- #1 Vagrus - The Riven Realms
97% matchVery Positive85% of 1,691 reviews2021
Dev: Lost Pilgrims StudioPub: Lost Pilgrims Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.
Why similar: Dungeons & Dragons 25.1% ★, Narrative 11.1% ★, CRPG 8.3%, Strategy RPG 7.5%, Lore-Rich 6.4%
- #2 Lawless Lands
96% matchVery Positive88% of 114 reviews2020
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Lawless Lands is a dark medieval role-playing game featuring a grim setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a low-fantasy, apocalyptic world of epic proportions. Defy and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.
Why similar: Dungeons & Dragons 34.1% ★, CRPG 9.3%, Lore-Rich 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.1%
- #3 The Iron Oath
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 889 reviews2023
Dev: Curious Panda GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Command, endure, and prosper in The Iron Oath, a turn-based tactical RPG where the fate of your mercenary company rests on your decisions. Customize your roster, build your renown, and discover the secrets that await in the medieval fantasy realm of Caelum.
Why similar: Dungeons & Dragons 36.4% ★, CRPG 13.6%, Strategy RPG 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Turn-Based Combat 8.9%
- #4 Shores Unknown
95% matchMixed69% of 123 reviews2021
Dev: VallynnePub: Hitcents
Windows
A turn-based RPG with deep character-driven combat, and a story written by Final Fantasy veterans. Finding yourself on the wrong side of the Crown, you and your companions must fight or perish. Build a team of mercenaries, forge alliances, and explore distant lands.
Why similar: CRPG 27.2%, Difficult 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 13.6%, Turn-Based Combat 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #5 Fabled Lands
94% matchVery Positive81% of 528 reviews2022
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
Why similar: CRPG 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Strategy RPG 14%, Open World 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%
- #6 Urtuk: The Desolation
94% matchVery Positive88% of 2,484 reviews2021
Dev: David Kaleta
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.
Why similar: Difficult 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 20.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based Combat 17.4%, Strategy RPG 15.7%
- #7 Prophecy of Ashen
92% matchVery Positive80% of 213 reviews2026
Dev: hhyuGame
Windows
Prophecy of Ashen: a dark fantasy tactical CRPG. Be a secret messenger between the Hall's judgment and the Ashborne's vengeance. Recruit allies, use terrain and magic in turn-based combat. Your choices reshape Rattalan: uphold order or ignite destruction.
Why similar: CRPG 24.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Strategy RPG 15.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%
- #8 The Age of Decadence
91% matchVery Positive82% of 3,941 reviews2015
Dev: Iron Tower Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.
Why similar: CRPG 21.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 13.1%, Difficult 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #9 Ash of Gods: Redemption
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,435 reviews2018
Dev: AurumDust
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements, and a constantly evolving story in which no one is safe from death, including the main characters.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 16.4%, CRPG 16.3%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Lore-Rich 11.3%
- #10 Knights of the Chalice
90% matchVery Positive86% of 94 reviews2019
Dev: Heroic Fantasy Games Dot Com
Windows
Knights of the Chalice is a 2D RPG with turn-based combat. Create four Adventurers and embark on a bold journey to save the Land from Slavers, Demons, Dragons and other Evil Forces, as your Heroic Party progresses all the way from level 1 to level 20. The free Demo/Tutorial is a unique adventure.
Why similar: Dungeons & Dragons 34% ★, CRPG 17.2%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.2%, Open World 7.7%
- #11 Sandwalkers - Prologue
89% matchVery Positive82% of 187 reviews2024
Dev: Goblinz StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based strategy game. Convoy goods to neighboring tribes, build relationships, survive hostile creatures, and discover a new world. Inspired by great games like Wartales, Curious Expedition, or For The King.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 29.3%, Strategy RPG 19.5%, Fantasy 13.1%, Turn-Based Combat 11.4%, RPG 11.3%
- #12 Sector Unknown - Prologue
88% matchVery Positive87% of 108 reviews2025
Dev: Creative Storm Entertainment
Windows
Sector Unknown - Prologue is a free demo of the story-rich, isometric RPG Sector Unknown. Start on the desolate planet of Maku, establish a stronghold, ally with or dominate local factions, and combat a tyrannical organization set on ruthlessly exploiting the sector's resources and inhabitants.
