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Barrel Chess

Four chessboards. One barrel. Every "safe" square you know is a lie here. Chess just lost its edges, and so did your confidence. Four boards fused into one barrel. Same rules, no walls, nowhere to trap a king. Face BarrelBot, running real Stockfish Engine across all 4 boards.

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Fire & Maneuver

77% 👍 OF 2.8K
About This Game

The Armchair Historian brings you a new turn-based strategy game set in the Victorian Era. As muskets become rifles and infantry is confronted by modernizing artillery, it is imperative to adapt to a rapidly changing battlefield. This is a new age, not of courage and chivalry, but of Blood and Iron.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Plan Simultaneous Orders
  • …Build Custom Divisions
  • …Lead Victorian Campaigns
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Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest

83% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

A tactical, turn-based RPG from the makers of Legend of Grimrock games. Every action, every turn counts as you control your party of heroes through challenging, handcrafted missions in the ancient, mist-clad Menhir Forest.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Position Tactical Strikes
  • …Upgrade Hero Abilities
  • …Solve Ruin Puzzles
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Titanium Court

94% 👍 OF 1.1K
About This Game

A critically-acclaimed surreal masterpiece. This is how AP Thomson would describe Titanium Court if not for the curse he bears as punishment for his hubris. Instead he can only use the crudest of terms and so he describes Titanium Court as "a clever ploy to trick gamers into reading my book." Yuck!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …skip a boss fight by agreeing to watch the developer perform a full six-minute song.
  • …get attacked by a dragon that is clearly a hand puppet, and keep your troops away from a giant pickle jar so they don't stop to crack it open.
  • …match tiles to physically reshape the battlefield, then watch the same board turn into an auto-fight where your layout decides everything.
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Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions

84% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

A prince in flight, charged with defending the last of the royal family, determined to secure a future for his kingdom, unaware he would be fighting for stakes greater still.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Protect the Princess
  • …Recruit 20+ Allies
  • …Exploit Weapon Matchups
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Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire

80% 👍 OF 1.9K
About This Game

Even if the regime is totally inept and corrupt, don't suppose for a moment that you as the liberator will be greeted with open arms.JAGGED ALLIANCE 2: WILDFIRE brings you back to Arulco. The population is being terrorized by a reckless army; in the meantime the main export goods are drugs.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Recruit Mercenary Teams
  • …Fight Turn-Based Battles
  • …Train Your Squad
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Quasimorph: End of Dream

90% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

Quasimorph: End of Dream is the first chapter of the extraction turn-based RPG Quasimorph. Confront your fears in brutal shootouts with PMC -fighters and demons and try to survive to complete your mission and bring the gear back to your spaceship!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …pick up a severed leg and use it as a melee weapon.
  • …treat your mercs as disposable clones: die horribly, then send in the next copy with whatever progress you banked.
  • …watch an invisible doom meter climb until humans start turning into demons if you stay too long.
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Spirit Island

92% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

Become the spirits of the land, and defend the island from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction! Your spirits work with the native islanders to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this strategic area-control game.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Fight as Nature Spirits
  • …Grow Spirit Powers
  • …Drive Out Invaders
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Hard West 2

82% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Chain Kill Turns
  • …Ricochet Around Cover
  • …Build Poker Hands
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Dawnsbury Days

98% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

Lead a group of childhood friends through their first adventures in a turn-based tactical RPG played under the rules of PF2E, the second edition of a powerful OGL ruleset. Customize their builds, acquire loot, and level up, and ultimately defeat the sinister enemies who threaten your hometown!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Customize Four Heroes
  • …Spend Three Actions
  • …Preview Roll Odds
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The Last Spell

91% 👍 OF 13K
About This Game

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build a hero to 95% dodge and gain an extra action point every time they dodge, letting them snowball into a near-untouchable blender.
  • …get outnumbered 10-to-1, 20-to-1, even 30-to-1 and still carve through the horde if your builds come together.
  • …kill 8–15 enemies in a single turn with the right weapon and perk combos, then chain into more hits through multistrikes and mana regen.