Abandonware DOS title

The most popular abandonware shooter games

Shooter video games are all about shooting targets and avoiding being shot down. The kind of game is often defined by the player perspective (FPS stands for First Person Shooter, TPS stands for Third Person Shooter), or by gameplay: shoot'em up, run and gun, shooting gallery.
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Space Invaders 2001

Windows XP/98/952001remake3.6/5 shoot 'em up
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Command Adventures: Starship

DOS19953.6/5 shoot 'em up
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007: License to Kill

DOS19894/5 shoot 'em up
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Blake Stone 1: Aliens of Gold

DOS1993protected4.1/5 first-person shooter
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Astrotit

DOS1987NSFW3.5/5 shoot 'em up
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Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.9/5 third-person shooter
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Galaxian

DOS19834/5 shoot 'em up
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Defender

DOS19834.2/5 shoot 'em up
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Witchaven

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 first-person shooter
Witchaven is an abandoned fantasy first-person shooter (or "slasher", since you'll wield melee weapons) developed by Capstone and released by IntraCorp in 1995 for DOS and Windows. Witchaven includes RPG elements such as experience and leveling your character but it's primarily an action game with swords and spells.
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Xenon

DOS19883.9/5 shoot 'em up
Xenon, released in 1988, was a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by The Bitmap Brothers. Xenon was initially released for the Commodore 64, and later, it was ported to other platforms, including DOS, the ZX Spectrum and Amiga.In Xenon, players control a futuristic tank-like craft and navigate through levels filled with enemy ve...
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Virus

DOS19883.9/5 third-person shooter
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Uridium

DOS19883.9/5 shoot 'em up
Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...
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Alien Breed: Tower Assault

DOS1994protected4.2/5 run and gun
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Redneck Rampage

DOS1997protected4/5 first-person shooter
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Game Over

DOS19882.9/5 run and gun, platform
Game Over is an abandoned side scrolling shooter/platform game designed by Ignacio Ruiz Tejedor, Pedro Sudón Aguilar, developed and released by Dinamic Multimedia in 1988 for DOS. Game Over isn't exactly one of the best games ever made... be prepared for clunky controls and repetitive level design that may test your patience.
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Blake Stone 2: Planet Strike

DOS1994protected4/5 first-person shooter
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Bram Stoker's Dracula

DOS19934/5 first-person shooter
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The Terminator: Future Shock

DOS19954.1/5 first-person shooter
The Terminator: Future Shock is an abandoned science fiction first-person shooter game based on the popular Terminator movies franchise, set in a dystopian world where machines has taken over the Earth. The Terminator: Future Shock was developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1995 for DOS.
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Corridor 7: Alien Invasion

DOS1994protected4/5 first-person shooter
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Crusader: No Remorse

DOS1995protected3.9/5
Crusader is an action-oriented computer game. The player controls a super soldier that defects from the current world government and joins the Resistance. The world is shown in an isometric view.
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Ultimate Doom

DOS1995protected4.1/5 first-person shooter
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Silpheed

DOS19884/5 shoot 'em up
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Alien Syndrome

DOS19894.2/5 run and gun
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Exterminator

DOS19903.5/5 shooting gallery
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Rise of the Triad: Dark War

DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person shooter
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Flying Tigers

DOS19944.1/5 shoot 'em up
Flying Tigers is an abandoned vertical-scrolling sci-fi themed shoot 'em up game developed and released by Ticsoft in 1994 for MS-DOS only. Flying Tigers is the first chapter of the two parts Flying Tigers video game series.
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Amok

DOS19963.5/5 third-person shooter
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Crusader: No Regret

DOS1996protected4/5
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William Shatner's TekWar

DOS19954/5 first-person shooter
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Alcatraz

DOS19923.6/5 run and gun