I’ve come across several great deals for this weekend, and in some cases, even longer, featuring excellent RPGs and strategy games at massive discounts. As always, you’ll find the full list below, along with some information on each of the games included.
Among this week’s highlights are the two main Octopath Traveler games bundled together, the recently released NORSE: Oath of Blood, the gladiatorial strategy RPG Bloodgrounds, and several established titles available for up to 90% off. Here are 15 turn-based games currently worth checking out.
OCTOPATH TRAVELER I & II
The bundle includes both mainline Octopath Traveler games, bringing together two separate adventures built around Square Enix’s HD-2D presentation and Break and Boost combat system.
Each game features eight protagonists with individual storylines, character-specific exploration abilities, flexible job combinations, and battles centered on exposing enemy weaknesses before committing stored Boost Points to stronger attacks.
The first game is discounted by 70%, while the sequel is 60% off, with the bundle applying an additional discount.
The King is Watching
The King is Watching combines kingdom management with roguelite progression and a distinctive observation mechanic.
Only the buildings placed beneath the king’s active gaze can operate, forcing players to continually shift their attention between food production, resource gathering, military recruitment, and defensive preparations.
Each run introduces different events, rulers, upgrades, and enemy assaults, turning the limited viewing area into the foundation of its strategic decision-making.
Bloodgrounds
- Developer: Exordium Games
- Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
- Genre: Tactical RPG and Management Roguelite
- Discount: 50% off
- Bloodgrounds on Steam
In Bloodgrounds, players control a former gladiator who has become a wealthy arena patron responsible for recruiting, training, and equipping a new generation of fighters.
Battles unfold through tactical turn-based encounters involving class abilities, positioning, environmental hazards, and permanent character death. Between fights, players manage their estate, improve facilities, treat injuries, and decide which gladiators are worth risking in increasingly dangerous competitions.
OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0
Set in Orsterra before the events of the original game, OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0 adapts and expands ideas introduced in the mobile RPG Champions of the Continent.
Players create their own protagonist, recruit a large selection of companions, rebuild their destroyed hometown, and fight through battles using the familiar Break and Boost system.
Party formation is broader than in the previous entries, while town reconstruction provides a persistent progression layer alongside exploration, story choices, Path Actions, and character development.
Hungry Horrors
- Developer: Clumsy Bear Studio
- Publisher: Clumsy Bear Studio
- Genre: Roguelite Deckbuilder
- Discount: 30% off
- Hungry Horrors on Steam
Rather than defeating monsters with weapons, Hungry Horrors asks players to keep creatures from British and Irish folklore satisfied by preparing and serving traditional dishes.
Recipes function similarly to cards in a deckbuilder, with ingredients, flavors, and cooking effects creating combinations that must match each monster’s appetite.
Failed meals can leave the traveling princess on the menu, while successful runs unlock permanent additions to her recipe book and expand the tactical possibilities available in future attempts.
Stoneshard
- Developer: Ink Stains Games
- Publisher: HypeTrain Digital
- Genre: Open-World Roguelike RPG
- Discount: 35% off
- Stoneshard on Steam
Stoneshard is a demanding open-world RPG actually in early access built around tactical grid-based combat and detailed survival systems.
Players take contracts, explore procedurally generated dungeons, develop characters through unrestricted skill combinations, and manage conditions such as hunger, pain, injuries, morale, and intoxication.
Every movement counts as a turn, allowing enemies to react immediately, while limited saving and meaningful death penalties make preparation, equipment maintenance, and retreating from dangerous encounters essential parts of the experience.
NORSE: Oath of Blood
Set in Viking-age Norway, NORSE: Oath of Blood follows Gunnar, a young warrior attempting to rebuild his community after his father is murdered and his people are driven from their home.
Tactical battles rely on positioning, flanking, environmental interactions, and coordinated abilities between warriors. Outside combat, players expand a settlement, recruit specialists, forge alliances, upgrade equipment, and make narrative decisions that influence Gunnar’s campaign of revenge.
