Abandonware strategy games sorted by release date

Games based on strategy allow for reasoning and planning of one’s moves and actions. The gameplay may be based on player’s turns (Turn-based Strategy) or it may be in real time (Real-Time Strategy, RTS). These games focus on strategy and tactics rather than action, sometimes with the addition of financial or logistic features.

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Dark Reign: The Future of War

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 real-time strategy, real-time tactics

Dungeon Keeper

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected4.1/5 sandbox strategy, god game, real-time strategy

Dungeon Keeper 2

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected4/5 sandbox strategy, god game, real-time strategy

J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan

DOS19974.1/5 real-time tactics

Magic: The Gathering

Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 cards

Magic: The Gathering (sometimes also referred as Shandalar) is an abandoned strategy game based on the popular collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, developed and released by MicroProse Software for Windows in 1997. MTG is set on the fictional plane of Shandalar. You can play a single-player campaign or simply play duels against computer oppo...

Myth: The Fallen Lords

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS19974.1/5 real-time tactics, real-time strategy

Pacific General

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Panzer General 2

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Command - 1939-1999

DOS1997protected4/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Total Annihilation

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 real-time strategy

Vlad Tepes Dracula

Windows XP/98/9519973.6/5 real-time strategy, business simulation

Warheads

Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 artillery

Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes

Windows XP/98/9519974.3/5 4x, wargame

Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes is an abandoned turn-based fantasy strategy game designed by Steve Fawkner, developed by SSG Strategic Studies Group and released by Red Orb Entertainment in 1997 for Windows. Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes is part of the Warlords game series and features quite a few multiplayer modes: from LAN to PBEM.

X-COM: Apocalypse

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 turn-based tactics

X-COM: Apocalypse is the third installment of the very popular X-COM franchise. After X-COM: Ufo Defence and Terror From the Deep, fans expected another smash hit. Apocalypse is quite different under many aspects, from gameplay to aesthetics. X-COM Apocalypse was designed by Julian Gollop (the same designer that brought the original X-COM to l...

101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 turn-based tactics

Army Men

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 real-time tactics

Army Men 2

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.1/5 real-time tactics

Axis and Allies

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 board game, wargame

Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.2/5 real-time tactics

Dune 2000

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 real-time strategy

Dune 2000 is an abandoned science fiction classic real-time strategy game based on the popular Dune franchise. The Dune "universe" took form in the books of science fiction writer Frank Herbert and went on to include movies, TV series, comics, and of course video games. Dune 2000 is one of the finest RTS of its era; it was developed by We...

Monopoly (Adam Stevens)

DOS19983.9/5 board game

People's General

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.2/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Populous: The Beginning

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.1/5 god game, sandbox strategy, real-time strategy

Robo Rumble

Windows XP/98/9519983.8/5 real-time strategy

Settlers of Catan

DOS19984.1/5 board game

Star Wars Rebellion

Windows XP/98/951998protected3.7/5 real-time strategy

StarCraft

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1998protecteddemo4.1/5 real-time strategy

StarCraft is a classic RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 1998 for Windows and Macintosh. StarCraft takes the Warcraft experience to a sci-fi setting with an interesting story, three very different races (the militaristic Humans, the alien Zerg and the religious Protoss) and one of the best gameplay ex...