Upcoming Turn Based Strategy Games We're Excited For
10. The Iron Oath
The Iron Oath: Kickstarter Trailer
The Iron Oath is a turn-based tactical game that takes place in a dark fantasy overworld. In the Iron Oath recruit a team of adventurers and traverse the land, killing monsters, interacting with factions, and traveling through the nine regions of the world. Carve up or shoot down your enemies in hex based, turn-based combat where you’ll have to manage your resources and use your party as a team to survive every encounter.
Offering dynamic missions and a living breathing world that revolves around the player’s actions, every single choice you make will carry a lasting result. From causing a faction to rise to power in a city to turning allies into enemies and enemies into allies, even the smallest of choices can drastically change a playthrough to make every game a new adventure.
Destroy the dark ones using the powers of all your heroes!
Turn-based combat: Maneuver your team wisely to send these horrors back to the pit!
9. Realms Beyond
Realms beyond Gameplay Trailer
Inspired by Dungeons and Dragons. Realms Beyond is a game where you control a party of six characters as you take them through an open and well-defined world. Much like the last entry, this world reacts and adapts to your party’s actions and dialogue choices and allows you to carve out your own story.
Eight classes and customizable companions can create your party, and they will be armed with thousands of items and hundreds of spells to use. Turn-based combat allows you to use the skills of your party to the fullest, letting combinations of skills be used in tandem to destroy your monstrous foes.
Use your wits and knowledge to get through the city, for even there… danger lurks
A foul Orcish camp awaits the blades and magic of your party! Finish them all!
8. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones gameplay trailer.
Reign of the Old Ones takes place in the worlds of H.P Lovecraft, and the player character is forced to make a terrifying journey that will test the limits of their own mind. Build your character using dozens of origins, skills, traits, and belief systems to shield your mind from the darkness that will claw at your sanity!
The game offers turn-based combat and a top-down roleplaying perspective, and every single action will have an effect on your character and the gameplay. Will you use your physical strength against the horrors of the dark and risk injury? Will you call upon magical horrors that will come back to collect later? Or will you pit your own mind against the dark and hope to come out victorious?
Fight intense battles where every move can have a disastrous effect on your character.
Both monsters and humans will seek to break you in this Lovecraftian Thriller!
7. The Hand of Merlin
Hand of Merlin Trailer
The Hand of Merlin mixes the Fantasy of King Arthur and Science fiction of the Multiverse. When the player’s soul is shattered across time and space, Merlin sends the player and a group of heroes through the multiverse to recover the player’s soul and aid him in standing against the dark. With dozens of new dimensions to explore, fight, and save, you will have to use both modern and arcane knowledge to save not just your soul but also all the worlds in existence.
The game offers turn-based combat against hordes of enemies in a non-linear storyline, with thousands of items and weapons to use as you hop dimensions and deal with permanent choices, hero deaths, and the consequences. How far will you go to save your soul, and will you sacrifice a world to do it?
Plan your journeys carefully as the road holds many dangers.
Use arcane knowledge as one way to shatter your foes!
6. Necromunda: Underhive Wars
Underhive Wars: Teaser trailer
Set in the Warhammer 40K universe, these entry steps away from the shooter gameplay of the previous games. Instead it puts you in the shoes of a gang leader in the underbelly of a huge city, fighting with other gangs to achieve resources, manpower, and territory. With customizable fighters and 4X style gameplay in between the battles with deep and lasting decisions. You will find that gaining power is one thing, and keeping it is quite another.
The game takes you through 4X gameplay that can give your gang territory and other bonuses, before sending you and your crew into the battlefield to ambush, trap, and battle rival gangs. The brutal melee combat and gunplay that the 40K universe is known for will be a staple of these battles but be careful. Deaths and injuries are just as detrimental to your gang as they are to your enemies, and people will die for you to survive in the Underhive.
Hopefully, something that big is just concept art… and not a real thing.
Time for gang on gang on action in the streets of Underhive!
5. Gears: Tactics
Gears Tactics gameplay trailer
Announced at this year’s E3, the first PC exclusive game and the first Turn-based tactical game set in the Gears universe. Gears Tactics takes place twelve years before the first game and has players dealing with the Locust boss known as a Locust Monster Maker who is trying to destroy cities. This game has you command a squad of customizable soldiers against the Locust horde, complete with the epic boss battles and bloody combat the series is known for.
With various abilities, large bosses, customizable troops, and brutal battles to look forward too, long-term Gears fans will find plenty of things to connect from the series as the player deals with the first encounter with the Locusts and how the conflict began.
Blow them all to pieces! Sometimes a grenade is all you need!
The brutal gunplay and fast-paced action of the Gears series will make a return as you blast some Locust Scum!
4. Phoenix Point
Phoenix Point: Gameplay Trailer
This game, headed by the creator of the original XCOM series, Julian Gollop, will get all turn-based gamers champing at the bit to get this game started. Playing like XCOM, the player will command a squad of soldiers against the ever-growing menace from the seas. They will need to make contact with other human cells, fight and befriend other factions, and deal with an expanding and adaptable threat in a living and breathing world.
The aliens can adapt to your tactics and develop counters if you use the same skills often enough. From aliens that can resist grenades to creatures that can’t be targeted by your badass sniper, every single mission will feel like a new test. In addition, large boss battles must be fought against aliens the size of buildings, forcing the players to use new methods against them. To save the Earth, players will need to take a page from the alien's book and adapt.
Bullets might not work on that guy! Does anyone have a rocket?
Oh, Crab… This is Gonna Hurt!
3. Age of Wonders, Planetfall
Age of Wonders announcement trailer
Stepping away from the fantasy style of previous Age of Wonders titles, this brings the 4X gameplay and turn-based combat to space! You will have to build your House and survive squabbling noble houses, colony management, and NPC factions and forces as you explore the mystery surrounding the empire that came before you.
Turn-based combat makes a return with various races that have unique abilities, dozens of weapons and loadouts to use, and destructible environments that can turn the whole battlefield upside down. If you don’t like your enemies cover, blow it up! And hope they don’t do the same to you…
Aliens on one side, Mechs on another… this is going to be interesting!
Expand the seat of your noble line through diplomacy and war!
2. Total War Three Kingdoms
Total War Three Kingdoms: Announcement trailer
While a lot has been said about the new duel mechanics, romanticized gameplay, and setting of the next grand strategy game set in the Total War universe. Not a lot has been said about the deep strategic layer that makes all these battles possible. The game will see players choosing from one of eleven characters who hold a position of power in China, recruiting various generals and warlords to fight for you which will determine the makeup of your army.
The relationships between the characters also help you handle the various factions, events, and political climate of the game. If one character can recruit certain soldiers from a faction, it will give your army abilities that it wouldn’t have had otherwise. The sandbox nature of the game shows that the ways certain battles can come about will almost be as intriguing and as exciting as the battles themselves and that no two battles will be exactly alike.
Let’s duel boys! Fights between the heroes will potentially change the battle and the war.
Hold the line men, don’t let them into the circle!
1. Fell Seal: Arbiter’s mark
Fell Seal: Trailer
This turn-based, story-driven game has the player taking on the role of an Arbiter, an order tasked with keeping the world safe and preventing Chaos before it could happen. Unfortunately, you soon discover a growing darkness in the order, forcing you to work with new allies and enemies to end the threat.
The troops and party that you use are all customizable by appearance, skills, and loadout, giving you a solider for every situation and enemy as you move through a mature fantasy world and over 40 story missions, using your army to end the threat once and for all.
Endless customization for an endless army, what could be better?
Destroy your enemies in beautifully crafted landscapes… although getting blood on them stinks.
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