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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Ultimate Soccer Manager 2
DOSWindows 3.x1996 Impressions Games
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
DOSMac OS1990 Publishing International
Mind Mirror
DOS1986
Incursion
Windows 10/11LinuxMac OS2007freeware
Empire II: The Art of War
DOSWindows XP/98/951995 White Wolf Productions
Magic: The Gathering Interactive Encyclopedia
Windows XP/98/951999 Wizards of the Coast
Magic: The Gathering Interactive Encyclopedia is an abandoned "educational" application and turn-based strategy game based on he Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. MTG: Interactive Encyclopedia was developed by Wizar...
Capture the Flag
DOS1993
No guns. No glory. Just two invisible players navigating a weird Tron-like maze to steal each other’s flag. Capture the Flag is what you get when someone says “let’s make Pac-Man multiplayer and add a dash of par...
Strip Poker 2 plus
DOS1988NSFW Anco Software
Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye
DOS1995 KOEI
Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye is a strategy video game developed by KOEI and released in 1995. It is set in a mythical version of ancient Ireland and draws heavily from Celtic mythology, particularly focusing on the legendar...
Nerm of Bemer
DOS1984 COMPUTE! Publications
Front Lines
DOS1994 Impressions Games
10th Frame
DOS1987 Access Software
Time to hit the lanes in 10th Frame, a bowling simulator so committed to realism it even simulates the wait between turns. You line up your shot, set your spin, and pray the ancient gods of DOS let your pixel ball behave. The grap...
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware Thinking Machine Associates
Welcome to the future, where space empires are managed entirely via text and colored dots. Anacreon puts you in charge of an interstellar civilization and lets you conquer galaxies with the graphical intensity of an Excel spreadsh...
Red sky at morning
DOS1993 Simulations Canada
Robot Rascals
DOS1987 Ozark Softscape
Theatre of War
DOS1992protected Artech Studios
Floor 13
DOS1992 PSI Software Designers
Phantasie 1
DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Battle Isle
DOS1991protected Blue Byte Software
Turns out war is a lot tidier when it’s turn-based. Battle Isle (1991) gives you neat little hexagons to move your units on, like a very angry board game. It’s got strategy, sci-fi flair, and just enough AI ruthlessnes...
Treasures of the Savage Frontier
DOS1992protected Stormfront Studios
Executive Suite
DOS1982 Armonk Corporation
Premier Manager 3
DOS1994 Realms of Fantasy
Larn
DOS1986freeware
The Four Crystals of Trazere
DOS1992 Mindscape
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...
Virtual Pool
DOS1995 Celeris
Trump Castle: The Ultimate Casino Gambling Simulation
DOS1988 Capstone Software
Dark Queen of Krynn
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Pools of Darkness
DOSMac OS1991protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Pools of Darkness is a computer role-playing game (CRPG) developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). It is the fourth entry in the "Gold Box" series of Dungeons & Dragons games, which are based on the Advance...
Battle for Atlantis
DOS1990
Fancy a war under the sea? Battle for Atlantis (1990) asks the age-old question: what if submarines had grudges? This top-down, action strategy title throws you into a deep-sea turf war with clunky controls and a soundtrack that f...