Overviews

Perhaps this page is the heart of the entire Turn Based Lovers project. Here you’ll find what I’ve always enjoyed doing: showcasing video games, whether they’re Triple-A titles or small indie gems, with brief overviews where I include descriptions to give you an immediate idea of the game I’m presenting, complete with links, images and videos.

Echoes of Agony Overview

Echoes of Agony Ties Turn Order to Stamina in a Dark, Tactical Loot-Driven Roguelite RPG

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Indie dev Apocrypha is developing Echoes of Agony, a turn-based roguelite for PC. Its premise has you confronting manifestations of ...

Bad House Autobattler RPG

Bad House Is an Auto-Battler Dungeon Crawler About Exploring a Basement and Escaping With Your Loot

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Kingsway creator Andrew Morrish teams up with The Arcade Crew, the publisher behind Drop Duchy. Bad House is a single-player ...

Eternal Anima JRPG

Eternal Anima Is a Turn-Based JRPG That Lets You Predict and Rewrite Enemy Turns

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Marvelous, the studio behind the Story of Seasons and Rune Factory series, returns with a new turn-based JRPG led by ...

Shop Crush Overview

Shop Crush Hides a Psychological Horror Story Behind Limited-Turn Bargaining

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Lately, I’ve really been enjoying RPGs that blend visual novel elements with management mechanics, and today I’m covering another very ...

Tactical Squad PC Game Overview

Tactical Squad Puts Six-Unit Teams Into Turn-Based PvP on Destructible Maps

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A smoke grenade in Tactical Squad can do more than conceal an advance. In a developer-described match, a criminal unit ...

Fabulous Fool Card Game

Fabulous Fool Turns Defensive Card Play Into Demon-Fueled Combos

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Defending against an enemy’s hand is also how you set up your damage in Fabulous Fool. This fantasy roguelite deckbuilder ...

Vermilion Sea SRPG Overview

Vermilion Sea Is a Tactical RPG Where You Can’t Complete Every Mission

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Many tactical RPGs ask you to optimize what happens once a battle begins. Vermilion Sea adds another problem: deciding which ...

Edge of the Blade Overview

Roguelite Strategy Edge of the Blade Gives You One Season to Win a War

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Weekly objectives, supply-based army deployment, faction-specific campaigns, and real-time autobattles define NINEHECTARE’s upcoming strategy roguelite. Edge of the Blade centers ...

Southern Lights: Broken Frequency Overview

Southern Lights: Broken Frequency Brings Turn-Based Survival Strategy to an Antarctic Research Station

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An Antarctic research station cannot repair every damaged system, protect every exhausted crew member, and investigate an unknown phenomenon at ...

Hexlands Roguelite Deckbuilding

Roguelite Deckbuilder HexLands Turns Cards Into Farms, Mills, and Harbors Across Procedural Islands

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Aquila Interactive has signed Portgate Studios’ combat-free, turn-based settlement builder for a PC release in 2027. Most roguelite deckbuilders ask ...