The most popular abandonware strategy games

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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Unnatural Selection

DOS19933.9/5 real-time tactics

Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021

DOS1987freeware3.9/5 4x

Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.

Backgammon

DOS19862.7/5 board game

Battleship

DOS19833.3/5 board game

Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club

DOS19903.9/5 cards

Syndicate Wars

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected4/5 real-time tactics

Syndicate Wars is the sequel to the much acclaimed Syndicate developed by Bullfrog in its golden years. Like its predecessor, Syndicate Wars is a real-time tactics strategy game set in a cyberpunk dystopian world involving excessive violence, mega-corporations, bleak urban environment. Syndicate Wars also supports a multi-player co-op mode via LAN.

La Grande Armee

DOS19913.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

V for victory: Gold-Juno-Sword

DOS1993protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3

DOS19923.5/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table

DOS19943.3/5 kingdom simulation

Triple Triad Gold

Windows XP/98/952000freeware4/5 cards

Triple Triad is a card game that originated in the Final Fantasy series, specifically in Final Fantasy VIII. The game is played on a 3x3 grid, and each player has a deck of cards featuring different characters, monsters, or other elements from the Final Fantasy universe. When a card is placed adjacent to an opponent's card, and the rank of the...

Champion of the Raj

DOS19914.1/5 kingdom simulation

The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow

DOS1982protected3.8/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Star Wars Chess

DOSWindows 3.x19934/5 chess

Black Crown

DOS19953.8/5 board game

Bridge 7.0

DOS19923.3/5 cards

UMS: The Universal Military Simulator

DOSMac OS19884.1/5 turn-based tactics, wargame

UMS, short for Universal Military Simulator, is a computer-based wargame simulation developed by Rainbird Software in 1988. It was designed with the intention of providing players with a comprehensive and realistic military simulation experience.The game allows players to engage in strategic and tactical warfare across various scenarios and battlef...