Abandonware DOS title

Games with a historical setting

Some games are set in a specific historical period, usually a period of time particularly enjoyable for gamers such as the midde ages, the discovery of the Americas or the second world war. Historical games take a step further and try to be more faithful to the time period they are set.
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Frontline

DOS1990 Cases Computer Simulations
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Galleons of Glory

DOS1990 Broderbund
Galleons of Glory is an abandoned educational historical simulation game developed and published by Broderbund in 1990. As Magellan your mission is to circumnavigate the world whil...
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Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

DOS1992 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Gary Grigsby's War in Russia

DOS1993 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Gengis Khan

DOS1989 KOEI
In Gengis Khan, you’re not just playing history—you’re rewriting it with pixelated armies. This 1989 Koei classic lets you lead the great Mongol conqueror (or oth...
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Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf

DOS1992 KOEI
Bigger, deeper, and just as punishing, Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf (1992) expands the formula with more maps, more rulers, and more ways to fail spectacularly. Want to uni...
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Gettysburg: Civil War Battles

Windows XP/98/952002 Stellar Stone
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Gloriana

DOS1996 ASCARON Entertainment
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Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Gold Rush!

DOS1988protected Sierra On-Line
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Great Napoleonic Battles

DOS1991 Impressions Games
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Great Naval Battles vol. 2: Guadalcanal 1942 - 43

DOS1994protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18

DOS1996protected Divide by zero
Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18 is an abandoned naval simulation game, developed for DOS only by Divide by zero and released by SSI Strategic Simulat...
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Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939 - 1943

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected Paragon Software
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Gulf Strike

DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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Hannibal

DOS1993 Starbyte Software
Released in 1993, Hannibal is a strategy game that asks you to think like a military commander facing impossible odds—and occasionally impossible interface decisions. Inspire...
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High Command: Europe 1939-45

DOS1992 Colorado Computer Creations
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Joan of Arc

DOS1989 Chip
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Kampfgruppe

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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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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Knights of the Sky

DOS1990protected MicroProse Software
Knights of the Sky (1990, DOS) throws you into the cockpit of a biplane during WWI, where every dogfight is a dance of death and machine oil. With dynamic campaigns and customizabl...
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L'Empereur

DOS1991 KOEI
L'Empereur (1991) is one of those games that looks at Napoleon and says, “Yes, but what if we made it complicated?” This DOS strategy title drops you straight into the ...
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La Grande Armee

DOS1991 SDJ Enterprises
La Grande Armée (1991) returns to Napoleonic warfare, but with a sharper focus on military tactics than imperial administration. This strategy game puts you in charge of mas...
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Legions

Windows 3.xMac OS1994 Mindscape
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Lords of the Realm 3

Windows XP/98/952004protected Impressions Games
Released in 2004, Lords of the Realm III is an interesting, sometimes controversial attempt to modernize a beloved strategy franchise. The move to full 3D and a more streamlined ap...
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Lost in Time

DOS1993 Coktel Vision
Time travel is confusing enough, but Lost in Time (1993, DOS) makes it gloriously absurd. You wake up in a ship’s hold in the 19th century, trying to figure out how you got t...