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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Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World
DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Hollywood Squares
DOS1989 GameTek
House of Cards
DOS1989
Jeopardy! Junior Edition
DOS1989 Sharedata
Joan of Arc
DOS1989 Chip
John Madden Football
DOS1989 Electronic Arts
John Madden Football was the first of a series of american football sports games sponsored by the coach of the same name. The first John Madden Football is an abandoned game developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for Ap...
Keef the Thief: A Boy and his Lockpick
DOS1989 Naughty Dog
Knights of Legend
DOS1989 Origin Systems
Knights of Legend is a tactical role-playing game (RPG) released by Origin Systems in 1989 for MS-DOS, the Apple II, and the Commodore 64. Known for its complex gameplay and strategic depth, the game provides a turn-based combat e...
MicroLeague Wrestling
DOS1989 MicroLeague Multimedia
MicroLeague Wrestling is an abandoned wrestling action game based on the WWF league, developed by MicroLeague Multimedia and released in 1989 for DOS. MicroLeague Wrestling was also published for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64.
Mines of Titan
DOS1989 Westwood Studios
Mines of Titan (also known as Mars Saga for other platforms) is an abandoned single-player RPG with a sci-fi setting (you're going to Mars!). Mines of Titan was developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1989 for DOS...
Nobunaga's Ambition 2
DOS1989 KOEI
Nuclear War
DOS1989 New World Computing
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 car...
Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw
DOS1989 Oxford Mobius
Remote Control
DOS1989 Softie
Risk: the World Conquest Game
DOS1989 Mastertronic
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
DOS1989 KOEI
Scrabble
DOS1989
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS1989 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Sword of Aragon
DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
The all new Family Feud
DOS1989 Softie
The computer edition of Scrabble
DOS1989 Leisure Genius
The Dark Heart of Uukrul
DOS1989 Digital Studios Limited
Trivial Pursuit
DOS1989
Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces th...
Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation
DOS1989
Accordion
DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
It’s 1990, and you’re sitting at your DOS PC playing Accordion, a game that somehow turns solitaire into something slower and more passive-aggressive. It’s not flashy — unless you count blinking cards as fl...
Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club
DOS1990
In Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club, you’re not saving the world or slaying dragons — you’re just trying to win a few bucks from a room full of poker-faced digital strangers. Released in 1990, it’s pe...
Balance of the Planet
DOSMac OS1990 Incredible technologies
Environmental doom simulator? Check. Grim statistics? Double check. Balance of the Planet lets you tinker with carbon emissions, wildlife extinction, and deforestation until you either save the world or make it slightly more inhab...
Bang! Bang!
Windows 3.x1990
Before Worms made artillery games cute, Bang! Bang! let you and a friend lob cartoonish shells at each other using nothing but angles, wind speed, and pure spite. It's a math lesson disguised as a duel, and surprisingly addictive....
Battle Chess 2: Chinese Chess
DOS1990protected Interplay Productions
In Battle Chess 2: Chinese Chess (1990), the classic formula gets an eastern makeover—complete with new rules, a new board, and a fresh batch of animated fatalities. If you thought regular chess was confusing, welcome to xia...
Battle for Atlantis
DOS1990
Fancy a war under the sea? Battle for Atlantis (1990) asks the age-old question: what if submarines had grudges? This top-down, action strategy title throws you into a deep-sea turf war with clunky controls and a soundtrack that f...