🏆 Best Sci-Fi × Turn-Based games
There are 112 games with both "Sci-Fi" and "Turn-Based" elements. Here are the 30 most worth playing, ranked by Steam positive rate, player ratings, and popularity.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
· Very Positive 93% · 2012Turn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedStrategyA turn-based tactical game that reinterprets the classic UFO series. Players command the XCOM organi…
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Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
· Mixed 61% · 20144XTurn-BasedStrategyBringing the Civilization series' 4X gameplay to alien colonization, humanity leaves Earth and estab…
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XCOM: Chimera Squad
· Mostly Positive 71% · 2020Turn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedStrategyA spin-off set after XCOM 2, where mixed tactical squads comprised of humans and aliens execute miss…
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XCOM 2
· Very Positive 85% · 2016Turn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedStrategyXCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth…
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
· Very Positive 88% · 2015RPGAdventureStrategyFrom the Producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2, the sequel to the first-ever post-apoca…
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Star Realms
· Very Positive 87% · 2014 · FreeStrategyCardStar Realms is a card-based deck building science-fiction tabletop game, designed by Rob Dougherty a…
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BATTLETECH
· Very Positive 84% · 2018Turn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedStrategyTake command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling…
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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
· Very Positive 90% · 2018RPGAdventureTurn-Based TacticsFrom a team including former designers of HITMAN and PAYDAY comes Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, a …
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Star Wars Zero Company
· Very Positive 83% · 2026Turn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedStrategyCommand an elite squad through a gritty and authentic story in STAR WARS Zero Company™, a single-pla…
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Endless Space 2
· Very Positive 83% · 20174XTurn-BasedStrategyENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay,…
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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
· Very Positive 91% · 2018RPGActionTurn-Based TacticsTake control of one of the most technologically advanced armies in the Imperium - The Adeptus Mechan…
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Caves of Qud
· Overwhelmingly Positive 95% · 2024RPGAdventureStrategyCaves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retro-futurism, deep simulation, and swa…
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Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children
· Very Positive 93% · 2020RPGStrategyTroubleshooter: Abandoned Children is the first season of a turn-based strategy SRPG that takes plac…
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Space Rangers HD: A War Apart
· Very Positive 94% · 2013RPGAdventureActionSpace Rangers HD: A War Apart remasters and expands the world of the cult classic Space Rangers 2. T…
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Galactic Civilizations III
· Mostly Positive 77% · 20154XTurn-BasedStrategyBuild a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever!…
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UnderRail
· Very Positive 86% · 2013RPGActionAdventureUnderrail is an old school turn-based isometric indie role playing game that focuses on exploration …
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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
· Very Positive 89% · 2014RPGAdventureSandboxShadowrun: Dragonfall - Director’s Cut is a standalone release of Harebrained Schemes' critically-ac…
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Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
· Very Positive 87% · 2021StrategyActionCo-opIn the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Experience every bone-rattling explosion …
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Invisible, Inc.
· Very Positive 91% · 2015Turn-Based TacticsRoguelikeStealthTake control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporatio…
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Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon
· Very Positive 82% · 2014StrategyIn this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon…
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
· Overwhelmingly Positive 96% · 2022RPGAdventureVisual NovelSpend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative life sim with card-based battles. Expl…
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NEO Scavenger
· Very Positive 90% · 2014RPGStrategySurvivalNEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you ar…
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure
· Very Positive 95% · 2020RPGActionStrategyThe Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure is the fifth installment in the main Trails series, serving as…
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Gears Tactics
· Mostly Positive 74% · 2020Turn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedStrategyGears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game …
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Xenonauts 2
· Very Positive 81% · 2026SimulationStrategyWage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, buil…
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UFO: Enemy Unknown
· Overwhelmingly Positive 95% · 1994Turn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedStrategyYou are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-inc…
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Atlas Reactor
· Very Positive 84% · 2016FightingActionCo-opAtlas Reactor is a 4v4 team-based tactical/strategic PvP game that uses simultaneous turns with 4 ac…
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Epic Battle Fantasy 4
· Overwhelmingly Positive 97% · 2013RPGAdventureStrategyEpic Battle Fantasy 4 is a light-hearted turn-based RPG, heavily inspired by old classics like Final…
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Necromunda: Hired Gun
· Mixed 65% · 2021StrategyAdventureActionPick your contracts. Hunt your targets. Collect the bounty. Navigate an ocean of crime and corruptio…
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Scythe: Digital Edition
· Very Positive 89% · 2018StrategyCardScythe is a board game set in an alternate-history 1920s period. It is a time of farming and war, br…
