Heroes Games

Where a hero game gives you one capable person, a heroes game hands you several and asks whether you'll manage to keep them all alive.

Pixel hero survivor is the survivors-style one, where waves keep coming and your build decides how long you last. Hero Merge combines units into stronger ones before the fighting starts, and Grow Empire stretches the same idea across a whole territory. Bounce Heroes and Badlands Hero keep things simpler and more immediate, so you're playing rather than planning. The difference between a good run and a bad one is usually a decision you made several waves earlier rather than anything you did just now.

There are 6 free games under this tag, all playable in the browser with nothing to install, and most of them care far more about your decisions than they do about your reflexes.

The combat side lives in Action games, and Combat Games is the tag for anything built around a fight.