Indie Strategy Games on Steam
Indie Strategy Games on Steam
Discover indie strategy games on Steam. smallcrate helps you find tactical indie games, strategy releases, and new games from small developers.
This page is built from Steam catalog data and focuses on indie games tagged with Strategy. Browse releases, compare prices, discover hidden gems, and open each game page for more details.
Featured Indie Strategy Games on Steam
PROMulti-TableTournament
PROMulti-TableTournament is a Texas Hold’em multi-table tournament strategy simulator. read hands by position, stack depth, blinds, and opponent actions, then choose fold, call, raise, or all-in to practice MTT pacing. GTOrange judgment, stack control, and final table decisions.
17 Steps
17 Steps is a fast-paced Japanese mahjong duel. You handpick 13 tiles from a pool of 34 as your starting hand, then race to tenpai and victory within just 17 discards. No chi, no pon — only tsumo and ron, stripped down to what mahjong is really about: hand efficiency and reading your opponent.
gunman
A roguelite buildcrafting swarm-eleminating game about a guy with a gun
Pellets
Pellets is a 2D shooter game about stopping a concentric ring-filled prophecy. You control two characters at once, where you try and manage the swarms of Pellets coming down. There are many pellet types, characters and abilities, and environment effects. Defend yourself or bring a second player.
kill -9
Build your deck, plan a strategy, defeat rival processes and bosses to become the new master of the system. Improve your combat skills using daemons and overclocks to destroy your rivals in this cyberwarfare inspired single player roguelike deckbuilder experience. Master the OS. Master kill -9.
Cheap Car Repair: Welcome to Nowhere
Meet the local mechanic from the village of "Bumfuck Nowhere". Run your own car repair shop, hustle and cut corners however you can, but be careful! You probably don't want to get on the bad side of the local businessman, Christopher Kingman...
Umbra Flora
In a world where green has vanished, plant, grow, and fuse plants into fearsome creatures. Lead your farm-grown warriors in a turn-based strategy fight against the forces of nature.
Chart Weaver
Break the board with powerful synergies, discover game-defining relics and alter your deck in this market-inspired roguelike! Chart Weaver is a mesmerizingly simple but deep score-attack deckbuilder where you create magnificent combos and weave intricate patterns.
Dilemma
You don't cure patients; you decide their fate. In this grim medical sim, review records and face impossible bioethical dilemmas. Consult the Medical Bible and choose who gets the bed. Every signature impacts your Ethics, Reputation, and Legal Risk. In a broken system, mercy is a dangerous luxury.
Vocabulary Mastermind
Master Vocabulary in 13 Languages. Test your mental agility with Vocabulary Mastermind! Choose from 13 play languages and navigate a global interface available in over 80 languages. Prove who has the widest vocabulary.
Windbound
"Windbound" is a Monopoly-like role-playing game. Players choose unique characters and utilize their skills in matches. By rolling dice to move, they compete through purchasing plots, trading, using items, and activating abilities. The last player standing wins.
Periodic Lottery
“Periodic Table Lottery” combines lottery-style gameplay with the periodic table. Place bets, earn rewards, complete level objectives, and see how far you can go!
Autonomous Warfare Evolution
A real-time strategy simulation where you evolve and command swarm-intelligence autonomous weapons using genetic algorithms. Whether you simply watch or deeply intervene in the evolution, both are valid ways to play the game.
Netfall
A cyberpunk roguelike deckbuilder. Build devastating decks from 250+ hackware cards. Master 5 hacker identities. Breach corporate networks. Die, learn, repeat.
Roll & Slay : Dice Caster
A dark fantasy Yahtzee-inspired roguelike dungeon crawler where luck decides every battle.
CHESST
A fantasy chess variant. An enchanted board where pawns hide magical secrets. Hatch dragons, transform enemy pieces into unicorns. Outwit clever computer opponents: Jester, Bard, or Wizard —or pass and play. Beginner-friendly to deliciously strategic. Handcrafted pixel art. Local gameplay, so retro!
Haunted Izakaya
A roguelike card battler that teaches you Japanese. Master words to serve meals and chain huge combos. Seal yokai in a haunted izakaya. From basic to advanced, every run teaches you something new.
Epicurean
Play a deadly food-themed card game with a criminal syndicate and uncover the stories of the two central characters.
LIVEBAIT
Congratulations! You have been selected to become a parser at MERCURIALCORP! Please follow all safety protocols when communicating with the entity. Keep the vault door closed. Translate messages efficiently, and know that you are being watched. A short morse code focused survival horror experience.
Pairvo
A minimalist card matching game where you memorize playing cards, create combos, and chase high scores through increasingly difficult phases.
Hand-me-downs
A roguelike deckbuilder where your opponents use your own cards against you. Cheat your opponents out of the most powerful cards. Collect trinkets to supercharge your score. Discover sinful synergies by corrupting your cards.
Invaders Evolutions
100 levels. One final boss. No careless mistakes. Survive an escalating arms race in this retro-industrial reimagining of the 1978 classic. Out-tech a mutating swarm, manage your reserves, and master a loop where every failed defense makes the enemy stronger.
Endless Maze
This is a first-person 3D maze-themed casual game. The game features many different interesting mazes, each with its own characteristics. Each level is relatively short, focusing on the fun of the maze. Additionally, it also offers randomly generated traditional mazes of selectable sizes.
Clowny The Great Escape
Trapped in a nightmare house, you must escape Clowny, a blind but sound-sensitive stalker. Restore power, solve puzzles with realistic physics, and find multiple security codes to unlock the exit. Customize your experience with a deep Custom Mode. Stay quiet—he's listening.
WarBoard: Arena Empire
WarBoard: Arena Empire is a turn-based tactical strategy game on a hex arena. Command Rome, the Turks, Vikings, Egypt, Japan or Persia. Play solo against AI, or battle up to 4 Steam friends in private matches. Every move counts.
BUTTON
Find the hidden button before time runs out! Explore, think fast, and overcome increasingly challenging levels in this first-person puzzle experience.
Rogue Battler
A retro minimalist auto-battler roguelike where you choose your path, build your stats, and survive as long as possible.
Nocturne
Nocturne is a story focused RPG about facing your fears and self discovery with grid turn based combat.
CyberJoker
Cyber Pokeris a cyberpunk roguelike card strategy game. Use 150 Tech Cards (max 6) to combo-enhance poker hands (flushes, straights, etc.) & 36 Weapon Cards (max 3) to disrupt AI. Random shops/bosses/events. Conquer 8 levels (500–10k target pts), then Endless Mode. Master combos to win.
Bumper Blitz TD
Bumper Blitz TD redefines tower defense with gravity-powered physics and dynamic gameplay. Build, upgrade, and bounce enemies away in this thrilling fusion of strategy and action!