The most popular board game games

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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Dogs of War

Windows XP/98/951996demo Software Engineering

Monopoly

DOS1985

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...

Lords of Conquest

DOS1987 Eon Software

Othello

DOS1986

Mission: Mainframe

DOS1987

8088 Othello

DOS1985

There’s something oddly poetic about 8088 Othello, a 1985 take on the classic board game that feels like it was programmed by someone who had a personal vendetta against flashy graphics. The visuals are almost nonexistent, t...

Ishido: The Way of the Stones

DOSMac OS1990 Publishing International

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 ...

Twilight 2000

DOS1991 Paragon Software

King's Table: The Legend of Ragnarok

DOS1993protected Imagitec Design

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...

Risk

Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth

Computer Diplomacy

DOS1984 Avalon Hill

Bureau 13

DOS1995 Take-Two Interactive

Paranormal agents, conspiracy theories, and point-and-click puzzles that would make even a ghost sigh in frustration. Bureau 13 is like The X-Files if Mulder and Scully spent more time pixel-hunting. You choose your agents—o...

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...

Dracula in London

DOS1988 SDJ Enterprises

Backgammon

DOS1984 IBM

Robot Rascals

DOS1987 Ozark Softscape

Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Epidemic!

DOS1983protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Turbo Gomoku

DOS1985

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...