grid-Based Movement 18.8%, Tactical 13.5%, Minimalist 8.4%, Colorful 6.1%

Hemomancer is a story set in a surreal world. It's also a roguelite game with RPG, visual novel and musical/rhythm elements. Gameplay and narrative is designed to challenge you, so prepare to struggle.

Why similar: Psychedelic 23.3%, Music 17.7%, Surreal 17.7%, Roguelike 12.4%, Abstract 10.8%

Using a deck of cards and turn based tactics, delve through a procedurally generated gauntlet of areas filled with dangerous beasts and hostile terrain. If you survive, scavenge what you can and make camp, where you can craft cards and upgrades to meet the growing dangers to come.

Why similar: Hex Grid 27.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.8%, Tactical 12.4%, Roguelite 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%

Unbox Tactics is a rogue-like, turn-based tactical game where you command a team of characters, each unboxed with unique skills and abilities. Strategically plan your moves and assemble the ultimate party as you take on intense, tactical battles.

Why similar: Hex Grid 19.3% ★, Grid-Based Movement 15.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.8%, Tactical 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%

Prowl is a fast, turn-based roguelite where combat plays out through patterns. Pick an animal. Modify its attacks and movement, manipulate the board, and outplay overwhelming odds one tile at a time.

Why similar: Roguelite 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Grid-Based Movement 15.1%, Roguelike 11.2%, Tactical 9.8%

Explore a hex based procedurally generated cityscape, infested with assorted zombies, collect powerful and novel zombie slaying weapons, medical supplies and food. Rescue fellow survivors to grow your party, defeat powerful zombie bosses, escape the city... but most importantly... Stay Human!

Why similar: Hex Grid 37.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Tactical 11%, Minimalist 8.7%

Beast Whalers is a naval tactical roguelike about assembling and controlling your own fleet to battle bizarre sea monsters. Trade and upgrade unique ships, use their special abilities, and maneuver carefully between enemies on tight, procedurally generated levels.

Why similar: Hex Grid 20.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17%, Grid-Based Movement 15.7%, Tactical 13.7%, Roguelike 9.7%

Primal Fray:Prologue is a turn-based strategy roguelite set in the world of Primal Fray. Discover the origins of the story and witness the beginning of an adventure leading into the main game. Enter the Rift,battle enemies, build a team of Primals, outsmart your foes and uncover secrets of the Rift.

Why similar: Hex Grid 32.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Roguelike 11.7%, Tactical 9.7%

Become a blacksmith this roguelite deck-builder where you forge the powerful weapons adventurers use in battle. Slot your weapons into the Ouroburos Timeline to chain combos and outsmart monsters. Design your own builds and become the stuff of legend.

Why similar: Hex Grid 29% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Roguelike 12%, Roguelite 11%

Take deckbuilding and replace the cards with ball physics so you can combine abilities in creative ways! Orbloom takes those moments in deckbuilders where you get a powerful item synergy which 'breaks' the game and turns that into a core gameplay loop.

Why similar: Psychedelic 23.9%, Tactical 17%, Surreal 15.7%, Roguelike 12.6%, Abstract 10.7%

A turn-based game about a pirate journey through ever-changing magical storm. Classic turn-based mechanics with a roguelike twist. Hire your crew, level-up the hero and slay some monsters in order to become the greatest pirate.

Why similar: Hex Grid 21.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Roguelite 13.7%, Roguelike 10.9%

Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!

Why similar: Hex Grid 23.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 19.7%, Grid-Based Movement 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Tactical 12.7%

Survive against zombies in this turn-based tactical roguelike. Outsmart your enemies in fast-paced battles using different tactics. Pick rewards and power up your character to conquer increasingly challenging levels.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 22.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Roguelike 12.6%, Minimalist 10.1%

Like playing Go with puzzle pieces. Connect and convert lines to beat your opponents. Play against AI, locally, or online.

Why similar: Hex Grid 25.1% ★, Tactical 15%, Minimalist 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%

Time moves when you move in a truly non-Euclidean world

Why similar: Hex Grid 27.7% ★, Psychedelic 20.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.9%, Surreal 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%

Slay your enemies, explore a wicked fantasy realm and unleash crazy combinations of items, artefacts and arcane spells! Break the time loop that grips the Wicked Lands in the ultimate fusion of turn-based tactics, deck-building, and rogue-lites!

