Abandonware strategy games sorted by year, newest first
Games based on strategy allow for reasoning and planning of one’s moves and actions. The gameplay may be based on player’s turns (Turn-based Strategy) or it may be in real time (Real-Time Strategy, RTS). These games focus on strategy and tactics rather than action, sometimes with the addition of financial or logistic features.
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Fidelity Chessmaster 2100
DOS1989 chess
Final Frontier
DOS1989 real-time strategy
Gengis Khan
DOS1989 kingdom simulation
Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World
DOS1989 board game
House of Cards
DOS1989 cards
Joan of Arc
DOS1989 turn-based tactics
MinerVGA
DOS1989freeware business simulation
Nobunaga's Ambition 2
DOS1989
Nuclear War
DOS1989 board game
Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a car...
Omega
DOS1989 real-time tactics
Omega is an abandoned science fiction themed strategy game developed and released by Origin Systems in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Omega is a rare example of a programming game about robots.
Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw
DOS1989 board game
Populous
DOS1989 sandbox strategy, god game, real-time strategy
Populous is an abandoned strategy game designed by the video game celebrity Peter Molyneux, developed by Bullfrog. Populous was released by Electronic Arts in 1989 for DOS and for a long list of other 16-bit and 8-bit systems, bot...
Risk: the World Conquest Game
DOS1989 board game
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
DOS1989
Scrabble
DOS1989 board game
Star Fleet 2: Krellan Commander
DOS1989 space exploration, space simulation
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS1989 board game
Sword of Aragon
DOS1989protected 4x, kingdom simulation, turn-based tactics
Sword of the Samurai
DOS1989protected
The Big Three
DOS1989 wargame
The computer edition of Scrabble
DOS1989 board game
Trivial Pursuit
DOS1989 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 th...
War in Middle Earth
DOS1989 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 i...
Waterloo
DOS1989protected turn-based tactics, wargame
Annals of Rome
DOS1988 kingdom simulation
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 ...
Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation
DOS1988 turn-based tactics, wargame
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...
Battle Chess
DOS1988protected board game, chess
You’ve never really lived until you’ve watched a rook pick up a pawn and slam dunk it into the floor. Battle Chess (1988) turns the world’s most intellectual board game into a medieval cage match. The pieces don&...
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1
DOS1988 wargame, turn-based tactics
Dracula in London
DOS1988 board game
EGA Bomb
DOS1988 artillery