Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

sokoban-win-01

Sokoban

Windows XP/98/951999 puzzle
grail-quest-01

GrailQuest

DOS1989 adventure
titans-warring-suns-03

Titans of Steel: Warring Suns

Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/112003 strategy
opong-splash

O-Pong

DOS1996 action
full-metal-planete-05

Full Metal Planete

DOSMac OS1990 strategy
red-storm-rising-05

Red Storm Rising

DOS1989 vehicle simulation
Red Storm Rising is a submarine simulation video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1988, based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond. The game is set during a hypothetical World War III scenario, f...
borderworld-02

Borderworld

DOS1996 adventure
Borderworld (1996, DOS) is a sci-fi RPG with big ideas, a tiny budget, and enough ambition to fuel a space shuttle. You’re thrown into a galaxy of politics, smuggling, and star-hopping adventure, where everyone has a quest a...
chicago90-splash

Chicago 90

DOS1989 racing
In Chicago 90, you either play as the cops or the crooks in a top-down, crime-infested, vaguely Windy City-esque setting. Think of it as a proto-GTA with more sirens and fewer moral grey areas. As the gangster, you must escape the...
leather-goddesses-of-phobos-2-07

Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2

DOS1992NSFW adventure
megapede-02

Megapede

DOS1992 shooter
templeapshai-4

Temple of Apshai Trilogy

DOS1985 rpg
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy is a series of classic role-playing games developed by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These games were among the earliest examples of computer-based RPGs...
space-miner-03

Space Miner

DOS1983 shooter
prolog_splash

Turbo Prolog 2.0

DOS1986protected application
streesportsbaseball-2

Street sports baseball

DOS1987 sports
Before million-dollar stadiums and sponsorship deals, there was Street Sports Baseball (1987, DOS)—where kids played in backyards, on cracked concrete, and sometimes next to suspiciously angry dogs. This game captures that s...
rusty-jp-01

Rusty

DOS1993 action-adventure
monday-night-football-04

Monday Night Football

DOS1989 sports
archerpool-splash

Archer Maclean's Pool

DOS1992 sports
For those who think snooker is too posh and billiards too French, there's Archer Maclean's Pool, the most ‘90s way to simulate the timeless art of arguing over whether that shot was really legal. It’s pool in DOS &mdas...
hook-04

Hook

DOS1992 adventure
cyclones-05

CyClones

DOS1994protected shooter
CyClones is a first-person shooter where you take on the role of a bio-engineered super-soldier fighting alien invaders. The controls are smooth, the weapons varied, and the level design encourages exploration as much as combat. T...
acrobat-reader-1-01

Acrobat Reader 1

DOS1993 application
Acrobat Reader was the first of a family of application software developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Acrobat Reader 1 was released in 1993 for DOS and Mac.
arx-fatalis-04

Arx Fatalis

Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/112002protected rpg
Arx Fatalis is basically what happens when someone takes “dungeons and dragons” way too literally. You start trapped in a gloomy underground world because—oops—the sun burned out, and apparently nobody thou...
logica-splash

Logical

DOS1991 puzzle
skyrunner-01

Sky Runner

DOS1987 racing
prehistorik-splash

Prehistorik

DOS1991protected action
If you’ve ever wondered what a caveman’s life was like—minus the boredom and constant risk of saber-tooth tiger attacks—Prehistorik has you covered. It’s a side-scrolling platformer where you bash eve...
shadow-warrior-1

Shadow Warrior

DOS1997protected shooter
pod-gold-03

POD

Windows XP/98/951997protected racing
minervga-04

MinerVGA

DOS1989freeware strategy
psycho-02

Psycho

DOS1988 adventure
In Psycho (1988), you’re tossed into a pixelated nightmare loosely inspired by Hitchcock’s classic, though Norman Bates might not recognize the place. You explore creepy locales, collect clues, and try not to die horri...