The most popular hotseat games
Games supporting hotseat multiplayer mode can be played by more than one player (usually two) on the same PC taking turns playing the game. Many strategy games offer an hotseat multiplayer mode.
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Gemfire
DOS1992 KOEI
Black Friday
DOS1983
Black Friday (1983) isn’t about shopping mayhem—though you might wish it were after trying to figure out what’s going on. This early DOS title is part stock market simulator, part existential crisis. You play as ...
Archer Maclean's Pool
DOS1992 Virgin Interactive
For those who think snooker is too posh and billiards too French, there's Archer Maclean's Pool, the most ‘90s way to simulate the timeless art of arguing over whether that shot was really legal. It’s pool in DOS &mdas...
Aquanoid
DOS1992remake
Aquanoid (1992) takes the classic Breakout formula and throws it underwater, because bricks are apparently much more intimidating when they're wet. You control a paddle, you bounce a ball, you try to pretend you're not just playin...
Oil Barons
DOS1992 Starsoft Development
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
DOS1989 KOEI
Based on a classic Chinese novel, Bandit Kings of Ancient China combines strategy, RPG elements, and about 800 names you’ll never remember. You play one of 108 outlaws trying to overthrow a corrupt regime — think Roman...
TwinBlok
DOS1996 Webfoot Technologies
Reach for the Stars
DOS1988 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Computer Diplomacy
DOS1984 Avalon Hill
Ms Pac PC
DOS1995remake Magicom Multimedia
World Darts
DOS1987 Melbourne House
John Madden Football
DOS1989 Electronic Arts
John Madden Football was the first of a series of american football sports games sponsored by the coach of the same name. The first John Madden Football is an abandoned game developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for Ap...
Jetpack: Christmas Special
DOS1993
Heirs to the Throne
DOS1992 German Design Group
Manhole
DOS1992
Battle Chess 4000
DOS1992protected Interplay Productions
Set in the far-off future of 1992, Battle Chess 4000 brings space-age flair to intergalactic checkmate. Now your queen is a laser-wielding dominatrix and your pawns might be robots with trust issues. It’s chess... with ray g...
Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf
DOS1995 Pixel Painters Corporation
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2
DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Boot Camp
DOS1989 Konami
Boot Camp (1989, DOS) is the game that turns military training into a button-mashing festival of pain. Ever dreamed of surviving basic training without breaking a sweat? This is it—if your definition of “not sweating&r...
Acquire
DOS1989 IBM
Acquire (1989, DOS) brings boardroom drama to your DOS screen, turning you into a hotel tycoon in a game where the real enemy is... math. It's a faithful adaptation of the classic board game, complete with mergers, hostile takeove...
MicroLeague Baseball 2
DOS1989 MicroLeague Multimedia
Loopz
DOS1990 Audiogenic
The Games: Summer Edition
DOS1988 Epyx
The Games: Summer Edition is a sports simulation video game developed and published by Epyx, originally released in 1988. The Games: Summer Edition simulates various summer Olympic events. Players can compete in these events eithe...
Gengis Khan
DOS1989 KOEI
Felony!
DOS1984 BrainBank
Subtrade: Return to Irata
DOS1993 Century Interactive
Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clo...
Patton vs. Rommel
DOS1987 Electronic Arts
Rollo and the Brush Brothers
DOS1983 Windmill Software
Mychess
DOS1984 The Software Toolworks
Earl Weaver Baseball
DOS1987 Mirage Graphics