The Turn-Based Zone

Games where players act in discrete turns with time to plan.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder - Players say: Build a score-chasing island town by pairing guilds, placing buildings for chained bonuses, and meeting targets each run. Players like: Building Synergies · Guild Pair Variety · Satisfying Score Chains ·
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A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!

Feed the Scorchpot - A dice roguelike about feeding a dragon for twenty years. Roll ingredients, build your island, and fuse absurd recipes into combos that break the score wide open. Miss a meal and you're next on the menu.
Warhounds - Players say: Lead a mercenary squad in turn-based firefights while managing contracts, faction ties, and a mobile base in an alternate-future Africa. Players like: Positioning And Overwatch · Familiar Tactical Formula · Distinct Mercenary Classes ·
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Warhounds is a turn-based tactical game about an elite mercenary squad with an old-school action movie vibe, inspired by XCOM and Jagged Alliance. Recruit unique fighters, upgrade your base, and fight for Africa’s future. Less fake RNG, more true ballistics and lethal tactics.

The Severed Gods - A fantasy roguelite RPG where heroes reincarnate to stop the mystic dragon Umbra. Master turn-based combat, sever giant bosses, and shape your Karma through a journey filled with relics and evolving NPC interactions.
Archon Soul - Archon Soul is a 2D roguelike dice-builder where you create powerful dice using swappable faces, runes, and bodies with unique effects. ​Draft spells, craft powerful synergies, defeat challenging enemies, and conquer the Archon's palace.

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Roguebook - Players say: Lead two heroes through a shifting book, uncover its map with ink, and build a deck for turn-based battles. Players like: Ink-Driven Map Exploration · Two-Hero Positioning · Hero Pair Synergies ·
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Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!

Old World - Players say: Guide an ancient kingdom across generations, balancing court politics, city-building, diplomacy, and war with limited orders each turn. Players like: Limited-Order Decisions · Dynasty and Court Drama · Interconnected Strategy ·
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Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Dead In Vinland - Players say: Lead a stranded Viking family through turn-based island survival, balancing camp needs, exploration, relationships, and combat. Players like: Character Stories · Resource Planning · Tense Survival Challenge ·
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DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Dead In Bermuda - Players say: Direct eight plane-crash survivors on a strange island, balancing daily work, camp needs, relationships, and exploration. Players like: Tense Resource Planning · Distinct Survivor Stories · Island Mystery Exploration ·
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DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries.

Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) - Players say: Lead one of four European powers, build trading colonies in the Americas, and prepare to break from the Old World. Players like: Nostalgic Appeal · Deep Colony Economy · Lasting Replayability ·
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The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.

Darkest Dungeon® - Players say: Lead flawed heroes through randomized dungeons, managing stress, supplies and turn-based battles as you reclaim an ancestral estate. Players like: Tactical Party Combat · Gothic Art and Atmosphere · Hero Stress System ·
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Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Star Renegades - Players say: Lead a squad against the Imperium in a repeating sci-fi campaign, using timed attacks and team synergies to outmaneuver foes. Players like: Tactical Timeline Combat · Detailed Pixel Art · Distinct Hero Builds ·
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Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!

Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition - Players say: Lead Squad E through a desperate war, planning turn-based operations and directing soldiers in real-time third-person combat. Players like: Hybrid Tactical Combat · Watercolor Art Style · Memorable Squadmates ·
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A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.

Skyborn - Players say: Mechanic Claret Spencer is swept into a conflict under the winged Skyborn in this steampunk, turn-based JRPG. Players like: Tactical Threat Combat · Story And Characters · Classic JRPG Feel ·
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Life under the iron rule of the winged Skyborn race isn’t so bad for Claret Spencer, the star mechanic of a successful airship repair shop, present her with broken machinery and she’s sure to fix it. She’s one of the fortunate ones, not all who live under the watchful eye of the Skyborn are so lucky…Little does she know that her stable,...

