Abandonware DOS title

The best 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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Star Command

DOS1988protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Desert Rats

DOS1986 Cases Computer Simulations
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Links: The Challenge of Golf

DOS1990 Access Software
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Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
If you ever wanted to command the Pacific fleet without getting wet, Carrier Strike is your game. Set during WWII, it’s a turn-based wargame where numbers, radar, and weather reports matter more than reflexes. You’ll p...
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Dark Legions

DOS1994protected Silicon Knights
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Psion Chess

DOSMac OS1985 Psion Software
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Shard of Spring

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

DOS1981 Sir-tech Software
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a role-playing video game that was first released in 1981. It's one of the pioneering titles in the dungeon-crawling genre and one of the first computer role-playing games (CRPGs).D...
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Premier Manager 2

DOS1993 Realms of Fantasy
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Ultimate Soccer Manager

DOS1995 Impressions Games
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Combat Chess

Windows XP/98/951997protected Minds Eye Productions
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Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1996 Big Time Software
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Red sky at morning

DOS1993 Simulations Canada
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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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Kasparov's Gambit

DOS1993 Heuristic software
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HeroQuest

DOSMac OS1991 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
HeroQuest is a classic video game adaptation of the popular board game HeroQuest, released in 1991 by Gremlin Interactive. HeroQuest faithfully recreates the turn-based, dungeon-crawling, and role-playing gameplay of the...
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Oil Barons

DOS1992 Starsoft Development
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Power Dolls

DOS1994 Kogado Software Products
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Spirit of Adventure

DOS1991 Attic Entertainment Software
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Laser Squad

DOS1992 Target Games Limited
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 a...
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Metal Marines

Windows 3.x1993 Namco
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Adventure Construction Set

DOS1987 Electronic Arts
Long before Minecraft let us build worlds, Adventure Construction Set handed you a digital Lego box and said, “Go nuts.” Want to make a dungeon full of orcs and ham sandwiches? Sure. A sci-fi epic with talking robots a...
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One-Nil Soccer Manager

DOS1992 New Era Software
One-Nil Soccer Manager is a text-based soccer management simulation game that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was developed for various home computer systems, including DOS, Commodore 64 and Amiga. In One-Ni...
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Battle Isle 93: The Moon of Chromos

DOS1993 Blue Byte Software
A game with a name like Battle Isle 93: The Moon of Chromos clearly means business. Released in 1993, it’s an expansion-slash-standalone with new missions, harder AI, and an even more hostile moon. You’ll manage resour...
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Wasteland

DOS1988protected Interplay Productions
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The Aethra Chronicles

DOS1994
The Aethra Chronicles is not a well know fantasy RPG, but it deserves some praise. It was developed by only one person (Micheal Lawrence) and, as the title implies, was intended to be the first volume of a saga. Unfortunately, vol...
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Subtrade: Return to Irata

DOS1993 Century Interactive
Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clo...
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Curse of the Azure Bonds

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.