Games like Turnbound
If Turnbound is your kind of game, the closest matches are Toy Smash Kaboom!, Fathom Reach and Backpack Battles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Turnbound: Turnbound is an auto battler, where you manage a hero's inventory to escape a haunted boardgame. Each run is different from the last, with unique upgrades, combos and synergies. Async PvP lets you battle the ghosts of other players at your own pace in this unique new inventory battler.
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Toy Smash Kaboom!
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, roguelite progression, arcade style and a competitive mood with Turnbound.
Top pick for Turnbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
Toy mayhem unleashed! Arrange, combine, and craft the wildest toy army inside your desk, then crash into chaotic cartoon brawls across the tabletop!
Fathom Reach
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Turnbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
An underwater roguelike deckbuilder where every dive is a gamble. Chain explosive card combos, push deeper for richer loot, and surface before your hull breaks. Bring the haul home to upgrade your deck—and build a base other players can raid while you're away.
Backpack Battles
WHY THIS
Shares asymmetric, auto battler, strategy and a competitive mood with Turnbound.
Third-strongest match for Turnbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Turnbound.
A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.
Wretch: Divine Ascent
WHY THIS
Shares skill tree, auto battler, arcade style and a competitive mood with Turnbound.
Ranked #4 for Turnbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
A 1v1 tactical auto battler game with elements of roguelike mechanics and backpack management in a dark medieval art style. It was inspired by Backpack Battles and developed with Unreal Engine. Create your own unique attack combos by arranging items in your backpack to connect moves.
Mic Drop Battles
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Turnbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
Words are the units — arrange letters, numbers, and punctuation freely on your Page. Async PvP auto-battler with fully deterministic combat. A tactics sandbox: create your units and trinkets, customize your Voice class in a deep skill tree. No RNG — just Strategy.
Card Collector Battle
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Turnbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Turnbound.
A 2D turn-based auto-battler about collecting gods. Summon 432 guardians from Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian, Norse and Greek mythology, then fuse duplicates into the copies you own to raise their borders from silver to celestial. Your deck decides the fight.
Cardboard Gladiators
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Turnbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Turnbound.
A PvPvE inventory management autobattler with asynchronous multiplayer! Build a team of gladiators, craft and equip powerful items, discover game-breaking synergies, and outsmart opponents with clever battleplans.
NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters
WHY THIS
Shares auto battler, inventory management, competitive multiplayer and a competitive mood with Turnbound.
Ranked #8 for Turnbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Turnbound.
NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters is an inventory auto-battler with a monster-trainer twist! Collect Cosmions and items, and strategically manage your backpack to create unbeatable combos in tactical duels. Rise through the leagues to become the ultimate Cosmion master!
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Turnbound.
Reviewers of Turnbound cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
For The King
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Turnbound.
Reviewers of Turnbound cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Turnbound.
Reviewers of Turnbound cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Turnbound.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
The Bazaar
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Turnbound cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Turnbound.
The Bazaar is a fast-paced multiplayer Roguelike where every run is a new puzzle. Choose from unique heroes, uncover powerful combos, and outwit your opponents in a dynamic, ever-changing marketplace. Play at your own pace while discovering endless ways to win.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, combo based combat and a competitive mood with Turnbound.
Reviewers of Turnbound cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Turnbound at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Turnbound on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Turnbound.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Turnbound on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Turnbound.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Turnbound on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Turnbound.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Turnbound on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Turnbound.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Turnbound on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Turnbound.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Turnbound.
Priced ~58% under Turnbound on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Turnbound on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Turnbound on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Turnbound.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Turnbound.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Turnbound.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnbound.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Turnbound.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Turnbound.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Turnbound.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Frequently asked about Turnbound
- Is Turnbound verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Turnbound is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Turnbound cost?
- Turnbound is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Turnbound have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Turnbound supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Turnbound?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Turnbound are Toy Smash Kaboom!, Fathom Reach, Backpack Battles.
- Who developed Turnbound?
- Turnbound was developed by 1TK and published by Gambit Digital, 1TK, Gamersky Games.
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