Games similar to board games or based on a tabletop game sorted by year, newest first
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Scrabble
DOS19923.4/5 U.S. Gold
Theatre of War
DOS1992protected3.3/5 Artech Studios
Trivial Pursuit Deluxe
DOS19923.8/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises
WinRisk
Windows 3.x19924.1/5
Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter
DOS19914.1/5 Pc globe
HeroQuest
DOSMac19913.9/5 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...
Risk
Windows 3.x19913.8/5 Azeroth
The Ball Game
DOS19913.9/5 Esprit Software Programs
Twilight 2000
DOS19914.1/5 Paragon Software
Battle for Atlantis
DOS19903.8/5
Death by Backgammon
DOS19903.3/5
Dragon Strike
DOS1990protected3.1/5 Westwood Studios
Full Metal Planete
DOSMac19903.9/5 Hitech Productions
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
DOSMac19903.8/5 Publishing International
Renegade Legion Interceptor
DOS1990protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
Windows 3.xMac19903/5 Activision
Space 1889
DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software
Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.
Stratego
DOS19903.5/5 Accolade
Acquire
DOS19893.9/5 IBM
Clue Master Detective
DOS19894.3/5 Dalali Software
Clue Master Detective is an abandoned strategy game developed by Dalali Software and released by Leisure Genius in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Clue Master Detective is based on the well known board game Clue (also known as Cluedo). Clue can be played in single player, but the best gaming experience come from the multi-player mode.
Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World
DOS19893.8/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Harpoon
DOS1989protected3.9/5 Three-Sixty Pacific
Nuclear War
DOS19894.1/5 New World Computing
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 card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw
DOS19893/5 Oxford Mobius
Risk: the World Conquest Game
DOS19893.8/5 Mastertronic
Scrabble
DOS19893.6/5
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
The computer edition of Scrabble
DOS19893.2/5 Leisure Genius
Trivial Pursuit
DOS19893.4/5
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 that correspond to those categories. The goal is to collect all the pie pieces and complete a full pie before your opponents.
Battle Chess
DOS1988protected4.2/5 Interplay Productions
Chess was a niche genre in video gaming. There were lots of chess simulations: black and white very old games, licensed games from chess champions, etc. No one ever attempted to broaden the audience until Interplay published Battle Chess. Battle Chess appeal was almost entirely focused on the animations when two pieces ended on the same square.