Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

rusty-jp-01

Rusty

DOS1993 action-adventure
cascade-01

Cascade

DOS1990 puzzle
Remember those endless, hypnotic tile-matching games before Candy Crush hijacked your aunt’s phone? Cascade was already there, dropping blocks and breaking combos like it inv...
Morejongg-02

Moraff's Morejongg

Windows XP/98/951992 puzzle
great-napoleonic-battles-01

Great Napoleonic Battles

DOS1991 strategy
Great Napoleonic Battles is the kind of game that assumes you are ready to command armies and possibly rewrite history before breakfast. In Great Napoleonic Battles, strategy is ev...
global-domination-02

Global Domination

DOS1993 strategy
As the title suggests, Global Domination doesn’t aim small, throwing you into a contest for control of the entire planet. It leans into a more arcade-like approach to strateg...
treasure-island-01

Treasure Island

DOS1985 adventure
rotox-06

Rotox

DOS1991 shooter
the-draw-02

TheDraw 4

DOS1986 application
seymour-hollywood-02

Seymour Goes to Hollywood

DOS1993 action-adventure
renegade-legion-interceptor-01

Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected strategy
silly-master-blaster-03

Silly Master Blaster

DOS1985 action
mad-mix-02

Mad Mix

DOS1988 action
egaroids-2

EGA-Roids

DOS1986freewareremake shooter
As the name suggests, EGA-Roids is a colorful take on the classic Asteroids formula, adapted for the EGA era. You pilot a ship through space, blasting rocks and dodging debris in f...
superspeed-04

Super Speed

DOS1995 racing
lyle-cube-sector-01

Lyle in Cube Sector

Windows XP/98/952006 action-adventure
Lyle in Cube Sector (2006, Windows) looks like it fell out of a lost NES cartridge and landed straight on your hard drive. This indie metroidvania has you tossing cubes, exploring ...
nyet-03

Nyet

DOS1988freeware puzzle
Before Tetris conquered the world, Nyet gave DOS users their own block-stacking fix. It’s essentially a clone, but with its own quirks and rough edges — the kind of thi...
diabolika-02

Diabolika

Windows XP/98/951999freeware puzzle
nord-and-bert-01

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It

DOS1987 adventure
Infocom really went off the rails with Nord and Bert, and bless them for it. This is a text adventure not about dragons or spaceships, but about puns. Yes, literal wordplay puzzles...
warriors-of-legend-07

Warriors of Legend

DOS1993 rpg
vynil-goddess-mars-06

Vynil Goddess from Mars

DOS1995 action
triple-triad-03

Triple Triad Gold

Windows XP/98/952000freeware strategy
For those who got hopelessly addicted to the card game inside Final Fantasy VIII, Triple Triad Gold (2000) was like someone saying, “Here, now you can ruin your productivity ...
nfl-pro-league-03

NFL Pro League Football

DOS1989 sports
doszipcommander-1

Doszip Commander

DOS2007freeware application
wizball-02

Wizball

DOS1987 shooter
Wizball is a  shoot 'em up video game developed by Sensible Software and originally released for various home computer platforms in 1987. The game was published by Ocean ...
final-frontier-03

Final Frontier

DOS1989 strategy
Final Frontier is a late-80s slice of space ambition, the kind that assumes you’re perfectly happy staring at menus while imagining epic interstellar conquest. It’s str...
solidarnosc-01

Solidarnosc

DOS1991 simulation
titan-03

Titan

DOS1989 action
bycicle-bridge-03

Bicycle Bridge

DOS1992 strategy
Ready to get your heart racing with the world’s slowest competitive sport? Bicycle Bridge brings the thrill of bidding, trick-taking, and utter confusion straight to your DOS...