The most popular 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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Dark Legions

DOS1994protected board game

Nectaris

DOS1995 turn-based tactics

Power Dolls

DOS1994 real-time tactics

Spy vs Spy 3: Arctic Antics

DOS1988

Hoyle Classic Card Games

DOS1993 cards

Kasparov's Gambit

DOS1993 chess

Realms

DOS1991 real-time strategy

Star Wars Chess

DOSWindows 3.x1993 chess

Vlad Tepes Dracula

Windows XP/98/951997 real-time strategy, business simulation

Cossacks: European Wars

Windows XP/98/952000protected 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...

Desert Rats

DOS1986 turn-based tactics, wargame

Spaceward Ho!

Windows 3.xDOS1992 4x

American Conquest

Windows XP/98/952002protected real-time strategy

Nuclear War

DOS1989 board game

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 card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...

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.

Fidelity Chessmaster 2100

DOS1989 chess

Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary

DOS1987 board game

Castles

DOS1991protected real-time strategy

V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach

DOS1991protected wargame, turn-based tactics

Sid Meier's CivNet

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1995 4x

CivNet is a multiplayer adaptation of the original Sid Meier's Civilization game, released in 1995. It was developed and published by MicroProse for MS-DOS and Windows. This version of Civilization brought networked multiplayer gameplay to the series for the first time, alongside updated graphics and improved interface elements. CivNet retaine...