Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

coolcroc-2

The Cool Croc Twins

DOS1992 action
arnhem-01

Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation

DOS1988 strategy
Arnhem is the kind of wargame where you spend more time reading hex maps than shooting anything. It’s all about recreating Operation Market Garden — you know, that WWII...
weirddreams-2

Weird Dreams

DOS1988 puzzle
Weird Dreams is an abandoned action - puzzle game developed and released by Rainbird Software in 1988 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64. Weird Dreams is...
nfl-pro-league-03

NFL Pro League Football

DOS1989 sports
freespace1-06

Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War

Windows XP/98/951998protected vehicle simulation
In 1998, Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War decided the world needed fewer corridors and more cosmic dogfights. Instead of bumping into walls like a drunken astronaut, you&rs...
starcommand-4

Star Command

DOS1988protected strategy
eliza-02

ELIZA for DOS

DOS1988 application
ELIZA, created in the mid-1960s by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, was one of the first computer programs to simulate human conversation. Designed as a natural language processing demons...
realms-of-chaos-03

Realms of Chaos

DOSMac OSLinux1995protected action
lords-of-conquest-05

Lords of Conquest

DOS1987 strategy
Released in 1987, Lords of Conquest is strategy in its most distilled, no-nonsense form. This is a game that drops you onto a map, hands you control of armies, and essentially says...
volleyball-simulator-03

Volleyball Simulator

DOS1987 sports
iron-seed-02

Iron Seed

DOS1994freeware simulation
Released in 1994, Iron Seed is a DOS space sim that tried to be both philosophical and technical. You’re leading a fledgling human colony across the stars, tinkering with dip...
snoopy-and-peanuts-01

Snoopy and Peanuts

DOS1990 adventure
space-invaders-2001-02

Space Invaders 2001

Windows XP/98/952001remake shooter
djpuff-03

DJ Puff

DOS1993 action
You probably didn’t know you needed a game about a rapping, music-spinning dragon, but DJ Puff fills that oddly specific void. Released in 1993 for DOS, this platformer featu...
grisby-pacific-war-03

Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

DOS1992 strategy
transworld-de-01

Transworld

DOS1990 simulation
iwar-1-02

Independence War

Windows XP/98/951997protected vehicle simulation
Independence War takes space combat seriously, almost stubbornly so. Instead of arcade-style dogfights, it presents a Newtonian flight model where momentum, inertia, and positionin...
doom-roguelike-02

Doom: The Roguelike

DOS2005freeware rpg
Long before indie developers made “roguelike” a buzzword, someone decided to fuse Doom with permadeath and ASCII graphics. The result: Doom: The Roguelike (2005). On pa...
iskib-03

Iskib

DOS1989 shooter
mystery-at-the-museums-01

Mystery at the Museums

DOS1993 puzzle
phm-pegasus-02

PHM Pegasus

DOS1987 vehicle simulation
overkill-04

OverKill

DOS1992freeware shooter
color-balls-02

Color Balls

DOS1996 puzzle
Ever wondered what it would feel like to be trapped in a neon nightmare where physics and color coordination decide your fate? Color Balls (1996, DOS) is like a Rubik’s Cube ...
heavymetal-3

Heavy Metal

DOS1989 vehicle simulation
armour-geddon-04

Armour-Geddon

DOS1992 vehicle simulation
Armour-Geddon is what you get when someone combines Wargames with a midlife crisis. Set in a post-nuke world where you pilot tanks, helicopters, and laser cannons to stop a doomsda...
homey-d-clown-01

Homey D. Clown

DOS1993 action-adventure
jump-and-bump-02

Jump 'n Bump

DOS1998freeware action
riseofthetriad-splash

Rise of the Triad: Dark War

DOS1994protected shooter