The best board game games

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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Mah Jongg Solitaire

DOS19874/5 Arcanum Computing

Monopoly Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x19924/5 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, and Macintosh.

BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception

DOS19884/5 Westwood Studios

221B Baker Street

DOS19864/5 Datasoft

221B Baker Street is a turn-based strategy strategy game developed by Datasoft. 221B Baker Street is base on the tabletop game of the same name "221B Baker Street" and it plays in a very similar way, with dices, etc.

Advanced Civilization

DOS19954/5 Avalon Hill

Dark Legions

DOS1994protected4/5 Silicon Knights

Felony!

DOS19844/5 BrainBank

Fooblitzsky

DOS19864/5 Infocom

Global Conquest

DOS19924/5 Ozark Softscape

Acquire

DOS19893.9/5 IBM

Harpoon

DOS1989protected3.9/5 Three-Sixty Pacific

Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5

5th Fleet

DOS19943.9/5

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...

Space 1889

DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software

Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.

4Play

Windows 3.x1995NSFW3.9/5

4Play is a multi-player board-like strategy party-game for adults released for Windows 3.1 in 1995. 4Play is a board-game very similar to Monopoly in which players have to perform certain (adult) actions in response to events happening on the board.

Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace

DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation

A Line in the Sand

DOS1992protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Monopoly

DOS19853.9/5

Full Metal Planete

DOSMac19903.9/5 Hitech Productions

Mission: Mainframe

DOS19873.9/5

Monopoly (Adam Stevens)

DOS19983.9/5

The Ball Game

DOS19913.9/5 Esprit Software Programs

Mario's Game Gallery

DOSMac19953.8/5 Presage Software

Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS19893.8/5 Mastertronic

Autoduel

DOS19853.8/5 Origin Systems

Autoduel is an abandoned top-down open world post apocalyptic RPG/driving game hybrid designed by Chuck Bueche and Richard Garriott of Ultima fame. Autoduel was developed by Origin Systems and was released in 1985 for DOS, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, C64, Apple II, Macintosh, Amiga. Autoduel is based on a board game designed by Steve Jackson himself.