Zoria: Age of Shattering
Zoria: Age of Shattering is a fantasy tactical RPG in which players command a four-character party selected from multiple classes.
Turn-based encounters emphasize ability combinations, resource management, and choosing companions suited to specific enemies or environmental challenges. The campaign also includes exploration, crafting, follower assignments, and an upgradable outpost that acts as the central base for recruiting characters and preparing expeditions.
Cassette Beasts
Cassette Beasts places players on the island of New Wirral, where monsters can be recorded onto cassette tapes and transformed during battle.
Its turn-based combat uses elemental interactions that can alter status effects and even change a creature’s type, while the Fusion system allows two monsters to combine temporarily into a stronger form.
The open-world structure also includes traversal abilities, companion relationships, local multiplayer, and extensive options for combining monster forms, moves, and passive traits.
Shogun Showdown
- Developer: Roboatino
- Publisher: Goblinz Publishing, Gamera Games
- Genre: Turn-Based Roguelike Deckbuilder
- Discount: 50% off
- Shogun Showdown on Steam
Every encounter in Shogun Showdown takes place on a compact line-based battlefield where positioning is as important as attacking.
Players arrange ability tiles into a sequence, rotate to face enemies approaching from either direction, and manipulate turn order to avoid incoming blows.
Weapons and abilities can be upgraded or combined between battles, while new characters, tiles, and passive bonuses gradually open additional approaches across repeated roguelike runs.
Blackguards
- Developer: Daedalic Entertainment
- Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
- Genre: Tactical RPG
- Discount: 90% off
- Blackguards on Steam
Set in the world of The Dark Eye, Blackguards follows a group of convicted criminals drawn into a conspiracy involving murder, political unrest, and supernatural threats.
Battles take place on hex-based maps filled with traps, destructible objects, elevation differences, and interactive environmental elements.
Players develop a party through a detailed skill system, choose between different weapon and magic specializations, and manage a campaign that places considerable emphasis on combat rather than traditional free-roaming exploration.
The Necromancer’s Tale
The Necromancer’s Tale is a story-focused CRPG set in an alternative version of 18th-century Europe. Players control a minor noble who becomes involved with forbidden magic while investigating personal tragedies and pursuing revenge.
Dialogue choices, character attributes, social relationships, and a Trust system shape how the local population responds to the protagonist, while turn-based combat and necromantic rituals gradually expand the player’s supernatural options.
The central challenge is not simply gaining power, but concealing occult activities and managing the psychological and social consequences of using them.
Unity of Command II
Unity of Command II presents World War II operations through an accessible but demanding turn-based wargame system. The campaign follows the Western Allies and requires players to coordinate divisions, protect headquarters, maintain supply lines, and capture objectives within limited turns.
Fog of war, reconnaissance, unit stragglers, headquarters upgrades, and branching campaign outcomes add depth without requiring the extensive micromanagement associated with heavier historical simulations.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Playing from the villain’s perspective, Iratus: Lord of the Dead puts players in command of a necromancer assembling an army from the remains of defeated enemies.
Parties are composed of different undead minions, each with upgradeable abilities, equipment slots, and positions within a four-unit formation.
Combat allows opponents to be defeated through physical damage or by destroying their sanity, while fallen body parts are used to create replacement minions and improve the necromancer’s underground base between expeditions.
Sunday Gold
- Developer: BKOM Studios
- Publisher: Team17
- Genre: Adventure RPG
- Discount: 80% off
- Sunday Gold on Steam
Sunday Gold combines point-and-click investigation, escape-room puzzles, and turn-based RPG combat within a dystopian version of London.
Players control three criminals attempting to uncover the activities of a powerful corporation, using each character’s specialist abilities to explore locations, bypass security systems, and gather evidence.
Actions consume points both inside and outside combat, while stress can affect a character’s performance and trigger negative behavior, making resource management an important part of infiltrating each area.
Those are some of the best deals of the week. All that’s left is to wish you a great day and invite you to join us on our new Reddit channel. Wish you the best. Ciao
