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.

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Siege

DOS19924/5 turn-based tactics

Omega

DOS19894/5 real-time tactics

Omega is an abandoned science fiction themed strategy game developed and released by Origin Systems in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Omega is a rare example of a programming game about robots.

Action in the North Atlantic

DOS19894.1/5 naval simulation

Global Conquest

DOS19924.3/5 board game

Kampfgruppe

DOS1987protected3.6/5 turn-based tactics, wargame

The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow

DOS1982protected3.8/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Robot Odissey

DOS19853.9/5 real-time tactics

9 Poker

DOS19893.8/5 cards

Theatre of War

DOS1992protected3.3/5 board game

Annals of Rome

DOS19883.8/5 kingdom simulation

Stellar Crusade

DOS1988protected3.9/5 4x

Lords of Conquest

DOS19873.6/5 board game

Worms

DOS1995protecteddemo4.2/5 artillery

Teenage Queen

DOS1988NSFW3.9/5 cards

Roadwar Europa

DOS1987protected3.9/5 turn-based tactics

Chess

DOS19813.9/5 chess

Backgammon

DOS19843.1/5 board game

Monopoly

DOS19854.1/5 board game

StarCraft

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1998protecteddemo4/5 real-time strategy

StarCraft is a classic RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 1998 for Windows and Macintosh. StarCraft takes the Warcraft experience to a sci-fi setting with an interesting story, three very different races (the militaristic Humans, the alien Zerg and the religious Protoss) and one of the best gameplay ex...

Syndicate Wars

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected4/5 real-time tactics

Syndicate Wars is the sequel to the much acclaimed Syndicate developed by Bullfrog in its golden years. Like its predecessor, Syndicate Wars is a real-time tactics strategy game set in a cyberpunk dystopian world involving excessive violence, mega-corporations, bleak urban environment. Syndicate Wars also supports a multi-player co-op mode via LAN.

Lords of Midnight

DOS1984remake3.8/5 first-person party-based RPG

The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter

DOS19903.8/5

Jagged Alliance

DOS1994protected4.3/5 turn-based tactics

Warzone 2100

Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1999freeware3.7/5 real-time strategy

Patton vs. Rommel

DOS19874/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

8088 Othello

DOS19853.6/5 board game

Syndicate

DOS1993protected4.1/5 real-time tactics

Empire: Wargame of the Century

DOS19874/5 wargame

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.

Chess88

DOS19844/5 chess