Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “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.
Somewhere between the cerebral tile-placement satisfaction of inventory Tetris and the white-knuckle escalation of competitive autobattlers, Turnbound carves out a hauntingly clever space entirely its own. Trapped inside a cursed board game, players draft weapons, trinkets, and items onto a grid-based inventory where every placement triggers cascading cause-and-effect synergies that can mean the difference between freedom and becoming another ghost on the board. The asynchronous PvP is a stroke of brilliance, letting you clash against the saved builds of real players at your own pace, studying playback replays to dissect what went wrong and theorycrafting your next devastating loadout. With multiple heroes, branching ability trees, and the kind of “just one more run” roguelike pull that hasn’t gripped me this hard since Slay the Spire, Turnbound is a deeply strategic inventory battler disguised as a board game nightmare, and it absolutely deserves your attention.
Developer: 1TK
Publisher: Gambit Digital, 1TK
Genre: Strategy, Auto Battler, Roguelike, Deckbuilder, Inventory Management, Early Access, Indie
Release Date: 22 Jan, 2026
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows, Linux, Mac
Link: Steam
Review copy was provided.
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