Turn-Based
61 games reviewed, ranked by score.
Baldur's Gate 3
Larian's everything-reacts epic
Slay the Spire
The Deckbuilder That Started It All Still Holds
Balatro
150 jokers and zero off-ramps
Dicevaders
Turn dice into board-breaking alien armies.
Into the Breach
Three Mechs, Eight-By-Eight Grid, Endless Tactical Knots
Slay the Spire 2
More Spire, Sharper Spire, Still Unfinished Spire
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
A turn-based RPG that parries you straight into grief
Monster Train 2
Leaves no reason to ride the first train again
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Larian's combat sandbox where every fight has a backdoor
XCOM 2
Concealment and turn timers punish every cautious instinct
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
Where finding the broken combo is the entire point.
FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE
A pixel-perfect revival held back by its PC port.
Monster Train
Slay theSpire's formula, rebuilt as a train engine
DRAPLINE
Feed her a sword, raise her stats, lose your heart.
Pronoun Palace
Spell your way out of a state that confiscated your pronouns
Shogun Showdown
Into the Breach's brain, Slay the Spire's pull
StarVaders
Chrono Tokens Turn Tactical Deckbuilding Into Chess on Steroids
Darkest Dungeon
The Best Stress Simulator Ever Built
Omelet You Cook
Pan-tetris omelets with sound design that sings
ENDLESS Space 2
The 4X where your factions actually feel alien
Cobalt Core
One-axis ship combat that clicks, enemies that don't keep up
Esoteric Ebb
D&D dice rolls shine, the political lectures wear thin
Zoominoes
Zoo tiles that combo into the millions, once the soft locks stop
Backpack Battles
Tetris with bloodlust, and you can't stop arranging
Mechabellum
Draft, counter, predict: auto-battling where reading beats reacting
Across the Obelisk
Co-op deckbuilder where the debuff stack breaks the fight
BATTLETECH
Salvage, rebuild, roll out: a mercenary loop that punishes every mistake
Black Jacket
Blackjack rebuilt as a deckbuilder, with a story that lands
Rift Wizard 3
Deepest wizard-building in the series, guarded by a merciless opening
Griftlands
Negotiation gets its own deck, and it cuts deeper
He is Coming
An auto battler that hides real strategy under retro paint
Terra Invicta
The deepest strategy game nobody bothered to explain
The Banner Saga
Viking grief simulator with combat that fights itself
Valkyria Chronicles
Watercolor war with a brutal trial-and-error streak
Heroes' Vow: Three Kingdoms
Live your own Three Kingdoms epic. Endure its clumsy wars.
MENACE
Suppression and squad fire land hard, the AI just runs and hides
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
Best story the spin-off's told, with nothing waiting past the credits
Rogue Voltage
Wiring chain reactions that pay off, once the bugs settle
Xenonauts 2
Faithful X-COM tactics, undone by a peace ending nobody asked for
How Many Dudes?
Absurd dude-drafting that snowballs long after the decisions dry up
Quasimorph
Clone-fed raids that grip, until loot luck runs the late game
Shroom and Gloom
A beautiful hand-drawn deckbuilder that makes GPUs sweat.
Die in the Dungeon
Dice on a grid that clicks, until the board clutters
Fogpiercer
Cliff-throwing tactics that outshine their own card decks
Heroes of Science and Fiction
A sharp HoMM3 heir that chokes on its own AI turns
LONESTAR
Make Your Number Bigger Has Never Felt This Deep
Shards of Order
Time-clock combat that clicks, with no runway past the credits
Loop Hero
A Brilliant Loop That Eventually Devours Itself
Sol Cesto
Gorgeous grotesque odds-juggling, tripped up by unfair dice and no save
TOHOTOPIA
Touhou heroes lift a Polytopia clone the AI can't defend
Dead Weight
Ledge-shoving fights that dazzle, then repeat themselves dry
Gordian Quest
Deckbuilder Depth Buried Under D&D Sprawl
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Faithful Heroes 3 combat, hobbled by AI and a flat campaign
Bingle Bingle
Spin-the-wheel buildcraft that hides its own rules
Solasta II
Faithful 5E combat trapped in a level-4 Early Access shell
STAR WARS Zero Company™
Ability-combo tactics and sharp squad writing, sunk by stutter and flat progression
Breachway
Modular ships reshape your deck mid-run. The balance doesn't hold.
Urban Strife
Sharp squad tactics and shelter-building, snagged on a stingy AP system
FINAL FANTASY XIII
Paradigm-switching brilliance locked behind twenty hours of hallway
XCOM: Chimera Squad
XenoSWAT: A Tighter, Smaller, Buggier XCOM Spin-off
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II
Tighter tactics, but the tech-priest tinkering is gone