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 24.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Tactical 15.2%, Grid-Based Movement 13.9%

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 28.1% ★, Tactical 19%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Roguelike 11.3%

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 38.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.2%, Tactical 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Roguelite 8.1%

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 28.4% ★, Grid-Based Movement 17.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Roguelite 11.6%

Hire unique heroes, fight fearsome battles, and solve the inane problems of your clients in HeroNet!

Why similar: Hex Grid 28.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 23.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Roguelite 13.7%, Strategy 8%

A turn-based tactical strategy about evacuation coordination. As the voice on the radio, guide survivors through real-world city streets, manage squad roles, and calculate every move in deterministic combat before the expanding hazard zone engulfs the district.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 20.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Roguelite 12.2%, Tactical 11.8%

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 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Surreal 14.1%, Tactical 10.5%

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 27.6% ★, Grid-Based Movement 13.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%, Roguelike 9.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%

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 27.4% ★, Grid-Based Movement 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.4%, Tactical 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%

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 33.6% ★, Tactical 16.1%, Grid-Based Movement 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%

"Chess: Three Kingdoms" is a game built upon chess rules, integrating tactical war-game strategy with a Three Kingdoms setting. Command distinctive troop types, recruit armies with random traits, and enhance your official rank for the chance to enlist rare elite units.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 24.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Tactical 16.2%, Roguelite 14.5%, Roguelike 12.4%

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 16% ★, Roguelite 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Roguelike 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%

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 30.4% ★, Grid-Based Movement 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Roguelite 9.5%

Pure score-chasing. Psychedelic neon. Four buttons. Instant retries. Leaderboards, weekly challenges, and special rewards. For fans of flashy arcade experiences who want deeper roguelike progression: 110+ items, 6 weapons, and builds that actually matter. Runs are short. The addiction is long.

Why similar: Music 20.4%, Psychedelic 19.5%, Grid-Based Movement 15.8%, Tactical 11.9%, Abstract 9.2%

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: Turn-Based Tactics 18.6%, Grid-Based Movement 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Roguelite 13.9%, Tactical 11.1%

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 23.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Grid-Based Movement 14.6%, Roguelike 12.6%

An unreflected shot cannot kill anything. Place a handful of mirrors, fire once, and let the enemy's own volley solve the board. 144 hand-built stages across a dozen worlds — rotating flip mirrors, portals, half-silvered panes and relay sentries — every par proven minimal by a solver.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 23.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Grid-Based Movement 14.2%, Tactical 12.5%, Minimalist 11.1%

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 26.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Roguelike 12.4%, Roguelite 12.4%

Lead a squad of evolving bio-organic entities in a fast-paced simultaneous tactical roguelite. Predict enemy actions, graft powerful mutations to adapt, and survive through highly replayable strategic runs.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 17.5%, Psychedelic 17.3%, Tactical 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Roguelite 13.9%

A turn-based multiplayer snowball fight on a hex arena. Collect snow, grab power-ups, and nail the throw they never saw coming.

Why similar: Hex Grid 29.1% ★, Grid-Based Movement 20.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.3%, Tactical 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 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 29.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Tactical 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Roguelite 10.5%

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 15.4%, Roguelite 13.1%, Roguelike 12.7%, Minimalist 9.3%

A rhythm-enhanced action roguelite RPG with visual novel storytelling. Unravel a story in a surreal world shaped by music, collect trinkets attuned to rhythm, furnish the abyss and make questionable allies. Run with scissors, talk to strangers and make decisions you don’t fully understand.

Why similar: Psychedelic 22.2%, Music 19.8%, Surreal 16.8%, Roguelike 11.2%, Abstract 10.9%

Lead a prehistoric clan across a brutal hex map in a turn-based survival roguelite. Outrun the glacier, fight hunger, face strange events, and defy extinction.

Why similar: Hex Grid 30.7% ★, Roguelite 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Strategy 8.6%

Turn-based strategy on a hex world three layers deep. Dig the underground, hold the surface, take the sky. Pipe gems through a factory that prints your army, terraform the map itself, and outlast a planet that fights back — solo, or in online 1v1.

Why similar: Hex Grid 22.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Grid-Based Movement 12.3%, Tactical 11.3%

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 19.7% ★, Grid-Based Movement 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.8%, Tactical 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%

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 28.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.8%, Tactical 12.5%, Roguelite 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%

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 24.5%, Tactical 16.9%, Surreal 15.7%, Roguelike 12.1%, Abstract 10.9%

Canberra Bushfires 2003 is a top-down 2D hex grid turn-based strategy game with a procedurally generated map. Each turn you will direct the strategy and positioning of various fire-fighting assets in an effort to protect the city.

