The best abandonware strategy games
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos - Yugi the Destiny
Windows XP/98/9520034.1/5 cards
Battle Isle 2200
DOS1994protected4.1/5 turn-based tactics
Fields of Glory
DOS1993protected4.1/5 real-time tactics, wargame, board game
Z
DOS1996protected4.1/5 real-time strategy
Z is a real-time strategy game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and originally released in 1996 for MS-DOS. It's known for its fast-paced gameplay, humorous style, and distinctive art design.In Z, players control a robot army across various battlefields, aiming to conquer territories and defeat enemy forces. The game features a tongue-in-cheek narr...
Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne
Windows XP/98/952002protecteddemo4.1/5 turn-based tactics
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne is a turn-based strategy game developed by Triumph Studios and published by Gathering of Developers. It was released in 2002 as a sequel to the original Age of Wonders. The game is set in a fantasy world where players take on the role of a leader, either as a wizard or a warlord, and compete for control of the...
The Ancient Art of War at Sea
DOS19874.1/5 real-time strategy
Conquest of Japan
DOS19924.1/5 wargame
The Grandest Fleet
DOS19944.1/5 wargame
Dominium
DOS19924.1/5 real-time strategy
Total Annihilation Kingdoms
Windows XP/98/951999protected4.1/5 real-time strategy
Midwinter
DOS19904.1/5 first-person action-adventure
StarCraft
Windows XP/98/95Mac1998protecteddemo4.1/5 real-time strategy
StarCraft is a classic RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 1998 for Windows and Macintosh. StarCraft takes the Warcraft experience to a sci-fi setting with an interesting story, three very different races (the militaristic Humans, the alien Zerg and the religious Protoss) and one of the best gameplay ex...
Emperor of the Fading Suns
Windows XP/98/9519964.1/5 4x
Checkers for Windows
Windows 3.x19974.1/5 board game
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge
DOS19904.1/5 real-time tactics
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge is a turn-based strategy game developed by Westwood Associates and published by Infocom in 1990. It is the sequel to "Crescent Hawk's Inception" and is set in the BattleTech universe, a fictional universe where noble houses and mercenary groups vie for power using giant robotic vehicles known as BattleMe...
Panzer General 2
Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
The Great War: 1914 - 1918
DOS1993protected4.1/5 turn-based tactics
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
DOS1996freeware4/5 real-time strategy
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1996. It is part of the Command & Conquer series and is set in an alternate history where World War II never occurred, leading to a different global conflict.The success of Red Alert led to several seque...
Nuclear War
DOS19894/5 board game
Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
Syndicate Wars
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1996protected4/5 real-time tactics
Syndicate Wars is the sequel to the much acclaimed Syndicate developed by Bullfrog in its golden years. Like its predecessor, Syndicate Wars is a real-time tactics strategy game set in a cyberpunk dystopian world involving excessive violence, mega-corporations, bleak urban environment. Syndicate Wars also supports a multi-player co-op mode via LAN.
Sword of the Samurai
DOS1989protected4/5
Dungeon Keeper 2
Windows XP/98/95Mac1997protected4/5 sandbox strategy, god game, real-time strategy
Patton vs. Rommel
DOS19874/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Windows XP/98/952001protecteddemo4/5 real-time tactics
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is a tactical role-playing game published by Interplay Entertainment in 2001. Unlike its predecessors, which were traditional RPGs with turn-based combat, Fallout Tactics took a different approach by focusing more on tactical combat rather than extensive role-playing elements.The game features squad-based comba...
Castles
DOS1991protected4/5 real-time strategy
Midway Campaign
DOS19834/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Scorched Earth
DOS1991protected4/5 artillery
Bobby Fisher teaches chess
DOS19944/5 chess
Empire Deluxe
DOSWindows 3.x19934/5 turn-based tactics, wargame
Monopoly Deluxe
DOSWindows 3.x19924/5 board game
Monopoly Deluxe is an abandoned turn-based top-down Monopoly adaptation of the classic board game, developed by Parker Brothers and released by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Monopoly Deluxe was published for DOS, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh.