- #1 Miasma Chronicles
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,004 reviews2023
Dev: The Bearded LadiesPub: 505 Games Official
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
From the creators of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden comes a beautifully crafted tactical adventure you won’t forget. Embark on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland torn apart by a savage force known only as the ‘Miasma’.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 19.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Tactical 17.5%, Tactical RPG 12.6%, Dystopian 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same polished, sci-fi tactical combat feel and focus on navigating dangerous, post-apocalyptic environments.
- #2 Gears Tactics
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,701 reviews2020
Dev: Splash DamagePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 34.5%, Strategy 22.7%, Tactical 18.2%, Isometric 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the aggressive, action-heavy approach to turn-based combat found in Showgunners.
- #3 Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
96% matchVery Positive90% of 20,528 reviews2018
Dev: The Bearded LadiesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 27.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 24.6%, Tactical 19.9%, Strategy 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines tactical turn-based combat with exploration of a hazardous world, much like the urban survival elements of the seed game.
- #4 Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
95% matchVery Positive94% of 3,100 reviews2025
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
Why similar: Isometric 16.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Turn-Based Combat 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Tactical 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a gritty, cyberpunk tactical experience with deep character customization and high-stakes missions.
- #5 Hard West 2
94% matchVery Positive82% of 3,209 reviews2022
Dev: Ice Code GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Isometric 16.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13.2%, Tactical 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on aggressive, momentum-based turn-based combat that encourages players to take risks for tactical advantages.
- #6 Invisible, Inc.
94% matchVery Positive91% of 5,772 reviews2015
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
Why similar: Isometric 20.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.4%, Tactical 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Tactical RPG 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes high-stakes, puzzle-like tactical decision-making where every move is critical to survival.
- #7 Into the Breach
93% matchVery Positive94% of 22,217 reviews2018
Dev: Subset Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 32.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 25.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 22%, Isometric 12.1%, Turn-Based Combat 11.5%, Tactical 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It distills tactical combat into a pure puzzle experience where anticipating enemy traps and movements is the key to victory.
- #8 SteamWorld Heist
92% matchVery Positive94% of 6,226 reviews2016
Dev: Image & Form Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 27.4%, Strategy 22.2%, Turn-Based Combat 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Sci-fi 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game features action-oriented, turn-based combat that rewards precise aiming and environmental awareness.
- #9 Knights in Tight Spaces
91% matchMixed70% of 933 reviews2025
Dev: Ground ShatterPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.
Why similar: Isometric 23.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.4%, Tactical 17.5%, Tactical RPG 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It blends card-based strategy with isometric tactical movement, focusing on tight, puzzle-like combat arenas.
- #10 Vigilantes
91% matchVery Positive81% of 306 reviews2018
Dev: Timeslip Softworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Vigilantes is a combat focused, turn-based tactical RPG set in the crime riddled city of Reiker. The game offers hardcore squad-level combat in a gritty neo-noir setting, intel gathering through surveillance and interrogation, a detailed character system, base facilities, crafting, and more.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 19%, Turn-Based Combat 16.2%, Isometric 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Tactical 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a gritty, crime-focused tactical experience that emphasizes positioning and character-specific abilities.
- #11 Shardpunk
90% matchVery Positive93% of 781 reviews2023
Dev: Clockwork PilePub: Retrovibe
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 24.7%, Turn-Based Combat 23.5%, Isometric 20.1%, Tactical RPG 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on survival and tactical movement in a hostile, retro-futuristic environment.
- #12 Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
89% matchVery Positive89% of 6,565 reviews2014
Dev: Harebrained SchemesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
Why similar: Isometric 29.4%, Tactical 18.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.8%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a rich, cyberpunk narrative paired with deep tactical combat that feels grounded and dangerous.
- #13 Mech Armada
89% matchVery Positive81% of 700 reviews2022
Dev: Lioncode Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 19.5%, Isometric 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13.9%, Tactical 12%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite tactical game forces players to adapt to constantly changing combat scenarios and environmental hazards.
- #14 Jagged Alliance 3
87% matchVery Positive89% of 14,785 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 23.7%, Tactical 16.9%, Turn-Based Combat 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Isometric 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep, tactical mercenary experience that emphasizes squad management and careful environmental navigation.
- #15 XCOM®: Chimera Squad
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 23,433 reviews2020
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 40.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Strategy 13.6%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Tactical 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It introduces faster, more action-oriented tactical encounters that feel very similar to the pacing of a game show.
- #16 Wasteland 3
86% matchVery Positive85% of 22,342 reviews2020
Dev: inXile Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Why similar: Isometric 20.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.3%, Turn-Based Combat 17.8%, Tactical RPG 11.6%, Tactical 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at blending tactical squad combat with a dark, humorous, and dangerous post-apocalyptic setting.
