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2003 Classic

Grid-based turn-based tactics where you command infantry, tanks, aircraft and ships, using your commanding officers' special powers against the Black Hole army. Easy to learn, yet surprisingly deep and tricky in its tactics.

What defines Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising:

  • Turn-based combat
  • Tactical depth
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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Warside

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  • Turn-based combat
  • Tactical depth
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

Warside is a love letter to classic turn-based tactics games like Advance Wars. You pick a Commander with a distinct playstyle, deploy units across varied terrain, and use powerful special abilities, with a story campaign on top.

Frozen Synapse

Challenging difficulty

Frozen Synapse is a tactical strategy game where you plan your squad's orders and both sides execute their turns simultaneously. You predict enemy moves in a sleek neon-minimal look, making every round a tense, puzzle-like duel of wits.

5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel

Challenging difficulty

Chess expanded with time and parallel-universe dimensions, where pieces travel through time and spawn branching timelines. It demands intense spatial and temporal thinking, with puzzles, a short campaign and multiplayer matches.

Atlas Reactor

Challenging difficulty

A 4v4 tactical game where both teams plan their moves simultaneously and then watch them resolve in phases. It rewards predicting opponents' intentions and coordinating abilities as a team.

The Battle of Polytopia

Distinctive, stylised art style

A compact, quick-to-play turn-based 4X strategy game: pick a tribe, explore the map, grow cities, research technologies and conquer rivals. Its charming low-poly look and short matches make it very accessible.

Worms 4: Mayhem

Distinctive, stylised art style

Worms 4: Mayhem is a turn-based artillery tactics game where you lead a team of quirky worms armed with absurd weapons across destructible 3D maps. Its slapstick humor and chaotic multiplayer matches are the main draw.

Urban Rivals World

Distinctive, stylised art style

A free collectible card game where you build your own gang and face other players in quick duels. Spending Pillz, using Fury and bluffing decide short but intense matches.

Shogun Showdown

Challenging difficulty

A turn-based tactical roguelike set in feudal Japan where you manage positioning, attack order and upgradeable ability tiles on a narrow lane. Every turn feels like a small puzzle, and strong combos decide whether you reach the Shogun.

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

Bright, upbeat tone

A streamlined, console-friendly take on Civilization: lead one of 16 civilizations from founding to world power, researching technologies, building Wonders and winning through conquest, culture, economy or science. Turns are quick and easy to pick up.

Metal Gear Acid 2

Challenging difficulty

A tactical Metal Gear spin-off where every action is driven by cards. Turn-based stealth missions with deck management and a cel-shaded look deliver plenty of tactical depth.

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