The most popular turn based games
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TV Sports: Boxing
DOS1991freeware3.6/5 ACME Interactive
Kampfgruppe
DOS1987protected3.6/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation
DOS19893.4/5
Links: The Challenge of Golf
DOS19904/5 Access Software
Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) v1.1
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware3.9/5
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
V for victory: Market-Garden
DOS1993protected4.1/5 Atomic Games
The Aethra Chronicles
DOS19943.9/5
The Aethra Chronicles is not a well know fantasy RPG, but it deserves some praise. It was developed by only one person (Micheal Lawrence) and, as the title implies, was intended to be the first volume of a saga. Unfortunately, volume two and three were never made. For a shareware game, Aethra was pretty solid and is still loved by the ones who play...
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware3.9/5 Thinking Machine Associates
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
Alpha Centauri
Windows XP/98/951999protected4/5 Firaxis Games
Oubliette
DOS19833.3/5
Metal Marines
Windows 3.x19933.9/5 Namco
Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed
DOS1992protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is a CRPG developed by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. and released in 1992 for DOS only. Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is the sequel to Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday and it's based on a campaign setting created by TSR in the late 80s. The game uses the Gold Box engine, common to much of the RPGs developed by SSI.
Premier Manager
DOS19924.2/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Premier Manager was released in 1992 by Gremlin Interactive for the Commodore Amiga and MS-DOS platforms. It was one of the earliest football management simulation games and allowed players to take on the role of a football club manager in the English football league system.In Premier Manager, players were responsible for managing all aspects of th...
5th Fleet
DOS19943.9/5
The Great War: 1914 - 1918
DOS1993protected4.1/5 Blue Byte Software
Battle Chess 4000
DOS1992protected4/5 Interplay Productions
Free Enterprise
Windows XP/98/9519964.2/5 Tsunami Media
Dehumanizing offices? Check. Depressing environment? Check. No windows in the whole place? Check. Good, I'm ready to exploit my workers and become great entrepreneur. All of this thanks to Free Enterprise, a simulation for Windows by Tsunami Media, published in 1996.
Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Command - 1939-1999
DOS1997protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Scorched Earth
DOS1991protected4/5
Cutthroats
DOS19843.4/5 Infocom
Kaiser
DOS19924/5
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
Master of Orion 3
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected4.2/5 Quicksilver Software
Centurion: Defender of Rome
DOS19904.1/5 Bits of magic
Centurion: Defender of Rome is a turn-based strategy game set in ancient Rome times. As a centurion of the Roman Empire, you will fight against the enemies of Rome in real time battles in every corner of Italy and Europe, you'll be a gladiator, race chariots, fight naval battles and more.
Battle of Antietam
DOS1985protected3.6/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Nobunaga's Ambition
DOS19883.7/5 KOEI
Risk: the World Conquest Game
DOS19893.8/5 Mastertronic
Ultimate Soccer Manager
DOS19953.9/5 Impressions Games
Minesweeper
Windows 3.x19924/5 Microsoft
Microsoft Minesweeper is an iconic puzzle game that has been included with Microsoft Windows operating systems since Windows 3.1. The game's objective is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden mines without detonating any of them. The player clicks on a square to reveal what's underneath, and numbers are displayed to indicate how many mines...