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Strategy · SimulationBuild a fortress on Mars and hold off endless waves of alien bugs in a 50-operation campaign whose choices change the colony and its ending.
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Play free — itch.ioVibeGameDB lists 7 games in this group, 3% of the 209 games on the Strategy page. Each one has a source for how it was made. The most common engine is Godot (57%). 6 are free or free to play and 2 are paid; 1 can be played in a browser. The most recently added is Horizon: Idle Colony (November 2026).
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Build a fortress on Mars and hold off endless waves of alien bugs in a 50-operation campaign whose choices change the colony and its ending.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
Chess as a roguelite on a 6x6 board: keep one ivory army from fight to fight, level pieces up, collect rule-bending relics and lose fallen pieces for good. Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, the developer says.
No download needed
View demo on itch.io
The world ended in 2028: grow a single scavenger into a colony of five divisions that keeps producing while you are away.
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A turn-based stealth puzzle: a discarded robot climbs a 30-floor tower by deciding when to wear its human FACE.
Mobile app
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A tower defense game with no fixed road: you build the maze the goblins have to walk.
Mobile app
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Run an AI lab in a turn-based race to superintelligence, and gamble on alignment at the end.
Mobile app
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Command one capital ship in real-time three-lane space battles, three against three or six against six, in the browser or on a phone.
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Play free — official site