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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Black Crown

DOS1995

Checkers for Windows

Windows 3.x1997

Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space

DOS1993 Strategic Visions

Classic Concentration

DOS1988 Softie

Chaos Overlords

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected Stick Man Games

Chaos Overlords is a cyberpunk-themed strategy game developed by Stick Man Games and published by New World Computing in 1996. Set in a dystopian future, the game focuses on controlling the underworld of a city dominated by corrupt corporations and oppressive government forces. The player assumes the role of a crime lord, leading a gang with the go...

Harpoon

DOS1989protected Three-Sixty Pacific

Computer Diplomacy

DOS1984 Avalon Hill

Mah Jongg Solitaire

DOS1987 Arcanum Computing

Dogs of War

Windows XP/98/951996demo Software Engineering

The computer edition of Scrabble

DOS1989 Leisure Genius

Fields of Glory

DOS1993protected MicroProse Software

Ogre

DOS1986 Origin Systems

Monopoly (Adam Stevens)

DOS1998

Dragonriders of Pern

DOS1987 Everlasting

Battlestar

Windows 3.x1996freeware

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 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.

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 (also known as Cluedo). Clue can be played in single player, but the best gaming experience come from the multi-player mode.

La Colmena

DOS1992NSFW Opera Soft

Stratego

DOS1990 Accolade

Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter

DOS1991 Pc globe

Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge

DOS1992 Sierra On-Line

Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary

DOS1987 Masterplay Publishing Corporation

Turbo Gomoku

DOS1985

Robot Rascals

DOS1987 Ozark Softscape

Mission: Mainframe

DOS1987

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 that correspond to those categories. The goal is to collect all the pie pieces and complete a full pie before your opponents.