Abandonware strategy games sorted by release date
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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Red sky at morning
DOS1993
Redhook's Revenge
DOS1993 board game
Rules of Engagement 2
DOS1993 real-time tactics
Seal Team
DOS1993 real-time tactics
Socrates
DOS1993 chess
Space Hulk
DOS1993 board game, real-time tactics
Space Hulk is an abandoned real-time tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40000 universe, developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS and Amiga systems. In Space Hulk, the player is tasked with wiping out hordes of aliens by the means of a squad of Space Marines armored and armed to the teeth. Space Hulk is the adaptation...
Star Wars Chess
DOSWindows 3.x1993 chess
Stronghold
DOS1993protected real-time strategy, kingdom simulation
Stronghold, released in 1993, is a strategy simulation game developed by Stormfront Studios and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). Players assume the role of a lord tasked with managing a kingdom. The game involves city-building elements combined with resource management and combat. You can construct and expand castles, farms...
Syndicate
DOS1993protected real-time tactics
The Blue & the Gray
DOS1993 wargame
The Great War: 1914 - 1918
DOS1993protected turn-based tactics
The Settlers
DOS1993protected sandbox strategy, real-time strategy
Unnatural Selection
DOS1993 real-time tactics
V for victory: Gold-Juno-Sword
DOS1993protected wargame, turn-based tactics
V for victory: Market-Garden
DOS1993protected wargame, turn-based tactics
Warlords 2
DOS1993 4x
When Two Worlds War
DOS1993
5th Fleet
DOS1994 turn-based tactics, wargame, board game
Alien Legacy
DOS1994 4x
Archon Ultra
DOS1994protected board game
Battle Bugs
DOS1994 real-time tactics
Battle Isle 2200
DOS1994protected turn-based tactics
Bobby Fisher teaches chess
DOS1994 chess
Cannon Fodder
DOS1994protected real-time tactics
Cannon Fodder, released by Sensible Software in 1993, is a military-themed action game that cleverly blends strategy with real-time tactics. Players control a small squad of soldiers through various missions, facing enemies and obstacles in a top-down perspective. The game's distinctive style is marked by its dark humor and satirical take on war, m...
Colonization
DOSWindows 3.xLinuxMac OS1994protected 4x
Colonization is a turn-based strategy 4x game developed and published by MicroProse in 1994 for DOS, Windows 3.1, Linux and Mac. The setting is the European Colonization of the New World. Colonization gameplay and interface are similar to Civilization, another Sid Meier game. However, there are some differences between Civilization and Colonization...
D-Day: The Beginning of the End
DOS1994 wargame
Dark Legions
DOS1994protected board game
Dominus
DOS1994 real-time tactics, real-time strategy
Front Lines
DOS1994 wargame, turn-based tactics