Abandonware DOS title

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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Castles

DOS1991protected real-time strategy
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Advanced Civilization

DOS1995 board game
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Ground Control

Windows XP/98/952000protected 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.
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Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Command - 1939-1999

DOS1997protected wargame, turn-based tactics
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Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

DOS1992protected wargame, turn-based tactics
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Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected
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Spaceward Ho!

Windows 3.xDOS1992 4x
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Patton vs. Rommel

DOS1987 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Monopoly Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x1992 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.
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Star Control 3

DOS1996protected shoot 'em up
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Realms

DOS1991 real-time strategy
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221B Baker Street

DOS1986 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.
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American Conquest

Windows XP/98/952002protected real-time strategy
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Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye

DOS1995 kingdom simulation
Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye is a strategy video game developed by KOEI and released in 1995. It is set in a mythical version of ancient Ireland and draws heavily from Celtic mythology, particularly focusing on the legendary figure Balor of the Evil Eye. Players take on the role of a clan leader, managing their tribe's resources, engagi...
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Chess88

DOS1984 chess
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D-Zone

DOS1992
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS1988 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS1989 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Dune Generations

Windows XP/98/952002canceled real-time strategy
Dune Generations was a canceled 3D MMO strategy game set in the Dune universe that was never published. Dune Generations was in development by Cryo Interactive Entertainment, but it was canceled in 2002 when the company filed for bankruptcy. As of 2002 the game was still in the alpha stage; what's left are some screenshots ...
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Emperor of the Fading Suns

Windows XP/98/951996 4x
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Empire Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x1993 turn-based tactics, wargame
Empire Deluxe is a classic turn-based strategy game that was originally released in the early 1990s. Developed by Mark Baldwin and Bob Rakowsky of White Wolf Productions and published by New World Computing, it is a successor to the game Empire, which was created by Walter Bright in the late 1970s. The game is set on a world map, where pl...
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Felony!

DOS1984 board game
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Front Lines

DOS1994 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Gemfire

DOS1992 turn-based tactics
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Grandmaster Chess

DOS1992protected chess
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Liero

DOS1999freeware artillery
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MacArthur's War

DOS1990 wargame, turn-based tactics
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MinerVGA

DOS1989freeware business simulation