The best turn based games
In direct contrast with real-time games, turn-based games gameplay is based on the players taking turns to do what needs to be done: move in a dungeon, play cards, attack enemy units.
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Mad Paradox
DOS1994NSFW Queen Soft
Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance
DOS1985NSFW Artworx Software
Beneath Apple Manor
DOS1983freeware
Beneath Apple Manor is a pioneering game in the roguelike genre, originally developed and released in 1978 by Don Worth for the Apple II and later re-released for DOS as a "Special Edition". It's one of the earliest known role-pla...
Centerfold Squares
DOS1988NSFW Artworx Software
V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach
DOS1991protected Atomic Games
Dark Designs 1: Grelminar's Staff
DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
Empire: Wargame of the Century
DOS1987 Northwest Software
Archer Maclean's Pool
DOS1992 Virgin Interactive
For those who think snooker is too posh and billiards too French, there's Archer Maclean's Pool, the most ‘90s way to simulate the timeless art of arguing over whether that shot was really legal. It’s pool in DOS &mdas...
Baseball Mogul
Windows XP/98/951997 Infinite Monkey Systems
Baseball Mogul (1997) was the original release that kicked off the whole franchise. Developed by Clay Dreslough and published by Infinite Monkey Systems, this was a pioneer in the world of sports management sims. It was released f...
Battle for Atlantis
DOS1990
Fancy a war under the sea? Battle for Atlantis (1990) asks the age-old question: what if submarines had grudges? This top-down, action strategy title throws you into a deep-sea turf war with clunky controls and a soundtrack that f...
La Grande Armee
DOS1991 SDJ Enterprises
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS1989 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
World Darts
DOS1987 Melbourne House
Stellar Crusade
DOS1988protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Betrayal
DOS1990protected
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-playing where you move pieces around a map like a fantas...
Heirs to the Throne
DOS1992 German Design Group
Kaiser
DOS1992
A Line in the Sand
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
A Line in the Sand (1992) is what happens when a board game about modern Middle Eastern warfare gets turned into a DOS strategy title with all the subtlety of a cold war memo. You command military forces in a region that is perpet...
Executive Suite
DOS1982 Armonk Corporation
Crusade in Europe
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Warp Rogue
Windows 10/11Linux2004freeware
Strip Poker 2
DOS1988NSFW Artworx Software
Shadow of Yserbius
DOS1993 Sierra On-Line
Teenage Queen
DOS1988NSFW ERE Informatique
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS1998
Wizardry 3: Legacy of Llylgamyn
DOS1983 Sir-tech Software
Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn is a classic role-playing video game developed by Sir-Tech and released in 1983. It is the third installment in the Wizardry series. Originally released for the Apple II, it was later ported ...
Fantasy Empires
DOS1993protected Silicon Knights
Annals of Rome
DOS1988 Personal Software Services
In Annals of Rome, you don’t just play history — you command it, badly. This 1988 strategy title lets you take control of the Roman Empire and try to keep it from falling apart, which it will, probably because you let ...
Mission: Mainframe
DOS1987
Acquire
DOS1989 IBM
Acquire (1989, DOS) brings boardroom drama to your DOS screen, turning you into a hotel tycoon in a game where the real enemy is... math. It's a faithful adaptation of the classic board game, complete with mergers, hostile takeove...