Best Indie Strategy Games
Indie developers have long proven that they can create strategies that rival major AAA projects. Moreover, today they are almost the only ones actively working on the genre. This selection features outstanding tactical and turn-based games that impress with their deep mechanics, original ideas, and atmosphere.
In this collection, you will find both meditative city simulators and tense tactical projects in the spirit of XCOM, as well as unconventional genre hybrids. A great choice for those who appreciate thoughtful gameplay and are not afraid to experiment.
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Roguelike, Survival, Sandbox
October 17, 2018
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
87/100
RimWorld is a sci-fi survival simulator on an alien planet with real-time strategy elements and a top-down view. Under your control is a small group of people who...
Isometric, Strategy, Construction, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), In real time, Indie, City Building
August 2, 2023
Players:
7.6/10
Steam:
95/100
A game with minimalistic graphics, in which the gamer builds the defense of a settlement during the day and defends against enemy attacks at night. It is important...
Simulation, Action, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Strategy, Space
September 14, 2012
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
86/100
FTL: Faster Than Light is a unique management simulator with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. The cruiser Kestrel was lucky to find out secret information...
Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Roguelike
August 20, 2018
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
73/100
Bad North is a minimalist real-time strategy game with tower defense elements and an isometric camera view. You have to defend your island against the impending...
Strategy, Isometric, In real time, Simulation, City Building, Sandbox, Historical, Fantasy, Construction
November 1, 2022
Players:
8/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
91/100
A city-planning simulator in a dark fantasy world in which you need to restore civilization and save it from deadly rains. Players take on the role of the Scorched...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Steampunk, Zombies, Survival
June 18, 2019
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
80/100
Metacritic:
74/100
They Are Billions is a hardcore real-time tactical strategy game in steampunk style. The game takes place in a harsh post-apocalyptic world, where an infection has...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Turn-based
April 19, 2018
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
78/100
For the King is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view and random level generation. You have to travel through an endless fantasy world. You can play...
Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, City Building, Business / Management, Simulation
July 20, 2017
Players:
8.4/10
Steam:
93/100
Metacritic:
71/100
Kingdoms and Castles is a real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view, inspired by games such as Stronghold and Banished. You can build your own medieval...
Roguelike, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Casual game, Procedural generation, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
March 25, 2025
Steam:
84/100
The player controls the medieval Scandinavian village and protects it from the waves of opponents. 8 species of defense towers help to cope with all types of...
Isometric, Turn-based, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Fantasy, Medieval era, Roguelike, Adventure, Role-playing game, Strategy
November 2, 2023
Players:
8.1/10
Steam:
79/100
Metacritic:
76/100
A group of renegades tries to overthrow the oppressive queen. Players and friends control a squad of brave heroes and travel through the kingdom of Farul. Battles...
Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Top-down view, In real time, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Business / Management, Medieval era
August 23, 2019
Players:
10/10
Steam:
89/100
Death Crown is a minimalist top-down real-time strategy game where you take on the role of the real Death. You will have to command legions of the undead to get...
Tactics, Role-playing game, Top-down view, Online, Turn-based, Science fiction, Strategy, Simulation
September 30, 2024
Steam:
89/100
A sci-fi game in which several space-faring civilizations battle for control of a distant star system. You need to explore the surface and extract resources to...
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