Nominees - Strategy

Defend the Earth from an alien invasion in the ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Pilot a mech, discover game-breaking combos, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.

Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.

Alula is a 2.5DHD puzzle game where you help people solve their problems by exploring parts of their psyche.

Death Tower is an overclocked roguelite tactical RPG. Survive each floor of the megastructure. Stealth, hacking, and devastating weapons. Do whatever it takes to fight your way to the top. Wake up, Ikarus!

An Elaborate History of Chess is a crafting strategy game touring the history of Chess. In true Chess tradition build castles, explore dungeons, farm turnips and get checkmated by a tree. Find answers to Chess's darkest questions, like why the horse piece moves in an L-shape.

A fantasy gladiator strategy RPG with vibrant characters, funny random events, team management mechanics, and emergent relationship-building. Uncover a sinister conspiracy; fight deep turn-based tactical battles; watch your characters grow together!

What if chess was invented by silly cosmic wizards? Welcome to WizardChess. Fight in tactical, procedurally generated battles, acquire and upgrade new units, and carve a path to the boss. Challenge Fae opponents and the FaeQueen herself might grant your Wish.

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits.🔸Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Halve the blocks into two equal parts and solve the unique puzzles in a game with a blueprint visual style and meditative music

Classic RTS gameplay fused with a modern roguelike. Shape your build each run by assembling an evolving arsenal of powerful units and facilities. Harvest resources, build out your base. Raise your army and call down orbital strikes to overcome the forces threatening your survival.

Northwind is a monster-hunting rogue-lite deckbuilder. Hunt monsters, gather resources, and explore card crafting in Northwind Town. Discover new monsters and unlock town upgrades as you increase your hazard level.

From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?

A fast-paced fighting game that anyone can play... because it's TURN-BASED! Strike, evade and punish! Knock 'em down and press the advantage! Meet colorful hand-drawn characters, and challenge your friends to an epic battle of wits!

The engineering roguelike. Construct your own skills by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions.

Incite the end of the world as a devout zealot of an eldritch god in this multiplayer Pikmin-inspired roguelite. Don the robes of a cultist, perform bloody rituals and expand your influence over an army of followers in this cute yet grim world. Is your devotion strong enough to please the Old Ones?

Lead your Space Commandos in a revival of turn-based squad tactics inspired by UFO/XCOM and Aliens. Utilize in-depth skill & combat systems in multiple game modes, including a full campaign. Discover the truth behind the demise of colony MC83-A and join the USC in defending humanity!

Esports History is an RPG sim where you start as a regular guy, and work your way up to the very top of esports. Defeat bosses in tournaments, make a name for yourself within the esports community, and become a real pro!

The roguelike deckbuilder with the soul of a strategy game. Recruit and upgrade your forces. Deploy them to counter monstrous foes in card-slinging battles. Play your cards carefully in the treacherous city. Against all odds, will you bear the torch of humanity?

Gone Rogue is a tactical stealth game with RPG elements. Get into the role of a thief from the city slums. Lurking in the shadows, sneak unnoticed past enemies, get behind any locked doors, and carry off rich loot.

Experience the excitement of Fortune Avenue, a 3D monopoly game reimagined. Travel via airport, avoid melting ice floes, and spin the Wheel of Fortune. Vote on new game-changing rules and eliminate opponents for bonuses. Fast-paced, and endlessly fun! 🎲 🏨

Great Houses of Calderia is a Feudal Grand Strategy game focusing on family dynamics & stories. Use your family strengths to compete against rivals to rise in the ranks of Calderia - produce, trade, scheme, bribe, and battle to build your legacy of power!

Midwest 90: Rapid City is a story focused, restaurant- tycoon, survival game. Set in a New Great Depression and amidst an invasion of monsters - you must overcome the struggles of running a midwest restaurant that serves Monster Meat Dishes and also set traps to protect it from monster attacks.

A dark fantasy RPG adventure 🎲⚔️👹! You become the boss, battling heroes. Command various leaders, create powerful decks🃏, fight exciting battles, grow your influence, and enjoy engaging turn-based gameplay

Join the witches in their quest to restore the Grimoire Groves! Master magic, grow cute plant creatures and discover the mystery of the Rainbow Socks in this cozy, rogue-lite dungeon crawler.

