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.

Most popular turn based games

Magic: The Gathering

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Civilization 2

strategyWindows XP/98/95

Albion

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Escape from Hell

DOS19903.9/5 Electronic Arts
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures

DOSMac1993protected4.1/5 MicroMagic

After publishing a plethora of Gold Box titles, SSI decided to release a fantasy RPG based on the Forgotten Realms scenarios of Dungeons & Dragons where the player could create its own adventures. Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures (FRUA) is the ultimate Gold Box RPG and received praise from everyone who played it. If you loved Dark Knights ...
Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x19963.8/5 Big Time Software
Fallout

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 Interplay Productions
Warlords 2

DOS19934.2/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Fooblitzsky

DOS19864/5 Infocom
Van Buren (Fallout 3)

Windows XP/98/952003canceled4.2/5 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.
Bundesliga Manager Professional

DOS19914.3/5 Kron Simulation Software
High Command: Europe 1939-45

DOS19924.2/5 Colorado Computer Creations
Battlestar

Windows 3.x1996freeware3.6/5
Austerlitz 1805

DOS19893.9/5 Cornerstone Software
Battle of Antietam

DOS1985protected3.5/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
The Four Crystals of Trazere

DOS19924/5 Mindscape
Hexxagon 2

DOS19934.1/5 Argo Games
D-Day: The Beginning of the End

DOS19943.3/5 Impressions Games
Ragnarok

DOS1993freeware4.1/5 Gray Design Associates
Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS19893.7/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
North and South

DOS19904.2/5 Infogrames
Sensible Golf

DOS19943.2/5 Sensible Software
The Grandest Fleet

DOS19944.2/5 Quantum quality productions
Master of Orion 3

Windows XP/98/95Mac2003protected4.2/5 Quicksilver Software
Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan

DOS19904.2/5 New World Computing
Knights of Legend

DOS19894.1/5 Origin Systems
Conflict Europe

DOS19894.3/5 Personal Software Services
Playhouse Strip Poker

DOS1988NSFW3/5 Eurosoft
9 Poker

DOS19893.5/5
Global Conquest

DOS19923.8/5 Ozark Softscape
V for victory: Market-Garden

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Atomic Games
Spirit of Adventure

DOS19914/5 Attic Entertainment Software
Colonization

DOSWindows 3.xLinuxMac1994protected4.3/5 MicroProse Software

Colonization is a turn-based strategy 4x game developed and published by MicroProse in 1994 for DOS, Windows 3.1, Linux and Mac. The setting is the European Colonization of the New World. Colonization gameplay and interface are similar to Civilization, another Sid Meier game. However, there are some differences between Civilization and Colonization...