Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

monopoly-stevens-01

Monopoly (Adam Stevens)

DOS1998 strategy
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Action in the North Atlantic

DOS1989 strategy
If you’ve ever dreamed of commanding a WWII convoy while cold, stressed, and staring at a pixelated radar screen, Action in the North Atlantic (1989, DOS) has you covered. It...
entomorph-05

Entomorph: Plague Of The Darkfall

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1995protected rpg
Part action-RPG, part body-horror fairy tale, Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall (1995) is the game where you slowly transform into an insect and, somehow, that’s not even the...
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MicroProse Soccer

DOS1988protected sports
MicroProse Soccer is an abandoned action-oriented soccer game, developed by Sensible Software and released by MicroProse Software in 1988. The appeal of MicroProse Soccer was its s...
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Escape from delirium

DOS1995 adventure
Escape from Delirium feels like someone took a pulp adventure novel, dipped it in a bucket of chaos, and fed it to a DOS system. You wake up with amnesia (because of course you do)...
fa18-korea-02

F/A-18 Korea

Windows XP/98/951997 vehicle simulation
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Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected adventure
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Beyond Columns

DOS1989remake puzzle
Beyond Columns is what happens when someone looks at Tetris and says, “What if we made it... slightly fancier?” This match-three puzzle game involves dropping shiny col...
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Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS1987 adventure
Douglas Adams, the twisted genius behind Hitchhiker’s Guide, brings you the most terrifying adventure of all: paperwork. Bureaucracy turns mundane modern life into a text-bas...
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Highway Patrol 2

DOS1990 racing
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Battle Master

DOS1991 strategy
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...
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Zorlim's Arcade Volleyball

DOS1995freewareremake sports
Released in 1995 for DOS, Zorlim's Arcade Volleyball is what happens when someone decides regular volleyball isn’t chaotic enough. Picture stick figures with the agility of c...
obitus-06

Obitus

DOS1991 rpg
Obitus is a role-playing video game developed by Psygnosis and released in 1991 for various platforms including the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. It combines elements of role-playing g...
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OverKill

DOS1992freeware shooter
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Earthworm Jim 2

DOS1996protected action
If the first game was controlled chaos, Earthworm Jim 2 is joyful anarchy. It cranks up the weirdness, throwing genre shifts and unexpected mechanics at the player with gleeful aba...
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Lawn Mower

DOS1987 action
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Burntime

DOS1993 strategy
Post-apocalyptic survival meets real estate management in Burntime, where the world is ruined, but you still need to hire employees and secure water rights. It’s like Mad Max...
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Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/951995 strategy
Empire II: The Art of War is strategy without small talk. It improves on its predecessor by refining mechanics and deepening tactical options, making every decision feel heavier an...
redneck-rampage-02

Redneck Rampage

DOS1997protected shooter
radix-beyond-the-void-03

Radix: Beyond the Void

DOS1995 shooter
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18th Airborne

DOS1993 shooter
18th Airborne is what happens when a military recruitment pamphlet and a tactical shooter have a baby. You’re thrown into the boots of a paratrooper with a mission, a gun, an...
battleausterlitz-2

Austerlitz 1805

DOS1989 strategy
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Penthouse electric jigsaw

DOS1990NSFW puzzle
dataease45-02

DataEase 4

DOS1991 application
winter-supersports-92-04

Winter Supersports 1992

DOS1992 sports
designasaurus-01

Designasaurus

DOS1988 simulation
In 1988, kids with floppy disks instead of smartphones got Designasaurus, a quirky blend of education and prehistoric fantasy. The premise: design your own dinosaur and see if it s...
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Bass Tour

DOS1992 sports
Think of Bass Tour (1992) as the road trip version of virtual fishing. More simulation than arcade, it lets you travel, pick locations, study conditions, and obsess over bait types...