The best abandonware strategy games
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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
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
DOSMac OS19903.9/5 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
DOSMac OS1996protected3.9/5 sandbox strategy, real-time strategy, city building
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
Fantasy Empires
DOS1993protected3.9/5 turn-based tactics
Teenage Queen
DOS1988NSFW3.9/5 cards
D-Zone
DOS19923.9/5
Nobunaga's Ambition 2
DOS19893.9/5
Robot Odissey
DOS19853.9/5 real-time tactics
Rules of Engagement 2
DOS19933.9/5 real-time tactics
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...
Monopoly
DOS19853.9/5 board game
Over the Reich
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x19963.9/5 wargame
Blood & Magic
DOS19963.9/5 real-time strategy
Full Metal Planete
DOSMac OS19903.9/5 turn-based tactics, board game
Gnome Alone
DOS19913.9/5
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS19983.9/5 board game
Playhouse Strip Poker
DOS1988NSFW3.9/5 cards
Stellar Crusade
DOS1988protected3.9/5 4x
The Ball Game
DOS19913.9/5 board game