Abandonware strategy games sorted by release date
Games based on strategy allow for reasoning and planning of one’s moves and actions. The gameplay may be based on player’s turns (Turn-based Strategy) or it may be in real time (Real-Time Strategy, RTS). These games focus on strategy and tactics rather than action, sometimes with the addition of financial or logistic features.
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Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation
DOS1988 turn-based tactics, wargame
Arnhem is the kind of wargame where you spend more time reading hex maps than shooting anything. It’s all about recreating Operation Market Garden — you know, that WWII battle where everything went spectacularly sidewa...
Battle Chess
DOS1988protected board game, chess
You’ve never really lived until you’ve watched a rook pick up a pawn and slam dunk it into the floor. Battle Chess (1988) turns the world’s most intellectual board game into a medieval cage match. The pieces don&...
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1
DOS1988 wargame, turn-based tactics
Dracula in London
DOS1988 board game
EGA Bomb
DOS1988 artillery
Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles
DOS1988 wargame
Firezone
DOS1988 turn-based tactics, wargame, board game
Knight Exchange
DOS1988 board game
Nobunaga's Ambition
DOS1988
Playhouse Strip Poker
DOS1988NSFW cards
Power Struggle
DOS1988
Reach for the Stars
DOS1988 4x
Spy vs Spy 3: Arctic Antics
DOS1988
Star Command
DOS1988protected space exploration, turn-based tactics
Stellar Crusade
DOS1988protected 4x
Strip Poker 2
DOS1988NSFW cards
Strip Poker 2 plus
DOS1988NSFW cards
Super Battleship
DOS1988 board game
Teenage Queen
DOS1988NSFW cards
Trump Castle: The Ultimate Casino Gambling Simulation
DOS1988 cards
UMS: The Universal Military Simulator
DOSMac OS1988 turn-based tactics, wargame
UMS, short for Universal Military Simulator, is a computer-based wargame simulation developed by Rainbird Software in 1988. It was designed with the intention of providing players with a comprehensive and realistic military simula...
Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign
DOS1988 turn-based tactics, wargame
9 Poker
DOS1989 cards
Ah, 9 Poker. Released in 1989 for DOS, this game is less a glamorous casino sim and more a smoky backroom full of pixelated cards and questionable programming. You get nine variants of poker to lose fake money in, which is both ge...
Acquire
DOS1989 board game
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...
Action in the North Atlantic
DOS1989 naval simulation
If you’ve ever dreamed of commanding a WWII convoy while cold, stressed, and staring at a pixelated radar screen, Action in the North Atlantic (1989, DOS) has you covered. It’s part strategy, part simulation, and all t...
Austerlitz
DOS1989protected wargame
Austerlitz 1805
DOS1989 wargame, turn-based tactics
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
DOS1989 kingdom simulation
Based on a classic Chinese novel, Bandit Kings of Ancient China combines strategy, RPG elements, and about 800 names you’ll never remember. You play one of 108 outlaws trying to overthrow a corrupt regime — think Roman...
Caesars Palace
DOS1989 cards
More smoke-filled backrooms than a noir film and enough slot machines to trigger déjà vu—Caesars Palace is your low-res Vegas getaway. You're given a pile of chips and left to your vices: blackjack, poker, roul...
Clue Master Detective
DOS1989 board game
Clue Master Detective is an abandoned strategy game developed by Dalali Software and released by Leisure Genius in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Clue Master Detective is based on the well known board game Clue (als...