Best Turn-Based Strategy Games
384 Turn-Based Strategy games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Invisible, Inc.
Released: May 12, 2015
Critic rating: 85.6 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
"Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Released: Dec 4, 2018
Critic rating: 81.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
From a team including former designers of HITMAN and PAYDAY comes Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, a tactical adventure game that combines the turn-based combat of XCOM with a real-time stealth and exploration of a post-human world reclaimed by nature… and Mutants.
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation
Released: Jul 9, 2015
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Fire Emblem Fates is split into three story paths.
Pokémon White Version 2
Released: Jun 23, 2012
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Pokémon White Version 2 and Pokémon Black Version 2 are the second and final paired versions of Generation V and are the sequels of Pokémon Black and White, respectively.
Medieval II: Total War - Kingdoms
Released: Aug 28, 2007
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms is the official expansion to last year's award-winning Medieval II: Total War, presenting players with all-new territories to explore, troops to command, and enemies to conquer.
Pokémon White Version
Released: Sep 18, 2010
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Pokémon White Version and Pokémon Black Version are the primary paired versions of Generation V.
Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Released: Feb 19, 2004
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Shadow Hearts: Covenant is a direct continuation of Shadow Hearts; Its story starts a year and a half after the first one in the midst of World War I.
Reverse: 1999
Released: May 31, 2023
Critic rating: 80.7 / 100 • 38 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
Game modes: Single player
Reverse: 1999 sets in the retro style world in the west.
Islanders
Released: Apr 4, 2019
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Islanders is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
Pokémon Platinum Version
Released: Sep 13, 2008
Critic rating: 78.6 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Pokemon Platinum is a role-playing game with adventure elements and an enhanced version of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.
Napoleon: Total War
Released: Feb 23, 2010
Critic rating: 83.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Napoleon: Total War is the new chapter in the critically acclaimed Total War series and opens up a new narrative layer to the genre-defining franchise.
Pokémon Moon
Released: Nov 18, 2016
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon will be the first games in the Pokémon series to allow players to choose from nine languages to play in.
Shadow Hearts
Released: Jun 28, 2001
Critic rating: 80.5 / 100 • 23 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Shadow Hearts is the first official game in the Shadow Hearts series and is the sequel to Koudelka.
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Released: Feb 22, 2007
Critic rating: 74.7 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: Wii
Game modes: Single player
Radiant Dawn is a turn-based tactics RPG and a direct sequel, 3 years have passed, to the game "Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance" for the Nintendo GameCube.
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses
Released: Sep 6, 2001
Critic rating: 80.5 / 100 • 29 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Card & Board Game
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
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Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Released: Aug 20, 2015
Critic rating: 78.3 / 100
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Shadowrun: Hong Kong is the third standalone game in Harebrained Schemes’ critically-acclaimed Shadowrun cRPG series.
Faeria
Released: Mar 8, 2017
Critic rating: 82.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Faeria is a digital collectible card and turn-based strategy game that takes place on a dynamic playing board set in a fantasy universe.
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Released: Apr 25, 2019
Critic rating: 79.9 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
SteamWorld Quest is the roleplaying card game you’ve been waiting for!
Endless Space 2
Released: May 18, 2017
Critic rating: 80.1 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
In Endless Space you play the role of the leader of one of the many intelligent beings of a galaxy at the beginning of the space age.
Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past
Released: Feb 7, 2013
Critic rating: 80.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player
Travel to the past to save the present in this classic Dragon Quest adventure that has been completely remade from the ground up for Nintendo 3DS.
Heroes of Might and Magic V
Released: May 16, 2006
Critic rating: 81.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay.
Sid Meier's Civilization III
Released: Oct 30, 2001
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100 • 182 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Civilization III, like the other Civilization games, is based around building an empire, from the ground up, beginning at start of recorded history and continuing beyond the current modern day.
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty
Released: Apr 30, 1997
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100 • 31 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), DOS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The Price of Loyalty is the expansion pack for Heroes of Might and Magic II, released in 1997.
Pokémon Sun
Released: Nov 18, 2016
Critic rating: 86.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon trademarks were registered thus leaking the next Pokémon game titles to the public.
Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo - Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu
Released: Jul 15, 2010
Critic rating: 79.9 / 100 • 29 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem is a remake of Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo.