The best turn based games

In direct contrast with real-time games, turn-based games gameplay is based on the players taking turns to do what needs to be done: move in a dungeon, play cards, attack enemy units.

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Exile: Escape from the Pit

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software

Roadwar Europa

DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Legend of Faerghail is a role-playing video game developed by Electronic Design Hannover and published by Rainbow Arts. It was released in 1990 for the Commodore 64, Amiga, and MS-DOS platforms. The game is set in the fantasy world of Faerghail, where the player controls a party of adventurers on a quest to defeat the evil sorcerer Daldras.The game...

Red sky at morning

DOS19933.9/5 Simulations Canada

Strip Poker 2

DOS1988NSFW3.9/5 Artworx Software

Van Buren (Fallout 3)

Windows XP/98/952003canceleddemo3.9/5 Black Isle Studios

Van Buren was a science fiction post-apocalyptic RPG being developed by Black Isle Studios and never published. Van Buren was the direct sequel to Fallout 2, part of the Fallout franchise. Van Buren was canceled in 2003.

5th Fleet

DOS19943.9/5

Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club

DOS19903.9/5

Curse of the Azure Bonds

DOS1989protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS19943.9/5 KOEI

V for victory: Velikiye Luki

DOS1992protected3.9/5 Atomic Games

HeroQuest

DOSMac OS19913.9/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive

HeroQuest is a classic video game adaptation of the popular board game HeroQuest, released in 1991 by Gremlin Interactive. HeroQuest faithfully recreates the turn-based, dungeon-crawling, and role-playing gameplay of the board game. Players take on the roles of different heroes, including a barbarian, dwarf, elf, and wizard, as they explo...

Ultimate Soccer Manager 2

DOSWindows 3.x19963.9/5 Impressions Games

Floor 13

DOS19923.9/5 PSI Software Designers

Kasparov's Gambit

DOS19933.9/5 Heuristic software

The Dark Heart of Uukrul

DOS19893.9/5 Digital Studios Limited

Hoyle Classic Card Games

DOS19933.9/5 Sierra On-Line

Ultimate Soccer Manager

DOS19953.9/5 Impressions Games

Metal Marines

Windows 3.x19933.9/5 Namco

The Temple of Elemental Evil

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected3.9/5 Troika Games

Wasteland

DOS1988protected3.9/5 Interplay Productions

The Aethra Chronicles

DOS19943.9/5

The Aethra Chronicles is not a well know fantasy RPG, but it deserves some praise. It was developed by only one person (Micheal Lawrence) and, as the title implies, was intended to be the first volume of a saga. Unfortunately, volume two and three were never made. For a shareware game, Aethra was pretty solid and is still loved by the ones who play...

Subtrade: Return to Irata

DOS19933.9/5 Century Interactive

Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clone of the classic M.U.L.E., set underwater on an oceanic world.