Abandonware DOS title

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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Subbuteo

DOS1990 Goliath Games
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Socrates

DOS1993
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Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf

DOS1995 Pixel Painters Corporation
Miniature golf is already a whimsical sport, but Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf decides Earth simply isn’t strange enough. Released in 1995, this quirky DOS game sends...
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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 flas...
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Shard of Spring

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Shard of Spring (1987, DOS) is a role-playing adventure from an era when mapping dungeons on graph paper was practically mandatory. You assemble a party and set out on a quest fill...
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Bridge 7.0

DOS1992 Artworx Software
Finally, a game for people who think solitaire is just too wild. Bridge 7.0 is the digital equivalent of sipping tea with your grandparents while arguing about trumps and bidding s...
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Legions

Windows 3.xMac OS1994 Mindscape
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Stellar Trader

Windows Vista/7/82008freeware
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Power Struggle

DOS1988 Personal Software Services
Power Struggle is the kind of strategy game that quietly asks, “Would you like to control the world?” and then immediately throws you into a geopolitical mess. It&rsquo...
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War of the Lance

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Remote Control

DOS1989 Softie
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Video Casino

DOS1987 Mastertronic
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Hoyle Book of Games

DOS1989 Sierra On-Line
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Family Feud

DOS1987 Softie
Family Feud from 1987 turns the popular TV show into a surprisingly tense DOS experience, proving that guessing what other people think is harder than it looks. The core idea is si...
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The Astronomy Quiz

DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
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Global Thermo War

DOS1985
There’s a certain dark humor baked into Global Thermo War, a game that tackles nuclear conflict with a mix of strategy and unsettling realism. It’s not exactly cheerful...
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Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Jeopardy! Second Edition

DOS1988 Sharedata
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Knight Exchange

DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
Ever dreamed of a medieval Wall Street where knights swap swords instead of stocks? Knight Exchange turns that fever dream into pixels. Released in 1988 for DOS, this quirky strate...
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Sorcerer Lord

DOS1987 Personal Software Services
Sorcerer Lord (1987, DOS) drops you into a fantasy world at war, with strategy rather than sorcery as your weapon. You command the forces of good against the evil Shadowlord’...
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Scrabble

DOS1989
The 1989 Scrabble release feels a bit like playing the board game on an old typewriter. It’s clunky, monochrome, and oddly charming. The computer AI is less of a challenge an...
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Monopoly

DOS1985
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Knights of the Desert

DOS1983protected Tactical Design Group
Before WWII games flooded the market, Knights of the Desert (1983, DOS) was already reenacting the North African campaign in pixels. You command Rommel’s Afrika Korps—o...
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Facts in Action

DOS1992 Park Place Productions
Facts in Action (1992) is what happens when education puts on a lab coat and decides to become a video game. Designed to teach while you play, it blends quizzes, problem-solving, a...
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Backgammon

DOS1986
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Laserwars

DOS1994
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Hamurabi remake

DOS1996freewareremake
The 1996 Hamurabi remake takes one of the oldest strategy concepts in gaming and gives it a modest DOS-era facelift. At its core, it’s still about managing resources, feeding...
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Nerm of Bemer

DOS1984 COMPUTE! Publications