Recruit a party of unique heroes, fight deadly encounters, loot and craft powerful gear, discover and create thousands of synergetic builds! The Last Flame is an endless roguelike auto-battler in which you guide a righteous party of heroes through many challenges.

Garenburg Penitence is an action-puzzle arcade game about matching sphere colors and exploring the collapsing psyche that destroyed the world. With over 70 unique level maps, additional game modes, and a level editor, learn the story of a fragile girl and her regretful actions.

Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.

Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

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.

Takara Cards is a *chill tactical deckbuilder RPG* about adventuring through Cosmos and Karma. Create your cadet and pilot spaceships to find the Dragons: Each new adventure offers new surprises and stories!

Bubblegum Galaxy is a cozy narrative building game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers... all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!

Build and conquer in Kaiserpunk, the ultimate city builder and grand strategy combo set in an alternative 20th century world. Engage in epic battles on land, sea, and air, or use your economic power to emerge as the ultimate victor.

Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.

Stellar Watch is a rotating tower defense roguelike where you can adjust turret defenses in real-time by steering them around enemy paths.

Build settlements, explore the Nine Realms, collect artifacts and upgrade your deck to reach the top of Yggdrasil in this post-Ragnarok roguelike city-builder! Can you survive the end of the world?

Reclaim the Sea is a roguelike strategy game set in a steampunk naval world. Fight your way through randomly generated maps and text events. Command your pirate crew, upgrade your ship and make tactical decisions to beat the boss and save the world… or die trying.

The Land Beneath Us: A turn-based rogue-lite dungeon crawler rooted in Welsh mythology. Unleash skill combos and wield stylish weaponry in Annwn's Underworld. Conquer the Seven Lords, save The Creator, and retrieve vital Soul-Tech.

Lead your new company to success in this industry management game. Blueprint and optimize your production; make ethical choices to influence your worker conditions, ecological impact, automation level, and more. Will you create a simple manuFactory or a beneFactory?

StarSim is a spaceship strategy RPG with live galaxy simulation. The game combines real-time with paused starship combat, turn-based crew combat, text quests and more. Be a hero, a trader, a scavenger, a mercenary or a pirate.

Hack your way out of a prison train and reclaim everything taken away from you. Mend your body and mind after a self induced coma. Manage resources to conquer, build up and upgrade multiple bases. Defend against hordes of enemies. Balance the only dwindling asset you have left: Time.

Lead armies, rebuild fallen kingdoms, and rise to greatness in Songs of Silence. Embark on an epic journey through an Art Nouveau-inspired fantasy world where intense battles punctuate a captivating storytelling!

Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...

Command your cartoon army against pointy nosed officers in this colorful turn-based strategy game with asymmetric factions, mining, and tactical Stealth Missions. Capture buildings, recruit exclusive troops, and use each commander's Power to advance through the Vangaro War.

Join BAPBAP, the wildest Hero Royale featuring a fresh line-up of characters packed with unique abilities. Round up your squad and fight your way to be the last team standing.

A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

In Folklands - a relaxing settlement builder with simulated citizens - you'll find that great stories can emerge from humble beginnings. Farm or harvest materials, manage production chains and supplies, and make sure the folks in your ever growing settlement are happy, employed and safe.

I am Mizu Ren Nanami... As a resident of the land of Ren, the time has come for me to embark on a mission to win the hearts of the people in Rostania, the city to which I’ve been assigned. Here, I’ll uncover secrets I never knew existed.

Crab God is an atmospheric underwater strategy game. Guide your Crabling colony through wild ocean depths, and defend the egg of the next Crab God.Restore and protect diverse coral reefs, making a difference in the real world as you progress in-game. Make waves, praise the claw!

Grab your cards, it's time to swap! Battle your school pals in this roguelite deckbuilder where you'll trade for new cards when you win defeat them and rip open booster packs looking for rare cards. Conquer everyones dungeon decks to become Critter Champion of the Playground!

A fast-paced hybrid of card battler and action game for up to 8 players! Fight as a mech, then hop into your base to deploy your troops to the battlefield! Fend off the Blue Invasion in Co-op Mode, or fight your friends in Battle Mode!

The rogue-like dungeon crawler where you're a billiard ball! Push monster balls into holes or traps in randomly generated levels. Stack up countless game-changing items to create broken builds. Find combos to create your own synergies and customize your playstyle. Rack and Slay!

