Turn-Based Strategy Hidden Gems on Steam
Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated turn-based strategy games.
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The Ouroboros King
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.
Redemption Reapers
Descending suddenly on the world, the macabre Mort armies destroy nation after nation, leaving humanity decimated in their wake. Among the forces resisting the Mort is a small band of mercenaries known as the Ashen Hawk Brigade.
Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society
On the outskirts of town lies a mansion said to house the entrance to a maze overflowing with treasure. Do you wish to discover the magical mysteries hidden inside?
Second Front
Second Front is a tactical WWII turn-based strategy game. Craft & share your own scenarios and maps or use your strategic prowess in 48 scenarios set in iconic locations. Command over 40 types of infantry and 216 tanks, vehicles and guns. An infinite tactical sandbox experience.
Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder
Begin your journey to become a mighty samurai mage! In a blend of adventure, strategy and deckbuilding gameplay, choose how you will follow the way of the Mahoken. Explore the Celestial Islands, build your deck, battle challenging demons, and protect the land from the forces of corruption.
Farlanders
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Indies' Lies
A roguelike deck-building game where you craft a deck, spark talents, discover runes, and assemble your team with partners' cards! Play unique stories for every character and explore a world caught in the clash of gods. New Puppeteer DLC just released!
Prime of Flames
This is a special strategy game that combines Wargame and Roguelike. As the guider of the former ancestors, you revived and arrived. In the name of Star Envoy, you leave for the Human camp, and lead the warriors of different clans with talents and abilities to find the truth of history and disaster.
Master of Magic
Take up the role of a great wizard, wield powerful spells, command fantasy races and challenge your rivals in this remake of a cult turn-based strategy classic. Do you have what it takes to become Master of Magic?
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Maybe save the world! Inspired by Warhammer, FTL and Total War.
梦魇:无归 Nightmare without return
This is a journey without return When you wake up... In the strange space, the bronze gate that eats people, the strange rules of the game, and the ever-changing nightmare world appear in front of you Everything starts from here
Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
Arcanium: Rise of Akhan
Arcanium is an Open-world, Strategy Card Adventure that merges Roguelite and Deckbuilding genres like never before. Control your party of three heroes, craft your deck, unlock a vast amount of cards and items and save the world of Arzu from corruption!
Monster Girls and the Mysterious Adventure 2
This is a "Mysterious Dungeon" style roguelike game where the terrain changes with each challenge. Make the monsters your "Friends" and go on a new adventure!
Warriors of the Nile 2
Warriors of the Nile 2 is a fast-paced Roguelite strategy game. This time our Warriors are equipped with a more unique combat style. Freely choose the adventure route, use the skill tablets to strengthen characters, lead your squad to repel the Roman legion.
Super Bullet Break
Save the world of online multiplayer games from a rogue AI in this deck-building strategy roguelite! Collect more than 160 cute and colourful Bullets as you move through maps based on iconic game genres and defeat enemies in challenging turn-based combat.
Circadian Dice
Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!
Mech Armada
Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.
The Hand of Merlin
The Hand of Merlin is a turn-based rogue-lite RPG in which Arthurian legend meets with sci-fi horror. Recruit mortal heroes to explore lands rife with otherworldly evil, make narrative bending choices in unique interactive encounters, and search for the lost fragments of your soul across the multiverse!
Hellslave
Hellslave is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler where you make a pact with the Devil to fight back a demon invasion. Customize your character with powerful demonic abilities, explore a cursed world, and battle nightmarish enemies to save humanity if you can resist the darkness.
Fabled Lands
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
Floppy Knights
Meet the Floppy Knights: tangible projections summoned from floppy disks! Tactics fuse with card game mechanics as Phoebe and Carlton, a brilliant young inventor & her robot-arm bestie, square off in turn-based battles. Select your Knights, hone your deck, and execute your strategy for victory!
Brigandine The Legend of Runersia
The continent of Runersia is home to six major powers with more than 40 bases, 100 knights, and 50 types of monsters. Select a ruler, organize knights and monsters into troops, and conquer enemy bases!
祖玛少女/Zuma Girls
Zuma girl is a casual marble shooting game, which integrates RPG skills and strategies with traditional Zuma playing methods. You will meet three beautiful girls in the battle. Who is stronger or weaker? Only the brave survive to the end!
FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition
FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition was created to be the perfect bitesized roguelike dungeon crawler. Choose your champion and face a relentless crawl through the card-based dungeons, collect items to power your abilities and defeat the gruesome monsters facing you. But keep going FORWARD!
For The Warp
A roguelike deckbuilding game in space! Explore randomly generated systems, enemies and strange encounters. Build your deck, survive and reach For The Warp gate!
Graphwar
Graphwar is an artillery game in which you must hit your enemies using mathematical functions. The trajectory of your shot is determined by the function you wrote, and your goal is to avoid the obstacles and your teammates and hit your enemies. The game takes place in a Cartesian Plane.
Gods of Sand
Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.
幻想枝魂 Soul Fantasy
The white colossus fell from the sky, and the Demon Led Countless Demons to destroy all good things. For the future of the planet, for the belief in their hearts, five girls from different places, with different identities gathered together, embarked on the road to the demon king.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2
War in the East 2 is the most comprehensive, most realistic, and most advanced wargame modeling Eastern Front warfare in World War Two.
Wolfstride
Get wrecked in this immature grown-up RPG about a trio of troublemakers stumbling their way through a giant mecha tournament. Repair and upgrade the team’s hand-me-down rig, pick up odd jobs to pay the bills, and battle the best-of-the-best all while running from the regrettable choices of the past.
CountryBalls Heroes
CountryBalls Heroes is a game where you get to play as your favorite Countryball. Become a legend by leading massive Countryball armies. Create your forces, build master-planned cities, gather powerful artifacts and prove that your Countryball is the most powerful.
Candy Disaster - Tower Defense
Candy Disaster is 3D trap-style tower defense game where you guard candies against alien thieves! Unlock powerful and clever traps, choose your arsenal for different bases, and find the deadliest trap combination - then watch those space goons walk into their death!