Guides, tier lists, and tips for strategy games including deck-builders, roguelikes, and tactical games.
Balatro hit 5M sales. Slay the Spire 2 made $92M in 2 weeks. Here’s the structural case for why deck builders are indie gaming’s most dominant format right now.
Manor Lords sold 1M copies in a day. Timberborn hit 95% positive. Here’s the design shift behind the city builder renaissance — and what it means for 2026.
Roguelike or roguelite? One erases every run. The other lets you build across them. Here’s which genre fits your play style — Slay the Spire 2 vs Hades 2.
Balatro is $10 cheaper, faster to learn, and complete. Slay the Spire 2 is deeper and in Early Access. Here’s which deck builder to start with based on your play style.
Manor Lords sits at 87% positive on Steam. Cities: Skylines 2 sits at 55%. Here’s what that gap actually means for your 2026 city-builder decision.
20 city builders ranked S to D using settlement scale, survival depth and replayability — find out where Manor Lords, Timberborn and Cities Skylines 2 actually land.
Most Balatro alternatives lists pick by genre. We ranked 12 by the only metric that matters: which ones replicate Balatro’s risk-reward explosion.
From 97%-rated Bloons TD 6 to tactical Mechabellum: 10 games like Legion TD 2 ranked by depth — match the right alternative to your play style.
12 games like Timberborn ranked by resource chain depth. Against the Storm has the best survival pressure, Workers & Resources has the deepest logistics, Anno 1800 has the longest production chains.
12 roguelite city builders ranked by loop quality, resource depth and replayability — scored by what ATS players actually care about. dotAGE leads.