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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Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos - Yugi the Destiny
Windows XP/98/952003 Konami
Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos - Joey the Passion
Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/112004 Konami
Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Joey the Passion, released by Konami in 2004, is a PC video game that brings the popular Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game to life. This game is the third and final installment in the "Power of Chaos" series.&n...
Magic: The Gathering
Windows XP/98/951997 MicroProse Software
Magic: The Gathering (sometimes also referred as Shandalar) is an abandoned strategy game based on the popular collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, developed and released by MicroProse Software for Windows in 1997. MTG is s...
Death Knights of Krynn
DOS1991protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Heroes of Might and Magic
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected New World Computing
Civilization 2
Windows XP/98/951996 MicroProse Software
Civilization II is a turn-based strategy game developed by MicroProse and released in 1996. It's the second installment in the "Civilization" series, created by Sid Meier. The game builds upon the concept of its predecessor, Civil...
Warlords
DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Conquest of the New World (Deluxe Edition)
DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected Quicksilver Software
Conquest of the new world is a turn-based strategy game that lets you control one of 6 different nations in their attempt to colonize the new continent. The gameworld is represented in an isometric point of view. Combat is a mini-...
Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares
DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected SimTex
Master of Orion II is a 4X turn-based sci-fi strategy game set in space. Master of Orion 2 gives the player an empire to run by controlling food and production, managing economy and researching new technology. The player can wage ...
Castle of the Winds
Windows 3.x1993freeware SaadaSoft
Castle of the Winds is a fantasy roguelike role-playing game developed by SaadaSoft in the early 1990s. It was designed for Windows 3.x and is notable for being one of the earliest graphical RPGs for that platform. The game featur...
King's Bounty
DOSMac OS1990 New World Computing
King’s Bounty is a turn-based strategy game with RPG elements, originally released in 1990 by New World Computing. It was created by Jon Van Caneghem, also known for the Might and Magic series. This game is often regarded as...
Rack 'em
DOS1988 Artech Studios
Fallout
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo Interplay Productions
The first Fallout game was released in 1997 by Interplay Productions and is widely regarded as one of the most influential RPGs of its time. The game begins in the year 2161, over 80 years after the nuclear war, with the play...
Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance
DOS1985NSFW Artworx Software
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
DOS1989 KOEI
Scorched Earth
DOS1991protected
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS1989 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Dark Designs 2: Closing the Gate
DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
Windows 3.xMac OS1990 Activision
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Windows XP/98/951999 MicroProse Software
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation is a turn-based strategy video game set in the Star Trek universe. The game was developed by MicroProse Software and published by Infogrames for Windows in 1999. Players take on the role of ...
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...
World Class Leader Board
DOS1988 Access Software
World Class Leader Board is a golf simulation game developed and published by Access Software and released in the late 1980s for various platforms, including the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, and PC. Players could choose their cl...
Annals of Rome
DOS1988 Personal Software Services
In Annals of Rome, you don’t just play history — you command it, badly. This 1988 strategy title lets you take control of the Roman Empire and try to keep it from falling apart, which it will, probably because you let ...
The Civil War
DOS1987 Avalon Hill
Stellar Crusade
DOS1988protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
HeroQuest
DOSMac OS1991 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
HeroQuest is a classic video game adaptation of the popular board game HeroQuest, released in 1991 by Gremlin Interactive. HeroQuest faithfully recreates the turn-based, dungeon-crawling, and role-playing gameplay of the...
Grand Prix Wizard
DOS1996 Wizard Games
X-COM: Ufo Defense
DOS1994protected MicroProse Software
UFO: Enemy Unknown (or X-COM: Ufo Defense) is a sci-fi tactical strategy game created by Julian Gollop set in a not-to-distant future where aliens are invading the Earth. The gameplay switches between tactical combat, where you fi...
Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf
DOS1995 Pixel Painters Corporation
Pool of Radiance
DOSMac OS1988protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.