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 ...

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 ...

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Devin Friend is a graduate of McNeese State University with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. Starting from the day that he played Super Mario Kart on a Super Nintendo that he received as a ...

Playing Day of the Shell, I'm struck with a desire to see more games like it. The new roguelike from indie developer Duper Games has all the grid-based, turn-based tactics of XCOM, but trades out the ...

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, ...

Monster Couch, the studio behind the digital adaptations of board games Wingspan and Calico (Quilts & Cats of Calico), has announced a video game version of the tabletop strategy game Flamecraft. It ...

The first time I played developer Overhype Studio's first game, the ruthless Battle Brothers, my plucky crew of medieval soldiers got immediately beaten to death by bandits while trying to complete ...

Turn-based RPGs are a classic subgenre of the Role Playing genre of games, where the difficulty can range from mind-numbingly easy to “Dear God, why did that crit!?” Turn-based RPGs, especially in the ...

If My Hero Academia makes another excursion into the world of gaming, a turn-based strategy game could be a surprisingly good next move. My Hero Academia has already seen a few notable games, which is ...

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