turn-based
Adjective
Meaning
turn-based (not comparable)
(gaming) In which players take turns rather than playing simultaneously.
Antonym: real-time
Hyponym: play-by-mail
Examples
Accompanying the announcement is a truly bombastic trailer for Yakuza: Like A Dragonheavy emphasis on the game's turn-based combat and the interchangeable character jobs that can be collected and equipped.
After configuring the entire turn-based strategy game to be compatible with a controller, Xbox moved on.
Ace is joined by his head of security (his sister) and his campaign strategist, who “mostly has experience with real-time and turn-based strategy.”
Alpha Centauri, a turn-based strategy game with a science fiction setting, is played from an isometric perspective.
Being dominated by turn-based battles and a story based on finding out who set up Ichiban Kasuga, the game has a variety of minigames the player can interact with.
An apparent marketing slide for the Mario-Rabbids game, breaking down how the game would play on Nintendo Switch, with a mix of exploration and turn-based combat that seems to hearken to Nintendo-published Mario role-playing games.