Why similar: Hex Grid 48.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Tactical 11.6%, Strategy 5.8%

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 38.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Tactical 11%, Minimalist 8.7%

A turn-based strategy game about preventing your villages from becoming enemy-caves. Keep wildcards up your sleeve, give powers to your villages, astutely rally your units, and smartly position your structures against a variety of bizarre enemy abilities.

Why similar: Hex Grid 26.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Tactical 12.8%, Minimalist 12.6%

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 21% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17%, Grid-Based Movement 15.9%, Tactical 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%

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 32.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Roguelike 11.4%, Tactical 9.8%

1990. End of an era. Glam metal is on the ropes and one band is thrashing the local music scene. Fight for freedom from the mediocrity of your high school life, turning foes into fans while making lyrical choices during battle to create your own rock anthems. Turn-based tactics turned up to eleven!

Why similar: Music 24.7%, Grid-Based Movement 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Tactical 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%

A turn-based tactical roguelite where you and your enemies plan predictively for simultaneous resolution. Every move and attack resolve at once. Outwit enemies in various maps, with various skills/upgrades, in Singleplayer, co-op, and PvP.

Why similar: Hex Grid 43.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.9%, Roguelite 16.2%, Grid-Based Movement 9.8%, Strategy 5.2%

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 22% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Roguelite 13.3%, Roguelike 10.7%

Like playing Go with puzzle pieces. Build, recolor and steal lines to dominate the board! Play local, online or against AI.

Why similar: Hex Grid 25.2% ★, Tactical 14.9%, Minimalist 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Abstract 11%

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

Why similar: Hex Grid 27.7% ★, Psychedelic 20.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.6%, Surreal 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%

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 22.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Roguelike 12.4%, Minimalist 10.2%

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 25.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Roguelite 11.9%, Roguelike 9.4%

Tri Die is a fantasy turn-based tactical roguelite where each turn begins with a roll of three dice. Commit each die to movement, attack, or health, outmaneuver enemies in grid-based dungeon battles, and shape each run with elemental dice, modifiers, and charms.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 27.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Roguelite 15.5%, Grid-Based Movement 12%, Roguelike 11.8%

Worms makes an explosive leap into tactical roguelike combat! Battle across destructible arenas, mod classic weapons and unleash devastating strategic combos as you fight for survival, riches and glory!

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 24.2%, Grid-Based Movement 17.8%, Tactical 17.4%, Roguelite 13.8%, Roguelike 9.7%

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

Why similar: Music 28.1%, Psychedelic 23.9%, Philosophical 11.9%, Surreal 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9.3%

Modern hexagonal wargaming meets a gritty political narrative. Lead the Federation’s campaign to retake lost territories. Prove your tactical mastery as global chaos looms. Juggle brutal orders against your conscience, command trust, and world opinion. Every choice defines the cost of victory.

Why similar: Hex Grid 32.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Roguelike 8.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.1%, Tactical 8%

Capture the mouse by stopping it from moving. Block any path the mouse can take.

Why similar: Hex Grid 38.3% ★, Grid-Based Movement 22.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Colorful 5.9%, Minimalist 5.7%

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 27.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 19.9%, Grid-Based Movement 14.5%, Philosophical 12.5%, Tactical 11.5%

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 31.1% ★, Grid-Based Movement 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Tactical 12%, Minimalist 8%

Beaten Path is a turn-based tactical RPG set in a world ruled by fallen gods and ancient machines. Take command of Panna and her companions as they unravel the secrets of time, confronting lost memories, mythic powers, and a looping fate.

Why similar: Hex Grid 33.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.9%, Grid-Based Movement 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Tactical 11.5%

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 41% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 27.5%, Tactical 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Strategy 6.5%

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 30.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Tactical 8.6%, Minimalist 7.9%

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 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Roguelike 11.9%, Roguelite 10.5%

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 23.1%, Roguelite 15.1%, Surreal 14.7%, Psychedelic 14.5%, Roguelike 10.9%

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%, Psychedelic 11.9%, Roguelike 9.8%

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 37.9% ★, Grid-Based Movement 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Tactical 14.6%, Stylized 5.7%

Lead bound warriors in brutal turn-based tactical combat across a cursed land once ruled by witches. Plan your positioning carefully, adapt your abilities, and survive deadly encounters in every battle.

Why similar: Hex Grid 32.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.1%, Tactical 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Roguelike 10.8%

A roguelite puzzle game for tinkerers and pixel junkies. Link Nodes, use Relics, get upgrades, find synergies, create massive combos, feel good.

Why similar: Psychedelic 26.2%, Roguelite 14.8%, Minimalist 12.1%, Colorful 7.7%, Abstract 7.6%

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 13.8%, Roguelite 12.8%, Tactical 12.6%

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 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.5%, Roguelike 14.2%, Roguelite 11.5%

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 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Surreal 15.5%, Roguelike 12.7%, Tactical 9.7%

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%, Hex Grid 16.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Roguelite 11.4%, Roguelike 10.9%