The most popular turn based games
In direct contrast with real-time games, turn-based games gameplay is based on the players taking turns to do what needs to be done: move in a dungeon, play cards, attack enemy units.
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Black Crown
DOS1995
In Black Crown (1995), you play as a prince with a very punchable name, trying to reclaim his rightful throne by solving puzzles and dying a lot. It's one of those DOS-era games where half the difficulty is figuring out which pixe...
Classic Hangman
DOS1983 Norland Software
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS1998
Reaping The Dungeon
DOS1993 Frontline Software
Mission: Mainframe
DOS1987
Battlestar
Windows 3.x1996freeware
No, not that Battlestar. Battlestar (1996) is more obscure than a reboot that never happened. Set in deep space with a top-down view and UI only a Windows 3.x user could love, it mixes tactical combat and sci-fi storytelling like ...
Renegade Legion Interceptor
DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Combat Chess
Windows XP/98/951997protected Minds Eye Productions
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
DOSMac OS1990 Publishing International
10th Frame
DOS1987 Access Software
Time to hit the lanes in 10th Frame, a bowling simulator so committed to realism it even simulates the wait between turns. You line up your shot, set your spin, and pray the ancient gods of DOS let your pixel ball behave. The grap...
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...
Computer Diplomacy
DOS1984 Avalon Hill
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...
Battle Chess 4000
DOS1992protected Interplay Productions
Set in the far-off future of 1992, Battle Chess 4000 brings space-age flair to intergalactic checkmate. Now your queen is a laser-wielding dominatrix and your pawns might be robots with trust issues. It’s chess... with ray g...
Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow
DOS1992 Sierra On-Line
Conflict: Europe
DOS1989 Personal Software Services
Conflict Europe is an abandoned turn-based top-down strategy game set in Europe. The game was developed by Personal Software Services and released by Mirrorsoft in 1989 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.
Shard of Spring
DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Mech Brigade
DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Conquest of Japan
DOS1992 Impressions Games
Classic Concentration
DOS1988 Softie
Kampfgruppe
DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Betrayal
DOS1990protected
Ah, Betrayal—a game with a name that really sets the tone. Is it about backstabbing? Politics? Lost love? Not really. It’s actually a hybrid of strategy and role-playing where you move pieces around a map like a fantas...
Cave Wars
DOS1996
Kaiser
DOS1992
Exile II: Crystal Souls
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1996freeware Spiderweb Software
Operation Combat: Computer Battle Game
DOS1990 Merit Software
Frontline
DOS1990 Cases Computer Simulations
Lord of Destruction
DOS1994 Rebelsoft
Wheel of Fortune New Second Edition
DOS1988 Softie
Subtrade: Return to Irata
DOS1993 Century Interactive
Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clo...