- #17 Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 14,700 reviews2022
Dev: Complex GamesPub: Frontier Foundry
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 22.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.6%, Tactical 17.3%, Turn-Based Combat 15.2%, Sci-fi 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features fast-paced, aggressive tactical combat that rewards players for being bold and decisive on the battlefield.
- #18 Wantless : Solace at World’s End
84% matchVery Positive90% of 331 reviews2024
Dev: Drop Rate StudioPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
In this dystopic sci-fi Tactical RPG, save your patients from themselves. Craft your skills among millions of combinations, heal the mind and face ever growing nightmares in 10mn runs. Will you overcome the insidious being chasing you across minds?
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 18.5%, Isometric 17.4%, Turn-Based Combat 16.6%, Tactical 15%, Tactical RPG 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features complex, tactical combat that requires careful planning and deep understanding of character mechanics.
- #19 Phantom Doctrine
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,689 reviews2018
Dev: CreativeForge GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 38%, Tactical 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Isometric 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of high-stakes, covert tactical operations where positioning and environmental hazards are paramount.
- #20 Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 412 reviews2019
Dev: Tortuga Team
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 16.3%, Isometric 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Combat 14.1%, Tactical 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a streamlined, accessible approach to sci-fi tactical combat that is easy to pick up but challenging to master.
- #21 MENACE
80% matchVery Positive91% of 13,267 reviews2026
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 18.3%, Turn-Based Combat 18.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Tactical 15.4%, Sci-fi 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deep, tactical experience with a focus on character customization and meaningful choices.
- #22 End State
82% matchMixed64% of 141 reviews2022
Dev: Finger Squad
Windows
End State is a turn-based tactics game where you manage a mercenary company tracking down a terrorists in a war-torn country. Hire, gear up and gain experience for your mercenaries. Take on rebels and criminal gangs, do side contracts and explore Brekovia.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 23%, Turn-Based Combat 16.2%, Tactical 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Isometric 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This tactical game focuses on realistic combat scenarios and character-driven tactical choices.
- #23 Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy
82% matchMixed69% of 136 reviews2022
Dev: Curious FatePub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy is a turn-based, tactical RPG featuring strategic battles, intriguing puzzles and exciting quests. Customize your heroes’ unique, class-based attacks and abilities to defeat Father Eldritch's oppressive armies throughout dozens of unique, hand-crafted maps!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 22%, Turn-Based Combat 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.7%, Tactical RPG 12.3%, Top-Down 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more stylized, anime-inspired take on turn-based tactical combat with diverse character classes.
- #24 Shock Tactics
83% matchMixed43% of 136 reviews2017
Dev: Point Blank GamesPub: EuroVideo Medien
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shock Tactics is a single player turn-based sci-fi strategy game with tactical combat, exploration, squad management and base building.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic sci-fi tactical experience with a focus on squad-based combat in hostile alien environments.
- #25 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 741 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 29.9%, Tactical 18.4%, Sci-fi 17.7%, Top-Down 11.2%, Dark 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival elements with tactical combat in a claustrophobic, sci-fi setting.
- #26 Every Day We Fight
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 419 reviews2025
Dev: Signal Space Lab
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 17.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Tactical 15%, Sci-fi 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a tactical combat experience that emphasizes squad synergy and environmental interaction.
- #27 Dreadlands
81% matchMixed59% of 226 reviews2020
Dev: Blackfox StudiosPub: Fatshark
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Welcome to Dreadlands! A perilous landscape brimming with potential in the form of Glow. Command one of 3 unique factions in this turn-based tactical RPG and play through their campaigns, be it solo or Co-Op, or battle it out in PvP. So far no one has tamed the Dreadlands. Will you be the first?
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 17.4%, Isometric 16.9%, Turn-Based Combat 15.9%, Tactical 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines post-apocalyptic exploration with tactical squad combat in a vibrant, dangerous world.
- #28 Interregnum: False Prophet
79% matchMixed59% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: Spacewalkers
Windows
A tactical, turn-based strategy game in a post-apocalyptic world of eternal winter. As the titular False Prophet, recruit and lead a group of survivors to a promised land. Loot, craft, and make the best of what you find.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 15.1%, Isometric 14.3%, Turn-Based Combat 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Tactical 13%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on tactical decision-making and squad management within a complex, narrative-driven world.
- #29 Vultures - Scavengers of Death
77% matchVery Positive81% of 587 reviews2026
Dev: Team VulturesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
VULTURES is a tactical turn-based survival horror, inspired by 90's survival horror classics. As an operative, scavenge the infested metropolis for materials and information that could cure the infection plaguing the world.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 16.1%, Isometric 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 12.2%, Tactical 10.1%
- #30 Chains of Freedom
77% matchVery Positive81% of 546 reviews2025
Dev: NordcurrentPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game. Lead an elite squad in a fictional, dystopian Eastern European country as you unravel a conspiracy threatening the state. Navigate intense strategic battles and adapt to ever-evolving challenges to prevail.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 16.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.1%, Tactical 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Isometric 11.6%
- #31 Ash of Gods: The Way
78% matchVery Positive80% of 507 reviews2023
Dev: AurumDust
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 30.6%, Isometric 28.5%, Tactical 23%, Tactical RPG 14.7%, Singleplayer 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique blend of tactical combat and narrative choices that impact the flow of the game.
