Turn-based for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Turn-based genre / Page 6

Demonschool - a game in the Turn-based genre

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Visual novel, Tactics, Comedy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 November 2025

Metacritic: 74/100

A tactical RPG with an unusual approach to combat, where every move is also an action. The story takes place on a mysterious island, where the boundary between the...

The Battle of Polytopia

Strategy, Simulation, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 October 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 72/100

The Battle of Polytopia is a minimalist global strategy game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. In the game you will go to conquer the Square...

Skulls of the Shogun

Arcade, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 July 2019

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Fallen Legion Revenants

Anime / Manga, Strategy, Turn-based, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Visual novel

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 February 2021

Metacritic: 54/100

Fallen Legion Revenants is a turn-based strategy role-playing game with turn-based combat and visual novel elements in a fantasy setting. In a world covered in...

Legrand Legacy

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 January 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Legrand Legacy is a tactical turn-based role-playing game with an isometric camera view in a Japanese style. The main character named Finn is the leader of a bandit...

Mittelborg: City of Mages

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 July 2020

Mittelborg: City of Mages is a turn-based strategy role-playing game in a fantasy setting. Mittelborg is located at the core of the universe and guards the borders...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Comics, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 August 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

A tactical game where the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles battle villains in turn-based battles. Splinter and Shredder are dead. The player tries to help the...

Liege Dragon

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 October 2020

Players: 6.7/10

Liege Dragon is a turn-based tactical fantasy RPG with an isometric view and anime elements. With the return of the evil dragon to life, confusion began in the...

SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 April 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech is a collectible role-playing card game with turn-based combat in the fantasy universe of SteamWorld. You have to become the...

The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game

Top-down view, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, The Lord of the Rings

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 November 2019

Players: 7.4/10

The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game is a turn-based collectible card game set in the fantasy universe of Lord of the Rings. The main feature of the project...

The Shrouded Isle

Strategy, Horror, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Turn-based, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 January 2019

Metacritic: 69/100

The Shrouded Isle is a management turn-based strategy with horror elements and a top-down view, in which you will control a small gloomy port town, satisfying the...

Monopoly (2019)

Board / Group Game, Tactics, Business / Management, Online, Educational game (Education), Isometric, Strategy, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 3 October 2017

Monopoly (2019) is an educational online board game with elements of business and turn-based strategy with an isometric view. You roll the dice and buy, sell, build...

Research and Destroy

Cooperative (co-op), Turn-based, Tactics, Strategy, Role-playing game, Science fiction

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 April 2022

The gamer controls a group of brilliant scientists who confront hordes of supernatural monsters. As they study their opponents, heroes unlock new equipment and...

Escape from Ever After

Role-playing game, Action, Turn-based, Side view, Comedy, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 January 2026

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

A bright game in the spirit of the Paper Mario series. In the story, greedy corporations from the real world want to profit from the magical worlds of books. The...

FANTASIAN Neo Dimension

Role-playing game, Japanese role-playing game, Turn-based, Dungeons, Anime / Manga, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 December 2024

Metacritic: 81/100

The world is engulfed by mechteria, a deadly mechanical infection that erases emotions and lives. The main character Leo awakens in an alien world inhabited by...

Saturday Morning RPG

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 April 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Saturday Morning RPG is a fantastic side-scrolling RPG with turn-based combat. The developers took inspiration from cartoons and the culture of the eighties. The...

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...

Zoeti

Adventure, Turn-based, Tactics, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy, Collectible card game (CCG)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 April 2023

The player embarks on a journey through a fairy-tale world, where they fight against monsters that have flooded these lands. Battles take place using a deck of...

Neoverse

Adventure, Card game, Futurism (Future), Third-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Tactics, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 January 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 62/100

Neoverse is a tactical card game in the futuristic genre with a third-person view and anime elements. This is a beautiful, fantastic game of adventure with exciting...

Final Fantasy Resonance

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 22 October 2026

The first game in the series, made in the popular HD-2D style. The developers combined classic pixel art with modern visual technologies, dynamic camera work, and...

Meg's Monster

Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 March 2023

Metacritic: 79/100

The game takes place in the Underworld — a land of monsters and mutants who eat people for breakfast. But a huge ogre named Roy doesn't want to eat people...

Wargroove 2

Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 October 2023

Metacritic: 84/100

Players take command of armies made up of a variety of units and fight in tactical battles against numerous opponents. The game's plot takes place in a new region...

Floppy Knights

Strategy, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Card game, Tactics, Collectible card game (CCG)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 December 2022

Turn-based card strategy in the world of retro technology and magic. Young inventor Phoebe is trying to save enough money to finally move out from her parents...

Dread Nautical

Role-playing game, Indie, Turn-based, Top-down view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 April 2020

Players: 5.9/10

Metacritic: 58/100

Dread Nautical is a fun RPG with turn-based combat and a top-down view. Supernatural forces filled the ship with mysterious evil monsters. Therefore, you have to...

Highwater

Adventure, Turn-based, Tactics, Post-apocalyptic, Isometric

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 March 2024

Metacritic: 70/100

Atmospheric adventure in a flooded world, where among the ruins of the old world there is still a place for friendship and hope. Nicos and his friends travel by...

Vagrus - The Riven Realms

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Open world, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 31 March 2025

A role-playing game focused on storytelling, exploring an open world, and strategic management. At the center of the story is the vagrus — the leader of a caravan...

Ikenfell

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 October 2020

Metacritic: 71/100

Ikenfell is a classic adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. The game is about a group of troubled students from a school of...

THERMOCLINE

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Turn-based, Indie, Free game, Dungeons, Old school

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2027

A grim psychological horror set on the frozen surface of a dead planet, where an icy storm is just one of many threats. As the sole survivor among abandoned...

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 July 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a fantasy strategy game with turn-based combat and role-playing elements set in the Fire Emblem universe. The game contains...

MECHBORN

Turn-based, Card game, Combat robots, Roguelike, Science fiction

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

A card roguelike where the player faces a global kaiju invasion, controlling combat mechs and their pilots. The game abandons the classic card hand and uses a...

Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition

Visual novel, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Futurism (Future), Side view, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 March 2020

Players: 6.2/10

Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition — enhanced edition of the role-playing game Deep Sky Derelicts. It includes expansions: Deep Sky Derelicts: Station Life...

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...

Quest of Dungeons

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 September 2017

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...

Wintermoor Tactics Club

Strategy, Roguelike, Role-playing game, Tactics, Turn-based, Isometric, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 September 2020

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Wintermoor Tactics Club is a tactics game where a group of academy students play various board games. The main character and her team are going through a...

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...

LumenTale: Memories of Trey

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Exploration, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 May 2026

Metacritic: 76/100

A role-playing game with elements of creature collection, unfolding in the magical world of Talea. Trey embarks on a journey to restore lost memories. His path...

A Long Way Down

Strategy, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 April 2021

Players: 6.7/10

A Long Way Down is a fun side-scrolling card strategy game set in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to try on the role of Sam, who finds himself in the...

Dragon Star Varnir

Role-playing game, Action, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 3 August 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Dragon Star Varnir is a fun JRPG with turn-based combat. The events of the game take place in a dark fantasy world, where you have to get into the role of the...

Holy Potatoes! We're in Space?!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Business / Management, Turn-based, Indie, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 January 2019

Players: 8/10

Holy Potatoes! We're in Space?! is a fun sci-fi management simulator with turn-based strategy elements. The game is a continuation of Holy Potatoes! A Weapon...

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Best Games in the Turn-based genre for Nintendo Switch