The most popular abandonware vehicle simulation games

Vehicle simulation games put the player right in the pilot’s seat, for an immersive and realistic game experience. Vehicles can be cars, airplanes, spaceships, or tanks. Simulation is often based on details in order to augment realism, like full-features dashboards, controls, gauges, and indicators.

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After Burner

DOS19893.6/5 flight simulation, rail shooter

After Burner is an abandoned DOS combat flight simulation game with elements of rail shooters, with similarities to earlier Sega titles like Space Harrier. After Burner was designed by Yu Suzuki and developed by Sega as a coin-op and then converted to various home computers and consoles in 1989.

Deep space: Operation Copernicus

DOS19863.9/5 space combat, space simulation

Independence War 2: Edge Of Chaos

Windows XP/98/952001protected4.1/5 space combat, space exploration, space simulation

Transarctica

DOS19933.8/5

Babylon 5: I've Found Her

Windows XP/98/952003freeware3.8/5 space simulation, space combat

Evasive Action

DOS19934.2/5 flight simulation

Elite Plus

DOS1991freeware4/5 space exploration, space combat, space simulation

3-D Helicopter Simulator

DOS19873.7/5 civilian flight simulation, helicopter simulation, flight simulation

Wing Commander 2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi

DOS1991protected4/5 space combat, space simulation

Mechwarrior

DOS19893.7/5 mech simulation

B-1 Nuclear Bomber

DOS19813.6/5 flight simulation

Archimedean Dynasty

DOS1996protected4/5 naval simulation, submarine simulation

F-16 Combat Pilot

DOS19894.2/5 flight simulation

Tau Ceti

DOS19874.1/5 space exploration, space simulation

Flight of the Intruder

DOS19904.1/5 flight simulation

Carrier command

DOS19894.1/5 naval simulation

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

DOS19893.4/5 space simulation

Harpoon II

DOS1994protected4/5 naval simulation

Red Storm Rising

DOS19894/5 submarine simulation

Red Storm Rising is a submarine simulation video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1988, based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond. The game is set during a hypothetical World War III scenario, focusing on naval combat between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. Players command a modern nuclear submarine from a first-per...

Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon

DOS19874/5 realistic space simulation, space exploration

GATO

DOS19844/5 submarine simulation

Red Baron

DOS1990protected4.2/5 flight simulation

Epic

DOS1992protected3.9/5 space combat, space simulation

Solo Flight

DOS19853.6/5 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation

Not many people know that the first games created by Sid Meier were flight simulations. Solo Flight was published by MicroProse in 1983 for Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari, and a year later, in 1984, for PC. The game takes place in the United States. As a fliying mailmain, the goal of the game is to deliver mail across the U.S.A.