Abandonware strategy games sorted by release date
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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UMS 2: Nations at War
DOSMac OS1990 wargame, turn-based tactics
War of the Lance
DOS1990protected wargame
Warlords
DOS1990 4x
Armada 2525
DOS1991 4x
Armada 2525 is what happens when a spreadsheet decides it wants to conquer the galaxy. This is classic 4X strategy with all the bells, whistles, and menus your early '90s heart could desire. You’ll build colonies, research t...
Battle Isle
DOS1991protected turn-based tactics
Turns out war is a lot tidier when it’s turn-based. Battle Isle (1991) gives you neat little hexagons to move your units on, like a very angry board game. It’s got strategy, sci-fi flair, and just enough AI ruthlessnes...
Battle Master
DOS1991 real-time tactics
In Battle Master (1991), you play as a heavily armored murder-hobo leading an army across a fantasy world that really doesn’t want you there. It’s part action-RPG, part tactical slog, with clunky pathfinding and surpri...
Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter
DOS1991 board game
If Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego had a caffeinated younger cousin, it would be Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter. You race around the globe chasing clues, dodging rivals, and learning just enough geography to impress your ...
Castles
DOS1991protected real-time strategy
Castles is what happens when SimCity meets Game of Thrones. You design your own fortress, manage the budget, and tell unruly peasants why the walls are more important than food. Between building bricks and issuing royal edicts, yo...
Champion of the Raj
DOS1991 kingdom simulation
Chessmaster 3000
DOS1991 chess
Civilization
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1991 4x
Civilization is the critically acclaimed strategy game designed by Sid Meier and Bruce Campbell Shelley that became a staple in 4X turn-based strategy. Civilization was developed by MicroProse Software and released in 1991 for DOS...
Cover Girl Strip Poker
DOS1991NSFW cards
Defender of the Crown
DOS1991protected
Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue da...
Gnome Alone
DOS1991
Great Napoleonic Battles
DOS1991 turn-based tactics
L'Empereur
DOS1991 wargame, turn-based tactics
La Grande Armee
DOS1991 wargame, turn-based tactics
Midwinter 2: Flames of Freedom
DOS1991
QBasic Gorillas
DOS1991freeware artillery
Gorillas, also known as "Gorillas.bas," is a turn-based artillery game that was included as a sample program with Microsoft QBasic, an IDE and interpreter for a variant of the BASIC programming language. QBasic was commo...
Realms
DOS1991 real-time strategy
Risk
Windows 3.x1991 board game
Rules of Engagement
DOS1991 real-time tactics
Sargon V: World Class Chess
DOS1991 chess
Scorched Earth
DOS1991protected artillery
Strip Poker 3
DOS1991NSFW cards
The Ball Game
DOS1991 board game
The Perfect General
DOS1991 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 b...
Trump Castle 2
DOS1991 cards
Twilight 2000
DOS1991 board game, real-time tactics, wargame
V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach
DOS1991protected wargame, turn-based tactics