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
Star Control 3
DOS1996protected shoot 'em up
Twilight 2000
DOS1991 board game, real-time tactics, wargame
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Windows XP/98/952001protecteddemo real-time tactics
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is a tactical role-playing game published by Interplay Entertainment in 2001. Unlike its predecessors, which were traditional RPGs with turn-based combat, Fallout Tactics took a different approach by focusing more on tactical combat rather than extensive role-playing elements.The game features squad-based comba...
Felony!
DOS1984 board game
UMS 2: Nations at War
DOSMac OS1990 wargame, turn-based tactics
Archon: the Light and the Dark
DOS1984 board game
Archon: The Light and the Dark is an abandoned DOS fantasy blend of strategy and action game, developed by Free Fall Associates and published for DOS by Electronic Arts in 1984. Archon and its sequels are a unique mix of chess-like turn-based strategy and arcade action games. Take chess and add the fact that every time two pieces land on the same s...
Seal Team
DOS1993 real-time tactics
Decision in the Desert
DOS1985 wargame, turn-based tactics
Battle Chess 4000
DOS1992protected chess
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...
The Grandest Fleet
DOS1994 wargame
Acquire
DOS1989 board game
Clue Master Detective
DOS1989 board game
Clue Master Detective is an abandoned strategy game developed by Dalali Software and released by Leisure Genius in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Clue Master Detective is based on the well known board game Clue (also known as Cluedo). Clue can be played in single player, but the best gaming experience come from the multi-player mode.
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 damsels.
Dominus
DOS1994 real-time tactics, real-time strategy
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games
DOS1996protected turn-based tactics
Syndicate Wars
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected real-time tactics
Syndicate Wars is the sequel to the much acclaimed Syndicate developed by Bullfrog in its golden years. Like its predecessor, Syndicate Wars is a real-time tactics strategy game set in a cyberpunk dystopian world involving excessive violence, mega-corporations, bleak urban environment. Syndicate Wars also supports a multi-player co-op mode via LAN.
Conflict in Vietnam
DOS1986 wargame, turn-based tactics
Dominium
DOS1992 real-time strategy
Renegade Legion Interceptor
DOS1990protected wargame, turn-based tactics, board game
Austerlitz 1805
DOS1989 wargame, turn-based tactics
Command HQ
DOS1990 wargame, real-time strategy
WinRisk
Windows 3.x1992 board game
Ambush at Sorinor
DOS1993 real-time strategy, real-time tactics
Army Men 2
Windows XP/98/951998protected real-time tactics
Black Moon Chronicles
DOS1999protected real-time tactics
Nobunaga's Ambition 6
DOS1994
Warzone 2100
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1999freeware real-time strategy
UMS: The Universal Military Simulator
DOSMac OS1988 turn-based tactics, wargame
UMS, short for Universal Military Simulator, is a computer-based wargame simulation developed by Rainbird Software in 1988. It was designed with the intention of providing players with a comprehensive and realistic military simulation experience.The game allows players to engage in strategic and tactical warfare across various scenarios and battlef...