Some of the best turn-based RPGs, like Lost Odyssey, have been almost entirely forgotten.

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 ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

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 turn-based ...

Developer Something Classic announced turn-based RPG, Quartet, will launch for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG on August 26, and for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch in ...

Chinese studio San San Er Chuan has announced On the Edge, a single-player turn-based Wuxia RPG set in the world of the animation of the same name. It will be available for PC. A release date was not ...

Christian Bognar is a Contributor at DualShockers with over three years of experience covering the gaming industry. Since 2022, he has written guides and reviews for publications including ...

Adam Braunstein is a Contributor at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2019. He primarily writes lists and features, with a focus on RPGs, JRPGs, action-adventure games, VR, ...

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 ...

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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 ...