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
DOS19843.5/5 Avalon Hill
Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow
DOS19923.4/5 Sierra On-Line
Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge
DOS19922.8/5 Sierra On-Line
Dark Legions
DOS1994protected4/5 Silicon Knights
Death by Backgammon
DOS19903.3/5
Dogs of War
Windows XP/98/951996demo4.2/5 Software Engineering
Dracula in London
DOS19883.4/5 SDJ Enterprises
Dragon Strike
DOS1990protected3.4/5 Westwood Studios
Dragonriders of Pern
DOS19873.2/5 Everlasting
Epidemic!
DOS1983protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Felony!
DOS19844/5 BrainBank
Fields of Glory
DOS1993protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
Firezone
DOS19883.1/5 Arcadia Systems
Fooblitzsky
DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
Full Metal Planete
DOSMac OS19903.9/5 Hitech Productions
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Global Conquest
DOS19924.3/5 Ozark Softscape
Global Thermo War
DOS19853.9/5
Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World
DOS19893.8/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Gulf Strike
DOS19864.2/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Harpoon
DOS1989protected3.9/5 Three-Sixty Pacific
HeroQuest
DOSMac OS19913.9/5 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 board game. Players take on the roles of different heroes, including a barbarian, dwarf, elf, and wizard, as they explo...
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
DOSMac OS19903.8/5 Publishing International
King's Table: The Legend of Ragnarok
DOS1993protected4.1/5 Imagitec Design
Knight Exchange
DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing
La Colmena
DOS1992NSFW3.8/5 Opera Soft
Lords of Conquest
DOS19873.6/5 Eon Software
Mah Jongg Solitaire
DOS19874/5 Arcanum Computing
Mario's Game Gallery
DOSMac OS19954/5 Presage Software
Mission: Mainframe
DOS19873.9/5