From story-driven adventures to traditional meticulous strategies, turn-based RPGs are already having a great year in 2026.

Depending on your sensibilities, The Bearded Ladies’ Mutant Year Zero might not qualify for this list. It’s a turn-based tactics game in the vein of XCOM, but introduces real-time exploration elements ...

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Turn-based strategy is entering a new golden age as GCML highlights the genre’s top ten icons sourced from across the internet and gaming communities. From the tactical grit of XCOM to the historical ...

Turn-based deck-builders like Slay The Spire and Darkest Dungeon 2 lack sequels but offer engaging gameplay. Tactical Breach Wizards excels with witty dialogue, offering strategic gameplay and ...

On the Nintendo Switch, there are so many great new turn-based strategy games out there right now! Enough to inspire me to write a whole list of them. I’ve put together the top five turn-based ...

XCOM makes it abundantly clear that a full-scale alien invasion would put humanity very much on the back foot. But what if they had arrived during a time where our world was already in the midst of a ...

Developer Ice Code Games (Hard West II, Rogue Waters) have announced Nightmare Frontier, a tactical turn-based strategy game that's also an extraction looter. Think "XCOM meets Hunt: Showdown with a ...

Othercide is one of those games that's been on my backlog for too long. The turn-based tactics game is wonderfully stylish and seems to serve up the exact type of head-scratching combat I crave. Now, ...