Free Turn Based Strategy Games

A turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force...

A turn based strategy game that can best be described as chinese checkers on steroids! The rules are simple! Big guys eat smaller guys and grow bigger. But watch out! Once greed takes over and you grow too large, you will explode into 1000 pieces scattering the neighbours with green goo. Find...

Empire Deluxe Internet Edition is the revival of the classic turn-based strategy game Empire Deluxe originally by Mark Baldwin and Bob Rakosky, based on Walter Bright's game Empire, Wargame of the Century. The inspiration for many other games, Empire Deluxe was released in the early 1990s. Even...


Platforms: Windows

A unique blend of turn based strategy and real-time roleplaying, Empires & Dungeons 2 is a highly addictive game from the makers of the Smugglers series. You have to build a mighty castle, hire an army and conquer the towns and defences of your enemies. As well as gathering resources, you’ll be...


Platforms: Windows

Project Steam Weasel is the 'code name' for a MacOSX only turn based strategy game in development. The game is intended to be multiplayer by email. By design it is modular, most of the games features are provided by modules.One default module is an Open


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

TripleA is a turn based strategy game and board game engine. TripleA comes with multiple games and over 100 more games can be downloaded from the user community. Supports single player vs AI, hot-seat, Play by Email and Forum, and a hosted Online lobby for live play online.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

King's Bounty: The Legend is an adventure RPG with Turn-based Strategy battles. In a fairy tale fantasy world of fearless knights, evil mages, wise kings and beautiful princesses the player controls a hero. Leading their character through the game world, exploring it, commanding armies in battle...


Platforms: Mac

«Strongholds» - is a turn-based strategy game based on tactical and battle cards. Reviews: "It Will Grab You By The Neck! It’s one of the better “quick campaign” strategy games I’ve played" - theAppera.com "Definitely wort


Platforms: Mac

World of Heroes is a 2D TBS (turn-based strategy) game writte in Python and PyGame, where the player commands an army in the exploration and conquest of unknown realms, gathering resources and fighting enemies.


Platforms: *nix

This game is a turn-based strategy game for 2 players (human or virtual). By the help of 10 different cathegories of military units each player tries to defeat the enemy at land, sea and air. Infrastructure supplies the armies and can be conquered or destroyed. The players act successively turn...

Astral Masters is a fresh turn-based strategy card game that will take you into the engaging world of mages and wizards. Become a powerful mage and defeat adversary mages in a series of challenging power matches all the way to Archmage rank. Colorfully themed visuals with vignettes and mysterious...


Platforms: Windows

Projekt "W" is a turn-based strategy game. This means you have a lot of time to plan your move (except for the hot-seat-mode where your time is limited in respect to other players) which gives the game a lot of strategic depth. The game can be played alone and with multiple human players. If you...


Platforms: Windows

A medieval Risk-like turn-based strategy game where you take the reins of a budding empire and struggle against fellow empires for control of the world. In one game, up to hundred players vie for supremacy, but only one can be victorious. Every game you win pushes up your score, until you don't...


Platforms: Mac

This is a game of turn based strategy. It intermingles the game of 'Go' with checkers. The goal is to conquer the play-field by covering it in the blobs of your color and assimilating any other colors... There are several play modes available to spice up the default conquest mode. Find them in...


Platforms: Mac

Based on a History Television Canada TV program, Operation Victory is a turn-based strategy game. Command soldiers across in missions that include sequences in the French port of Dieppe, on the island of Sicily, and deep inside Germany. Study the layout and mission so that you can take out and...


Platforms: Windows

Altera Terra is a Civ-like turn-based strategy game, mainly designed for easy extensibility. Still in the first stages of development, there already is a version you can take a peek at.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Alien Assault Traders is an online, web-based, turn-based strategy space trading game forked off the source of both Black Nova Traders and Nova Game Systems software and inspired by the popular BBS game of TradeWars.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

BattleChess is a turn based strategy game that has a blend of rpg, chess, and other features blended into it. The goal to winning is to destroy all opposing units, or capture their base.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

[en] Little turn-based strategy game based on Pendulous shareware rules (whose best version has disappeared). [fr] Petit jeu de stratégie en tour par tour basé sur les rágles du jeu payant Pendulous (dont la version la plus aboutie a disparu).


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

'Conquest of Time' is a turn based strategy game inspired by Civilization and Empire. You start with one city and one unit - search your opponents and defeat them! (Note: Java 1.5.0 needed for running.)


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux