Abandonware DOS title

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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Chaos Overlords

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected3.2/5 board game
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Battle Chess 4000

DOS1992protected4/5 chess
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High Command: Europe 1939-45

DOS19924.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
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The Perfect General

DOS19914.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
The Perfect General is a turn-based strategy military game developed by White Wolf Productions and released in 1991 by Quantun Quality Production. The Perfect General gameplay is quite simple compared to other wargames, but it's based on a solid set of rules and let the players progress at their own pace through missions and scenarios. The Perfect ...
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Realms

DOS19914/5 real-time strategy
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Twilight 2000

DOS19914.3/5 board game, real-time tactics, wargame
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Seal Team

DOS19934.1/5 real-time tactics
steel-panthers-3-06

Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Command - 1939-1999

DOS1997protected4/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Gengis Khan

DOS19893.5/5 kingdom simulation
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Day of the Pharaoh

DOS19893.1/5
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Gary Grigsby's War in Russia

DOS1993protected3.7/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Powermonger

DOS19923.9/5 god game, real-time strategy
Powermonger is a real-time strategy game where the player must defeat opponents by conquering towns and tipping the balance of power in their favor. Success requires giving orders to soldiers and captains, as well as accumulating enough resources (such as food and equipment) to survive and ultimately win.
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V for victory: Gold-Juno-Sword

DOS1993protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Vlad Tepes Dracula

Windows XP/98/9519973.6/5 real-time strategy, business simulation
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Genocide

DOS1996freeware3.9/5 artillery
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Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz

Windows XP/98/9519994.2/5 wargame, board game
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Battle Isle 2200

DOS1994protected4.1/5 turn-based tactics
chessmaster-2000-02

The Chessmaster 2000

DOS19864.2/5 chess
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Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS19883.7/5
rules-of-engagement-2-01

Rules of Engagement 2

DOS19933.9/5 real-time tactics
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Archon Ultra

DOS1994protected3.7/5 board game
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Metal Marines

Windows 3.x19933.9/5 turn-based tactics
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Pacific General

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Jagged Alliance

DOS1994protected4.2/5 turn-based tactics
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Conquest of the New World (Deluxe Edition)

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected4.2/5 4x
Conquest of the new world is a turn-based strategy game that lets you control one of 6 different nations in their attempt to colonize the new continent. The gameworld is represented in an isometric point of view. Combat is a mini-game taking place on a battlefield where victory can be achieved by killing enemy troops or capturing the enemy's flag.
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Star General

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected4.2/5 turn-based tactics, wargame
Star General is a turn-based strategy game developed by Catware and published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It was released in 1996 for MS-DOS and later for Windows. The game is set in a science fiction universe where players take command of one of five different factions, each vying for control of the galaxy.In Star General, players comman...
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Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/9519954/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
nobunaga-ambition-6-03

Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS19943.9/5
stratego-02

Stratego

DOS19903.8/5 board game