The best board game games

Classic board games like Backgammon, Othello, Checkers were an inspiration to the first wave of developers for their simplicity and appeal. In time, modern board games like Diplomacy, Risk, Monopoly or Scrabble were also adapted in a number of games. And let's not forget the strategy games NOT based on actual tabletop games which gameplay is clearly inspired by board games (like the excellent Archon).

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Ishido: The Way of the Stones

DOSMac OS1990 Publishing International

Scrabble

DOS1989

Archon Ultra

DOS1994protected Free Fall Associates

Archon Ultra is what happens when you smash chess into an arcade cabinet and call it a day. This updated version of the original Archon throws in jazzed-up graphics and faster gameplay, but keeps the core idea: when pieces meet, t...

Blitz Draughts

DOS1992 PC Solutions

Don’t let the title fool you — Blitz Draughts isn’t a military simulation but rather a gloriously intense checkers game from 1992. This DOS brain-bender turns the classic board game into a high-speed duel of wits...

La Colmena

DOS1992NSFW Opera Soft

Moraff's Morejongg

Windows XP/98/951992 Moraffware

Lords of Conquest

DOS1987 Eon Software

Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary

DOS1987 Masterplay Publishing Corporation

Monopoly

DOS1985

Space 1889

DOS1990 Paragon Software

Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space ...

Computer Diplomacy

DOS1984 Avalon Hill

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 flashy graphics. The visuals are almost nonexistent, t...

Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow

DOS1992 Sierra On-Line

Dracula in London

DOS1988 SDJ Enterprises

Super Battleship

DOS1988

Oligopoly

DOS1987 Pc design associates

Oligopoly is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by James Kerwin, developed by PC Design Associates and released by XOR Corporation in 1987 for DOS.

Dragon Strike

DOS1990protected Westwood Studios

Scrabble

DOS1992 U.S. Gold

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...