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Kurtan
DOS1990 puzzle
Little-known but oddly captivating, Kurtan (1990, DOS) feels like someone’s ambitious homebrew fantasy experiment gone right. You play a wandering warrior exploring a pixelat...
M Labyrinth
DOS1993 puzzle
Few games embrace confusion quite as enthusiastically as M Labyrinth. Released in 1993, it throws players into a maze that seems to have been designed by someone who firmly believe...
Alien Crucible
Windows Vista/7/82009canceled rpg
Dungeon Explorer
DOS1990 rpg
Dungeon Explorer takes the term “dungeon” very seriously—there’s a lot of it, and not much else. Released in 1990, this top-down adventure is part RPG, part...
Pac Gal
DOS1982 action
Carriers at War
DOS1992 strategy
Rad Warrior
DOS1986 action
Monopoly
DOS1985 strategy
Aldo's Assault
DOS1991 action
Think of Aldo's Assault as what happens when Mario forgets his plumber license and joins a bootleg army. This 1991 DOS gem throws you into a side-scrolling frenzy of ladders, barre...
Blue Max: Aces of the Great War
DOS1990protected vehicle simulation
Forget missiles—Blue Max: Aces of the Great War takes you back to when air combat meant leather helmets, canvas wings, and a healthy fear of gravity. Released in 1990 for DOS...
Cavequest
DOS1985 rpg
Back in 1985, Cavequest asked: what if you mixed ASCII graphics with deadly bats and claustrophobia? The answer: a punishingly hard maze crawler that’ll have you screaming at...
The Ancient Art of War in the Skies
DOS1992 strategy
Betrayal
DOS1990protected strategy
Ah, Betrayal—a game with a name that really sets the tone. Is it about backstabbing? Politics? Lost love? Not really. It’s actually a hybrid of strategy and role-playin...
Basket Master
DOS1990 sports
What happens when a basketball game forgets about realism and goes full cartoon? Basket Master (1990), that’s what. This Spanish-developed DOS gem pits two oddly animated bal...
Moon Calculator
DOS2001 application
Sirwood
DOS1990 shooter
Sirwood throws you into a fantasy kingdom where the trees are friendlier than some of the locals. Half strategy, half adventure, it's the kind of game that expects you to think, pl...
Cannon Fodder 2
DOS1994protected strategy
Ghost Master
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected simulation
Ghost Master is a strategy and simulation game developed by Sick Puppies and published by Empire Interactive. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows in 2003 and later por...
MDK 2
Windows XP/98/952000protected shooter
Amarillo Slim's 7 Card Stud
DOS1992 strategy
Interphase
DOS1989 shooter
Interphase from 1989 blends action and puzzle-solving into a futuristic arcade experience that feels distinctly experimental. Players navigate abstract environments, collecting obj...
NetWars
DOS1993freeware shooter
NetWars, developed by Novell, is a 3D space shooter video game originally released in 1993 for DOS. NetWars was designed primarily as a promotional tool to demonstrate the networki...
Isle of the Dead
DOS1993 action-adventure
Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor
DOS1992 strategy
Released in 1992, Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor is one of those wonderfully odd games that feels like it was brewed in a laboratory where someone mixed fantasy, strategy, and a pinc...
Fountain of Dreams
DOS1990 rpg
Fountain of Dreams is a post-apocalyptic RPG that feels like a distant, slightly sunburned cousin of more famous wasteland adventures. Set in a radioactive Florida, it sends you sc...
Kaeon
DOS1992 shooter
Kaeon is one of those obscure role-playing adventures that quietly invites players into a fantasy world without relying on flashy presentation. Exploration, character growth, and t...
Power Struggle
DOS1988 strategy
Power Struggle is the kind of strategy game that quietly asks, “Would you like to control the world?” and then immediately throws you into a geopolitical mess. It&rsquo...
African Trail Simulator
DOS1990 racing
Part racing game, part endurance test, African Trail Simulator dares you to hop on a pixel bike and brave the wild. You’ll encounter hostile terrain, wildlife, and the occasi...
X-COM: Apocalypse
DOSWindows XP/98/951997protecteddemo strategy
X-COM: Apocalypse takes the familiar alien invasion formula and tosses it into a sprawling futuristic city, where things feel both more chaotic and oddly more personal. Instead of ...
Finders Keepers
Windows Vista/7/82007remake action
Bright, quirky, and just a little bit mischievous, Finders Keepers feels like it wandered in from another dimension where puzzles and platforming share equal custody of your patien...






























