Best Turn-Based Games on Steam

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Pox Nora Delve into classic turn-based strategy gaming with elements of table top miniatures, fantasy RPG and TCG style gameplay all wrapped into one.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Oct 2014
Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.

Price -93% 0.53€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Oct 2014
FINAL FANTASY® XIII Final Fantasy XIII is a fantasy RPG in which a band of brave humans struggle against fate in the utopian sky city of Cocoon and the primeval world of Pulse. Follow stylish heroine Lightning's fast paced battles and high adventure in a mysterious new world.

Price -60% 5.19€
Rating 7.4
Release 09 Oct 2014
Disciples Sacred Lands Gold Disciples GOLD takes the phenomenal gameplay, stunning graphics, over 100 spells and a powerful scenario editor of Disciples and adds new scenarios and gameplay features that set the new standard in Turn-Based Strategy.

Price -84% 0.83€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Oct 2014
Costume Quest 2 A sequel to the popular Halloween adventure from Double Fine Productions!

Price -70% 4.46€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Oct 2014
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!

Price -72% 4.27€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Sep 2014
ENDLESS™ Legend ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

Price -75% 6.24€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Sep 2014
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.

Price -59% 10.32€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Sep 2014
WAKFU Immerse yourself in the WAKFU universe with this free to play MMORPG. Select your class, travel the world, meet adventurers to challenge powerful monsters in epic turn-based battles.Participate in the kingdom’s economy and politics and create your own legend!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 18 Sep 2014
Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake) FINAL FANTASY IV makes its debut on PC! Lose yourself in this timeless tale of heroes, betrayal, love and redemption.

Price -60% 5.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Sep 2014
Infinity Wars: Animated Trading Card Game Outplay your opponent with simultaneous turns and commander-driven deck-building in a fully free-to-play PvP experience. Build your deck from 1000+ cards across 8 unique factions, and face opponents on a truly level playing field. In Infinity Wars, skill is the only factor that determines victory!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Sep 2014
King's Bounty: Dark Side Time has come to begin a Dark Journey to the other side of Teana and explore a mysterious region never before seen by royal bounty hunters. King’s Bounty: Dark Side lets you play as the villains in a full standalone campaign with new heroes, dark factions, and a fresh tactical perspective.

Price -93% 1.00€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Aug 2014
Road Not Taken Road Not Taken is a roguelike puzzle game about surviving life’s surprises. You play as a ranger adventuring through a vast, unforgiving forest in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm, rescuing children who have lost their way.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Aug 2014
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Hailed as one of the largest, longest and most meticulously detailed turn-based JRPG series of all time, this first chapter in the ongoing Trails saga sets the stage for what's quickly become Ys developer Nihon Falcom's most popular and best-selling franchise in their entire 30+ year history.

Price -50% 7.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Jul 2014
Halfway Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...

Price -82% 2.38€
Rating 7.0
Release 22 Jul 2014
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient life.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 09 Jul 2014
Civil War II You take the part of the military and political leadership, trying to lead your nation to victory, in the midst of some of the toughest operations of the Civil War. You will build, organize and command your armies over one of the largest maps of the USA ever made for a Civil War game.

Price -90% 4.06€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Jul 2014
Shattered Planet Explore a dangerous planet that's different every time and try to survive! The Galactic Union's job for you is clear: research the alien wildlife -- for science! However, researching may include lasers, explosions, hungry aliens, space sushi, and other similarly delicious-or-terrifying hazards.

Price -92% 1.33€
Rating 6.6
Release 03 Jul 2014
Faery - Legends of Avalon Faery: Legends of Avalon is a big role playing game packed with a very distinctive ambience and graphic style. Create your character, embark in a great adventure and discover the fantastic world of Avalon!

Price -82% 1.30€
Rating 6.9
Release 16 Jun 2014
Xenonauts Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

Price -43% 13.29€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Jun 2014
Qvadriga Qvadriga is a tactical game of chariot racing in ancient Roman circuses, where you take control of a four horse chariot team. Choose your preferred upgrade combinations and prove your skills at the arena.

Price -96% 0.84€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Jun 2014
Battlepaths Battlepaths is a minimalist, loot-driven old-school 2D RPG featuring neat monster hacking, an excellent loot system, and great variety in character development.

Price -57% 0.87€
Rating 6.7
Release 30 May 2014
Pandora: First Contact Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.

Price -98% 0.68€
Rating 6.1
Release 30 May 2014
Final Fantasy III (3D Remake) FINAL FANTASY® III, one of the best-loved games from the epic RPG series, available on Steam.

Price -62% 4.94€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 May 2014
Transistor Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 May 2014
100% Orange Juice 100% Orange Juice is a digital multiplayer board game populated by developer Orange Juice's all-star cast. Characters from Flying Red Barrel, QP Shooting, Suguri and Sora come together with all-new characters to duke it out... with dice.

Price -92% 0.60€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 May 2014
Toribash Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 16 May 2014
Fearless Fantasy As Leon, the world’s most dangerous bounty hunter, you embark on a mission to slay the world’s weirdest creatures, and save a girl from an awful marriage.

Price -94% 0.42€
Rating 7.2
Release 15 May 2014
Child of Light Aurora, a young girl from 1895 Austria, awakens on the lost fairytale continent of Lemuria. To return home she must fight against the dark creatures of the Queen of the Night, who have stolen the sun, the moon and the stars. At stake is not only Lemuria, but Aurora’s true destiny.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Apr 2014
Millennium - A New Hope Traverse through rich, detailed environments, recruit colorful characters and fight your way through dangerous hordes of enemies in this exciting old-school RPG incorporating 40 quests, 26 secret rooms, 8 animal kings and countless secrets and items to discover.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 7.0
Release 25 Apr 2014
UFO: Aftermath UFO: Aftermath is a 3D isometric, tactical strategy game with a rich and compelling sci fi story.

Price -82% 0.74€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Apr 2014
Ascension to the Throne Ascension to the Throne is a turn-based strategy game with RPG elements. In a vast fantasy world the hero will have to pass many tests on his way to victory. Enemies seek to stop players from regaining power and taking revenge. Gain new friends to aid you in reclaiming the throne.

Price -87% 0.40€
Rating 8.4
Release 23 Apr 2014
Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition Experience a true classic! This Gold edition includes the original Jagged Alliance plus the add-on Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games. Take a trip into retro land and learn why this is considered to be one the best turn-based games of all times.

Price -91% 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 Apr 2014
The Last Federation From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2014
Agarest: Generations of War Zero From the void, the gods of darkness and light created Agarest, a most perfect and divine world. As the generations passed, paradise sadly fell to the ravages of time. War darkened the skies and Agarest soon became a torturous hell as the gods divided and immense armies clashed, desecrating the once beautiful land…

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 17 Apr 2014
Battle Academy A turn-based strategy game like no other has landed on Steam. Approachable, absorbing and visually impressive yet detailed, Battle Academy aims to revolutionise the strategy games market with a blend of intuitive design and compelling gameplay.

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Apr 2014

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