Abandonware DOS title

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.
9poker-06

9 Poker

DOS1989 cards
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS1988 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Bandit Kings of Ancient China

DOS1989 kingdom simulation
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Chess88

DOS1984 chess
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Heirs to the Throne

DOS1992 kingdom simulation
power-doll-01

Power Dolls

DOS1994 real-time tactics
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Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Command - 1939-1999

DOS1997protected wargame, turn-based tactics
ancient-art-war-skies-01

The Ancient Art of War in the Skies

DOS1992 real-time strategy, shoot 'em up
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Desert Rats

DOS1986 turn-based tactics, wargame
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Sid Meier's CivNet

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1995 4x
CivNet is a multiplayer adaptation of the original Sid Meier's Civilization game, released in 1995. It was developed and published by MicroProse for MS-DOS and Windows. This version of Civilization brought networked multiplayer gameplay to the series for the first time, alongside updated graphics and improved interface elements. CivNet retaine...
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Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected
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Checkers for Windows

Windows 3.x1997 board game
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The Grandest Fleet

DOS1994 wargame
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Pacific General

Windows XP/98/951997protected wargame, turn-based tactics
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L'Empereur

DOS1991 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Dragon Lord

DOS1990 real-time strategy
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Lords of Midnight: The Citadel

DOS1995 first-person party-based RPG
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Legions

Windows 3.xMac OS1994
warheads-04

Warheads

Windows XP/98/951997 artillery
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Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS1989 board game
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Rules of Engagement

DOS1991 real-time tactics
global-thermo-war-02

Global Thermo War

DOS1985 board game
castles-5

Castles

DOS1991protected real-time strategy
crusade-in-europe-01

Crusade in Europe

DOS1985 wargame, turn-based tactics
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Siege

DOS1992 turn-based tactics
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Chaos Overlords

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected board game
Chaos Overlords is a cyberpunk-themed strategy game developed by Stick Man Games and published by New World Computing in 1996. Set in a dystopian future, the game focuses on controlling the underworld of a city dominated by corrupt corporations and oppressive government forces. The player assumes the role of a crime lord, leading a gang with the go...
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Lords of Conquest

DOS1987 board game
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221B Baker Street

DOS1986 board game
221B Baker Street is a turn-based strategy strategy game developed by Datasoft. 221B Baker Street is base on the tabletop game of the same name "221B Baker Street" and it plays in a very similar way, with dices, etc.