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Feb 21, 2014
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - Players say: Lead Ichiban and Kiryu across Japan and Hawaii in a story-driven RPG with tactical, turn-based party battles and side activities. Players like: Tactical Turn-Based Combat · Abundant Side Activities · Likeable Party Cast ·
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Two larger-than-life heroes, Ichiban Kasuga and Kazuma Kiryu are brought together by the hand of fate, or perhaps something more sinister… Live it up in Japan and explore all that Hawaii has to offer in an RPG adventure so big it spans the Pacific.

Coromon - Players say: As a Lux Solis researcher, capture and train Coromon, explore Velua, and battle trainers while investigating a growing threat. Players like: Classic Monster-Taming · Quality-of-Life Options · Strategic Turn-Based Battles ·
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Embark on a complete 30+ hour monster-taming RPG adventure, now remastered for PC! Catch and train more than 100 Coromon, explore six diverse regions, and master strategic turn-based battles as you unravel a mystery that could change Velua forever.

The Last Spell - Players say: Lead a squad of heroes through turn-based night battles, then rebuild the haven and its defenses before the next monster wave. Players like: Weapon Build Variety · Tactical Horde Combat · Metal Soundtrack ·
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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.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Bean and Nothingness - A difficult tile-based puzzle game about turning beans into monsters -- and monsters back into beans.
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Dec 1, 2021
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Shigatari - Shigatari is a samurai role-playing game with historical artwork.
Hungry Horrors - Feed legendary Horrors before they feed on the princess. Hungry Horrors is a roguelite card-based adventure through British and Irish mythology where you cook traditional dishes, build flavour synergies and serve the perfect meal. No prince. No servants. Just a recipe book and a talking cat.
Puddle Knights - Protecting nobles from mud may look simple on the surface, but the intricate cape arranging puzzle mechanics ensure steadily increasing difficulty. Join the Knights on their quest to preserve dignity, and mindmuck is practically guaranteed! Playtime 10-35h.
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Mar 3, 2020
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Master of Magic Classic - Players say: Lead a customizable wizard through turn-based fantasy 4X, developing cities, commanding armies, and using magic to conquer two worlds. Players like: Wizard Build Variety · Replayable Worlds · Fantasy 4X Depth ·
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Master of Magic is a classic, one of the most popular strategy games of the 90s. It is a 4X fantasy strategy game that allows you to play as an extremely powerful wizard, leading your troops and overcoming your magical opponents.

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Feb 25, 2020
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The World is Your Weapon - Players say: Explore a quirky world, turn objects and creatures into weapons, and fight through turn-based dungeons as you build a weapon gallery. Players like: The creative weapon system, with many unexpected objects and creatures available to wield. · The humorous, lighthearted, and often absurd tone. · The variety of items and content to discover, including the weapon collection. ·
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Wells, pitfalls, houses, villagers, monsters (!?), anything around you can be a weapon! An action RPG that you've never seen before, you can fight with all the objects you see in the game. There are more than 300 kinds of weapons.Aim to complete the weapon gallery!

Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 - The sequel to the captivating tale of Fuga: Melodies of Steel has arrived! This turn-based RPG is back with a ramped up battle system for more strategy, as well as a brand new event system that gives you more thrilling choices to affect your experience!
Voidspire Tactics - An indie turn-based Tactics RPG with a heavy emphasis on exploration, character progression, and highly tactical combat. Create your own deeply customizable party of Warriors, Sorcerers, and Shiftcloaks to take on the Spire!
Lost Flame - Lost Flame is a modern roguelike game featuring unique and challenging turn-based combat. Find your way in the ruined kingdom of Hiraeth while fighting against legendary warriors of the past and spawn of the unfathomable Abysm.
Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees - Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees is a classic western RPG inspired by great 90s era games such as Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous adventure.
8-Bit Adventures 2 - Pilot your Airship, prepare your party, and explore a vast World Map in 8-Bit Adventures 2 – an exciting, emotional tribute to the Golden Age of JRPGs. Dynamic turn-based battles & pixels with personality!

