Turn-based 2018 for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Turn-based genre

Darkest Dungeon - a game in the Turn-based genre

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 January 2018

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Darkest Dungeon is a unique party RPG, where the skills of your heroes are tied not to abstract indicators of strength, dexterity, intelligence, but to a very real...

Sid Meier's Civilization 6

Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 November 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Sid Meier's Civilization 6 is a management strategy game with turn-based battles and an isometric camera view. Cities in the new game of the famous series expand...

Into the Breach

Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 August 2018

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Into the Breach is a tactical strategy game with turn-based battles about fighting off an alien invasion from the creators of FTL: Faster Than Light. You will...

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...

Armello

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 September 2018

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Armello is a unique hybrid of two genres — a collectible card game and a tabletop turn-based RPG from the creators of League of Geeks. The game world is...

Battle Chasers: Nightwar

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 May 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a classic RPG in the style of Heroes of Might and Magic 3. You will explore dungeons, develop the abilities of your characters and move...

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf: Blood on the Snow

Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 February 2018

Metacritic: 78/100

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf: Blood on the Snow is a fantasy RPG adventure in the style of a visual novel. Make meaningful choices and forge your own path in this epic...

Child of Light

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 October 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Child of Light is a puzzle-platformer adventure with RPG elements and turn-based combat. The game is based on fairy tales. The events of the game tell the story of...

West of Loathing

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Indie, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 31 May 2018

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 86/100

West of Loathing is an unusual adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat. You have to go to the minimalistic world of the city of Boring Springs, where you...

Exorder

Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 October 2018

Metacritic: 60/100

Exorder is a turn-based strategy game with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. The events of the game take place in a colorful fairy-tale world, where...

Valkyria Chronicles

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 October 2018

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Valkyria Chronicles is a turn-based tactical strategy with role-playing elements. The game takes place in Europe in 1935, presenting an alternative version of World...

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...

Super Neptunia RPG

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 June 2019

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 61/100

Super Neptunia RPG is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in the yperdimension Neptunia universe, where...

Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee!

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 November 2018

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee! is an exciting adventure role-playing game set in the Pokemon universe. You will travel through a colorful world and catch famous...

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...

Mercenaries Saga Chronicles

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 February 2018

Metacritic: 68/100

Mercenaries Saga Chronicles is a game collection of classic adventure role-playing games with turn-based combat in the Mercenaries Saga universe. The game includes...

Disgaea 1 Complete

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 October 2018

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Disgaea 1 Complete is a re-release of the classic role-playing game with Japanese-style turn-based combat. You have to go to a colorful fairy-tale world and try on...

Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu!

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 November 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! is an exciting adventure role-playing game set in the Pokemon universe. You will travel through a colorful world and catch famous...

Dawn of the Breakers

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 July 2018

Dawn of the Breakers is a free-to-play role-playing game with turn-based combat. The events of the game take place on the territory of modern Japan, where you try...

Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 April 2018

Metacritic: 73/100

Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs is a role-playing game full of exciting combat and adventure. Kai, from the House of Loren, unexpectedly inherits the old and...

Darkest Dungeon: The Color of Madness

Role-playing game, Action, DLC, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 October 2018

Players: 10/10

Darkest Dungeon: The Color of Madness is an expansion for a unique side-scrolling party-based RPG with turn-based combat. The add-on has added a new type of task...

Light Fingers

Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 September 2018

Light Fingers is a tabletop turn-based strategy game in a fantasy setting. In front of you will be a playing field that resembles a clock, generating playing fields...

Longest Five Minutes

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 February 2018

Longest Five Minutes is a top-down adventure RPG with Japanese-style turn-based combat. You have to try on the role of a hero who will oppose the very real forces...

Ambition of the Slimes

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 December 2017

Ambition of the Slimes is a turn-based tactical strategy with role-playing elements and an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell an amazing...

Mad Carnage

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 February 2018

Players: 2/10

Mad Carnage is a post-apocalyptic tactical strategy with an isometric camera view. The events of the game will take you to the times after the Great War, which...

GOD WARS The Complete Legend

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 September 2018

Metacritic: 70/100

GOD WARS The Complete Legend is a Japanese-style tactical RPG with turn-based combat that is an improved version of God Wars: Future Past with new episodes, music...

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Best Games in the Turn-based genre of 2018 for Nintendo Switch