Best Turn-Based Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated turn-based games.

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Demise of Nations Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Aug 2017
Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar (V2) Cleveland Mark Blakemore's Magnum Opus! The ultimate classic style turn-based roleplaying game in the tradition of Wizardry, Might&Magic, Lands Of Lore and Eye of the Beholder! 600+ hours of play with hand-painted graphics and old skool goodness!

Price 8.19€
Rating 6.7
Release 04 Aug 2017
The Shrouded Isle Includes the Sunken Sins free DLC! Your Excellency, in this short game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

Price -93% 0.90€
Rating 6.8
Release 04 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 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Aug 2017
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.

Price 39.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Aug 2017
Fidel Dungeon Rescue A critically acclaimed roguelite where you can REWIND to find the optimal path through monsters, treasure and secrets. Quick to play. No grinding. No filler. Deep gameplay.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Aug 2017
Galaxy of Pen & Paper +1 Turn-based RPG about a group of players rolling dice in the year 1999! Create your own game master and RPG party, as they roleplay, explore distant planets in their imagination, fight weird aliens and save the galaxy in the era of dial-up internet and floppy disks! (Includes +1 Edition content)

Price -61% 4.81€
Rating 6.8
Release 27 Jul 2017
Children of Zodiarcs A story-driven, tactical RPG set in the fantasy realm of Lumus; a world divided by affluence and poverty. Take control of Nahmi and her fellow outcasts, utilising a brand new deck and dice based combat system to strike a blow to the noble Lords’ and Ladies’ unquenchable thirst for profit.

Price -83% 3.11€
Rating 6.8
Release 18 Jul 2017
Antihero Run a Thieves Guild in a gas-lit Victorian city! Antihero is a fast-paced digital board game with an (Oliver) Twist. Recruit street urchins, hire thugs, start a gang, upgrade your guild, steal everything... and bribe, blackmail, and assassinate your way to victory.

Price -88% 1.89€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Jul 2017
Monsters' Den: Godfall The popular dungeon-crawling RPG series returns! Take your party into procedurally-generated dungeons, fight in turn-based battles, loot and level up! Explore the land and uncover the mysteries of the Godfall!

Price -92% 1.30€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Jul 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
Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls A collaboration project between ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko and SEGA, the Sega Hard Girls are made up of various Sega consoles, including the Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, and Mega Drive! These anthropomorphized consoles are girls with an array of personalities and spunk, and this time they are teaming up with Neptune and IF for an...

Price -88% 2.47€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Jun 2017
Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe is a deeply immersive turn based strategy game covering the greatest conflict in modern history!

Price -93% 3.07€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 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
50 years 50 Years is a fast-paced alternative to the bigger, longer turn-based strategy games. You can win or lose a game in a single evening. Either way you'll want to play it again.

Price -90% 0.51€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 May 2017
StarCrawlers StarCrawlers is a modern take on a classic cRPG dungeon crawler set in a gritty spacepunk universe. Build a crew of renegade adventurers on the fringes of space, taking jobs from megacorps to hunt bounties, sabotage rivals and conduct corporate espionage.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 May 2017
ENDLESS™ Space 2 ENDLESS™ Space 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS™ Universe. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Price -75% 9.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2017
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd Half a year after Trails in the Sky SC, Father Kevin Graham takes on a routine mission on behalf of the Septian Church. He and his partner are then plunged into a realm that follows an unnaturally strict set of rules and is as intent to open old wounds as it is to keep them behind closed doors.

Price -55% 13.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 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% 0.64€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Apr 2017
Cosmic Star Heroine 3 exotic planets to explore. Aliens. Robots. Magic. Forbidden technology. Ruined Worlds. Ghosts. Long-lost secrets. Conspiracies. A galactic threat. And one brave heroine to make things right. Cosmic Star Heroine is an exciting new RPG from the creators of Cthulhu Saves the World.

Price -93% 1.09€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 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 Battle Brothers is a turn based tactical RPG which has you leading a mercenary company in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world. You decide where to go, whom to hire or to fight, what contracts to take and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

Price -83% 5.21€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2017
Afghanistan '11 Afghanistan '11 is the sequel to the highly praised and innovative Vietnam '65. It enhances and builds on it: Afghanistan '11 changes the paradigm of wargaming and manages to bring Counter-Insurgency and guerrilla warfare to your screen, properly represented thanks to a revolutionary gameplay formula!

Price -69% 9.22€
Rating 7.0
Release 23 Mar 2017
Monster Slayers Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle to become a true Monster Slayer.

Price -96% 0.27€
Rating 7.6
Release 23 Mar 2017

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