The most popular 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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Checkers for Windows

Windows 3.x1997

Dracula in London

DOS1988 SDJ Enterprises

Othello

DOS1986

Battleship

DOS1983 Mirror Images Software

Released in 1983, this is your grandpa’s Battleship—minus the plastic pegs, but with all the tension of blind naval warfare. There are no fancy graphics, no Hollywood explosions, just good old-fashioned "Is it a hit?" ...

Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye

Windows 3.xMac OS1990 Activision

Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space

DOS1993 Strategic Visions

Finally, a game where you don’t blast aliens—you launch real people into space, with all the white-knuckled tension of 1960s NASA. Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space is a strategy sim with rocket science and Cold War ...

Battle for Atlantis

DOS1990

Fancy a war under the sea? Battle for Atlantis (1990) asks the age-old question: what if submarines had grudges? This top-down, action strategy title throws you into a deep-sea turf war with clunky controls and a soundtrack that f...

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.

King's Table: The Legend of Ragnarok

DOS1993protected Imagitec Design

Scrabble

DOS1992 U.S. Gold

Gulf Strike

DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Classic Concentration

DOS1988 Softie

Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Acquire

DOS1989 IBM

Acquire (1989, DOS) brings boardroom drama to your DOS screen, turning you into a hotel tycoon in a game where the real enemy is... math. It's a faithful adaptation of the classic board game, complete with mergers, hostile takeove...

Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw

DOS1989 Oxford Mobius

Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary

DOS1987 Masterplay Publishing Corporation

Codebreaker

DOS1994freeware

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...