Why similar: CRPG 30.4%, Strategy RPG 26.7%, RPG 15.2%, Open World 8.2%, Turn-Based Combat 7.8%
- #13 Overfall
89% matchMixed47% of 874 reviews2016
Dev: Pera Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Set sail in Overfall, a whimsical roguelike turn-based RPG of diplomacy and danger. Recruit unlikely heroes, forge alliances or crush your foes across ever-shifting seas to find a lost king. Every run is fresh with procedural worlds, permanent death, branching story encounters, and hand-drawn art.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 21.5%, CRPG 14.5%, Turn-Based Combat 14.1%, Open World 11.1%, Fantasy 7.4%
- #14 Dead Monarchy
87% matchVery Positive83% of 135 reviews2023
Dev: Kevin Zhang
Windows
Dead Monarchy is an open-world, turn-based tactical RPG set in a low fantasy world. Personally lead and manage your mercenary company as the captain and embark on your personal quest to defeat the arena champions.
Why similar: RPG 19.1%, Dark Fantasy 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Difficult 14.5%, Turn-Based Combat 14.1%
- #15 Glorious Companions
86% matchMixed62% of 201 reviews2024
Dev: Ancient Forge
Windows
Explore the open world of Terscara as you advance through the challenging and tactical encounters in this epic turn-based tactical RPG. Form and lead a group of battle-proven companions, delve into the ancient dungeons to collect the elusive vault crystals, and end Xandar’s Wraith once and for all.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Turn-Based Combat 12%
- #16 Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
85% matchVery Positive84% of 42,222 reviews2021
Dev: Owlcat GamesPub: META Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 58.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.
Why similar: CRPG 21.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #17 Zoria: Prologue (2020)
86% matchVery Positive83% of 475 reviews2020
Dev: Tiny Trinket GamesPub: Anshar Publishing
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Zoria Prologue (2020) - a demo introduction to the world of Zoria. A squad-based tactical RPG with fluid turn-based combat, outpost, and follower management, set in the expansive Fantasy world. Lead a team of four heroes with their unique skills and perks.
Why similar: RPG 25.7%, CRPG 20.6%, Turn-Based Combat 18%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Fantasy 7.3%
- #18 Age of Reforging: The Freelands
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,196 reviews2025
Dev: PersonaeGame StudioPub: Kunpan Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!
Why similar: Strategy RPG 20.2%, Open World 17.7%, CRPG 16.6%, Sandbox 14.6%, RPG 8.8%
- #19 Dark Deity
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,983 reviews2021
Dev: Sword & Axe LLCPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...
Why similar: Strategy RPG 23%, Lore-Rich 22.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 20%, Turn-Based Combat 15%, Fantasy 8.7%
- #20 The Banner Saga
84% matchVery Positive89% of 15,850 reviews2014
Dev: StoicPub: Stoic Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 30.6%, RPG 21.8%, Story Rich 11.8%, Fantasy 10.4%, Strategy RPG 9.8%
- #21 The Thaumaturge
81% matchVery Positive83% of 5,424 reviews2024
Dev: Fool's TheoryPub: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.
Why similar: Narrative 21.8% ★, CRPG 20.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10.9%, Choices Matter 8%
- #22 Stoneshard
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 33,430 reviews2020
Dev: Ink Stains GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
Why similar: RPG 22.9%, Dark Fantasy 18.9%, Turn-Based Combat 18.3%, Difficult 15.8%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #23 Broken Roads
82% matchMixed53% of 436 reviews2024
Dev: Drop Bear BytesPub: Versus Evil
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Broken Roads is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in a decaying, post-apocalyptic version of the vast Australian Outback, featuring a genre-redefining morality system. Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your dangerous yet mesmerizing 25+ hour journey across the wilds.
Why similar: CRPG 31.7%, Strategy RPG 18.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13.6%, RPG 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #24 Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 726 reviews2025
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Swordhaven is a party‑based low‑magic fantasy cRPG with a deep character creation system, rich storytelling, and seamless turn‑based/RTwP combat. Explore Nova Drakonia, uncover ancient secrets, meet hundreds of NPCs with unique quests, and shape the fate of the world through your choices.
Why similar: Narrative 20% ★, CRPG 18.2%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Strategy RPG 12.6%, Turn-Based Combat 9.8%
- #25 Outcast Tales: The First Journey
81% matchVery Positive85% of 248 reviews2024
Dev: Hardlane StudioPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Experience the beginning of a grand adventure in Outcast Tales: The First Journey. Engage in deep tactical battles, make tough decisions, and choose your own adventures - write an Outcast Tale that’s unique to you!
