Best Free Turn-Based Games for PC in 2024!

Hop into PvP card battles that minimize RNG and allow skill to shine.

The long-running war of the factions spills over onto the digital card game table.

The makers of WAKFU bring you their next iteration on multiplayer tactical RPG gameplay.

Jump into a fast-paced card battle inspired by the titan of CCGs

Temperia brings a “player created for players” mentality to the online board game/collectible card game (CCG) formula.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is a faithful free-to-play re-creation of the popular CCG by Konami.

Experience a rich fantasy world and strategic gameplay in Chroma: Bloom And Blight, a free-to-play CCG from Clarity Games. Choose a hero to build a deck around, and choose from the game's four factions with no limits.

Legends of Runeterra is a free-to-play strategic card game from Riot Games that utilizes the rich lore and champions of the biggest MOBA in the world. Build a deck with your favorite League of Legends champions at its core, level them up to increase their power, and engage in intense battles with your opponent until one of you destroys the other's Nexus and emerges victorious!

Save the world from an outer-space invasion in Battle Breakers, a free-to-play game from Epic Games. Monsters from space have trapped the world and its heroes in crystal and it's up to you to free them.

Challenge the gods of legend in Mythgard, a free-to-play collectible card game from Rhino Games. Utilize both magic and technology to take on elder deities, who are walking the planet for the first time in thousands of years.

Take on all comers in Dota Underlords, Valve's free-to-play auto-chess variant based on the game it all started with, Dota 2. Recruit your heroes from the shadowy underbelly of White Spire and send them off to war against seven opponents, or against AI bots, in automated battles, where strategy and planning count for more than clicking speed and reflexes.

Kards is a free-to-play collectible World War II card game from developer 1939 Games. Build decks based around any of the major powers in the war and challenge other players or AI.

Valve's Dota 2 CCG Artifact is now free-to-play, coming in two different versions: Classic and Foundry. Artifact Classic plays like the game when it launched, offering wilder, more chaotic battles, while Artifact Foundry puts more emphasis on heroes and reduces the game's overall randomness.

Enter a world of strategy and subterfuge in Dire Wolf Digital's free-to-play competitive online CCG Eternal, designed by professional CCG players. Eternal strives for a strategic CCG experience on par with the best games in the physical realm, while optimizing the experience for online, digital gampelay.

Magic: The Gathering Arena is the free-to-play online adaptation of the first collectible card game, Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering. Offering an authentic MTG experience, but with the convenience and speed of a digital game, Arena is "as much fun to watch as it is to play." Utilizing a new game engine that can take all the rules of the game into account, Arena is meant as a complement to the physical game, with no compromises for its new platform As in regular Magic: The Gathering, you'll build a deck of 60 cards and summon creatures and cast spells from five different colors of magic.

Insidia is a free-to-play turn-based tactical strategy game that pits two teams of four against each other in a post-apocalyptic -- but still colorful -- battleground. Plot out your turns and then watch your strategies unfold (or go horribly awry).

Based on the popular mini-game in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Gwent: The Witcher Card Game is a free-to-play CCG with distinctive strategic elements and multiple modes of play. You start with just 10 cards and have limited ways to get more, so you need to plan carefully.

Explore, build, and trade in Catan Universe, an online free-to-play version of the legendary Settlers of Catan board game! You start with just a pair of small settlements on a randomly generated island.

Cards and cuteness collide in Krosgama, a free-to-play CCG/board game from the makers of Dofus and Wakfu. The gods of Dofus are bored and looking for a new game to play, and so they've created Krosgama to pass the time.

Therian Saga is a free to play browser-based sandbox MMORPG with strategy elements where players create a unique character to explore, hunt, train, and craft. Therian Saga is not your typical role-playing game, this browser MMORPG, published by Gameforge AG, offers turn-based combat, a complex crafting system, a task-based queue system and Dungeons and Dragons-inspired dungeon crawling.

From the creators of Rage of Bahamut and Granblue Fantasy comes the hit free-to-play CCG from Japan, Shadowverse. Sporting an anime aesthetic, a colorful cast of characters, voiced PvE missions, and intricate CCG mechanics, Shadowverse blends gameplay and story in a way few CCGs can.

Star Crusade: War for the Expanse is a free-to-play CCG set in a fantastic universe where several alien races do battle with humanity for control of the galaxy. It's easy to jump right in and learn the basics, and in no time you'll be crafting your own decks to win control of the sector for your chosen faction!

Step into adventure in The Elder Scrolls: Legends, a free-to-play digital CCG based on the world of Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls series of popular RPGs. Determine your deck's "class" by choosing one or two out of five attributes -- such as strength and intelligence for a battlemage -- and play a series of creatures, special abilities, and spells to reduce your opponent's health to zero.

Face down hordes of bloodthirsty aliens -- and fellow humans fighting for survival -- in turn-based tactical combat with Bad Pixel's UFO Online: Invasion. In the near future, aliens attacked Earth and a deadly virus decimated the human population.

Astral Heroes is a free-to-play collectible card game that offers some unique twists and variations on the classic CCG formula. The follow-up to Apus Software's Astral Masters, Astral Heroes offers many different game modes, including a PvE campaign, draft tournaments, and random deck matchups, as well as the ability to track your progress on leaderboards to see how you match up against other players from around the world.

Spellweaver is a free-to-play online collectible card game that offers vast strategic options and a variety of game modes sure to please players of all skill levels. Spellweaver combat is more interactive than in most CCGs, requiring players to make real-time defensive decisions when attacked, and even launch counterattacks of their own.

Immortal Empire is a free to play role playing game with strategy elements, developed by Tactic Studios. Adventure as an immortal in the realm of Alvedor while discovering the secrets of the Empire.

Card Hunter is a 2D browser-based game that combines elements of a trading card game and table-top gaming. Developed and published by Blue Manchu, Card Hunter gives players the experience to play as a person, playing a role-playing game.

Bethesda Softworks' hit mobile game comes to PC! In Fallout Shelter, you'll populate and manage the citizens of your Vault-Tec Vault, protecting them from the dangers of the Wasteland and encouraging them to rebuild society.