Why similar: Hex Grid 25.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Roguelite 12.4%, Roguelike 9.6%

Welcome to "A Game´s Tale” where you´ll enjoy tactical battles and grow your deck as you travel through a fantasy world. While meeting charming characters along the way, you will discover the secret of why we play.

Why similar: Hex Grid 27.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.2%, Grid-Based Movement 14.5%, Philosophical 12.3%, Tactical 11.5%

This is Chess on a conveyor belt -- an ingenious roguelike, melding tactical strategy and explosive action! Deal with a mind-bending scrolling board that pulls towards you relentless waves of foes and perils. Prepare for their violent collision with your pieces. Prepare for TOTAL ZUGZWANG.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 18.7%, Tactical 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Roguelike 12.1%, Roguelite 10.8%

Hexteria is a casual Turn-Based Strategy and Puzzle game. The concept is simple: each turn you rotate one tile on the hexagonal board, in order to take over your opponents' tiles. Play against your friends or the AI, or challenge yourself with the Single Player Campaign!

Why similar: Hex Grid 29.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Tactical 8.6%, Minimalist 7.9%

Rotate stamps to create beautiful watercolor paintings in this relaxing hand-drawn puzzle.

Why similar: Hex Grid 32.6% ★, Psychedelic 22.7%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Minimalist 10.7%, Abstract 9.8%

Puzzle Tactics is a turn-based and grid-based tactics game played in various small levels. You play as the blue team with the goal of defeating the red team's units before losing your own. Later levels are more difficult and introduce more unit types in battle.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 22.4%, Grid-Based Movement 19%, Tactical 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Minimalist 14.9%

Sci-fi turn-based strategy where intelligent mice pilot battle mechs against dark-matter cats on 3D spherical maps. Tactical combat, destructible terrain and procedurally generated planets await your squad.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Hex Grid 15.7% ★, Roguelite 11.8%, Roguelike 11%

A turn-based puzzle game set in a hexagonal world where you strategically move and throw powerful daggers to solve dozens of puzzles and optional challenges.

Why similar: Hex Grid 30.8% ★, Grid-Based Movement 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Tactical 12%, Minimalist 8%

Unleash the power of the seasons to manipulate the battlefield and turn the tides of war. Pick one of three Wardens and wield their mighty rune stones. Master their abilities, refine your deck, unleash powerful synergies to alter the ever-changing battlefield to your advantage.

Why similar: Hex Grid 29.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Roguelite 11.6%, Grid-Based Movement 10.4%

Portal Fall is a turn-based roguelike where your skill set evolves mid-combat. Battle endless waves of enemies across fractured realities ruled by an ethereal Jester.

Why similar: Psychedelic 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.5%, Roguelike 14.4%, Roguelite 12%

Pilot your own Scorchwalker in this deck-building roguelite adventure! Choose your own destiny as you pick which comrades to save, which cards to craft, which Kaijus to battle, and ultimately, which path to take.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Roguelite 12.4%, Psychedelic 11.3%, Roguelike 10%

Endhall is a byte-sized roguelike. Become an artificial intelligence and combine tactical actions to defeat your enemies and reach the end of the hallway.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Grid-Based Movement 13.6%, Roguelite 13.3%, Tactical 12.5%

Fight off your body's invaders using the combined strengths of your immune system's defenders! Immunity Wars is a turn-based tactics, classic hex grid, strategy game. Wield your units together effectively to fight off all kinds of bacteria, viruses, and even your own corrupted cells.

Why similar: Hex Grid 40.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 27.9%, Tactical 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Strategy 6.7%

Look at art, listen to jazz, and immerse yourself in the world of Joey Pawelko's Text Adventure.

Why similar: Music 27.8%, Psychedelic 23.6%, Philosophical 11.9%, Surreal 10.9%, Hand-drawn 9.4%

DEEPMESS is a turn-based tactics descent into the mind of god. Armed with a hammer and nail, tunnel your way through layers of flesh and bone while thinking one floor ahead. Dig deep and make mess through intense, god-lobotomizing fun.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 21.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Surreal 15.2%, Roguelike 13%, Tactical 9.7%

Hex Minesweeper meets Roguelike — on a fog-shrouded hexagonal board, use 16 tools like fireworks, black holes, and magnets to clear mines, collect rogue cards, to reveal more tiles and defeat 8 unique Bosses. Runs as a transparent overlay on your desktop. Pick up and play anytime.