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 27.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.8%, Strategy RPG 22.3%, Choices Matter 13.1%, RPG 10.5%
- #26 Vendir: Plague of Lies
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 248 reviews2024
Dev: Early Morning Studio
Windows
Vendir: Plague of Lies is a classic party-based RPG with a deep storyline and turn-based combat. Experience an intricately crafted world, steeped in history and brought to life through a carefully crafted atmosphere and the trials and tribulations of stories of the people that inhabit it.
Why similar: CRPG 23.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Strategy RPG 13.3%, Choices Matter 6.6%
- #27 Wartales
77% matchVery Positive87% of 34,222 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 51.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 29.4%, Open World 22.9%, Turn-Based Combat 16.4%, RPG 13.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #28 Caravaneer 2
78% matchVery Positive95% of 524 reviews2020
Dev: Dmitry Zheltobriukhov
Windows
A post-apocalyptic trade simulation game with turn based isometric combats. The game features detailed economics simulation and a rich branching story where your choices actually matter.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 18.4%, Turn-Based Combat 17.3%, Resource Management 17%, Open World 16.5%, Choices Matter 12.2%
- #29 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
77% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Story Rich 14.1%, RPG 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 13%
- #30 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
76% matchVery Positive82% of 338 reviews2025
Dev: EXLIXPub: GRAVITY
Windows
“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 30.2%, Choices Matter 15.7%, RPG 15.6%, Story Rich 11.4%, Exploration 10.9%
- #31 Waste Walkers
79% matchVery Positive81% of 212 reviews2015
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
Why similar: CRPG 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Open World 12.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10.6%
- #32 Low Magic Age
76% matchVery Positive89% of 3,411 reviews2017
Dev: Low Magic Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.
Why similar: Dungeons & Dragons 48.1% ★, CRPG 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Strategy RPG 10.8%, Turn-Based Combat 10.4%
- #33 Ash of Gods: The Way
75% matchVery Positive82% of 483 reviews2023
Dev: AurumDust
Windows
Median: 3.4 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 20.8%, Dark Fantasy 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Difficult 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%
- #34 Heroes of Steel RPG
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 282 reviews2014
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 24.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Difficult 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 14.8%, Fantasy 7.8%
- #35 Zoria: Age of Shattering
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 608 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Trinket GamesPub: Anshar Publishing
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A squad-based tactical RPG with fluid turn-based combat, outpost, and followers management, set in the expansive fantasy world of Zoria. Lead a team of four heroes with their unique skills and perks. Every team member contributes to undertaken battles.
Why similar: CRPG 19.4%, Lore-Rich 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Fantasy 7.5%
- #36 Veterum
73% matchVery Positive93% of 126 reviews2025
Dev: Crasleen Games
Windows
Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!
Why similar: Strategy RPG 24%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.6%, Turn-Based Combat 12.4%, Difficult 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%
- #37 The Doors of Trithius
74% matchVery Positive94% of 851 reviews2021
Dev: Jake Donkersgoed
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 20%, CRPG 19.5%, Open World 17.4%, Difficult 16.1%, Turn-Based Combat 11.4%
- #38 Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Innervoid InteractivePub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Embark on an epic journey, enjoying complete freedom in a dynamic sandbox RPG. The world and its inhabitants will witness your deeds and react accordingly, adapting the narrative to your choices and delivering a truly unique and free experience.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.6%, Turn-Based Combat 17.1%, Open World 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, CRPG 13.4%
- #39 SKALD: Against the Black Priory
71% matchVery Positive94% of 3,442 reviews2024
Dev: High North Studios ASPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 20.7%, CRPG 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #40 The Banner Saga 2
73% matchVery Positive90% of 3,748 reviews2016
Dev: StoicPub: Stoic Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 30.8%, RPG 19%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Story Rich 14.2%, Fantasy 8.5%
- #41 Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,721 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: CRPG 37%, Turn-Based Combat 22.1%, RPG 10.7%, Open World 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #42 Peregrino
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 164 reviews2026
Dev: Inverge Studios
Windows
Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 47.2%, RPG 21.6%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Exploration 12%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #43 Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
69% matchVery Positive91% of 6,139 reviews2023
Dev: Mimimi GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Assemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!