Face the interstellar Archangels in a turn-based tactical game with deckbuilding elements and destructible environment, where you pilot powerful mechs to save the Earth from destruction.

Blade Prince Academy is a new take on tactical RPGs, where you lead your squad of Blade Princes to defend the city of Abjectalia in real-time with pause combat. Use your team's power to devastate any threat, but be vigilant, there is always a price to pay when you make a pact with darkness.

Lead the Knights of the Round Table through King Arthur's legend in a unique RPG, full of honor, magic and romance. Plunge into a colorful world inspired by medieval art, tales and music. Undertake perilous quests and fiercely defend your kingdom to make the flower of chivalry blossom again.

A group of non-adventurers is the last hope in defending the castle in this chaotic co-op tower defense game with roguelike features. With up to 4 players, your party must organize the castle, work as a team to craft ammo, and shoot at enemies to protect your kingdom!

Chart a course in a Tactical Turn-Based RPG with arena-like combat. Become a Wanderer - explorer, warrior, leader and tactician all in one. Build a team of skyfaring heroes, wield techno-magical devices and construct automatons as you explore sky-islands rich in secrets and Elyrium crystals.

A combo-based deckbuilding roguelike through a space-time loop: collect cards, receive blessings, add pets to your party, and grow stronger. Chain together cards in the right order for max power, and act before the enemy does. Build synergistic decks, find many secrets, and make BIG numbers!

Overhours is a single-player action tower defense game set in a fictional agency facing an invasion of soul-eating monsters. Work the night owl shift and face the hordes with a variety of traps and special abilities!

Cats on Duty is a🐱 purr-fect blend of RTS, tower defense, game genres. Manage two game fields, upgrade adorable cat towers, and watch your fluffy warriors bravely defend against foes. 🐾

A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.

A unique blend of Dante’s Inferno and lovecraft horror. A first-person roguelike deckbuilder using the Major Arcana Tarot Cards to strategize against the horrors lurking in the darkness. Build the perfect deck, challenge each ruler of the 9 levels of hell, die often... and repeat.

In this rogue-like game, you embark on your journey as a captain during the tumultuous American Prohibition. Overcome challenges like inclement weather, relentless Coast Guard pursuit, shrewd Mafia dealings, and your own financial pitfalls, all while ensuring your path to wealth remains unhindered.

Hire a band of almost-heroic goblins to fight and die for you in tactical turn-based battles, accomplish silly quests for the weird inhabitants of this fantastic world, and truly become a god - at least by goblin standards.

Sunstone War is a unique Action game with Tower Defense element where you can carry EVERYTHING! Move towers, toss away enemies, carry obstacles, upgrade skills and journey through lands to protect your village from calamity!

Face down the twisted monsters of a 90's survival game inspired world in this tactical turn-based survival horror. As an operative of VULTURES, scavenge the infested metropolis for materials and information that could cure the infection plaguing the world.

Experience the world of bugs through the eyes of the ant herder Eacus and his peculiar flock. Explore lush wetlands and meet a quirky cast of tiny friends in a larger-than-life adventure. Lead your buggy followers to collect resources and vanquish predators—your colony is depending on you!

Become a master hacker in this Cyberpunk Roguelike Deckbuilder. Explore the dangers of cyberspace and fight evil corporations. Build and upgrade a deck of powerful programs. Unlock perks and skills, and unleash digital hell on your enemies. Dive Into The Grid!

A turn based Puzzle-Strategy game about pirates and cursed treasure. Choose a captain, gather your crew and defeat monsters by strategically placing units on a 5x5 grid.

Embark on a journey through your favorite fairytales in this charming roguelike deckbuilder. Trade dice in battle to play lots of different cards or to use powerful character abilities. Encounter story events and make tough decisions that shape your journey as it unfolds in your personal storybook.

Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.

Massacre hordes of enemies and destroy the inquisition in our brutal real-time deckbuilding roguelike. Your future lies in the cards, witch!

Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then fight battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!

Defeat monster hordes alongside your Bean Beasts in this cute, challenging Tower Defense Game! Evolve your companions, explore upgrade paths for traps and take on epic boss battles!

Rebuild the city of Pompeii and climb the social ladder. Roman society is full of intrigues that you have to solve in order to become a powerful ruler.

