Underdog games: underrated worth playing

In order to be an underdog, a game has to be "not well known" to the public (not now, nor at the time of its release) or underrated, but worth mentioning and playing for some reason. There are plenty of games that won the love of gamers against all odds; some of them even had a cult following. By the way, this keyword pays tribute to Sarinee Achavanuntakul, the owner of the first version of Home of the Underdogs, the site that started and popularized the abandonware concept.

Most popular underrated underdog games

Albion

rpgDOS

Dope Wars

simulationWindows XP/98/95

Death Rally

racingDOS

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Knight Games

DOS19883.8/5 Mastertronic

Olympic games were something back in the 80s and the 90s: Winter Games, Summer Games, California Games, anything-you-can-think-of games. Some imaginative developer thought that the world needed a different kind of "multisport" action game and came up with he idea behind Knight Games.
Magic Carpet

DOSMac1994protected3.8/5 Bullfrog

Magic Carpet is an action shooter game set in a fictional Middle East developed by Bullfrog and released by Electronic Arts in 1994 for DOS and Macintosh. Your goal is to fly around a magic carpet and collect mana to expand your castle. When you reach the required mana "equilibrium" you move on to the next world and so on.
Monuments of Mars

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1991freeware3.3/5 Scenerio Software
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

Windows XP/98/9519954.1/5 Activision

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is an abandoned action platform game set in South America and it's the fourth installment of the Pitfall series. Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure was designed by John Spinale, developed and released by Activision in 1995 for Windows, Super Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, Genesis, Jaguar, etc. The Mayan Adventure is part of the ...
Power Drift

DOS19904.1/5 Sega
QBasic Gorillas

DOS1991freeware3.9/5 Microsoft
Red Baron

DOS1990protected4/5 Dynamix
Redneck Rampage

DOS1997protected4/5 Xatrix Entertainment
Roadwar Europa

DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Scorched Earth

DOS1991protected4.1/5
Shadowgate

DOSWindows 3.xMac19884.1/5 ICOM Simulations

Shadowgate is an abandoned fantasy-themed adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released by Mindscape in 1988 for Macintosh, DOS, and also for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, NES. Shadowgate uses the ICOM MacVenture engine (Deja Vu, Uninvited). Shadowgate was later remade in an enhanced version for Windows 3.1.
SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony

DOS19914.1/5 Maxis
Snood

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1996freeware3.5/5
Starflight

DOS19864.2/5 Binary Systems
Stormlord

DOS19894/5 Hewson Consultants

Stormlord is an abandoned DOS platform game set in a fantasy world, developed and published by Hewson Consultants in 1989 and designed by Raffaele Cecco. There was some controversy about the scantily clothed fairies in the game.
Supaplex

DOS1991freeware4.1/5 Think!Ware Development
Super Cauldron

DOS19924/5 Titus Interactive
Superfrog

DOS1994protected3.7/5 Team 17
Swap

DOS19923.5/5 Microids
Taipan for Windows

Windows XP/98/952002freeware3.7/5
Time Bandit

DOS19894/5 MichTron
Ultra Mortal Kombat Vendetta

Windows XP/98/952001freeware4.3/5
Virus

DOS19884/5
Wacky Wheels

DOS1994protected4.5/5 Apogee Software
Wizard of Wor 98

DOS1998remake3.5/5