What is a turn-based strategy game (turn-based or TBS)?

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Far from the blockbuster hits of video games, there are games with devoted fans for a long time: turn-based strategy games, or TBS (from the English Turn Based Strategy). Often of high quality, they require thought while plunging you into distinctive worlds. Explanations.

"Rushing" with Kalashnikovs or chaining quarter-circle axe-slash moves in fighting games, not for you. Real-time strategy games that require thousands of actions per minute to survive for more than a few seconds are not for you. There are video games for every taste, so if you like thinking seven times before you speak, if you like weighing every one of your decisions as if your life depended on it, you might adore turn-based strategy games

As the name suggests, the action takes place turn by turn, and the player must therefore wait their turn to act. This implies, in contrast to a real-time strategy game, that the game focuses less on action and more on decision making. It’s a bit like playing chess on a living board, and in a different universe each time. Moreover, like chess, the best turn-based strategy games push players to plan their actions several turns ahead.

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The principle is simple: you have a certain number of possible actions, which you exhaust during your turn. Then it’s the opponent’s turn to play. Many tactics are possible, and you don’t suffer from the clock’s pressure. Here there’s no stress or frantic clicking. Their advantage is that you can replay the same game again and again using different strategies and different executions.

For The King

For The King

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A cutesy strategy game, but don’t let appearances fool you, you’ll need to have your head screwed on if you’re to bring peace back to the kingdom. A cross between a real board game with dice rolls and a turn-based combat game, you’ll play as three characters simultaneously, and be sure to choose them well so that their skills complement each other. Welcome to the land of troubadours and minstrels.

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Blackguards

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A highly tactical turn-based RPG, Blackguards is set in the Dark Eye universe and the world of Aventuria. With a depth matched only by its complexity, it will delight fans of Dungeons & Dragons who’ll find the same game systems in play, with dice rolls determining the damage inflicted by an attack. A game for fans of games that only ever get more difficult.

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Blackguards 2

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A challenging and generously deep tactical RPG with intelligent storytelling. Just like the first game, Blackguards 2 takes its setting and game mechanics from Dark Eye and Dungeons and Dragons. One for fans of role-playing games and turn-based combat.

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