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205 games like Counterintuitive

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01 Pax Nova Cover

2019 · PC

Pax Nova

95%

A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as new dangers. Build new cities, expand your influence and fight...

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Counterintuitive

95% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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02 Sudoku Universe Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Sudoku Universe

95%

Beautiful Sudoku puzzles by @konstructors.

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Counterintuitive

95% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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03 Toads of the Bayou Cover

2024 · PC

Toads of the Bayou

95%

Lead a group of toads as they fight against Baron Samedi’s evil forces in a challenging mix of turn-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding. Synergise card effects, build a settlement and engage in strategic combat to thrive in the cursed bayou.

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Counterintuitive

95% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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04 Star Chronicles: Delta Quadrant Cover

Delta Quadrant is a sci-fi turn-based strategy game with lite rogue-like elements. Destroy enemies to collect loot, gain experience to level up and use skill points to become stronger. Intended as a fun little sci-fi title, not too hardcore or difficult.

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Counterintuitive

95% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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05 Zombidle: Remonstered Cover

2017 · Android, PC, iOS

Zombidle: Remonstered

95%

Like the song says, good guys finish last, and in this case, they also finish homeless and on fire. Welcome to Zombidle, Berzerk Studio's newest idle game, or tap game; whatever, you do you, man.

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Counterintuitive

95% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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06 Underworld Idle Cover

2021 · PC

Underworld Idle

95%

An idle dungeon management game, where high tier units can create low tier units.

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Counterintuitive

95% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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07 Monster Girl Manager Cover
95%

Summon, consult, and train procedurally generated monster girls in this dungeon roguelite. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different monster types as you prepare the ultimate team to defeat dangerous enemies and collect powerful artifacts.

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Counterintuitive

95% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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08 Cruise Ship Manager Cover

2023 · PC

Cruise Ship Manager

72%

Manage your own Cruise Ship! Maintain your vessel and sell tickets to the wealthiest of passengers. Issue orders to your crew and keep their morale high. Choose the layout of your ship and the kind of amenities you want to offer. Keep the prices right, passeng...

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Counterintuitive

72% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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09 Solar Expanse Cover

2026 · PC

Solar Expanse

72%

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries. Then go beyond and conquer the galaxy!

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Counterintuitive

72% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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10 Kleromancy Cover

2026 · PC

Kleromancy

71%

Awaken as Unit-01 in the Ark of Theseus. In this roguelike, your cards are 3D dice: roll them, spend energy, and conquer 7 corrupted biomes. Overcome narrative events and minigames, survive multi-phase bosses, and expand your generational station with every vi...

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Counterintuitive

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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11 Crying Booth Cover

2026 · PC

Crying Booth

70%

Sacrifice, survive, trick or treat, and go home. Experience four first-person scenarios with stealth, survival, and puzzle elements along with one side scroller platformer.

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Counterintuitive

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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12 A Drop of Magenta Cover

2026 · Mac, PC

A Drop of Magenta

69%

A Drop of Magenta is a puzzle game about painting inside (and outside) the lines.

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Counterintuitive

69% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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13 Among Us Cover

2018 · Android, Switch, PC

Among Us

59%

Play with 4-15 player online or via local WiFi as you attempt to prepare your spaceship for departure, but beware as one or more random players among the Crew are Impostors bent on killing everyone! Originally created as a party game, we recommend playing wit...

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Counterintuitive

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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14 Dronefall Cover

2027 · Linux, Mac, PC

Dronefall

57%

Dronefall is a deck-building tower defense game where you defend humanity's last cities against relentless drone swarms.

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Counterintuitive

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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15 Highway Station Simulator Cover
57%

Run a highway station with up to four players. Somebody has to work the pumps, somebody has to stock the shelves, and somebody has to answer for the mess. A first-person co-op management sim about a very long shift.

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Counterintuitive

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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16 Hit the Anvil Cover

2027 · PC

Hit the Anvil

57%

Strike the anvil, forge rare gear, and build your legacy in a pixel-art incremental crafting game.

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Counterintuitive

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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17 Forged Cards Cover

2026 · PC

Forged Cards

55%

A roguelike deckbuilder where YOU forge the cards. Slot casts into molds, temper their power, and etch combo inscriptions. Pick your path, battle, bargain, or brave the unknown, then outplay your enemy in simultaneous, position-based combat. Each run is differ...

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Counterintuitive

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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18 Last Chance: Birth Cover

2026 · PC

Last Chance: Birth

52%

Enter the magic school of Academia! Last Chance: Birth is the mix of a narrative game and casual puzzles, where your performance impacts how the story is told. Solve puzzles to cast spells, to craft potions, to enchant artifacts and more!

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Counterintuitive

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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19 Conquer the Labyrinth Cover

Year unknown · Linux, Mac, PC

Conquer the Labyrinth

52%

Conquer the Labyrinth is an anime-inspired third-person Action RPG where you battle through a 100-floor procedural dungeon filled with deadly monsters, powerful loot, and Epic Bosses guarding every portal to the floor below. Grow stronger through crafting, ski...

Your match for

Counterintuitive

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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20 Dogpile Cover

2025 · Android, Mac, Switch

Dogpile

47%

Dogpile is a roguelike deck builder about merging cute dogs into bigger dogs. Play dogs, get money, customize your dogs with special Traits, refine your deck, PLAY MORE DOGS! DOGS!

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Counterintuitive

47% Mutiger Treffer
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✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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