The best hotseat games
Games supporting hotseat multiplayer mode can be played by more than one player (usually two) on the same PC taking turns playing the game. Many strategy games offer an hotseat multiplayer mode.
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Acquire
DOS1989 IBM
Acquire (1989, DOS) brings boardroom drama to your DOS screen, turning you into a hotel tycoon in a game where the real enemy is... math. It's a faithful adaptation of the classic board game, complete with mergers, hostile takeove...
Pinball World
DOS1995 Spidersoft Limited
The Ball Game
DOS1991 Esprit Software Programs
Big Business
DOS1990 Off The Wall Productions
Step into the gray, morally ambiguous world of corporate domination with Big Business. It’s Monopoly with fewer dice and more spreadsheets. Crush your competitors, manipulate markets, and remember — hostile takeovers a...
Full Metal Planete
DOSMac OS1990 Hitech Productions
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...
Risk: the World Conquest Game
DOS1989 Mastertronic
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware Thinking Machine Associates
Welcome to the future, where space empires are managed entirely via text and colored dots. Anacreon puts you in charge of an interstellar civilization and lets you conquer galaxies with the graphical intensity of an Excel spreadsh...
Loopz
DOS1990 Audiogenic
Empire II: The Art of War
DOSWindows XP/98/951995 White Wolf Productions
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
DOS1989 KOEI
Based on a classic Chinese novel, Bandit Kings of Ancient China combines strategy, RPG elements, and about 800 names you’ll never remember. You play one of 108 outlaws trying to overthrow a corrupt regime — think Roman...
Fidelity Chessmaster 2100
DOS1989 The Software Toolworks
Aquanoid
DOS1992remake
Aquanoid (1992) takes the classic Breakout formula and throws it underwater, because bricks are apparently much more intimidating when they're wet. You control a paddle, you bounce a ball, you try to pretend you're not just playin...
Nobunaga's Ambition 2
DOS1989 KOEI
Zaxxon
DOS1984 Sega
Back in 1984, Zaxxon was the future. Isometric graphics? Whoa. Shadow effects? Mind blown. But mostly, it was a game about flying a chunky spaceship through a heavily fortified space base while crashing into walls at high speed. T...
Rampart
DOS1992 Atari
Rampart is an abandoned mix of strategy and shooter game designed by Dave Ralston and John Salwitz, developed by Atari and released by Electronic Arts in 1992 for DOS. Rampart was converted from the original arcade version to a nu...
Ms. Pac-Man
DOS1984 Atarisoft
Ms. Pac-Man is a classic arcade game released by Midway in 1982 (1984 for DOS) as a follow-up to the original Pac-Man (1980), developed by Namco. While its core gameplay is similar - navigating a maze, eating dots, and a...
Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom
DOS1995 Pop Software
Mychess
DOS1984 The Software Toolworks
Pinball Illusions
DOS1995 Digital Illusions
Risk
Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth
Mini Putt
DOS1988 Artech Studios
The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow
DOS1982protected Tactical Design Group
Trivial Pursuit Deluxe
DOS1992 Oxford Digital Enterprises
Robot Rascals
DOS1987 Ozark Softscape
California Games 2
DOS1990 Epyx
The sequel nobody asked for, but we’re still kinda glad happened. California Games 2 adds even weirder sports: jet-skiing, hang gliding, and bodyboarding, which is like surfing but with less dignity. The graphics are improve...
Gary Grigsby's War in Russia
DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Jeopardy!
DOS1987 Sharedata
Carl Lewis Challenge
DOS1992 Teque
Carl Lewis Challenge is a sports simulation video game that was released in 1992 by Psygnosis for various platforms, including the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. Named after the famous American track and field athlete Carl Lewis, the g...
Hole in One
DOS1995 Really Interesting Software Company