The most popular abandonware strategy games

Games based on strategy allow for reasoning and planning of one’s moves and actions. The gameplay may be based on player’s turns (Turn-based Strategy) or it may be in real time (Real-Time Strategy, RTS). These games focus on strategy and tactics rather than action, sometimes with the addition of financial or logistic features.

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Turbo Gomoku

DOS19853/5 board game

Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf

DOS19923.7/5 kingdom simulation

Empire Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x19934/5 turn-based tactics, wargame

Siege

DOS19924/5 turn-based tactics

Computer Diplomacy

DOS19843.6/5 board game

Conflict: Europe

DOS19894.2/5 turn-based tactics

Conflict Europe is an abandoned turn-based top-down strategy game set in Europe. The game was developed by Personal Software Services and released by Mirrorsoft in 1989 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.

Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz

Windows XP/98/9519994.2/5 wargame, board game

Battle Isle 2200

DOS1994protected4.1/5 turn-based tactics

Bandit Kings of Ancient China

DOS19893.9/5 kingdom simulation

Sabre Team

DOS1994protected3.6/5 turn-based tactics

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS19884/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Tank Wars

DOS19904.1/5 artillery

Dominus

DOS19943.9/5 real-time tactics, real-time strategy

Lords of Midnight: The Citadel

DOS19954.3/5 first-person party-based RPG

Triple Triad Gold

Windows XP/98/952000freeware4/5 cards

Triple Triad is a card game that originated in the Final Fantasy series, specifically in Final Fantasy VIII. The game is played on a 3x3 grid, and each player has a deck of cards featuring different characters, monsters, or other elements from the Final Fantasy universe. When a card is placed adjacent to an opponent's card, and the rank of the...

People's General

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.2/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Battle Isle 93: The Moon of Chromos

DOS19934/5 turn-based tactics

Firezone

DOS19883.1/5 turn-based tactics, wargame, board game

Blitz Draughts

DOS19923.7/5 board game

High Command: Europe 1939-45

DOS19924.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Battle for Normandy

DOS1983protected3.8/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS19893.8/5 board game

Iron Lord

DOS19903.5/5

Twilight 2000

DOS19914.1/5 board game, real-time tactics, wargame

Archon Ultra

DOS1994protected3.7/5 board game

Cave Wars

DOS19964.2/5 real-time tactics

Chess

DOS19813.9/5 chess

Monopoly

DOS19854.1/5 board game

Heirs to the Throne

DOS19923.8/5 kingdom simulation

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...