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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Dungeon Keeper 2

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected4/5 sandbox strategy, god game, real-time strategy

Patton vs. Rommel

DOS19874/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Spaceward Ho!

Windows 3.xDOS19924/5 4x

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

DOS1996freeware4/5 real-time strategy

Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1996. It is part of the Command & Conquer series and is set in an alternate history where World War II never occurred, leading to a different global conflict.The success of Red Alert led to several seque...

Midway Campaign

DOS19834/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Empire Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x19934/5 turn-based tactics, wargame

Monopoly Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x19924/5 board game

Monopoly Deluxe is an abandoned turn-based top-down Monopoly adaptation of the classic board game, developed by Parker Brothers and released by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Monopoly Deluxe was published for DOS, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh.

Bobby Fisher teaches chess

DOS19944/5 chess

Scorched Earth

DOS1991protected4/5 artillery

Ground Control

Windows XP/98/952000protected4/5 real-time tactics

Ground Control is a strategy game developed by Massive Entertainment and released by Sierra On-Line in 2000. More precisely Ground Control is a real time tactical game with a sci-fi setting.

Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Command - 1939-1999

DOS1997protected4/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Command HQ

DOS19904/5 wargame, real-time strategy

Star Control 3

DOS1996protected4/5 shoot 'em up

Stronghold

DOS1993protected4/5 real-time strategy, kingdom simulation

Realms

DOS19914/5 real-time strategy

Advanced Civilization

DOS19954/5 board game

221B Baker Street

DOS19864/5 board game

221B Baker Street is a turn-based strategy strategy game developed by Datasoft. 221B Baker Street is base on the tabletop game of the same name "221B Baker Street" and it plays in a very similar way, with dices, etc.

Battle Chess 4000

DOS1992protected4/5 chess

Burntime

DOS19934/5 action RPG, real-time strategy

Cossacks: European Wars

Windows XP/98/952000protected4/5 real-time strategy, real-time tactics

Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy game developed by GSC Game World and released in 2001. The game is set in the 17th and 18th centuries, a period marked by significant military, political, and social changes in Europe. Players can choose from 16 different European nations, each with unique units and buildings. The gamep...