The most popular abandonware strategy games
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Myth: The Fallen Lords
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS19974.2/5 real-time tactics, real-time strategy
Ascendancy
DOS19954.2/5 4x
Ascendancy is a science fiction themed turn-based strategy game developed by The Logic Factory and released in 1995 for DOS. Ascendancy is a classic 4X game (eXpand, eXplore, eXploit, eXterminate), similar to Master of Orion, yet with a few differences such as a technology tree.
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Windows XP/98/951999protected4.1/5 real-time tactics
Blood & Magic
DOS19963.9/5 real-time strategy
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...
Master of Magic
DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected4.2/5 kingdom simulation, 4x
Master of Magic is a turn based 4x strategy game developed by SimTex and published by the well know Microprose, very similar to Civilization, with a fantasy twist. You play as a wizard and your objective is to evolve your race from a small settlement to a bursting empire. To do so, you can produce military units to fight other computer controlled p...
Decision in the Desert
DOS19853.8/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Dark Reign: The Future of War
Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 real-time strategy, real-time tactics
Heroes of Might and Magic
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 turn-based tactics
North and South
DOS19904.2/5 wargame
Castles
DOS1991protected4/5 real-time strategy
StarCraft
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1998protecteddemo4.1/5 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...
Steel Panthers
DOS19954.2/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Steel Panthers is the first game in the Steel Panthers series. It was released in 1995 by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). This initial release laid the foundation for the series and introduced players to the turn-based tactical wargame experience that would be further developed in subsequent titles. The game focused on armored warfare and featur...
Strip Poker Deluxe
DOS1994NSFW4.2/5 cards
Command HQ
DOS19904/5 wargame, real-time strategy
Dungeon Keeper 3: War for the Overworld
Windows2000canceled4/5 sandbox strategy, god game, real-time strategy
Dungeon Keeper 3 was a cancelled dungeon management strategy game being developed by Bullfrog that was never released. Dungeon Keeper 3 was cancelled in 2000 and the Dungeon Keeper franchise ended without a third chapter.
Dragonriders of Pern
DOS19873.1/5 board game
Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance
DOS1985NSFW3.9/5 cards
Scorched Earth
DOS1991protected4/5 artillery
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...
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici
DOSMac OS1996protected3.9/5 sandbox strategy, real-time strategy, city building
Stronghold
DOS1993protected4/5 real-time strategy, kingdom simulation
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.
Centurion: Defender of Rome
DOS19904.1/5 4x
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.
Mychess
DOS19843.8/5 chess
Alpha Centauri
Windows XP/98/951999protected4/5 4x
Queen of Tenshindo 95
Windows XP/98/951995NSFW3.9/5 cards
Cannon Fodder
DOS1994protected4.2/5 real-time tactics
Ambush at Sorinor
DOS19933.7/5 real-time strategy, real-time tactics
Gary Grigsby's War in Russia
DOS1993protected3.7/5 wargame, turn-based tactics