Abandonware DOS title

Games similar to board games or based on a tabletop game sorted by release date

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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Firezone

DOS1988 Arcadia Systems
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Knight Exchange

DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
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Acquire

DOS1989 IBM
Acquire (1989, DOS) brings boardroom drama to your DOS screen, turning you into a hotel tycoon in a game where the real enemy is... math. It's a faithful adaptation of the classic board game, complete with mergers, hostile takeove...
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Clue Master Detective

DOS1989 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 (als...
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Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Harpoon

DOS1989protected Three-Sixty Pacific
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Nuclear War

DOS1989 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 car...
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Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw

DOS1989 Oxford Mobius
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Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS1989 Mastertronic
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Scrabble

DOS1989
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Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace

DOS1989 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
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The computer edition of Scrabble

DOS1989 Leisure Genius
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Trivial Pursuit

DOS1989
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 th...
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Battle for Atlantis

DOS1990
Fancy a war under the sea? Battle for Atlantis (1990) asks the age-old question: what if submarines had grudges? This top-down, action strategy title throws you into a deep-sea turf war with clunky controls and a soundtrack that f...
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Dragon Strike

DOS1990protected Westwood Studios
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Full Metal Planete

DOSMac OS1990 Hitech Productions
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Ishido: The Way of the Stones

DOSMac OS1990 Publishing International
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Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye

Windows 3.xMac OS1990 Activision
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Space 1889

DOS1990 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 ...
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Stratego

DOS1990 Accolade
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Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter

DOS1991 Pc globe
If Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego had a caffeinated younger cousin, it would be Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter. You race around the globe chasing clues, dodging rivals, and learning just enough geography to impress your ...
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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...
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Risk

Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth
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The Ball Game

DOS1991 Esprit Software Programs
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Twilight 2000

DOS1991 Paragon Software
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A Line in the Sand

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
A Line in the Sand (1992) is what happens when a board game about modern Middle Eastern warfare gets turned into a DOS strategy title with all the subtlety of a cold war memo. You command military forces in a region that is perpet...
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Blitz Draughts

DOS1992 PC Solutions
Don’t let the title fool you — Blitz Draughts isn’t a military simulation but rather a gloriously intense checkers game from 1992. This DOS brain-bender turns the classic board game into a high-speed duel of wits...