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Grimm's Hollow - Players say: As Lavender searches the afterlife for her brother, explore haunted caves, reap ghosts in timed RPG battles, and shape multiple endings. Players like: Emotional Short Story · Charming Pixel Art · Memorable Characters ·
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A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5 - Players say: Lead a quirky party through a colorful RPG world with tactical turn-based battles, captured monsters, and treasure-filled exploration. Players like: Tactical Turn-Based Combat · Flexible Character Builds · Funny Character Banter ·
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A turn-based RPG adventure, full of video game references, juvenile dialogue, and anime fanservice... and also strategic combat, monster catching, and tons of treasure hunting! Updated with tons of new content!

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Nov 30, 2018
99% 👍
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Balatro - Players say: Build poker hands, reshape your deck with Jokers and other cards, and chase rising score targets in roguelike runs. Players like: Replayable Runs · Joker Synergies · Easy to Learn ·
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The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ - Players say: As South Park’s new kid, join a children’s fantasy war, explore town, and fight turn-based battles to claim the Stick of Truth. Players like: South Park Humor · Faithful Cartoon Style · Turn-Based Combat ·
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From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.

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Mar 3, 2014
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Tactical Breach Wizards - Players say: Lead renegade wizards through turn-based breach missions, combining spells and rewinding moves to unravel a modern conspiracy. Players like: Witty Character Writing · Rewind-and-Retry Combat · Creative Spell Combos ·
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In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - Players say: After Joshua vanishes, Estelle travels across Liberl, taking Bracer jobs and fighting turn-based battles while investigating Ouroboros. Players like: Emotional Story Payoff · Character Development · Living NPC Dialogue ·
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Picking up shortly after The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Estelle travels across Liberl in search of Joshua. The journey involves more than seeking loved ones, however, as the Bracer Guild also tasks her with unraveling the mysteries behind the newly unveiled Society of Ouroboros.

Slay the Spire - Players say: Climb a shifting tower through turn-based card battles, choosing cards and relics to shape a different deck each run. Players like: Deep Deckbuilding · Distinct Character Styles · Fresh Runs ·
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We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

OMORI - Players say: Explore a colorful dreamworld and a quiet town, fight alongside friends in turn-based battles, and uncover a hidden past. Players like: Emotional Story · Distinctive Art · Memorable Soundtrack ·
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Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling - Players say: Guide three insect explorers through Bugaria, solving ability-based puzzles and timing attacks in turn-based battles for a legendary relic. Players like: Tactical Timed Combat · Exploration and Secrets · Distinctive Bug Characters ·
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Follow Vi, Kabbu, and Leif as they uncover the secrets of the Land of Bugaria! Explore and combine your team's abilities to solve puzzles, defeat powerful enemies and find ancient treasures!

Epic Battle Fantasy 4 - Players say: Guide a customizable party across a colorful world, using turn-based elemental battles, exploration, and puzzles to save the day. Players like: Strategic Turn-Based Combat · Deep Gear Customization · Nostalgic Style ·
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A light-hearted turn-based RPG, heavily inspired by old 2D classics. You will battle through waves of cute enemies, grow your characters, explore a diverse world, solve puzzles, and of course, save the world. (Just updated to version 3!)

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Feb 25, 2014
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3 - Players say: Lead three quirky heroes through a colorful fantasy world, exploring for gear and using tactical turn-based skills against monsters. Players like: Strategic Turn-Based Combat · Goofy Dialogue · Catchy Soundtrack ·
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

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Sep 1, 2016
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Omelet You Cook - Players say: As a school cook, choose conveyor-belt ingredients and arrange scoring synergies into omelets for quirky animal customers. Players like: Ingredient Synergy Builds · Replayable Run Variety · Charming Pixel Art ·
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The cozy chaotic cooking roguelike. Assemble omelets for quirky students using ingredients from a conveyor belt. Discover wacky combinations to satisfy the ever-demanding Principal Clucker.