Abandonware strategy games sorted by year, newest first
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Sword of the Samurai
DOS1989protected4/5
The computer edition of Scrabble
DOS19893.2/5 board game
Trivial Pursuit
DOS19893.4/5 trivia / quiz, board game
Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces that correspond to those categories. The goal is to collect all the pie pieces and complete a full pie before your opponents.
War in Middle Earth
DOS19893.9/5 real-time tactics, real-time strategy
War in Middle-earth is a real-time strategy game developed by Synergistic Software and published by Melbourne House. It was released in 1988 for various platforms including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC.The game is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy world of Middle-earth, specifically focusing on the events depicted in "The Lor...
Waterloo
DOS1989protected4.1/5 turn-based tactics, wargame
Annals of Rome
DOS19883.8/5 kingdom simulation
Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation
DOS19882.8/5 turn-based tactics, wargame
Battle Chess
DOS1988protected4.2/5 board game, chess
Chess was a niche genre in video gaming. There were lots of chess simulations: black and white very old games, licensed games from chess champions, etc. No one ever attempted to broaden the audience until Interplay published Battle Chess. Battle Chess appeal was almost entirely focused on the animations when two pieces ended on the same square.
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1
DOS19884/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Dracula in London
DOS19883.5/5 board game
EGA Bomb
DOS19883.7/5 artillery
Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles
DOS19882.8/5 wargame
Firezone
DOS19883.1/5 turn-based tactics, wargame, board game
Knight Exchange
DOS19883.2/5 board game
Nobunaga's Ambition
DOS19883.7/5
Playhouse Strip Poker
DOS1988NSFW3.9/5 cards
Power Struggle
DOS19883.5/5
Spy vs Spy 3: Arctic Antics
DOS19883.8/5
Star Command
DOS1988protected4/5 space exploration, turn-based tactics
Stellar Crusade
DOS1988protected3.9/5 4x
Strip Poker 2
DOS1988NSFW3.9/5 cards
Strip Poker 2 plus
DOS1988NSFW3.8/5 cards
Super Battleship
DOS19883.3/5 board game
Teenage Queen
DOS1988NSFW3.9/5 cards
Trump Castle: The Ultimate Casino Gambling Simulation
DOS19883.7/5 cards
UMS: The Universal Military Simulator
DOSMac19884.1/5 turn-based tactics, wargame
UMS, short for Universal Military Simulator, is a computer-based wargame simulation developed by Rainbird Software in 1988. It was designed with the intention of providing players with a comprehensive and realistic military simulation experience.The game allows players to engage in strategic and tactical warfare across various scenarios and battlef...
Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign
DOS19883.8/5 turn-based tactics, wargame
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware3.9/5 4x
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
Dragonriders of Pern
DOS19873.1/5 board game
Empire: Wargame of the Century
DOS19874/5 wargame