Strategy Games
10Strategy games ask you to win before the battle starts — through positioning, build order, or long-term resource planning. Tower defense, turn-based tactics, and management puzzles all land here. The web has a deep bench of indie strategy experiments, often more honest about their mechanics than bigger-budget cousins because there is no tutorial budget to hide behind.
Ugh Guys
Command one of three asymmetric factions in a procedural browser RTS.
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Hexkingdom
Match hexagonal landscapes, grow an economy, research technology, and defend a living realm.
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Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe: Cyberpunk Edition
Win a three-by-three grid of boards while every move determines your opponent’s next board.
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Flipside
Build an enchanted coin pouch and turn heads, tails, patterns, and reflips into escalating scores.
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Epoch
Defend three maps across ten technological ages with upgrades, merges, fusions, and doctrines.
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AlgoArena
Pit rule-based trading bots against one simulated market, then join the contest manually.
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13C Defense
A 13KB tower defense against the Mongol army — defend the gate, pick your upgrades.
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Castle wars
A 2023 js13kGames entry by Mefistofel — under 13KB of pure craft.
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Exit the Castle
A 2023 js13kGames entry by Oliver Smith — under 13KB of pure craft.
strategyTiny Islands
Draw an island landscape one card at a time.
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