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
888 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Gods vs Horrors
Roguelike auto battler built around drafting gods and positioning
77% positive
279 reviews
Crimson Tactics: The Rise of The White Banner
Turn-based tactical RPG with grid battles amid a kingdom's civil war
48% positive
278 reviews
How a Retired Strategist Saved the Country
Real-time strategy game about building a country and conquering land
91% positive
274 reviews
Astral Throne
Turn-based tactical RPG with changing routes and permanent unit deaths
81% positive
272 reviews
The Political Machine 2024
Turn-based presidential campaign strategy with primaries and political action cards
74% positive
270 reviews
Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
World War II tactical wargame with real-time or turn-based battles
78% positive
269 reviews
Whispers of the Eyeless
Dark fantasy strategy RPG with cult management and turn-based battles
77% positive
269 reviews
Yield! Fall of Rome
Turn-based empire strategy during Rome's decline, built around shorter matches
72% positive
268 reviews
Siralim
Turn-based creature-collecting RPG with randomly generated dungeons and quests
84% positive
268 reviews
Raiders of the North Sea
Turn-based Viking board game about gathering resources and raiding settlements
86% positive
266 reviews
Colonial Conquest
Turn-based strategy for global conquest in the Victorian era
63% positive
264 reviews
Magicbook AutoBattler: Contract
Fantasy auto battler built around gear and class bonds
80% positive
264 reviews
Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm Player's Edition
Command NATO or Soviet forces in a turn-based Cold War wargame
88% positive
259 reviews
皇帝游戏：天下-皇游天下
Turn-based deckbuilding strategy about ruling as a Chinese emperor
96% positive
256 reviews
Charterstone: Digital Edition
Worker-placement board game where each match changes your village
77% positive
254 reviews
Strategic Command: American Civil War
Turn-based Civil War strategy with armies, diplomacy, and river warfare
85% positive
254 reviews
Twilight Wars
Cyberpunk turn-based dungeon crawler about rebuilding a covert agency
75% positive
254 reviews
Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 5
Real-time Three Kingdoms strategy with large battles and officer skills
83% positive
252 reviews
Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa
Turn-based Eastern Front wargame balancing offensives and command politics
88% positive
250 reviews
Tales of Fablecraft
Online tabletop RPG with co-op campaigns and custom stories
75% positive
Free
Frozen Synapse 2
Simultaneous-turn tactics across a procedurally generated city of factions
66% positive
247 reviews
Panzer Tactics HD
Hex-grid World War II tactics across three army campaigns
73% positive
246 reviews
魔塔地牢
Strategy dungeon crawler with randomized maps and careful route planning
70% positive
246 reviews
Scramble: Battle of Britain
Turn-based tactical dogfights between RAF and Luftwaffe squadrons
89% positive
244 reviews