Abandonware DOS title

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...
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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-01

Crusade in Europe

DOS1985 MicroProse Software
cyrus-04

Cyrus

DOS1985
decision_desert-05

Decision in the Desert

DOS1985 MicroProse Software
doomdark-revenge-01

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...
monopoly-04

Monopoly

DOS1985
monopoly-avalon-02

Monopoly

DOS1985
operation-market-garden-01

Operation Market Garden

DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
chess-psion-02

Psion Chess

DOSMac OS1985 Psion Software
starfleet1-battle-begins03

Star Fleet 1: The War Begins

DOSMac OS1985 Interstel Corporation
strippoke-splash

Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance

DOS1985NSFW Artworx Software
turbo-gomoku-01

Turbo Gomoku

DOS1985
baker-street-2

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-green-valley-02

Backgammon

DOS1986
beyond-titanic-01

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...
conflictvietnam-4

Conflict in Vietnam

DOS1986 MicroProse Software
desert-rats-03

Desert Rats

DOS1986 Cases Computer Simulations
fooblitzsky-02

Fooblitzsky

DOS1986 Infocom
grandslambridge-splash

Grand Slam Bridge

DOS1986 Cybron corporation
gulf-strike-04

Gulf Strike

DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.
larn-5

Larn

DOS1986freeware
mean18-03

Mean 18

DOS1986 Microsmiths
mind-mirror-04

Mind Mirror

DOS1986
ogre-03

Ogre

DOS1986 Origin Systems
othello-03

Othello

DOS1986
chessmaster-2000-01

The Chessmaster 2000

DOS1986 The Software Toolworks
10thframe-4

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...