The best abandonware strategy games
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Nobunaga's Ambition 6
DOS19943.9/5
V for victory: Velikiye Luki
DOS1992protected3.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Kasparov's Gambit
DOS19933.9/5 chess
Hoyle Classic Card Games
DOS19933.9/5 cards
Unnatural Selection
DOS19933.9/5 real-time tactics
Metal Marines
Windows 3.x19933.9/5 turn-based tactics
Power Dolls
DOS19943.9/5 real-time tactics
Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance
DOS1985NSFW3.9/5 cards
Chess
DOS19813.9/5 chess
Dominus
DOS19943.9/5 real-time tactics, real-time strategy
Doomdark's Revenge
DOS19853.9/5 first-person party-based RPG
Doomdark's Revenge is a strategy and role-playing video game developed by Mike Singleton and originally released in 1985 for DOS and various home computer systems, including the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64. It is the sequel to the earlier game Lords of Midnight and is known for its unique combination of strategy, adventure, and story...
V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach
DOS1991protected3.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Burntime
DOS19933.9/5 action RPG, real-time strategy
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2
DOS19893.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
La Grande Armee
DOS19913.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
MacArthur's War
DOS19903.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS19893.9/5 board game
Populous
DOS19893.9/5 sandbox strategy, god game, real-time strategy
Populous is an abandoned strategy game designed by the video game celebrity Peter Molyneux, developed by Bullfrog. Populous was released by Electronic Arts in 1989 for DOS and for a long list of other 16-bit and 8-bit systems, both console and PCs. Populos is a really unique game: it gave the name to the the whole god-game genre since, well, in the...
A Line in the Sand
DOS1992protected3.9/5 board game, wargame, turn-based tactics
Laser Squad
DOS19923.9/5 turn-based tactics
Laser Squad is an abandoned turn-based strategy/tactical game designed by Julian Gollop (the mind behind the X-COM series). Laser Squad was developed by Target Games Limited and released by MicroLeague Multimedia in 1992 for DOS and other 8-bit systems. Laser Squad is considered as a precursor of X-COM: Ufo Defense.
Clash of Steel
DOS1993protected3.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
King's Bounty
DOSMac19903.9/5 turn-based tactics
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
DOS19893.9/5
Crusade in Europe
DOS19853.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Queen of Tenshindo 95
Windows XP/98/951995NSFW3.9/5 cards
Arrakis
DOS20003.9/5 real-time strategy
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici
DOSMac1996protected3.9/5 sandbox strategy, real-time strategy, city building
4Play
Windows 3.x1995NSFW3.9/5 board game
4Play is a multi-player board-like strategy party-game for adults released for Windows 3.1 in 1995. 4Play is a board-game very similar to Monopoly in which players have to perform certain (adult) actions in response to events happening on the board.
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware3.9/5 4x
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
Core War Plus
DOS19843.9/5 real-time tactics