Why similar: Dungeons & Dragons 33.4% ★, CRPG 12.8%, Strategy RPG 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, Dark Fantasy 8.1%
- #44 Solasta II
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,269 reviews2026
Dev: Tactical Adventures
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
In a Mana-infused land, a dark force led by the enigmatic Shadwyn threatens Neokos. Bring your party of adventurers together across perilous realms in this Turn-Based Tactical RPG based on the SRD 5.2 ruleset. You make the choices, dice decide your destiny.
Why similar: Dungeons & Dragons 33.9% ★, CRPG 18%, Strategy RPG 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, RPG 6%
- #45 Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
71% matchVery Positive95% of 5,396 reviews2017
Dev: Beamdog
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
Why similar: Dungeons & Dragons 41.9% ★, CRPG 17.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.1%, RPG 6.7%
- #46 Tyranny
70% matchVery Positive87% of 13,114 reviews2016
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.
Why similar: CRPG 29.3%, RPG 17.5%, Dark Fantasy 16.4%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #47 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 260,033 reviews2025
Dev: Sandfall InteractivePub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 32.0 hrsMean: 38.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 27.3%, Lore-Rich 20.8%, Story Rich 13.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Fantasy 11.2%
- #48 Sword Legacy: Omen
72% matchMixed65% of 716 reviews2018
Dev: Firecast Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Survive strategic turn-based combat in this award-winning indie tactical RPG as you embark on an epic revenge quest in search of the long-lost Excalibur.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 20.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.1%, Dark Fantasy 18.4%, Strategy RPG 14.3%, RPG 13%
- #49 The Adventurers
68% matchVery Positive88% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Eternal Vigilance Entertainment
Windows
The Adventurers is a turn-based tactical RPG where every decision shapes your legacy. Lead your party of heroes in an open world filled with random events that affect your story. Survive a high fantasy landscape where your epic saga is waiting to be written.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 26.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.4%, Open World 21.4%, RPG 12.6%, Fantasy 12.5%
- #50 Sandwalkers
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 517 reviews2025
Dev: Goblinz StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game. Build your team, traverse varied hostile environments, face countless dangers, and gain knowledge that will help you find and resurrect the Mother Tree Umama.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 30.2%, Strategy RPG 25.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.6%, Fantasy 9.1%, Exploration 7.7%
- #51 Vambrace: Cold Soul
70% matchMixed66% of 940 reviews2019
Dev: Devespresso GamesPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Vambrace: Cold Soul is a story-driven roguelite set amidst a frozen landscape. Plan expeditions, then journey to the cursed city surface with your party. Wield unique powers, avoid traps, brave strange encounters, and survive deadly combat in this gothic fantasy adventure!
Why similar: RPG 20.5%, Turn-Based Combat 19.1%, Dark Fantasy 18.5%, Difficult 11.4%, Fantasy 9.2%
- #52 Journey to the Void
66% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: RuneHeads
Windows · Mac
Prepare to fend off attacks from all directions in this hybrid strategy roguelite deck builder. On your journey through varied grid-based biomes, battle unique foes and make tough moral choices to restore a corrupted land and decide the fate of your world.
Why similar: Difficult 25.4%, Turn-Based Combat 16.5%, RPG 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%
- #53 Valor of Man
65% matchVery Positive94% of 93 reviews2026
Dev: Legacy ForgePub: Numskull Games
Windows
Forge your party. Master your fate. In this turn-based roguelite RPG, lead four heroes through a fractured realm of danger and destiny. Build synergies, unlock powerful abilities, and face ever-shifting challenges in an epic battle for survival. No journey is ever the same.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 28.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.7%, Turn-Based Combat 20.4%, RPG 12.2%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #54 Fallen: A2P Protocol
72% 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 Strategy 24.5%, CRPG 21.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.5%, Strategy RPG 16.1%, RPG 14.4%
- #55 MENACE
63% matchVery Positive91% of 10,002 reviews2026
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: CRPG 23.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Turn-Based Combat 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #56 Blightstone
65% matchVery Positive81% of 471 reviews2026
Dev: Unfinished Pixel
Windows
A challenging, turn-based strategy with a roguelike edge. Lead a team of adventurers to destroy the Blightstone and free the world from corruption. Use free movement, dynamic environments and collectable skills to save the crystal, and save the world.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 23.4%, Dark Fantasy 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Fantasy 9.1%
- #57 Darkest Dungeon® II
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,172 reviews2023
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 26.6%, CRPG 24.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 15.2%, Story Rich 7.2%