Why similar: Hex Grid 45.6% ★, Roguelite 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Strategy 10%, Roguelike 7.2%

rook is a chess deckbuilding roguelike. cover your board in stickers and stack spare tiles to supercharge the cascading chaos and watch your scores go exponential, maybe then you might just survive the gauntlet.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 23.2%, Roguelite 15.7%, Surreal 14.4%, Psychedelic 14%, Roguelike 11.2%

You are exiled. Seasons of Solitude is a turn-based strategy and resource management game where every move shapes a fragile landscape. Seasons shift, the land reacts to your choices, and balance is your way home in a hand-painted world inspired by Estonian myth.

Why similar: Hex Grid 37.5% ★, Grid-Based Movement 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Tactical 14.6%, Stylized 6%

The 'Nexus' stops time, giving you the power to predict every enemy move in advance. Outsmart their attacks and optimize your actions. Each turn becomes a tactical puzzle where planning and anticipation are key, rather than reaction.

Why similar: Hex Grid 34.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 19.1%, Tactical 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Grid-Based Movement 4.3%

Tabletop Fantasy War is a turn-based strategy game where you create your unit groups, deploy them on the game board, and command them through strategic actions. Your units are all you have. Every action is decisive.

Why similar: Hex Grid 27.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 22.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Tactical 15.4%, Strategy 6.5%

Use your resources to capture locations in this management game. Each location will give you different resources and effects. Create your own build to gather as many resources as possible to pay ZrOth’s tribute, but be careful, he’s getting greedier and greedier.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.6%, Roguelike 16.2%, Roguelite 14.2%, Minimalist 10.4%

Number Stomper is a minimalistic puzzle game where you move in one of 4 directions to step on numbers, reducing their value by 1. Clear every number on the grid to complete a level. Explore the different tile types and challenge yourself with 100 levels!

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 21.2%, Minimalist 13.9%, Tactical 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%

A strategic, combo-driven twist on checkers! Battle quirky ninjas and their overlord bosses, unleash combos, and dominate the board. A completely fresh take on Checkers in a turn-based strategy game. Coming soon to Steam!

Why similar: Hex Grid 31% ★, Grid-Based Movement 17.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Roguelite 12.1%

Do you enjoy turn based strategy games but prefer streamlined gameplay that doesn't overwhelm you with countless mechanics? Dive into tactical battles across three distinct layers Ground, Sky, and Underground each offering unique strategic opportunities in Hexbotica.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 24.3%, Hex Grid 19.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.9%, Tactical 11%, Grid-Based Movement 6.9%

A roguelite puzzle game for tinkerers and pixel junkies

Why similar: Psychedelic 25.4%, Roguelite 15.4%, Minimalist 12%, Colorful 7.7%, Abstract 7.4%

Primal Fray is a turn-based strategy roguelite. Enter the Rift and fight your way through enemies while building a team of primals and collecting buffs along the way. Outmaneuver your foes and surprise them with powerful combos of a well-built and synergistic team to learn the truth about the Rift.

Why similar: Hex Grid 26.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.3%, Tactical 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Roguelite 12.4%

Breed bees, collect nectar and make honey! But remember that there may be a bear lurking nearby, who will not miss the opportunity to eat a sweet treat.

Why similar: Hex Grid 23.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 22%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Minimalist 11.2%, Grid-Based Movement 10.2%

Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.

Why similar: Hex Grid 24.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.9%, Grid-Based Movement 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Tactical 14.8%

Enter the fascinating world of turn-based tactical games and let yourself be carried away into a captivating story about heroes, castles and wizards. With a sophisticated AI and a variety of unique units, the game offers impressive depth of play and strategic variety.

Why similar: Hex Grid 33.8% ★, Grid-Based Movement 18.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.2%, Tactical 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%

A roguelite chess RPG where your pieces evolve beyond the board. Unlock branching skill trees, recruit and build your warband, then battle through ten handcrafted boss encounters, each with unique mechanics designed to dismantle your strategy.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 31.6%, Roguelite 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Tactical 12.3%, Strategy 9.4%