Best Turn-Based Strategy Games 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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Renowned Explorers: International Society In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.

Price -92% 1.74€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Sep 2015
Armello Armello is a grim fairy-tale board game come to life, with every match combining deep, tactical card play, rich tabletop strategy and RPG elements. Leverage subterfuge, spells and careful strategy to wrangle control of the game's chaotic odds as you quest for the throne.

Price -81% 4.76€
Rating 8.0
Release 01 Sep 2015
Pike and Shot : Campaigns The ultimate wargame set in the age of Pike and Shot is back. You are now in full charge of your nation’s armies, throughout a long campaign in the struggle for dominance.

Price 38.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Aug 2015
Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic) Space Hulk: Ascension is a 3D, digital, turn based, strategy game, which re-interprets the classic board game experience, and adds new RPG style mechanics, new weapons and missions, new enemy types, 3 playable chapters and loads of other new features to the single player experience.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 12 Aug 2015
Card Hunter Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 13 Jul 2015
Gary Grigsby's War in the East War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East!

Price -89% 9.36€
Rating 8.4
Release 09 Jul 2015
Legends of Eisenwald Legends of Eisenwald is an adventure game with tactical battles, RPG and strategy elements. Take the lead of a small feudal army and try to defend your right to survive in this ruthless medieval world.

Price -91% 1.94€
Rating 7.3
Release 02 Jul 2015
Age of Fear: The Undead King Play as either Sir Edward, a noble Knight defending the Human Kingdom, or Krill, a wicked Necromancer with an unearthly lust for power! The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

Price -87% 2.65€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Jun 2015
Medieval: Total War™ - Collection MEDIEVAL: Total War™ - Collection Edition is the compilation of the critically-acclaimed Medieval: Total War and its official expansion pack - Viking Invasion.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 25 Jun 2015
SHOGUN: Total War™ - Collection SHOGUN: Total War™ is the first, original title in a 15 year series of award-winning strategy games. This Collection Edition also includes the Mongol Invasion Expansion Pack.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Jun 2015
MASSIVE CHALICE MASSIVE CHALICE is a tactical strategy game set on an epic timeline from Double Fine Productions. As the Immortal Ruler of the nation, you'll take command of its heroes, forge heroic marriages to strengthen your Bloodlines, and battle a mysterious enemy known as the Cadence in a 300 year war.

Price -93% 1.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 01 Jun 2015
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Price -86% 2.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 29 May 2015
Galactic Civilizations III Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.

Price -98% 0.83€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 May 2015
Invisible, Inc. Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 May 2015
Lux Delux Lux Delux is a fast-paced turn-based-strategy game of risk and world domination, with so much more! Highly moddable, Lux has over 900 maps, diverse random map generators, a biohazard mode, an AI SDK, and an online multi-player league.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 May 2015
Order of Battle: World War II Order of Battle: World War II is a breath of fresh air for all strategy fans. It is a game that takes wargaming to a new level by upgrading every single game element and rebooting the genre for a new generation of players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Apr 2015
Koi-Koi Japan [Hanafuda playing cards] "Hanafuda" is a traditional Japanese card game. Now you can enjoy "Koi Koi," its most well-known variation, in a purely Japanese milieu with elegant and refined graphics. Online Multiplayer!!

Price -87% 1.35€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Apr 2015
Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord GOLD Play as either Bel'Kara, a seductive Succubus at odds with the Underworld, or Katzok, a brutal Orc Chieftan fighting for his clan's dominance. The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 Mar 2015
Vietnam ‘65 It is 1965 and the US ground war in Vietnam is in full swing. As a US Army commander, wage a counter-insurgency (COIN) war to secure the Ia Drang valley, on the border with Cambodia.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Mar 2015
Marble Age Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.8
Release 04 Mar 2015
Agent Awesome Agent Awesome is a humorous strategy game in which you will have to help Agent A plan the perfect strategy to take down E.V.I.L., all of this in order to win a drunk dare. Awesome, right?

Price -94% 0.39€
Rating 6.1
Release 17 Feb 2015
Total War: ATTILA Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...

Price -94% 2.73€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Feb 2015
Making History: The Great War The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.

Price -71% 8.44€
Rating 7.2
Release 29 Jan 2015
Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition The most popular Heroes® title of all time is back in HD! Fifteen years later, rediscover the epic tale of Queen Catherine Ironfist, as she re-embarks on her critically acclaimed quest to unite her ravaged homeland and re-conquer the kingdom of Erathia.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 28 Jan 2015
Blackguards 2 Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!

Price -92% 0.81€
Rating 6.5
Release 20 Jan 2015
HyperRogue Time moves when you move in a truly non-Euclidean world

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Jan 2015
NEO Scavenger NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Price -84% 2.37€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Dec 2014
Braveland Wizard Braveland Wizard - old school turn-based strategy game is back! The graduate of the Academy of Magic is ready for new adventures.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 04 Dec 2014
Dead State: Reanimated Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Dec 2014
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic) In this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters against the Ork invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities.

Price 20.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 26 Nov 2014
Battle Fleet 2 Welcome Admiral! Select your fleet, assign weapons, and sink the enemy fleet by controlling each of your ships down to setting the aim and range of each weapon's shot. Features include full open world Pacific & Atlantic campaigns, cross-platform multiplayer and awesome turn-based naval battles.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 20 Nov 2014
Gems of War - Puzzle RPG Gems of War is a Match-3 RPG from the original creators of Puzzle Quest! Start your RPG journey and fight puzzle battles through hundreds of quests, or build your army of troops and go to war in strategic PVP match-3 combat!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Nov 2014
Valkyria Chronicles™ The critically acclaimed Valkyria Chronicles is now available on PC in 1080p True HD, including all previously released DLC!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Nov 2014
Crowntakers Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

Price -95% 0.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 07 Nov 2014
Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.

Price -97% 1.11€
Rating 7.3
Release 31 Oct 2014
Sproggiwood Bring civilization to Sproggiwood, a story-driven, turn-based roguelike set in a humorous world inspired by Finnish mythology. Grow your civilization and plunder procedural dungeons with six unique classes. Outsmart mischievous monsters who work together in unexpected ways. No two dungeon dives are alike.

Price -94% 0.95€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Oct 2014

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