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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Backgammon
DOS1984 IBM
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...
Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow
DOS1992 Sierra On-Line
Battlestar
Windows 3.x1996freeware
No, not that Battlestar. Battlestar (1996) is more obscure than a reboot that never happened. Set in deep space with a top-down view and UI only a Windows 3.x user could love, it mixes tactical combat and sci-fi storytelling like ...
Full Metal Planete
DOSMac OS1990 Hitech Productions
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
Windows 3.xMac OS1990 Activision
King's Table: The Legend of Ragnarok
DOS1993protected Imagitec Design
Epidemic!
DOS1983protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge
DOS1992 Sierra On-Line
Renegade Legion Interceptor
DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Firezone
DOS1988 Arcadia Systems
Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary
DOS1987 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS1998
Global Conquest
DOS1992 Ozark Softscape
Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw
DOS1989 Oxford Mobius
La Colmena
DOS1992NSFW Opera Soft
Felony!
DOS1984 BrainBank
Moraff's Morejongg
Windows XP/98/951992 Moraffware
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.
Dragonriders of Pern
DOS1987 Everlasting
The Ball Game
DOS1991 Esprit Software Programs
Knight Exchange
DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
Gulf Strike
DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Death by Backgammon
DOS1990
Global Thermo War
DOS1985
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...
Backgammon
DOS1986
Scrabble
DOS1989
Stratego
DOS1990 Accolade
Trivial Pursuit Deluxe
DOS1992 Oxford Digital Enterprises