The best 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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Kampfgruppe
DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Nerm of Bemer
DOS1984 COMPUTE! Publications
ShadowForce
DOS1994 Midnight Synergy / Interspace Software
The $100,000 pyramid
DOS1988 Magicom Multimedia
Ever wanted to be on a game show without leaving your CRT-lit basement? The $100,000 Pyramid brings you that chance. You guess words. Your partner gives clues. Sometimes you wonder if your partner is helping or having a keyboard-r...
The all new Family Feud
DOS1989 Softie
Wheel of Fortune New Second Edition
DOS1988 Softie
Chaos Overlords
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected Stick Man Games
Chaos Overlords is a cyberpunk-themed strategy game developed by Stick Man Games and published by New World Computing in 1996. Set in a dystopian future, the game focuses on controlling the underworld of a city dominated by corrup...
Death by Backgammon
DOS1990
Theatre of War
DOS1992protected Artech Studios
Crazy Nick's Leisure Suit Larry Casino
DOS1992 Sierra On-Line
The Civil War
DOS1987 Avalon Hill
Arcade Pool
DOS1994 Team 17
Arcade Pool (1994) is like playing a game of billiards in your best friend’s basement—if your best friend happened to be a DOS machine with a serious competitive streak. It’s shockingly addictive, with physics th...
Armada 2525
DOS1991
Armada 2525 is what happens when a spreadsheet decides it wants to conquer the galaxy. This is classic 4X strategy with all the bells, whistles, and menus your early '90s heart could desire. You’ll build colonies, research t...
Cyrus
DOS1985
Redhook's Revenge
DOS1993 ImagiSoft
Warlords 2 Deluxe
DOS1995 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Sensible Golf
DOS1994 Sensible Software
Sensible Golf is a golf video game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was released in 1994 for Amiga and MS-DOS.Unlike traditional golf simulations of its time, "Sensible Golf" fea...
Knight Exchange
DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
4 Queens Computer Casino
DOS1992 Applications Plus
This 1992 casino sim for DOS drops you into the neon-soaked carpet jungle of the Four Queens Hotel in Vegas. There’s no plot, no hero’s journey - just you, a digital bankroll, and the cold, soulless eyes of the slot ma...
The Astronomy Quiz
DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
Backgammon
DOS1984 IBM
Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45
DOS1994 KOEI
Accordion
DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
It’s 1990, and you’re sitting at your DOS PC playing Accordion, a game that somehow turns solitaire into something slower and more passive-aggressive. It’s not flashy — unless you count blinking cards as fl...
The computer edition of Scrabble
DOS1989 Leisure Genius
Win, Lose or Draw
DOS1988 Softie
Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation
DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
Arnhem is the kind of wargame where you spend more time reading hex maps than shooting anything. It’s all about recreating Operation Market Garden — you know, that WWII battle where everything went spectacularly sidewa...
Firezone
DOS1988 Arcadia Systems
Backgammon
DOS1986
IBM 9-Hole Miniature Golf
DOS1983 SoftSide Magazine