The best 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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Desert Rats

DOS1986 turn-based tactics, wargame

Global Thermo War

DOS1985 board game

Dark Legions

DOS1994protected board game

Psion Chess

DOSMac OS1985 chess

4Play

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1995NSFW board game

4Play was a risqué trivia and multi-player board-style game released in the mid-1990s. Designed as a party game, it combined trivia questions, mini-games, and challenges that often leaned toward suggestive or adult themes. It was intended to be played in social settings, often among friends or couples, with the goal of breaking the...

Combat Chess

Windows XP/98/951997protected chess

Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1996 wargame

Red sky at morning

DOS1993

Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club

DOS1990 cards

Cultures

Windows XP/98/952000protected sandbox strategy, real-time strategy

Monopoly (Adam Stevens)

DOS1998 board game

Bang! Bang!

Windows 3.x1990 artillery

Genocide

DOS1996freeware artillery

Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS1994

V for victory: Velikiye Luki

DOS1992protected wargame, turn-based tactics

Dark Reign: The Future of War

Windows XP/98/951997protected real-time strategy, real-time tactics

Laser Squad

DOS1992 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.