- #32 Quasimorph
74% matchVery Positive82% of 7,882 reviews2026
Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.4%, Tactical 17.5%, Dystopian 16.1%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #33 Shift'n Slay
76% matchVery Positive81% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: DREBOT game studio
Windows
Shift’n Slay is an amped-up turn-based tactical roguelike, where you fight your way through a cyberpunk hell step by step, trying to break a time loop engineered by corporate bastards.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 21.3%, Tactical 19.6%, Turn-Based Combat 19.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Strategy 11.3%
- #34 Fallen: A2P Protocol
81% matchMostly Negative38% of 226 reviews2015
Dev: Red Katana
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A post-apocalyptic, turn based, tactical combat and strategy game where you lead your caravan on a quest for revenge.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Isometric 15.9%, Tactical 14.9%, Turn-Based Combat 14%
Why You'll Like It: This title features turn-based tactical combat set in a post-apocalyptic world where every resource counts.
- #35 Day of the Shell
75% matchMixed69% of 413 reviews2025
Dev: Duper GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Day of the Shell is a “one-click, one-turn” tactical rogue-lite. In a shattered and flooded world, travel from island to island with only hope and a revolver, challenging and appeasing the gods.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 27%, Isometric 20.8%, Tactical 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.9%
- #36 Urban Strife
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 666 reviews2026
Dev: White Pond GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 20.4%, Isometric 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Tactical 14.5%
- #37 Regenesis
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: Klopsy
Windows
Guide a group of survivors trying to strive in this alien yet familiar environment. Fight against mutated creatures and use their parts to craft and upgrade your weapons.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 22.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based Combat 13.2%, Tactical RPG 12.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%
- #38 Dark Envoy
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 900 reviews2023
Dev: Event Horizon
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Lead a party of relic hunters in an epic cRPG adventure set in a war-torn Guns N’ Sorcery world. Experiment with a tactical slo-mo and a modern combat system!
Why similar: Isometric 39.5%, Real Time Tactics 21.7%, Character Customization 12.9%, Combat 8.9%, Atmospheric 6.8%
- #39 Nightmare Frontier
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 268 reviews2026
Dev: Ice Code GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Behold! The first-ever Tactical Extraction Looter where you pit your courage and leadership against fears made manifest: the Dreadweavers. Lead a band of Scavengers into a devastated West Coast City of the alternative 1900s. Get in, face the monsters, grab the loot you can carry and get out. Alive.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 21.4%, Isometric 19.8%, Turn-Based Combat 19.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Tactical RPG 12%
- #40 Tactical Breach Wizards
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 12,112 reviews2024
Dev: Suspicious Developments
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 26.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Tactical 19%, Isometric 16.3%, Tactical RPG 10.7%
- #41 Warhounds
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 693 reviews2026
Dev: Everplay DMCCPub: Brightika, Inc.
Windows
Warhounds is a turn-based tactical game about an elite mercenary squad with an old-school action movie vibe, inspired by XCOM and Jagged Alliance. Recruit unique fighters, upgrade your base, and fight for Africa’s future. Less fake RNG, more true ballistics and lethal tactics.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 17.7%, Turn-Based Combat 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Isometric 15.5%, Tactical 13.9%
- #42 The Lamplighters League
73% matchMixed69% of 1,234 reviews2023
Dev: Harebrained SchemesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Recruit a team of misfits with unique abilities and unforgettable personalities, and chase the Banished Court to the ends of the earth in a mix of real-time infiltration, turn-based tactical combat, and a character-driven story of adventure and intrigue.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.2%, Tactical 18.5%, Tactical RPG 12.6%, Top-Down 10.1%
- #43 Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,794 reviews2021
Dev: Dark Crystal GamesPub: Prime Matter
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 32.6%, Isometric 25.4%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Tactical 11.5%, Strategy 10.7%
- #44 Rogue Waters
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,274 reviews2024
Dev: Ice Code GamesPub: Tripwire Presents
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 23.4%, Isometric 17.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Turn-Based Combat 14.2%, Tactical RPG 13.4%
- #45 Mechajammer
73% matchMixed52% of 240 reviews2021
Dev: Whalenought StudiosPub: Modern Wolf
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A tactical cyberpunk turn-based RPG set on an off-world grindhouse jungle colony. Skulk through the shadows or charge in guns blazing. Recruit a unique party for large squad-based assaults as your adventure plunges you deep into the city’s secrets.
