Abandonware DOS title

The most popular turn based games

In direct contrast with real-time games, turn-based games gameplay is based on the players taking turns to do what needs to be done: move in a dungeon, play cards, attack enemy units.
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Big Sea: The Better One Will Win

DOS1994 Cyberdyne Systems
With a title that sounds like a deep-sea motivational poster, Big Sea: The Better One Will Win is a maritime strategy game where the stakes are high and the water’s pixelated. Outwit your foes on the high seas while trying t...
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Panzer Battles

DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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X-COM: Terror from the Deep

DOS1995protected MicroProse Software
X-COM: Terror from the Deep (also known as X-COM 2) is a DOS science fiction tactical strategy game and the sequel to one of the most popular DOS games in history, X-COM: UFO Defense. Terror from the Deep was designed by Step...
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UnReal World v. 3.20

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1992freeware
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Merchant Prince

DOS1993 Holistic Design
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MicroLeague Wrestling

DOS1989 MicroLeague Multimedia
MicroLeague Wrestling is an abandoned wrestling action game based on the WWF league, developed by MicroLeague Multimedia and released in 1989 for DOS. MicroLeague Wrestling was also published for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64.
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Death Knights of Krynn

DOS1991protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS1989 KOEI
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Classic Hangman

DOS1983 Norland Software
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A Line in the Sand

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
A Line in the Sand (1992) is what happens when a board game about modern Middle Eastern warfare gets turned into a DOS strategy title with all the subtlety of a cold war memo. You command military forces in a region that is perpet...
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Decision in the Desert

DOS1985 MicroProse Software
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Monopoly Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x1992 Parker Brothers
Monopoly Deluxe is an abandoned turn-based top-down Monopoly adaptation  of the classic board game, developed by Parker Brothers and released by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Monopoly Deluxe was published for DOS, Windows 3.1, ...
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Dark Designs 2: Closing the Gate

DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
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Shard of Spring

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club

DOS1990
In Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club, you’re not saving the world or slaying dragons — you’re just trying to win a few bucks from a room full of poker-faced digital strangers. Released in 1990, it’s pe...
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Blue Angel 69

DOS1989NSFW
Caution: subtlety not included. Blue Angel 69, released in 1989 for DOS, is basically what happens when a programmer tries to mix erotic art with a tile-based puzzle game and ends up somewhere between genius and “please don&...
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Ultimate Soccer Manager 2

DOSWindows 3.x1996 Impressions Games
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3D-Maze

Windows 3.x1991
Ah, 3D-Maze. If you used Windows 3.x, you probably saw this lurking in the corner of your screen savers like a digital minotaur. Released in 1991, it’s not quite a game, but everyone played it anyway. You walk endlessly thro...
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Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan

DOS1990 New World Computing
Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan is a computer RPG released in 1990 for MS-DOS and PC-98 platforms. It is based on the tabletop role-playing game Tunnels & Trolls created by Ken St. Andre, which was a lighter and more...
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Mind Mirror

DOS1986
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Incursion

Windows 10/11LinuxMac OS2007freeware
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Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/951995 White Wolf Productions
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Capture the Flag

DOS1993
No guns. No glory. Just two invisible players navigating a weird Tron-like maze to steal each other’s flag. Capture the Flag is what you get when someone says “let’s make Pac-Man multiplayer and add a dash of par...
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Strip Poker 2 plus

DOS1988NSFW Anco Software
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Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye

DOS1995 KOEI
Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye is a strategy video game developed by KOEI and released in 1995. It is set in a mythical version of ancient Ireland and draws heavily from Celtic mythology, particularly focusing on the legendar...
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Nerm of Bemer

DOS1984 COMPUTE! Publications
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Front Lines

DOS1994 Impressions Games
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10th Frame

DOS1987 Access Software
Time to hit the lanes in 10th Frame, a bowling simulator so committed to realism it even simulates the wait between turns. You line up your shot, set your spin, and pray the ancient gods of DOS let your pixel ball behave. The grap...