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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Syndicate Wars

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected4/5 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.

Spaceward Ho!

Windows 3.xDOS19924/5 4x

Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44

DOS1992protected3.8/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan

DOS19974.1/5 real-time tactics

Mech Brigade

DOS1987protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Gemfire

DOS19924/5 turn-based tactics

D-Day: The Beginning of the End

DOS19943.5/5 wargame

Gengis Khan

DOS19893.7/5 kingdom simulation

Day of the Pharaoh

DOS19893/5

Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x19963.9/5 wargame

Battle for Normandy

DOS1983protected3.8/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Trump Castle 2

DOS19913/5 cards

Battle for Atlantis

DOS19903.8/5 board game

Bang! Bang!

Windows 3.x19903.8/5 artillery

Lords of Conquest

DOS19873.6/5 board game

Defender of the Crown

DOS1991protected3.8/5

Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue damsels.

Capture the Flag

DOS19932.5/5 turn-based tactics

Firezone

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

Austerlitz 1805

DOS19893.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5 board game

Conquest of the New World (Deluxe Edition)

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected4.2/5 4x

Conquest of the new world is a turn-based strategy game that lets you control one of 6 different nations in their attempt to colonize the new continent. The gameworld is represented in an isometric point of view. Combat is a mini-game taking place on a battlefield where victory can be achieved by killing enemy troops or capturing the enemy's flag.