Why similar: Tactical 22.2%, Turn-Based Combat 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Tactical RPG 8.2%
- #46 Shuffle Tactics
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Club SandwichPub: The Arcade Crew
Windows
Shuffle Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding tactical RPG. Strategize to survive tough battles, pick the right cards to create powerful synergies, and bond with your sidekicks to get an edge in battle. Adventure awaits! Will you rise as Asteria's new King?
Why similar: Isometric 19.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.9%, Turn-Based Combat 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Tactical 13.2%
- #47 Ground Breakers
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: UnitedIndie
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Battle with robots on dynamic, randomly generated battlegrounds, as you attempt to take on the world in this unique turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 17.6%, Turn-Based Combat 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Isometric 14%, Strategy 12.2%
- #48 Xenonauts 2
66% matchVery Positive81% of 5,738 reviews2026
Dev: Goldhawk InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 18.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Tactical 15%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #49 Neural Shock
69% matchVery Positive95% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: Hardwired Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Control your Hero to aid your Turrets and Traps in battle in this grim, dark Tower Defense & Action RPG with a scifi-grindhouse aesthetic. Create deadly weapon barrages and fuse together Bleed, Burn, Shock, Freeze, Stun and many more elements to annihilate your enemies.
Why similar: Dystopian 26.7%, Strategy 20.6%, Sci-fi 19.5%, Dark 13.9%, Top-Down 9.5%
- #50 Classified: France '44
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,016 reviews2024
Dev: Absolutely GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Command an elite team of allied special operators in Nazi-occupied France wreaking havoc in the run up to D-Day in this ambitious turn-based tactics game. Take on the might of Germany's war machine and launch daring raids in occupied territory. Can you do enough to ensure Allied victory?
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 21%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.2%, Isometric 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Tactical 15.8%
- #51 Warbanners
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 612 reviews2017
Dev: Crasleen Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Warbanners: the turn-based, tactical strategy game with role-playing elements that lets you manage a squad of mercenaries, and survive 42 campaign missions. Your goal? To earn a place among ancient legends!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 22.8%, Turn-Based Combat 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Tactical 15.8%, Tactical RPG 11.9%
- #52 Blackguards
71% matchMixed62% of 3,917 reviews2014
Dev: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
Why similar: Tactical 28.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Strategy 13.4%, Isometric 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%
- #53 Twilight Wars
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 254 reviews2025
Dev: Comrade Bear Games
Windows
Twilight Wars is a tactical dungeon crawler set in a neon-drenched cyberpunk future. Corporations rule the world. Rebuild a shattered spy agency, assemble a team of elite operatives, and wage a covert war to reclaim the world from the shadows.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 22.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.2%, Turn-Based Combat 18.2%, Tactical 14.3%, Tactical RPG 10.4%
- #54 Zero Division
67% matchVery Positive88% of 289 reviews2024
Dev: Robot Cat LimitedPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows
A roguelite deckbuilder crossed with a CCG, set in a dark cyberpunk world. You will lead a three-man squad against competing factions fighting among the ashes of a world-wide war. Each operator comes with a unique deck that can be customized and augmented.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 27.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.1%, Turn-Based Combat 18.5%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Strategy 11.2%
- #55 Godless Tactics
69% matchVery Positive95% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: Ice Arrow Games
Windows
Lead an elite strike team through the wars of a reborn civilisation, and decide the fate of humanity through your achievements and choices. Traverse a dynamic war-map, engage in fast, turn-based battles, and explore the world of 2952.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 39.3%, Strategy 29.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.9%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #56 Hard West
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,931 reviews2015
Dev: CreativeForge GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 23.7%, Turn-Based Combat 21.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Isometric 13.8%, Tactical 13%
- #57 Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator
65% matchVery Positive84% of 3,351 reviews2022
Dev: Konfa GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!
Why similar: Tactical 39.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 39.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #58 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival
66% matchVery Positive87% of 444 reviews2023
Dev: Refinery Games
Windows
Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.
Why similar: Isometric 21.8%, Tactical 18.8%, Dystopian 14.3%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Top-Down 10.8%
- #59 Depth of Extinction
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 209 reviews2018
Dev: HOF Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 27.3%, Turn-Based Combat 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Tactical RPG 14.2%, Sci-fi 11.9%
- #60 Entropy
62% matchVery Positive95% of 190 reviews2026
Dev: Lovely HellplacePub: DreadXP
Windows
Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs. Assemble your party of mercenaries and forge your own path towards an expedition into hell to stop the demonic incursion. Choices you make along the way will determine the fate of your world.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 26.9%, Dystopian 26.1%, Turn-Based Combat 19.9%, Tactical RPG 15.2%, Sci-fi 11.9%