Turn-based games sorted by release date
In direct contrast with real-time games, turn-based games gameplay is based on the players taking turns to do what needs to be done: move in a dungeon, play cards, attack enemy units.
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Chess
DOS1981 International PC Owners
Galaxy
DOS1981 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
DOS1981 Sir-tech Software
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a role-playing video game that was first released in 1981. It's one of the pioneering titles in the dungeon-crawling genre and one of the first computer role-playing games (CRPGs).Developed by Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead, and published by Sir-Tech, Wizardry was initially released for the ...
Executive Suite
DOS1982 Armonk Corporation
The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow
DOS1982protected Tactical Design Group
Wizardry 2: The knight of diamonds
DOS1982 Sir-tech Software
Battle for Normandy
DOS1983protected Tactical Design Group
Beneath Apple Manor
DOS1983freeware
Beneath Apple Manor is a pioneering game in the roguelike genre, originally developed and released in 1978 by Don Worth for the Apple II and later re-released for DOS as a "Special Edition". It's one of the earliest known role-playing video games (RPGs) with procedurally generated dungeons.In Beneath Apple Manor, players take on the role of an adve...
Black Friday
DOS1983
Classic Hangman
DOS1983 Norland Software
Epidemic!
DOS1983protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
IBM 9-Hole Miniature Golf
DOS1983 SoftSide Magazine
Knights of the Desert
DOS1983protected Tactical Design Group
Midway Campaign
DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Oubliette
DOS1983
Wizardry 3: Legacy of Llylgamyn
DOS1983 Sir-tech Software
Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn is a classic role-playing video game developed by Sir-Tech and released in 1983. It is the third installment in the Wizardry series. Originally released for the Apple II, it was later ported to other platforms, including the Commodore 64, IBM PC, and various Japanese computers. The game is set in the fant...
Archon: the Light and the Dark
DOS1984 Free Fall Associates
Archon: The Light and the Dark is an abandoned DOS fantasy blend of strategy and action game, developed by Free Fall Associates and published for DOS by Electronic Arts in 1984. Archon and its sequels are a unique mix of chess-like turn-based strategy and arcade action games. Take chess and add the fact that every time two pieces land on the same s...
Backgammon
DOS1984 IBM
Chess88
DOS1984
Computer Diplomacy
DOS1984 Avalon Hill
Crime and Punishment
DOS1984 Mindscape
Cutthroats
DOS1984 Infocom
DND
DOS1984
Felony!
DOS1984 BrainBank
Hack
DOS1984freeware
Lords of Midnight
DOS1984remake Beyond Software
Mychess
DOS1984 The Software Toolworks
Nerm of Bemer
DOS1984 COMPUTE! Publications
8088 Othello
DOS1985