Choose your doctrine and preach across medieval Italy in this real-time strategy roguelike. Gather your diverse cast of followers, venture out to convince and convert new believers, conquer towns, and strive to become a saint in your lifetime — or die trying.

A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Build your 3D wizard school, recruit students and staff, manage your resources, take strategic decisions and solve the mystery of the severe mana shortages at Wizdom Academy.

Make your dreams come true — or crush someone else’s. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.

Build your own cards, find devastating synergies and play against Death to stay alive.

NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters is a PvP inventory auto-battler with a monster-trainer twist! Collect Cosmions and items, and strategically manage your backpack to create unbeatable combos in tactical duels. Rise through the leagues to become the ultimate Cosmion master!

Dive into Aquametsis, a unique blend of Immersive Sim, Tactical FPS, and Strategy set in a submerged corporate hellscape. Control cunning mercs on high-stakes infiltration missions and engage in tactical combat while overseeing the management of your private mercenary company as a logistics manager.

The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in Our Freedom!

Attain the powers of a God and dominate in this lore-driven 4X game full of unique species. Evolve your units to command diverse armies. Develop magnificent cities. Research and master arcane spellcraft to lay waste to the world itself. Find your own path to power and Ascend above all else.

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Outwit the HOST in a death game where fire spreads with each flip of a card. Be the last to burn. Do you fear death?

A puzzler about sliding penguins. Pickup items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Explore an interconnected world, and watch out for infinity!

A tactical puzzle game about leading a soccer team of cute pups. Solve puzzles, score goals, and become the Champs!

A fusion between puzzle-solving and music creation awaits you! Craft beats, solve playful puzzles, unlock new sounds, explore a strange overworld, and experiment in a freeform sandbox—to heal a pig? Lose yourself in this creative and synesthetic experience!

Gear up, sling cards, and power through the endless doors of Purgatory in this demo for Doors of Insanity: ReOpened!

A roguelike deckbuilder where you create the dungeon you fight through. Each night use your cards to expand the ruins then battle through them, harvesting Glimour from the lost souls and improving your deck. Can you reach The Warden and defeat it, so The Maiden will grant your heart’s desire?

After a supervolcano eruption, Earth has become uninhabitable and humanity is on the brink of extinction. We need to go underground. Anoxia Station is a dark strategy game in which you manage a mining station and fight for survival, extract resources and take life or death decisions over your crew.

Survive the zombie apocalypse in this top-down, tower-defense game with survivor-like elements. Customize your magic tower with talents and upgrades to defend it against zombie waves. Can you keep your tower alive?

There's only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist... and they're the cat's meow. Interrogate a "colorful" cast of suspects until they cough up hairballs... and the truth. Will you wrap up the case in time for an afternoon nap, and make injustice knead its last biscuit?

Dice 'n Goblins is a turn-based RPG that blends luck and strategy as you battle using dice rolls. Master your skills, chain powerful combos, and overcome the whims of fortune. Collect loot, upgrade your gear, and craft the ultimate dice pool to face monsters and other foes lurking in the shadows!

NET.CRAWL is a deck-building roguelite about White Rabbit lost in unfriendly cyberspace. Dive deep into a bizarre digital world and outsmart dozens of unique mini-bosses. Short runs, deep strategies, crazy combos and a ton of replayability.

Antisuns is a tactical RPG set in the far future. Command your crew in turn-based combat across multiple spaceships. See enemy moves ahead of time, and come up with the perfect response. Push your luck for greater rewards. If you fail, go back in time, for another randomly-generated run.

Cupiclaw is a roguelike deckbuilding claw machine game. Grab, sell and change prizes in order to take on increasingly expensive new machines, until you manage to recover Morris' lost engagement ring!

A Byte War is a real time strategy game where you lead a race of block-based machines against a machine threat from another dimension. Construct buildings from blocks arranged in various patterns and leverage your machines to convert the world around you.

Shoot paint, mix colors, and solve puzzles in this adventure about friendship and redemption. Just don't enter that portal to another universe, and ᴇᴠᴇʀʏTʜɪɴɢ will 𝐛𝐞 ᴘEʀ𝐅𝓔ᴄᴛʟʏ 𝒇 𝔦 𝓃 ҽ . • °

Recruit Gods from different mythologies, buff and upgrade them, arrange them in perfect formation, and create thousands of synergistic builds! Gods vs Horrors is a roguelike card auto-battler where you coordinate Gods to defend the Earth against Cosmic Horrors.

