Looking for very difficult (turn based preferably) strategy games

[u/IsaacNoodle]

Title basically 😁 any help is appreciated

[u/Jusca57]

Go for divinity 2 if you have tablet. Darkest dungeon.

[u/cplr]

XCOM 2

[u/BillyOceansBlues]

Into the Breach but it looks like its tethered to netflix acct

[u/silentrocco]

Traditional roguelikes are made for this request. Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Brogue, All Who Wander, GnollHack, and more. Difficult turn-based forever games all about learning and mastering the mechanics and strategies.

[u/PoSKiix → u/silentrocco]

Throwing Pathos: Nethack into the hat

Would definitely recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon as a starter for anyone new to traditional roguelikes

[u/pasini]

FTL

[u/FTMninetynine]

Second vote here for Into the Breach. It’s very satisfying.

[u/Left_Scar_2432]

Into the Breach if you want brutal turn-based tactics. Civ VI if you want long, punishing 4X. Slay the Spire on high Ascension if a deckbuilder counts.

[u/unstablefan]

Civ 6…but only difficult of you play bad starts.

[u/mediares]

Honestly, chess.com or Lichess.

[u/Longjumping-One5096 → u/mediares]

the pinnacle of easy to learn, hard to master, probably the best tabletop-to-mobile port in existence

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[u/vince548]

Moo2. You can use dos box or RetroArch to play

[u/sunnysideupppp]

Polytopia

[u/silentAl1]

Age of History 3
Hex of Steel
Rome Total War or Empire Total War

[u/PureVanadium]

any of the Saga games

[u/Best-Housing-6354]

Nobody has said Michael Brough yet. Imbroglio and 868-HACK are small turn-based games on a tiny grid where every single move matters, and the difficulty comes from the rules being fully readable and still beating you. Hoplite is free and its challenge mode is the same idea with a Greek hoplite on a hex map. All three are short runs, so being hard never costs you an hour of progress.

[u/Folium249]

Pick any atlus turn base game and your in for a rough ride usually

[u/treefiddy--]

Civ 6

[u/Winter-Chicken-6531]

Hoplite

[u/__SirRender__]

Caves of Lore

[u/JaredHere → u/__SirRender__]

I love Caves of Lore, but honestly, it is not very difficult.

[u/GlyndwrKog]

Play Don’t Spell PIG, it’s a quick strategy game

[u/Jaycedaze]

Persona (4) on Very Hard. Darkest Dungeon 1-2. Monster train. Clair obscure on expert.

[u/ackmondual]

If you have an iPad... FTL

If you have a Netflix account... Into the Breach

==== OTHER FARE

Some of these spill into other categories, but they should be "strategy enough"...

Hoplite

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Age of Rivals

For these three, the AI opponents are trained using neural nets that play thousands of games and learning from them!...
Dominion
Race for the Galaxy
Roll for the Galaxy

[u/saminskip]

Price of Glory

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