Games similar to board games or based on a tabletop game

Classic board games like Backgammon, Othello, Checkers were an inspiration to the first wave of developers for their simplicity and appeal. In time, modern board games like Diplomacy, Risk, Monopoly or Scrabble were also adapted in a number of games. And let's not forget the strategy games NOT based on actual tabletop games which gameplay is clearly inspired by board games (like the excellent Archon).

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Computer Diplomacy

DOS1984 Avalon Hill

Do you enjoy betrayal, backstabbing, and pretending to be a global power while actually being terrible at geography? Computer Diplomacy is the digital version of the classic board game, where alliances are fleeting and wars are fo...

Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow

DOS1992 Sierra On-Line

In Crazy Nick’s Parlor Games with Laura Bow, the famous young detective swaps clues for checkers, backgammon, and card tables. The change of pace is gentle—no bodies to find, no culprits to catch—just the soft cl...

Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge

DOS1992 Sierra On-Line

Trade in your sword and crown for a dice cup in King Graham’s Board Game Challenge. The noble hero of King’s Quest takes a break from slaying dragons to play board games like checkers and backgammon, all wrapped in med...

Dark Legions

DOS1994protected Silicon Knights

Dark Legions is a 1994 strategy gem that asks: what if Archon got a DOS makeover with bloodier battles? You command armies of fantastical creatures, from vampires to trolls, across grid-based maps. When units clash, the action zoo...

Death by Backgammon

DOS1990

Only in the early ’90s could a game like Death by Backgammon exist with a straight face. It’s 1990, you’re on DOS, and suddenly backgammon isn’t just a quiet game for your granddad—it’s a duel o...

Dogs of War

Windows XP/98/951996demo Software Engineering

Dracula in London

DOS1988 SDJ Enterprises

Dragon Strike

DOS1990protected Westwood Studios

Dragonriders of Pern

DOS1987 Everlasting

Epidemic!

DOS1983protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Felony!

DOS1984 BrainBank

Fields of Glory

DOS1993protected MicroProse Software

Firezone

DOS1988 Arcadia Systems

Fooblitzsky

DOS1986 Infocom

Full Metal Planete

DOSMac OS1990 Hitech Productions

Galaxy

DOS1981 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Global Conquest

DOS1992 Ozark Softscape

Global Thermo War

DOS1985

Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Gulf Strike

DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Harpoon

DOS1989protected Three-Sixty Pacific

HeroQuest

DOSMac OS1991 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive

HeroQuest is a classic video game adaptation of the popular board game HeroQuest, released in 1991 by Gremlin Interactive. HeroQuest faithfully recreates the turn-based, dungeon-crawling, and role-playing gameplay of the...