Turn-based games sorted by release date
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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Armchair Quarterback
DOS1985
Armchair Quarterback lets you live the dream of yelling at your TV — but on your DOS machine, and with even less control. It’s part simulator, part quiz show, and all weird. You make play calls, analyze stats, and pray...
Battle of Antietam
DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Civil War buffs, rejoice. Battle of Antietam (1985) lets you relive one of the bloodiest days in American history... via pixelated dots and turn-based tension. There’s no flash here—just raw, old-school strategy where ...
Crusade in Europe
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Cyrus
DOS1985
Decision in the Desert
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Doomdark's Revenge
DOS1985 Beyond Software
Doomdark's Revenge is a strategy and role-playing video game developed by Mike Singleton and originally released in 1985 for DOS and various home computer systems, including the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64. It is th...
Global Thermo War
DOS1985
Monopoly
DOS1985
Monopoly
DOS1985
Operation Market Garden
DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Psion Chess
DOSMac OS1985 Psion Software
Star Fleet 1: The War Begins
DOSMac OS1985 Interstel Corporation
Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance
DOS1985NSFW Artworx Software
Turbo Gomoku
DOS1985
221B Baker Street
DOS1986 Datasoft
You are Sherlock Holmes, and someone has committed a crime, possibly because they couldn’t handle the game’s UI. 221B Baker Street is a detective board game where your mind is your only weapon. And also a notepad, beca...
Backgammon
DOS1986
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 Apogee Software
Before Titanic was a movie with a lot of weeping, there was Beyond the Titanic, a text adventure where surviving the iceberg is just the beginning. The game takes the historic disaster and then says, “What if we added a secr...
Conflict in Vietnam
DOS1986 MicroProse Software
Desert Rats
DOS1986 Cases Computer Simulations
Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex
DOS1986 Avalon Hill
Fooblitzsky
DOS1986 Infocom
Grand Slam Bridge
DOS1986 Cybron corporation
Gulf Strike
DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Larn
DOS1986freeware
Mean 18
DOS1986 Microsmiths
Mind Mirror
DOS1986
Ogre
DOS1986 Origin Systems
Othello
DOS1986
The Chessmaster 2000
DOS1986 The Software Toolworks
10th Frame
DOS1987 Access Software
Time to hit the lanes in 10th Frame, a bowling simulator so committed to realism it even simulates the wait between turns. You line up your shot, set your spin, and pray the ancient gods of DOS let your pixel ball behave. The grap...