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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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Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes

DOS1990 Command Simulations
In Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes, you’re not just playing a wargame — you’re being handed a clipboard, a stack of orders, and a freezing cold battlefield in 1944. This 1990 DOS title lets you relive one of W...
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Mech War

DOS1992
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Clash of Steel

DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Waterloo

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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MacArthur's War

DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Midway Campaign

DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation

DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
Arnhem is the kind of wargame where you spend more time reading hex maps than shooting anything. It’s all about recreating Operation Market Garden — you know, that WWII battle where everything went spectacularly sidewa...
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3

DOS1992 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Conflict: Europe

DOS1989 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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Patton vs. Rommel

DOS1987 Electronic Arts
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Nectaris

DOS1995 Hudson soft
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Battle of Antietam

DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Civil War buffs, rejoice. Battle of Antietam (1985) lets you relive one of the bloodiest days in American history... via pixelated dots and turn-based tension. There’s no flash here—just raw, old-school strategy where ...
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Conflict: Korea

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Operation Market Garden

DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
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Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games

DOS1996protected Sir-tech Software
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Decision in the Desert

DOS1985 MicroProse Software
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Firezone

DOS1988 Arcadia Systems
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Austerlitz 1805

DOS1989 Cornerstone Software
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Decision at Gettysburg

DOS1990 TigLon Software
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Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Full Metal Planete

DOSMac OS1990 Hitech Productions
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La Grande Armee

DOS1991 SDJ Enterprises
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Frontline

DOS1990 Cases Computer Simulations
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Great Napoleonic Battles

DOS1991 Impressions Games
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UMS 2: Nations at War

DOSMac OS1990 Intergalactic Development
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Gulf Strike

DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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Kampfgruppe

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Siege

DOS1992 Mindcraft Software