Games similar to board games or based on a tabletop game

Classic board games like Backgammon, Othello, Checkers were an inspiration to the first wave of developers for their simplicity and appeal. In time, modern board games like Diplomacy, Risk, Monopoly or Scrabble were also adapted in a number of games. And let's not forget the strategy games NOT based on actual tabletop games which gameplay is clearly inspired by board games (like the excellent Archon).

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Chaos Overlords

Windows XP/98/95Mac1996protected3/5 Stick Man Games

Checkers for Windows

Windows 3.x19974.1/5

Classic Concentration

DOS19884.2/5 Softie

Clue Master Detective

DOS19894.3/5 Dalali Software

Clue Master Detective is an abandoned strategy game developed by Dalali Software and released by Leisure Genius in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Clue Master Detective is based on the well known board game Clue (also known as Cluedo). Clue can be played in single player, but the best gaming experience come from the multi-player mode.

Codebreaker

DOS1994freeware3/5

Computer Diplomacy

DOS19843.6/5 Avalon Hill

Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow

DOS19923.4/5 Sierra On-Line

Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge

DOS19922.8/5 Sierra On-Line

Dark Legions

DOS1994protected4/5 Silicon Knights

Death by Backgammon

DOS19903.3/5

Dogs of War

Windows XP/98/951996demo4.2/5 Software Engineering

Dracula in London

DOS19883.5/5 SDJ Enterprises

Dragon Strike

DOS1990protected3.2/5 Westwood Studios

Dragonriders of Pern

DOS19873.1/5 Everlasting

Epidemic!

DOS1983protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Felony!

DOS19844/5 BrainBank

Fields of Glory

DOS1993protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software

Firezone

DOS19883.1/5 Arcadia Systems

Fooblitzsky

DOS19864/5 Infocom

Full Metal Planete

DOSMac19903.9/5 Hitech Productions

Galaxy

DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Global Conquest

DOS19924/5 Ozark Softscape

Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5

Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS19893.8/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Gulf Strike

DOS19864.2/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Harpoon

DOS1989protected3.9/5 Three-Sixty Pacific

HeroQuest

DOSMac19913.9/5 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 board game. Players take on the roles of different heroes, including a barbarian, dwarf, elf, and wizard, as they explo...