Abandonware DOS title

The most popular science fiction games

Time travel, space wars, alien empires, alternate universe, cyberpunk anti-heroes, space invaders, post-apocalyptic worlds, dystopian societies, mad scientists, galaxies far far away, strange new worlds, mech battles, deep space exploration, evil robots... should I go on?
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Universe

DOS1994 Core Design
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Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
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Space Commanders 2

DOS1985remake
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Astro Dodge

DOS1982 Digital Marketing Corporation
Astro Dodge (1982) is basically Frogger — in space. You control a tiny spacecraft tasked with dodging endless waves of meteors, space debris, and possibly your own questionable life choices. There’s no shooting, no exp...
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

DOS1997 Legend Entertainment
Imagine Cheers met Quantum Leap and got weirdly philosophical. That’s Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon, a narrative adventure based on Spider Robinson’s sci-fi stories. You’re Jake Stonebender, a pun-slinging ti...
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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected Access Software
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive is the sequel to Under a Killing Moon and the 4th game in the Tex Murphy series. The Pandora Directive is a first-person 3D adventure game set in a dark sci-fi version of the U.S.A., more spe...
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Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality

DOS1990freeware
In Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality, our fearless spandex-wearing space explorer returns—but this time, he's bouncing between dimensions like a malfunctioning microwave. The graphics are more colorful, the enemies slightly...
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OverKill

DOS1992freeware Tech-Noir
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures

DOS1992protected Apogee Software
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Operation Bodycount

DOS1994 Capstone Software
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The Terminator: Future Shock

DOS1995 Bethesda Softworks
The Terminator: Future Shock is an abandoned science fiction first-person shooter game based on the popular Terminator movies franchise, set in a dystopian world where machines has taken over the Earth. The Terminator: Future Shoc...
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Moon Patrol

DOS1983 Atarisoft
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Iron Blood

DOS1996 Family Production
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Highway Hunter

DOS1994 Safari Software
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Eagle's Rider

DOS1991 Microids
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UFO 2000

Windows 10/11Linux2004freeware
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Warzone 2100

Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1999freeware
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Star Wars Chess

DOSWindows 3.x1993 The Software Toolworks
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Midwinter

DOS1990 Maelstrom Games
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Free D.C.!

DOS1991 Cineplay Interactive
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Robot Rascals

DOS1987 Ozark Softscape
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Obliterator

DOS1989 Psygnosis
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Forbidden Quest

DOS1983 Pryority software
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Batalia

DOS1986 The Right Brothers
Batalia (1986) is what happens when war games and spreadsheet programs fall in love. This early DOS strategy title throws you into tactical battles with graphics that would struggle to impress a calculator. But don’t be fool...
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Carrier command

DOS1989 Realtime Games
Part RTS, part simulation, Carrier Command was ahead of its time in the same way that an aircraft carrier is ahead of a canoe. You control a futuristic warship, launch aircraft and amphibious units, and fight over tiny islands tha...
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Battlezone

DOS1983 Atari
In 1983, Battlezone asked: what if vector graphics could give you war-induced vertigo? You’re in a tank, in a wireframe world, fighting other tanks. That’s it. But it’s oddly immersive—thanks to a pseudo-3D...
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Tintin on the Moon

DOS1989 Infogrames