Turn-based 2025 for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Turn-based genre

Front Mission 3: Remake - a game in the Turn-based genre

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Tactics, Science fiction

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 June 2025

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Remake of Front Mission 3 with updated graphics, new features, and various improvements. The events of the game take place in the year 2112 in a world where...

Sid Meier's Civilization 7

Strategy, Online, Historical, Turn-based, Cooperative (co-op), Grand strategy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 February 2025

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Continuation of the legendary series of turn-based strategies. Players rule as one of the many legendary leaders in world history. At the beginning, the player also...

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...

Demonschool

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...

Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Fantasy, Old school, Japanese role-playing game, Remake

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 October 2025

Metacritic: 86/100

The remake brings back the first two classic Dragon Quest games in a completely reimagined form. Both games are combined into a single adventure with the HD-2D...

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Tactics, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 September 2025

Metacritic: 88/100

The updated first chapter of the The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky series. The game takes place in the kingdom of Liberl, explored by Estelle and Joshua. The...

Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 October 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

A traveler is shipwrecked and loses his memory. On the island, the hero encounters a mysterious witch who can restore memories in exchange for service. There are 9...

Super Robot Wars Y

Role-playing game, Strategy, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Combat robots, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 August 2025

Metacritic: 74/100

Tactical role-playing game that brings together heroes and battle robots from different anime into one story. Battles unfold in a turn-based mode on various maps...

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 September 2025

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Final Fantasy Tactics returns, reinvigorated in its modern incarnation. Updated graphics, fully voiced dialogue, and numerous improvements bring the familiar story...

Wartales - Contract: The Fief

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Tactics, Open world, Medieval era

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 September 2025

The player takes control of a kingdom engulfed in lawlessness and desolation, which must be brought to prosperity. They will need to reclaim abandoned fields...

Octopath Traveler 0

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Fantasy, Medieval era, Construction, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 December 2025

Metacritic: 82/100

The new installment of the Octopath Traveler series invites you to Orsterra — a world where destinies intersect and where legends of divine rings become the...

Rogue Waters

Roguelike, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 February 2025

Players: 7.2/10

The game takes place in a pirate world that has been cursed. The player recruits a team and sets off to explore the sea. Each character has its own characteristics...

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...

Бессмертный. Сказки Старой Руси

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 October 2025

Players: 7.7/10

A card roguelike based on the “Tales of Old Rus'” universe, created by artist Roman Papsuev. It represents a modern interpretation of Slavic mythology and folk...

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...

Suikoden 1&2 HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 March 2025

Remsters Suikoden and Suikoden 2 -games from the 90s, known for their deep plot and memorable characters. In games, updated visual effects, new sounds of the...

The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak 2

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Fantasy, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 February 2025

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 77/100

The sequel continues the story of the world of Calvard, where peaceful life is again under threat. After the defeat of the Almaty mafia organization, people return...

Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker

DLC, Adventure, Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 May 2025

Metacritic: 86/100

Heroes Valerie and Zale embark on a new adventure in a miniature, mechanical world called Horlodge, where a sinister carnival threatens the locals. To survive, they...

The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 April 2025

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

The game follows Takumi Sumino, an ordinary high school student living in a Tokyo apartment complex, whose quiet life is shattered when the city comes under attack...

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Best Games in the Turn-based genre of 2025 for Nintendo Switch