Turn-based for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Turn-based genre / Page 4

Star Renegades - a game in the Turn-based genre

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 November 2020

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Star Renegades is a tactical turn-based strategy game with role-playing elements and a side-view in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Halcyon 6: Starbase...

Broken Lines

Role-playing game, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 April 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Broken Lines is a tactical turn-based strategy with RPG elements and an isometric camera view. Set during World War II, the game follows a group of eight soldiers...

Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne HD Remaster

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 October 2020

Metacritic: 77/100

Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne HD Remaster is an improved edition of the adventure role-playing game with a third-person view and turn-based...

Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remaster

Role-playing game, Side view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Fantasy, Medieval era

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 April 2023

Metacritic: 83/100

A pixel remaster of the original Final Fantasy IV with new graphics and sound. The Kingdom of Baron sends an elite airborne unit, the Red Wings, to attack...

Terra Memoria

Role-playing game, Turn-based, Exploration, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 March 2024

Six heroes travel through a vibrant fantasy world. The characters must find out the reason for the attack of the ancient machines. As they progress, the heroes...

SteamWorld Heist 2

Strategy, Turn-based, Side view, Tactics, Steampunk, Comedy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 August 2024

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Turn-based tactics in steampunk style. Not everything is smooth in the blue sea, a crisis is brewing there — a water crisis! A precious resource has suddenly...

Fairy Tail: Dungeons

Adventure, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Fantasy, Collectible card game (CCG)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 7 January 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Card roguelike based on the anime series “Fairy Tail”. The plot of the game tells how Natsu and Happy discovered a mysterious door under the guild and went down...

Pokemon Champions

Role-playing game, Action, Online, Turn-based, Free game, Tactics, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 April 2026

Metacritic: 67/100

A colorful role-playing game that invites trainers on an updated journey through a world filled with familiar and rare Pokémon. Players need to gather unique teams...

Transistor

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 November 2018

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Transistor is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell the story of a girl named Red. She is going to take...

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

Adventure, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 April 2024

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Japanese role-playing game with turn-based combat. Events take place in the world of Allraan, in which there is a place for magic, people, elves, desert people and...

Gems of War

Role-playing game, Online, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Logic, Free game, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 March 2019

Players: 6.9/10

Gems of War is a logic puzzle game in the genre of three in a row with elements of a role-playing game. Players will find themselves in a vast universe in which...

Wildermyth

Role-playing game, Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, Board / Group Game, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 October 2024

Metacritic: 86/100

Tactical role-playing game with turn-based battles. The player leads a group of heroes who have left their farming duties to protect their home. Each character has...

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Tactics, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 February 2024

Metacritic: 83/100

The main character and his talking ferret assistant received a vision from a distant land about a girl in trouble. It led them to the mysterious Snake Thorn Island...

Persona 3 Portable

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 January 2023

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

A modern version of the game Persona 3 FES (Append Edition) with improved graphics and gameplay. The main character transfers to a new school and learns that the...

Cosmic Star Heroine

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 August 2018

Metacritic: 77/100

Cosmic Star Heroine is a Japanese-style adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat, where the main character, a secret agent, has to save the galaxy. In the...

Football, Tactics & Glory

Strategy, Football, Sports game, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 January 2020

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Legend of Ixtona

Role-playing game, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Tactics, Turn-based, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 7 April 2022

Legend of Ixtona is a tactical role-playing game with anime fantasy elements and an isometric view. Peace was to reign in the lands of Ixtona after the long war...

WINGSPAN

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 December 2020

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 78/100

WINGSPAN is a fun collectible card game with turn-based combat for 1-5 players. You will act as ornithologists, collectors, connoisseurs and observers who want to...

Crown Trick

Role-playing game, Roguelike, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 October 2020

Metacritic: 82/100

Crown Trick is a turn-based roguelike with fairly simple but nice fantasy-style animation. The plot revolves around a girl, Ellie, who finds herself in a kingdom of...

Dark Quest 4

Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie, Dungeons, Exploration, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 November 2025

Step-by-step adventure in the spirit of classic tabletop games like Hero Quest, where a party of heroes descends into dark dungeons filled with traps, monsters...

Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 January 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is a turn-based tactical strategy in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. You will find a single-player campaign with a dramatic plot and a...

Quest of Dungeons

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 September 2017

World of Horror

Role-playing game, Horror, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Adventure, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 October 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

An unusual text role-playing game in a Japanese setting, combining horror from the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The old gods awaken and once again invade a...

Roguebook

Role-playing game, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 April 2022

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Roguebook is a roguelike with procedurally generated locations and card-based turn-based combat. The plot of the game tells the story of a legendary book written...

SaGa Frontier Remastered

Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Adventure, Tactics, Turn-based, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 April 2021

Metacritic: 74/100

SaGa Frontier Remastered is an anime-style adventure tactical RPG with an isometric view and a fantasy world. You will play as one of eight heroes, each with their...

Front Mission 1st: Remake

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, Isometric, Remake

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 November 2022

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Remake of Front Mission (1995) . Players take on the role of pilots of giant Wanzer robots, battling enemies in a conflict between the Oceania Cooperative Union...

Jack Move

Japanese role-playing game, Turn-based, Cyberpunk, Science fiction, Exploration, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Top-down view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 September 2022

Metacritic: 75/100

Jack Move is a top-down cyberpunk adventure JRPG. Her name is Noah Solares, she is a legendary hacker whose name is spoken only in whispers on the streets. Even...

Dark Deity

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Tactics, Fantasy, Collectible card game (CCG)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 March 2022

Metacritic: 77/100

A strategy with minimalist graphics in which you need to fight and upgrade your heroes, form squads of 30 fighters, providing them with equipment and magical...

Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless

Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 3 October 2023

Metacritic: 84/100

Fuji and his friends travel through the demonic world of Hinomoto, where bushido is a thing of the past, and the Code of Destruction has come in its place. Hinomoto...

SaGa Emerald Beyond

Tactics, Fantasy, Open world, Adventure, Turn-based, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 April 2024

Metacritic: 72/100

This installment of the SaGa franchise takes place across 17 unique worlds, each with its own aesthetic and culture. There you can meet different inhabitants...

Worldless

Adventure, Platformer, Turn-based, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 November 2023

Metacritic: 85/100

The player explores a formless world, battling enemies. Battles are turn-based, but you'll need to choose the right actions at the right moment. As you progress...

Dungeons of DUSK

Role-playing game, First-person view, Turn-based, Dungeons, Old school

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

The game unfolds between episodes of the cult shooter DUSK, but shifts the action to dark dungeons with turn-based battles and the atmosphere of a classic RPG. The...

Plague Road

Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 December 2017

Players: 9.6/10

Plague Road is a turn-based strategy role-playing game in a fantasy setting. You have to get used to the role of the Plague Doctor, who goes in search of survivors...

Wargroove

Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 February 2019

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Wargroove is a top-down turn-based tactical strategy game in a fantasy setting. You have to fight with other players, choosing your commander and gathering an army...

Alder's Blood

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 March 2020

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Alder's Blood is a tactical turn-based strategy set in the world of dark fantasy. The game will tell the story of Hunters who need to destroy a corrupted god. To do...

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Isometric

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 November 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is a role-playing adventure set in the League of Legends universe with a turn-based combat system from the creators of...

Re:ZERO - The Prophecy of the Throne

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Visual novel, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 February 2021

Players: 6.3/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Re:ZERO — The Prophecy of the Throne is a tactical adventure with visual novel elements and turn-based combat, based on the anime of the same name. A month...

Death end re;Quest 2

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 February 2022

Metacritic: 71/100

Death end re;Quest 2 is a continuation of the atmospheric role-playing thriller with turn-based battles and a third-person view in the Japanese style. The game...

Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster

Role-playing game, Side view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 April 2023

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

A pixelated remaster of the original Final Fantasy III with new graphics and sound. The four main characters have been completely redesigned, and new scenarios...

Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars

Board / Group Game, Card game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 October 2021

Metacritic: 76/100

Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars is a role-playing card game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting from the creators of the NieR and Drakengard series. A...

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Best Games in the Turn-based genre for Nintendo Switch