Best Turn-Based Strategy games on PC
Turn-based strategy games divide play into discrete turns, giving players time to plan each action before play advances. They can focus on empire management, battlefield tactics, party combat, or card-based decisions.
- Discrete turns and deliberate pacing
- Tactical or long-term planning
- Choices made without real-time pressure
Related: Strategy, Turn-Based Combat, Grand Strategy, Tactical RPG
2,038 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Inkulinati
Turn-based tactics with drawn beasts in medieval manuscript battles
87% positive
761 reviews
The Lamplighters League
Turn-based squad tactics with real-time infiltration and a globe-trotting campaign
70% positive
761 reviews
Demo Terracards
Farm-building deckbuilder about growing an island farm to clear debt
85% positive
761 reviews
Demo Pyrene
Turn-based deckbuilding dungeon crawler rooted in Basque mythology
92% positive
759 reviews
Dungeon Inn
Turn-based inn management where rival guilds must stay apart
89% positive
759 reviews
Gods of Sand
Manage a gladiator school through turn-based arena fights
87% positive
757 reviews
Master of Magic Classic
Turn-based fantasy 4X strategy built around wizard-led conquest
97% positive
751 reviews
Arcanists
Turn-based artillery battles with spellcasters racing against the turn timer
84% positive
Free
Stars in Shadow
Turn-based space strategy with streamlined empires and tactical fleet battles
76% positive
750 reviews
Age of Gladiators
Turn-based gladiator management with money and fighters at risk
78% positive
746 reviews
Demo Marble Age
Turn-based historical strategy about growing a Greek village into a city-state
83% positive
745 reviews
Hellslave
Turn-based dark fantasy dungeon crawler with six demonic patrons
81% positive
742 reviews
Demo Approaching Infinity
Turn-based space roguelike with procedural exploration and faction quests
95% positive
741 reviews
Field of Glory II
Turn-based ancient warfare with historical and what-if battles
86% positive
741 reviews
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
Turn-based colony building on Mars, with public support to maintain
88% positive
Free
祖玛少女/Zuma Girls
A casual marble-shooting puzzle game with RPG elements
83% positive
740 reviews
Demo The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon
Party-based JRPG mixing real-time action with turn-based tactical combat
94% positive
739 reviews
Interstellar Space: Genesis
Turn-based space strategy with remote exploration and custom warships
82% positive
736 reviews
Demo Iris and the Giant
Roguelike card battles where most cards are single-use
87% positive
736 reviews
Pastelia Stories
Turn-based JRPG with a large cast of recruitable companions
64% positive
733 reviews
A Gay Love Story About Gay Love
Short, choice-driven RPG about childhood friends divided by war
89% positive
732 reviews
Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
Political strategy sim guiding socialist states through Cold War upheaval
93% positive
729 reviews
Romance of the Three Kingdoms X with Power Up Kit
Turn-based historical strategy with playable officers and multi-city campaigns
81% positive
724 reviews
Demo Preserve
Nature-building puzzle game about arranging plants and animals in layered habitats
91% positive
723 reviews