Abandonware DOS title

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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L'Empereur

DOS1991 KOEI
L'Empereur (1991) is one of those games that looks at Napoleon and says, “Yes, but what if we made it complicated?” This DOS strategy title drops you straight into the ...
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High Command: Europe 1939-45

DOS1992 Colorado Computer Creations
High Command: Europe 1939-45 is a strategy game that does not shy away from complexity, asking players to engage with history on a grand scale. The mechanics are detailed, sometime...
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Oubliette

DOS1983
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Crusade in Europe

DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Crusade in Europe is a detailed World War II strategy game that lets you take command of the Allied or Axis forces during some of the war’s most famous campaigns. It’s ...
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Conflict

DOS1990 Mastertronic
Conflict is a turn-based war game where you get to play Commander-in-Chief and yell at your virtual generals when things go wrong (which they often do). It's part military sim, par...
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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...
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Trivial Pursuit Deluxe

DOS1992 Oxford Digital Enterprises
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Mind Mirror

DOS1986
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The Civil War

DOS1987 Avalon Hill
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The Grandest Fleet

DOS1994 Quantum quality productions
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Midway Campaign

DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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Playhouse Strip Poker

DOS1988NSFW Eurosoft
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Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes

DOS1990 Command Simulations
In Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes, you’re not just playing a wargame — you’re being handed a clipboard, a stack of orders, and a freezing cold battlefield in ...
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Galaxy

DOS1981 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Galaxy is a relic from the early days of PC gaming, when the idea of exploring space could be conveyed with a handful of pixels and a lot of imagination. The gameplay is simple, re...
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Redhook's Revenge

DOS1993 ImagiSoft
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Warp Rogue

Windows XP/98/95Linux2004freeware
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Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex

DOS1986 Avalon Hill
Back in 1986, when most PC users were still figuring out floppy disks, along came Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex, a title that promised to educate while entertaining. Imagine t...
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Robot Rascals

DOS1987 Ozark Softscape
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Austerlitz 1805

DOS1989 Cornerstone Software
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The War Engine

Windows XP/98/952001 Boku Strategy Games
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Crime and Punishment

DOS1984 Mindscape
In Crime and Punishment, you’re not the criminal—you’re the detective, judge, and executioner rolled into one. Presented as a legal simulation, it tasks you with ...
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Machiavelli the Prince

DOS1995protected Holistic Design
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Mychess

DOS1984 The Software Toolworks
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Floor 13

DOS1992 PSI Software Designers
Floor 13 hands you the keys to a shadowy government office and suggests you protect national stability by any means necessary. It’s part strategy, part moral dilemma, and ent...
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Conflict: Korea

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Step into the Korean War with Conflict: Korea, where you command UN forces and discover that even in strategy games, North Korea is a problem. It follows the same system as the res...
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Backgammon

DOS1984 IBM
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Demon's Winter

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
In this 1989 DOS game, you survive in a post-apocalyptic world where demons have taken over. Scavenge for resources, fight off demonic creatures, and try to rebuild civilization. I...