Best Turn-Based Tactics 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 tactics games.

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Battlestar Galactica Deadlock In Battlestar Galactica Deadlock™ you’ll take command of the Colonial Fleet in defense of the Twelve Colonies during the First Cylon War. Lead many different types of ships in this 3D tactical game. Every decision counts, your strategy will be vital – can you ensure mankind’s survival?

Price -83% 5.46€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Aug 2017
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition In this turn-based strategic artillery game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive barrages through the unpredictable gravity fields of the solar system.

Price -91% 1.36€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Aug 2017
Swords and Sandals 2 Redux The world's favourite gladiator game has returned, bigger and more action packed than ever. Swords and Sandals 2: Emperor's Reign, remastered with all new graphics, music and powerful new skills and awesome Arena Champions Pharoah King, John the Butcher and Ultra Flavlus

Price 8.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 Jun 2017
The Elder Scrolls®: Legends™ The Elder Scrolls: Legends™ is an award- winning free-to-play strategy card game based on the world and lore of the Elder Scrolls series. Play for hours or minutes across many game modes that are easy to learn but challenging to master.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 31 May 2017
Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.

Price -88% 2.43€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 May 2017
Expeditions: Viking Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?

Price -98% 0.72€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Apr 2017
KROSMAGA Krosmaga is a game of skill where the Twelve Gods of the Krosmoz universe settle their differences by pitting creatures, mortals, and demi-gods against each other in a battle of truly epic proportions!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 12 Apr 2017
Shardbound: Forge Your Path, Master Your Strategy Shardbound brings fast, fun, and tactical card strategy to the table! Build your deck, take control of the board, and face off in exciting battles that are as unpredictable as they are action-packed.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 06 Apr 2017
Battle Brothers Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

Price -85% 4.51€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2017
Codex of Victory In this sci-fi turn-based strategy with real-time base-building elements, you’ll be defending human territories against the transhuman Augments. Expand your HQ, and manufacture and upgrade an army of advanced drones to wage interplanetary war for Humanity!

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 6.6
Release 16 Mar 2017
Monster Monpiece Collect and train over 100 "monster girls" that come to life in strategic, card-based battles! Strengthen your cards with the First Crush ❤ Rub mode, taking on a hands-on role to warm them up and gain more artwork!

Price -92% 0.85€
Rating 6.8
Release 14 Mar 2017
Morphblade In Morphblade you move around a grid slicing, smashing and bursting waves of nasty red bugs. Each tile you move to transforms you into a different weapon: on a Blades hex you can slice enemies on either side of you, on an Arrow you can launch yourself through two enemies in a row.

Price -92% 0.41€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Mar 2017
Torment: Tides of Numenera Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.

Price -94% 2.08€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Feb 2017
Disgaea 2 PC The Overlord Zenon has cursed the land, leaving a young man named Adell to seek vengeance. However, all hell breaks loose as Adell accidentally kidnaps the Princess of the Netherworld. Will Adell be able to return the Princess, defeat Zenon, and break the Overlord's dark curse?

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 30 Jan 2017
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach (Classic) Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach is a 3D turn-based strategy game like you’ve never seen before: fast, immediate, deep, impressive to look at and incredibly fun! Fight through a dark era of carnage and endless war and lead the Space Wolves in a struggle to defend the last bastion of mankind.

Price 20.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Jan 2017
Stars in Shadow Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.

Price -99% 0.44€
Rating 7.5
Release 19 Jan 2017
Low Magic Age Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.

Price -86% 2.19€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Jan 2017
Moekuri: Adorable + Tactical SRPG It's adorable! It's tactical! The doujin/indie SRPG - Moékuri! 151+ Cute Creatures to try, over a solid grid-based tactical system! Fight through 25 story stages with your own unique strategy!

Price 11.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 16 Dec 2016
Dungeon Rats A turn-based, party-based RPG set in the Age of Decadence world and focused on squad level tactical combat. Fight your way out of prison mine or die trying.

Price -64% 2.54€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Nov 2016
Slayaway Camp A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.

Price -73% 2.00€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Oct 2016
PRINCIPIA: Master of Science Principia: Master of Science is a simulation game with the theme of European science in 17th century. Choose one of 12 real scientists from the era of Isaac Newton and proceed with your research. It is a time when even the term "Science" did not exist. Who can be the master of science?

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 09 Sep 2016
Iron Sea Defenders Man the guns! The enemy fleet is on the horizon! Defend your fort from attacks – show your tactical skill.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Sep 2016
Dungeon Rushers A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!

Price -96% 0.74€
Rating 6.1
Release 06 Sep 2016
Guards Four heroes are facing a horde of evil! Ultimate abilities, magic artifacts, hero upgrades and clever tactics... All these will help to defeat the Boss.

Price -77% 1.14€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Aug 2016
Phantom Brave PC In the world of Ivoire lives Marona, an orphan with the ability to speak with phantoms. Though shunned by society, she believes in helping others. With her phantom companion Ash, Marona aims to purchase the mysterious Phantom Isle.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Jul 2016
SteamWorld Heist Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!

Price -97% 0.58€
Rating 9.0
Release 07 Jun 2016
Home Behind In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

Price -66% 2.09€
Rating 8.2
Release 02 Jun 2016
Turmoil Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.

Price -85% 2.07€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Jun 2016
Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart (Neptunia) In this chibi-style* strategy role-playing game you'll amass an army of game-referencing allies, fight on trap-laden maps, and beef up Lily Rank for crazy damage. But look out for status ailments or you might be (literal) tofu! You ain't seen the Neptunia characters like this before!

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Apr 2016
The Banner Saga 2 The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.

Price -93% 1.98€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Apr 2016
Twilight Struggle Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.

Price -51% 4.09€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Apr 2016
Disgaea PC The hotheaded Laharl seeks to be the next big Overlord in the Netherworld...and will destroy anyone that gets in his way! With his devious vassal Etna and the angel trainee Flonne as his unlikely allies, he must battle his way to supremacy and retake the throne in this over-the-top RPG adventure!

Price -14% 17.28€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Feb 2016
Control Craft 2 Control Craft 2 is a real time strategy game where you will have to act quickly against attackers who want to invade our planet! Wave after wave, your soldiers will overthrow the enemy colonies and will occupy enemy bases one after another.

Price -96% 0.25€
Rating 7.1
Release 15 Feb 2016
XCOM® 2 XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

Price -95% 1.12€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Feb 2016
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Maker "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Maker" celebrates the 30th anniversary of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series. It has been realized through a collaboration between the creators of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series, Koei Tecmo Games, and the creators of the "TSUKURU" series, KADOKAWA.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 09 Dec 2015
Immortal Empire Immortal Empire is a multiplayer tactics role playing game. Control a party of up to 5 immortals as you travel through a unique fantasy world, using spells and strategy to defeat your enemies. Play co-op, versus, or solo through a compelling campaign storyline with fully voiced characters.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 03 Dec 2015

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