Strategy indie games

14 published games carry Steam's Strategy genre tag; 14 of them also carry the “Indie” tag.

"Strategy" is the Steam genre applied to turn-based tactics, real-time strategy, 4X, tower defence, and colony and city builders. Many of these games also carry "Simulation" or "Indie", and Steam's genre field does not mark one label as the primary one.

This page lists the published games whose Steam genre field includes "Strategy". The field comes from the store page as set by the developer or publisher; the summary on each card was drafted by Claude from that page and has not been play-tested for this site.

Counts on this page are computed at build time from the published data; the genre field itself is copied from Steam. See how this site is made.

Cult of the Lamb

by Massive Monster · published by Devolver Digital

Cult of the Lamb combines a roguelite dungeon crawl with a base-building cult management sim. Between runs you build facilities for your followers — assigning tasks, managing their faith and needs, performing rituals — while the runs themselves provide resources and unlock new doctrines. Developed by Massive Monster and published by Devolver Digital, it received significant post-launch content updates including online co-op.

ActionAdventureIndieStrategy

Diplomacy is Not an Option

by Door 407

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a medieval fantasy RTS where you command a town against endless waves of enemies — thousands of units attacking simultaneously in battles that escalate toward the absurd. You build defenses, raise armies, and manage resources between assaults. The Steam Workshop enables custom maps and scenarios. Developer Door 407 targets players who enjoy being overwhelmed by escalating scale.

ActionAdventureCasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Don't Starve Together

by Klei Entertainment

Don't Starve Together is the standalone multiplayer expansion of Don't Starve, letting up to 6 players share a survival world. The cooperative survival loop remains — gathering resources, building a base, surviving seasons and boss events — but coordination adds social complexity to the resource management. The game receives ongoing free content updates including new biomes and characters.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Factorio

by Wube Software LTD.

Factorio is a factory-building automation game where you crash-land on an alien planet and must build automated production lines from raw materials, eventually launching a rocket. Every production step can be automated — mining, smelting, assembling, and researching. The factory scales from a handful of machines to a sprawling network of thousands. Online and LAN co-op supports collaborative factory building.

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

JezzBall Atomic

by Cracked Atom

JezzBall Atomic is an indie remake of the classic Windows 95 JezzBall game by Cracked Atom. The objective is to fill a percentage of the screen by drawing walls while atoms bounce around the space, avoiding them during wall construction. It updates the original's presentation with modern UI while preserving the core mechanic.

ActionCasualIndieStrategy

Kaiju Princess

by PantyParrot · published by Mango Party, PantyParrot, Mango Party News

Kaiju Princess is a casual idle/simulation RPG from solo developer PantyParrot about living with an extraterrestrial kaiju-controller. Gameplay involves resource collection and kaiju strategy with a focus on the relationship between the protagonist and the alien visitor. At $10.99 it is a small-scale indie with a niche premise.

CasualIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Love Is All Around

by intiny

Love Is All Around is an indie life simulation and strategy hybrid where players navigate romance, friendship, and community management in a cozy village setting. It blends RPG character progression with simulation mechanics like resource management and building relationships over multiple in-game seasons. The game emphasizes personal choices and their downstream effects on community dynamics.

AdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition

by Owlcat Games · published by META Publishing, Owlcat Games

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is Owlcat Games' deep CRPG based on the Pathfinder ruleset, set during a demonic crusade in a besieged city. The Enhanced Edition adds the Inevitable Excess epilogue DLC, balance patches, and mythic power systems that grant near-deity-level abilities in later acts. Character creation spans hundreds of feat, class, and mythic path combinations requiring significant system knowledge.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGStrategy

RimWorld

by Ludeon Studios

RimWorld is a colony management simulation where an AI storyteller dynamically generates events tailored to the player's current strengths and vulnerabilities, producing emergent narratives of survival, tragedy, and occasional absurd triumph. Colonists have individual personality traits and mental states that influence behavior and relationships. The base game is extensively moddable, with the Steam Workshop hosting thousands of community add-ons.

IndieSimulationStrategy

Satisfactory

by Coffee Stain Studios · published by Coffee Stain Publishing

Satisfactory is a first-person factory automation game on an alien planet where players build increasingly complex conveyor belt and production line networks to extract, process, and synthesize resources. Unlike top-down factory games, its first-person perspective makes industrial scale viscerally tangible as production networks stretch across kilometers of terrain. Co-op multiplayer supports up to 4 players building shared factories.

AdventureIndieSimulationStrategy

Shieldwall

by Nezon Production

Shieldwall is an indie tactical strategy game simulating the collision of historical shield wall formations in medieval-style battles. Players position and maneuver infantry units before engagements resolve through formation physics and unit morale systems. The casual classification reflects accessibility over deep wargame simulation.

ActionCasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Slay the Spire

by Mega Crit

Slay the Spire is a deckbuilding roguelite where players construct a card deck through encounters and merchant purchases while climbing a procedurally arranged tower of rooms, bosses, and events. Four distinct characters each have entirely different deck archetypes, with synergy discovery being the core skill expression. It established many conventions now standard in the deckbuilding roguelite genre.

IndieStrategy

Squad

by Offworld

Squad is a 50-versus-50 player military simulation shooter built around squad coordination, logistics, and communication rather than individual gunplay skill. Squad leaders coordinate with commanders for fire support and construction of forward operating bases that shape the battle's geography. Gameplay emphasizes infantry positioning, vehicle crewing, and resupply chains over twitch reflexes.

ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerStrategy

Unfortunate Spacemen

by Geoff 'Zag' Keene, Deep Field Games · published by Deep Field Games, New Blood Interactive

A free-to-play asymmetric online multiplayer game where most players work to survive and escape while one or more hidden monsters try to eliminate the crew. The social deduction layer requires communication and trust between players.

ActionIndieStrategyFree To Play