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The most popular turn-based tactics games

Turn-based tactical video games are a genre of strategy games where gameplay is divided into turns, during which players take sequential actions with their units or characters. In turn-based tactical games, players typically control a group of units, such as soldiers, heroes, or specialized characters, and navigate them across a grid-based map or environment. Each turn, players can move their units, attack enemies, use special abilities, or perform other actions within the game's mechanics and rules.

The turn-based nature of these games allows players to carefully consider their options and plan their moves strategically, taking into account factors like terrain, unit strengths and weaknesses, and the overall objectives of the game. Typically, the outcome of battles or encounters is determined by a combination of factors such as unit statistics, positioning, and sometimes random chance. Some well-known examples of turn-based tactical games include the XCOM series, Heroes of Might and Magic series, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Jagged Alliance. 

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Knights of the Desert

DOS1983protected3.8/5 Tactical Design Group
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Full Metal Planete

DOSMac19903.9/5 Hitech Productions
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS19893.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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V for victory: Gold-Juno-Sword

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Atomic Games
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Jagged Alliance

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Sir-tech Software
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Patton vs. Rommel

DOS19874/5 Electronic Arts
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Frontline

DOS19903/5 Cases Computer Simulations
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The Civil War

DOS19873.3/5 Avalon Hill
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Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/9519954.1/5 White Wolf Productions
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Austerlitz 1805

DOS19893.9/5 Cornerstone Software
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Sabre Team

DOS1994protected3.6/5 Krisalis
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MacArthur's War

DOS19903.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Siege

DOS19924/5 Mindcraft Software
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Mech Brigade

DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Desert Rats

DOS19863.9/5 Cases Computer Simulations
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Conflict: Europe

DOS19894.2/5 Personal Software Services
Conflict Europe is an abandoned turn-based top-down strategy game set in Europe. The game was developed by Personal Software Services and released by Mirrorsoft in 1989 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.
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Panzer Battles

DOS19903.1/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

DOS1992protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3

DOS19923.5/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Sorcerer Lord

DOS19874/5 Personal Software Services
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UMS 2: Nations at War

DOSMac19904.1/5 Intergalactic Development
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Firezone

DOS19883.1/5 Arcadia Systems
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Waterloo

DOS1989protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

DOS19883.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations
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Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Decision at Gettysburg

DOS19903.7/5 TigLon Software
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Battle for Normandy

DOS1983protected3.8/5 Tactical Design Group
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Gulf Strike

DOS19864.2/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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Gemfire

DOS19924/5 KOEI
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Merchant Colony

DOS19914.2/5 Impressions Games