The most popular 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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UMS 2: Nations at War
DOSMac OS1990 Intergalactic Development
Mind Mirror
DOS1986
Football Fanatic
DOS1998freeware
Blades of Exile
Windows 3.xMac OSWindows XP/98/951997freeware Spiderweb Software
Blades of Exile is a classic role-playing video game developed by Spiderweb Software. It's the third installment in the "Exile" series. The game was released in 1997 for Mac OS, and later for Windows in 1998. In Blades of Exile, p...
Star Wars Chess
DOSWindows 3.x1993 The Software Toolworks
Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation
DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
Arnhem is the kind of wargame where you spend more time reading hex maps than shooting anything. It’s all about recreating Operation Market Garden — you know, that WWII battle where everything went spectacularly sidewa...
Clash of Steel
DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Dragons of Flame
DOS1989protected U.S. Gold
Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter
DOS1991 Pc globe
If Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego had a caffeinated younger cousin, it would be Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter. You race around the globe chasing clues, dodging rivals, and learning just enough geography to impress your ...
Lords of Conquest
DOS1987 Eon Software
Wizardry 2: The knight of diamonds
DOS1982 Sir-tech Software
Grand Slam Bridge
DOS1986 Cybron corporation
Galaxy
DOS1981 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Bobby Fisher teaches chess
DOS1994 Mission Studios
Ever wanted to get chess lessons from a genius who could crush your soul with a bishop and a glare? Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (1994, DOS) is your chance. Based on the classic book, the game patiently walks you through strategies...
Accordion
DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
It’s 1990, and you’re sitting at your DOS PC playing Accordion, a game that somehow turns solitaire into something slower and more passive-aggressive. It’s not flashy — unless you count blinking cards as fl...
Dark Queen of Krynn
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club
DOS1990
In Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club, you’re not saving the world or slaying dragons — you’re just trying to win a few bucks from a room full of poker-faced digital strangers. Released in 1990, it’s pe...
Liero
DOS1999freeware
Sword of Aragon
DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Nobunaga's Ambition 6
DOS1994 KOEI
Joan of Arc
DOS1989 Chip
Capture the Flag
DOS1993
No guns. No glory. Just two invisible players navigating a weird Tron-like maze to steal each other’s flag. Capture the Flag is what you get when someone says “let’s make Pac-Man multiplayer and add a dash of par...
Aspetra
DOS1996
Welcome to Aspetra, a 1996 DOS game that tried to cram an epic sci-fi RPG into your beige box PC — and mostly succeeded! Think “Star Trek meets budget constraints.” You explore strange new worlds, meet weirdly sp...
Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye
DOS1995 KOEI
Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye is a strategy video game developed by KOEI and released in 1995. It is set in a mythical version of ancient Ireland and draws heavily from Celtic mythology, particularly focusing on the legendar...
Hexxagon
DOS1993 Argo Games
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...
Chess88
DOS1984
Jimmy White Whirlwind Snooker
DOS1991
Mean 18
DOS1986 Microsmiths