Abandonware DOS title

Abandonware rpg games sorted by title, from Z to A

In a Role-Playing Game (RPG), players control one or more characters in a fictional world, be it fantasy-oriented, contemporary, sci-fi, etc. RPGs follow up on traditional tabletop role-playing games features, including narrative threads full of obstacles and enigmas, character development, combat systems, or complex inventories.
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Dark Sun: Shattered Lands

DOS1993protected4.1/5 top-down party-based RPG
darksun2-3

Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager

DOS1994protected4/5 top-down party-based RPG
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Dark Queen of Krynn

DOS1992protected4.1/5
dark-designs-2-04

Dark Designs 2: Closing the Gate

DOS19904/5 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
dark-designs-1-05

Dark Designs 1: Grelminar's Staff

DOS19903.8/5 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
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Daemonsgate

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1993protected3.8/5 sandbox RPG
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Curse of the Azure Bonds

DOS1989protected3.9/5
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Crystals of Arborea

DOS19904.2/5 first-person party-based RPG
psychic-war-cosmic-soldier-01

Cosmic Soldier: Psychic War

DOS19893.9/5 dungeon crawl, JRPG
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Conan: the Cimmerian

DOS19914.2/5 action RPG
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Cobra Mission

DOS1992NSFW4.1/5 JRPG
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Circuit's Edge

DOS19904.1/5 interactive fiction
Circuit's Edge is a single-player science fiction blend of adventure game and RPG, developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1990. Circuit's Edge is based on George Alec Effinger's cyberpunk novel "When Gravity Fails".
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Champions of Krynn

DOS1990protected4.1/5
challenge-of-the-five-realms-5

Challenge of the Five Realms

DOS1992protected3.7/5 sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
cave-quest-05

Cavequest

DOS19853.3/5
castleofthewinds-3

Castle of the Winds

Windows 3.x1993freeware4.2/5 dungeon crawl, roguelike
Castle of the Winds is a fantasy roguelike role-playing game developed by SaadaSoft in the early 1990s. It was designed for Windows 3.x and is notable for being one of the earliest graphical RPGs for that platform. The game features a top-down perspective and incorporates elements of dungeon crawling, exploration, and character development.The game...
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Captive

DOS19923.9/5 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
buckrogersmatrix-05

Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed

DOS1992protected4/5
Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is a CRPG developed by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. and released in 1992 for DOS only. Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is the sequel to Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday and it's based on a campaign setting created by TSR in the late 80s. The game uses the Gold Box engine, common to much of the RPGs developed by SSI.
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Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday

DOS1990protected4.2/5
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Blues Brothers RPG

Windows XP/98/952004freeware3.9/5 JRPG
bloodwych-4

Bloodwych

DOS19893.8/5 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
Bloodwych is an abandoned RPG set in the fantasy world of Trazere. Two players can play at the same time in split screen mode, a feature that was unusual at the time, especially for an RPG. Bloodwych was released in 1989 by Image Works for DOS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum.
bloodstone-3

Bloodstone: an Epic Dwarven Tale

DOS19934/5 top-down party-based RPG
blades-exile-02

Blades of Exile

Windows 3.xMacWindows XP/98/951997freeware4.1/5 top-down party-based RPG
betrayalkrondor-7

Betrayal at Krondor

DOS1993protected4/5 first-person party-based RPG
beneath-apple-manor-04

Beneath Apple Manor

DOS1983freeware4.1/5 roguelike
baldurs-gate-3-01

Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound

Windows2003canceled3.4/5 top-down party-based RPG
Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound was an unreleased role-playing video game that was intended to be the sequel to the critically acclaimed Baldur's Gate series. It was initially announced by Black Isle Studios, a division of Interplay Entertainment, back in 2002. The Black Hound was being developed using the Infinity Engine, the same engine used i...
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Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn

Windows XP/98/95Mac2000protected4/5
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn is a party-based real-time with pause CRPG set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe that shares the same gameplay as the sequel: the much acclaimed Baldur's Gate. Shadows of Amn was developed by BioWare and released by Black Isle Studios in 2000 for PC (Windows) and Mac.
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Baldur's Gate

Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac1998protected4/5
Baldur's Gate a fantasy RPG set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe which is regarded as the RPG that brought new life in a dying genre in the late 90s. Baldur's Gate was developed by BioWare and released by Black Isle Studios in 1998 for Windows, Lunux and Mac. Some of the innovations that Baldur's Gate introduced to the RPG genre are the ...
bad-blood-03

Bad Blood

DOS19904.2/5