Build your perfect deck and become a Champion.

A creature-collecting teambuilding autobattler with over 130 unique elemental creatures to collect and battle with! Assemble a team of Pixelitos to face opponents in 6v6 auto battles. Face off in online asynchronous multiplayer, online versus with friends, or in the single-player campaign.

Gear up and get going! Defend your outposts from waves of alien enemies with your mech. Build and upgrade your base, protecting the extraction of the mysterious planetary system’s rich resources!

Rogue Rollout is a thrilling roguelike deckbuilder where you score points in a classic dice game style, choose powerful artifacts, and face challenging obstacles as you push through endless rounds.

Face legendary creatures from British and Irish folklore in this roguelite deck builder where cooking replaces combat. As a princess, you must prepare dishes to feed these monsters or risk becoming their next meal.

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

It's recess. Time to play cards, find your missing friend, discover the meaning of life. The usual 5th grade playground stuff.

A roguelike dice-building game where the goal is to overcome an ever-increasing target score each round. Assemble a synergistic set of Cats and dice, go for crazy combos and try to attain as high a score as you possibly can. Master the synergy between cats and dice to win!

The Sergeant is back. Ready to turn unqualified recruits into fearless war machines. Manage your camp and prepare your squad with tougher training and new challenges, will they be ready for a real battlefield? New skill tree, more abilities and a reworked battle system. Start you deployment now.

Start small, expand your fleet, rise to power, and eventually command entire factions in this seamless blend of sci-fi space RTS and battle game. With strategic gameplay and evolving challenges, every decision shapes your legacy in the stars.

Cute Fames Adventure, Is a Turn Based - RPG, Where you turn back into a human! Utilizing two protagonists to fight, Run and discover new areas! With the game's story, The main goal is to find a way to return to normal.

Earth has fallen. Science and the Occult have united forces to brace for the arrival of the Eldritch. But will the efforts against this strange, alien race be enough? Play as one of many Proximae used to help defend humanity in this turn-based, roguelike, intergalactic deck builder.

Avante! Atlantis is a turn-based tactics game where the rise of Atlantis triggers a fierce global race for it's domination. Lead your nation through the ever-changing, mythical city, battling foes and uncovering the secrets that kept Atlantis hidden for centuries.

The ultimate gladiator management sim. Hire and train fighters in different disciplines, defeat your rivals in the arena, climb through the ranks and, remember, give the best spectacle Rome has ever seen to survive. Blood and glory await!

Master Crony — it’s up to you to buy, craft, strategize, manufacture, and hijack to outperform your rivals and build your empire. In this competitive business builder game, your choices shape the live market. Seize every opportunity to dominate…or get demoted!

Build your train to build your deck. Fight off bandits in a post apocalyptic world. Progress and unlock new train combinations with synergies. Get drivers to their final destinations.

Incrate is a mind-warping 2D/3D puzzle game within a crate! Bend reality and manipulate your perspective to solve the puzzles and escape!

A short and icy GameBoy-style puzzle platformer featuring Frosty, a cute little penguin who can not jump like other penguins.

StarSim: BattleZone is a real-time strategy (RTS) game set in the StarSim universe. Take command of an army and lead your faction to victory. Gameplay includes classic RTS mechanics such as: building a base, gathering resources, researching new technologies, building defences, training units, etc.

Adventurers Guild Inc. is a tycoon/management game where you build your Guild from the ground up! Hire staff, post quests, and fulfill the needs of independent adventurers (while taking a cut). Manage your budget, grow your reputation, and become the greatest Guild Master of all!

Snakeloop is a challenging puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.

A turn-based RPG, except it's also chess! Instead of capturing, your pieces engage in thrilling 1v1 battles where they can gain experience, level up, and unlock powerful abilities. Shape your team as you progress through the single-player campaign or challenge others in online matches!

Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Necro Story is a creature-collection RPG where you play as a (kind of) evil necromancer more into undead shenanigans than saving the world! Command quirky minions, outsmart foes, and snag their souls to power up your team. Expect strategic combat, laughs, and plenty of mischief.