November 2025 promises a busy month for turn-based RPG fans, with a diverse lineup of new titles spanning tactical combat, dungeon crawlers, and strategy games. From indie projects to established series, developers are releasing games across PC, consoles, and more, as highlighted in a recent roundup by Turn Based Lovers. Key highlights include tactical fantasies like Slaves of Magic and innovative blends such as Demonschool.
Overview of the Month
Turn Based Lovers has compiled a roundup of upcoming turn-based RPGs for November 2025, emphasizing a mix of AAA, AA, indie, and early access titles. Published on November 3, 2025, the list showcases games that blend classic tactics with fresh mechanics, from fantasy resistance stories to economic strategies and alchemy adventures. The author notes the challenge of playing all releases but praises the variety, including procedural maps, roguelite elements, and co-op features.
Key Releases
Slaves of Magic (Developer: Amethyst Dreamers; Release: November 3, 2025; Platforms: PC): This tactical RPG reimagines X-COM in a fantasy setting, where players lead a human resistance against elemental sorcery invaders. Squads of six to eight customizable units face permadeath, with a strategic layer involving monthly enemy actions, research, base management, and adaptive AI. Procedurally generated maps ensure replayability, and it launched on Steam on November 2, 2025.
Shadows of Thornkeep (Developer: Tryzna83; Release: November 4, 2025; Platforms: PC Early Access): A first-person dungeon crawler with grid-based exploration and turn-based combat. Players guide 'lost souls' through hand-crafted maps, managing loot, party progression, and camp. The early access version offers three regions and about 10 hours of content, with a full release planned after a 3-4 month window.
King’s Subsidy (Developer: Marcin Henzel; Release: November 4, 2025; Platforms: PC): A turn-based economic roguelite where players manage a medieval city as a merchant, balancing production, trading, and events. Features include a 60+ recipe crafting tree, four merchant classes, and a research system for upgrades. A free demo is available on Steam.
Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution (Developer: Studio Imugi; Release: November 9, 2025; Platforms: PC): Exiting early access, this strategy game set in alternate 1789 Paris combines political management and turn-based battles with steam-powered units. Players influence factions, propaganda, and tactical engagements featuring Colossi and officer assignments.
Dark Quest 4 (Developer: Brain Seal Ltd; Release: November 5, 2025; Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch): Inspired by HeroQuest, this dungeon crawler offers party-based tactics, a hero camp for training, and 30 quests with over 40 enemy types. Includes co-op, a level editor on PC, and Steam Workshop support, priced at $19.99.
Bloodgrounds (Developer: Exordium Games; Release: November 5, 2025; Platforms: PC Early Access): A gladiator management tactics game with grid-based arena battles and city-building. Features permadeath, nine classes, deity powers, and a narrative across five Ages with upgradable buildings.
Next Run (Developer: Clarus Victoria; Release: November 6, 2025; Platforms: PC): A roguelite strategy RPG with procedurally generated maps, seven classes, and 'hell waves' challenges. Includes building, trading, and a demo with three classes.
Rue Valley (Developer: Emotion Spark Studio; Release: November 11, 2025; Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch): An isometric dialogue-driven RPG in a time-loop motel, focusing on memory graphs and personality traits for branching narratives. Console versions follow PC launch.
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy DX (Developer: KOEI TECMO GAMES; Release: November 13, 2025 on Switch, November 12 on PC/PS; Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch): Enhanced edition with new characters, side story, custom combat, and QoL improvements like expanded synthesis and all DLC included, priced at €39.99.
Kingdoms of the Dump (Developers: Roach Games, Dream Sloth Games; Release: November 18, 2025; Platforms: PC): SNES-style JRPG in a refuse world, with tile-based battles, platforming, and six heroes for puzzle-solving across a Mode-7 overworld.
Demonschool (Developer: Necrosoft Games; Release: November 19, 2025; Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox): Tactics game with rewindable planning phases for combo-based combat, set in a university semester with classes, relationships, and 15 characters.
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked (Developer: Resolution Games; Release: November 20, 2025; Platforms: PC, PlayStation, VR): Co-op tactics crossover with Forgotten Realms campaigns, card-based battles, and cross-platform play, priced at $29.99.
Project Thea (Developers: MuHa Games, Eerie Forest Studio; Release: November 20, 2025; Platforms: PC Early Access): Deck-building survival tactics in a Slavic folklore wasteland, with party management, settlements, and card-based encounters.
Veterum (Developer: Crasleen Games; Release: November 27, 2025; Platforms: PC Early Access): Hex-grid tactics RPG with interactive maps, weather effects, and editors for units and scenarios, featuring randomized quests and difficulty sliders.
This lineup underscores November's focus on innovative turn-based gameplay, appealing to fans of deep strategy and narrative depth.