Abandonware DOS title

The most popular historical games

Some games are set in a specific historical period, usually a period of time particularly enjoyable for gamers such as the midde ages, the discovery of the Americas or the second world war. Historical games take a step further and try to be more faithful to the time period they are set.
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Frontline

DOS1990 Cases Computer Simulations
In 1990, strategy games were still figuring out how serious they wanted to be, and Frontline sits comfortably in that experimental phase. This DOS title drops players into a tactic...
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Great Napoleonic Battles

DOS1991 Impressions Games
Great Napoleonic Battles is the kind of game that assumes you are ready to command armies and possibly rewrite history before breakfast. In Great Napoleonic Battles, strategy is ev...
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The Train Escape to Normandy

DOS1988protected Artech Studios
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The Blue & the Gray

DOS1993 Impressions Games
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No Greater Glory

DOSMac OS1991protected
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Solidarnosc

DOS1991 P. Z. Karen Co. Development Group
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Legions

Windows 3.xMac OS1994 Mindscape
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Gettysburg: Civil War Battles

Windows XP/98/952002 Stellar Stone
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Meantime

DOS1992canceled Interplay Productions
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Galleons of Glory

DOS1990 Broderbund
Galleons of Glory invites players to sail the high seas in search of fame, fortune, and possibly a few cannonballs heading directly toward their ship. Naval combat games from this ...
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Knights of the Desert

DOS1983protected Tactical Design Group
Before WWII games flooded the market, Knights of the Desert (1983, DOS) was already reenacting the North African campaign in pixels. You command Rommel’s Afrika Korps—o...