The best abandonware simulation games

Simulation games are designed to convey realism in every aspect, from gameplay to visuals. Simulation games have a number of sub-genres according to their main goals, for example building cities, managing business companies, leading a social life, or campaigning for president.

Recently added and trending simulation games

Lords of the Realm

simulationDOS, Windows XP/98/95

Pirates! Gold

simulationDOS, Windows 3.x, Mac

Lightspeed

simulationDOS

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Iron Seed

DOS1994freeware3.8/5
Guns 'R' Us

DOS19933.8/5 Future Vision
Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio

DOS19883.7/5 Starsoft Development
President Elect

DOS1987protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Grand Prix

DOS19893.7/5 Wizard Games
Afterlife

Windows XP/98/951996protected3.6/5 LucasArts
Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers

DOS19863.6/5 Activision
Life & Death 2: The Brain

DOS19903.6/5 Software Toolworks
Reelect JFK

Windows 3.x19943.6/5
Taipan for Windows

Windows XP/98/952002freeware3.6/5
Mind Mirror

DOS19863.6/5
Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown

DOS19883.6/5 Mindscape

Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown is an abandoned simulation game with role-playing elements developed by Mindscape and released in 1988 exclusively for DOS. Visions of the Aftermath is one of the few early examples of games involving survival in a post-apocalyptic environment.
The Amazon Trail

DOS19933.6/5 MECC
Computer Underground

DOS1993freeware3.5/5 Haxsoft
Quandaries

DOS19983.5/5
China Sea Trader

DOS19893.5/5
Lightspeed

DOS19903.5/5 MicroProse Software
Galleons of Glory

DOS19903.5/5 Broderbund

Galleons of Glory is an abandoned educational historical simulation game developed and published by Broderbund in 1990. As Magellan your mission is to circumnavigate the world while managing your crew and ship.
Dinopark Tycoon

DOS19933.5/5 Manley Associates
Black Monday

DOS19873.5/5 Starsoft Development
Murder in the Atlantic

DOS19883.3/5 CobraSoft
Murder on the Zinderneuf

DOS19843.3/5 Free Fall Associates
Steel Thunder

DOS1989protected3.3/5 Accolade
The President is Missing

DOS1988protected3.3/5 Cosmi Corporation
Solidarnosc

DOS19913.3/5 P. Z. Karen Co. Development Group
Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market

DOS19843.2/5
Yuppi's revenge

DOS19883.1/5 Ariolasoft
EGA Trek

DOS1988remake2.7/5
Murder by the Dozen

DOS19832.7/5 BrainBank