The best 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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Gunship 2000

DOS19914.1/5 helicopter simulation, flight simulation

Knights of the Sky

DOS1990protected4.1/5 flight simulation

Psi 5 Trading Company

DOS1986protected4.1/5 space exploration, space simulation

Frontier: Elite 2

DOS19934.1/5 space exploration, space combat, space simulation

Frontier: Elite II is a classic space simulation and trading game released in 1993, developed by David Braben and his company Frontier Developments. Frontier is the sequel to the pioneering 1984 game Elite and is often considered a landmark title in the space simulation genre.

Up Periscope!

DOS19884.1/5 submarine simulation

Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator

DOS19924.1/5 space simulation

Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space

DOS19934.1/5 board game, space simulation

Nomad

DOS19934.1/5 space exploration, space simulation

Advanced Tactical Fighter 2

DOS19904.1/5 flight simulation

Great Naval Battles vol. 4: Burning Steel, 1939-1942

DOS1995protected4.1/5 naval simulation

Megafortress

DOS1991protected4.1/5 flight simulation

Protostar: War on the Frontier

DOS19934.1/5 space combat, space exploration, space simulation

Falcon

DOS1987protected4.1/5 flight simulation

Frontier: First Encounters

DOS19954.1/5 space exploration, space combat, space simulation

Star Wars: TIE Fighter

DOS1994protected4.1/5 space simulation, space combat

Carrier command

DOS19894.1/5 naval simulation

Strike Fleet

DOS19894.1/5 naval simulation

Sherman M4

DOS19894.1/5 tank simulation

Independence War 2: Edge Of Chaos

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

Star Wars: X-Wing

DOS1993protected4.1/5 space simulation, space combat

Tau Ceti

DOS19874.1/5 space exploration, space simulation

Jet

DOS19854.1/5 flight simulation

Elite

DOS1987freeware4.1/5 space exploration, space combat, space simulation

688 Attack Sub

DOS19894.1/5 submarine simulation

Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0

DOS19884.1/5 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation

Wing Commander: Privateer

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac1993protected4.1/5 space exploration, space combat, space simulation

The Hunt for Red October

DOSMac19874.1/5 naval simulation

Harpoon II

DOS1994protected4/5 naval simulation

Elite Plus

DOS1991freeware4/5 space exploration, space combat, space simulation

Wing Commander

DOS1990freeware4/5 space combat, space simulation

Wing Commander 1 is a space combat simulator video game; the first game in the Wing Commander series. Wing Commander 1 was developed and published by Origin Systems in 1990. The game was created by Chris Roberts and became known for its innovative use of cinematic storytelling and cutting-edge graphics at the time.In Wing Commander, playe...