The best 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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J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan
DOS19974.1/5 real-time tactics
King's Table: The Legend of Ragnarok
DOS1993protected4.1/5 chess, board game
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 board game
Mech War
DOS19924.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Grandmaster Chess
DOS1992protected4.1/5 chess
Battle Isle 2200
DOS1994protected4.1/5 turn-based tactics
Fields of Glory
DOS1993protected4.1/5 real-time tactics, wargame, board game
Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1996protected4.1/5 4x
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...
Tank Wars
DOS19904.1/5 artillery
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...
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Windows XP/98/952001protecteddemo4.1/5 real-time tactics
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is a tactical role-playing game published by Interplay Entertainment in 2001. Unlike its predecessors, which were traditional RPGs with turn-based combat, Fallout Tactics took a different approach by focusing more on tactical combat rather than extensive role-playing elements.The game features squad-based comba...
The Ancient Art of War at Sea
DOS19874.1/5 real-time strategy
The Perfect General
DOS19914.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
The Perfect General is a turn-based strategy military game developed by White Wolf Productions and released in 1991 by Quantun Quality Production. The Perfect General gameplay is quite simple compared to other wargames, but it's based on a solid set of rules and let the players progress at their own pace through missions and scenarios. The Perfect ...
Panzer General 2
Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Strip Poker Professional
DOS1994NSFW4.1/5 cards
Army Men 2
Windows XP/98/951998protected4.1/5 real-time tactics
Midwinter
DOS19904.1/5 first-person action-adventure
Dark Reign: The Future of War
Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 real-time strategy, real-time tactics
Total Annihilation Kingdoms
Windows XP/98/951999protected4.1/5 real-time strategy
Emperor of the Fading Suns
Windows XP/98/9519964.1/5 4x
Checkers for Windows
Windows 3.x19974.1/5 board game
Castles
DOS1991protected4.1/5 real-time strategy
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge
DOS19904.1/5 real-time tactics
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge is a turn-based strategy game developed by Westwood Associates and published by Infocom in 1990. It is the sequel to "Crescent Hawk's Inception" and is set in the BattleTech universe, a fictional universe where noble houses and mercenary groups vie for power using giant robotic vehicles known as BattleMe...
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...
The Great War: 1914 - 1918
DOS1993protected4.1/5 turn-based tactics
Strip Poker 3
DOS1991NSFW4/5 cards
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...
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.
Sword of the Samurai
DOS1989protected4/5