The most popular 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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Alternate Reality: The City
DOSMac OS1988 Paradise Programming
Alternate Reality: The City is a role-playing video game developed by Paradise Programming for various platforms including Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. It was released in 1985. In Alternate Reality: The City, play...
Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation
DOS1989
Football Fanatic
DOS1998freeware
Incursion
Windows 10/11LinuxMac OS2007freeware
Aspetra
DOS1996
Welcome to Aspetra, a 1996 DOS game that tried to cram an epic sci-fi RPG into your beige box PC — and mostly succeeded! Think “Star Trek meets budget constraints.” You explore strange new worlds, meet weirdly sp...
Rack 'em
DOS1988 Artech Studios
Midway Campaign
DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Wizardry 2: The knight of diamonds
DOS1982 Sir-tech Software
V for victory: Gold-Juno-Sword
DOS1993protected Atomic Games
The Astronomy Quiz
DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
DOSLinuxMac OS1990protected Sir-tech Software
Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge is a role-playing game (RPG) developed by Sir-Tech and released in 1990. It's the sixth installment in the long-running "Wizardry" series. The game begins with the player's party investig...
Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf
DOS1992 KOEI
Ultimate Soccer Manager 2
DOSWindows 3.x1996 Impressions Games
Master of Orion 3
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected Quicksilver Software
5th Fleet
DOS1994
This 1994 naval strategy game for DOS is based on the board game of the same name, which means you’ll spend more time squinting at menus than blowing up ships. It’s cerebral, methodical, and incredibly satisfying - if ...
D-Day: The Beginning of the End
DOS1994 Impressions Games
Star Wars Chess
DOSWindows 3.x1993 The Software Toolworks
Hexxagon
DOS1993 Argo Games
Robot Rascals
DOS1987 Ozark Softscape
Color Buster
DOS1992
Lords of Conquest
DOS1987 Eon Software
Bobby Fisher teaches chess
DOS1994 Mission Studios
Ever wanted to get chess lessons from a genius who could crush your soul with a bishop and a glare? Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (1994, DOS) is your chance. Based on the classic book, the game patiently walks you through strategies...
Motor City
DOS1994 Max Design
Decision in the Desert
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Fantasy Empires
DOS1993protected Silicon Knights
Ancients 2: Approaching Evil
DOS1994 Farr-Ware Software
A direct sequel to Deathwatch, Ancients 2: Approaching Evil is like returning to your childhood neighborhood, except everyone’s still trying to kill you. Released in 1994, it builds on the first game’s formula by addin...
Liero
DOS1999freeware
Sexy Droids
DOS1992NSFW Eleven Software
Sword of Aragon
DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Beneath Apple Manor
DOS1983freeware
Beneath Apple Manor is a pioneering game in the roguelike genre, originally developed and released in 1978 by Don Worth for the Apple II and later re-released for DOS as a "Special Edition". It's one of the earliest known role-pla...