The beauty of turn-based strategy lies in how it forces players to stop, think and adjust. Every action carries consequence. Every turn is a test of foresight and restraint. While some games focus on ...

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 ...

South Korean game studio Sanctuary Games, a small team founded in April 2025 by former NEOWIZ business development manager Hyunduk You, has announced Zanerdin: The Unbound, a collectible ...

A classic series of turn-based strategy games from PlayStation 1 officially makes a comeback with a brand new release on PlayStation 5.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A distress call is received from a top-secret research station in Antarctica, and then all communications are completely cut off. The final official report contained only scraps of information: ...

TL;DR: Bit Reactor, formed by former Firaxis members, is developing a new Star Wars turn-based tactical game with Respawn Entertainment. Announced in 2022, it will be revealed at the Star Wars ...

The strategy genre has grown from a niche into something more. With a wide variety of subgenres, there are multiple options for players, and they return to these titles year after year. Deep mechanics ...