The most popular abandonware strategy games
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DOS19904.2/5 wargame
Rampart
DOS19924/5 artillery
Rampart is an abandoned mix of strategy and shooter game designed by Dave Ralston and John Salwitz, developed by Atari and released by Electronic Arts in 1992 for DOS. Rampart was converted from the original arcade version to a number of platforms, including Amiga, Atari ST, C64, Game Boy, Genesis, Lynx, NES, SEGA Master System, SNES. Rampart is a ...
Emperor of the Fading Suns
Windows XP/98/9519964.1/5 4x
Supremacy: Your Will Be Done
DOS19904.2/5 real-time strategy
Supremacy: You Will Be Done (also known simply as Overlord) is a rare example of mix between real-time strategy and science fiction themed 4X game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploid, eXterminate). Supremacy was developed by Probe Entertainment and published by Mastertronic in 1990.
Powermonger
DOS19923.9/5 god game, real-time strategy
Powermonger is a real time strategy game where the player must defeat the opponents by conquering towns and tipping the balance of power in his/her favor. This is done by giving orders to soldiers and captains and by accumulating enough resources (food and equipment) to survive and ultimately win.
Tank Wars
DOS19904.1/5 artillery
Heroes of Might and Magic
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 turn-based tactics
Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance
DOS1985NSFW3.9/5 cards
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
DOS19893.9/5
Castles
DOS1991protected4/5 real-time strategy
Colonization
DOSWindows 3.xLinuxMac OS1994protected4.2/5 4x
Colonization is a turn-based strategy 4x game developed and published by MicroProse in 1994 for DOS, Windows 3.1, Linux and Mac. The setting is the European Colonization of the New World. Colonization gameplay and interface are similar to Civilization, another Sid Meier game. However, there are some differences between Civilization and Colonization...
Nuclear War
DOS19894/5 board game
Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
Panzer General
DOS1994protected4.2/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Panger General is a turn based strategy wargame developed by SSI set in World War 2. The player can choose Axis or Allies and fight against the AI or another human player in more than 30 scenarios on a classic hex based map.
Stronghold
DOS1993protected4/5 real-time strategy, kingdom simulation
V for victory: Market-Garden
DOS1993protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Warlords
DOS19904.2/5 4x
Battle Bugs
DOS19944.2/5 real-time tactics
Clash of Steel
DOS1993protected3.9/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Panzer General 2
Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS19974.2/5 real-time tactics, real-time strategy
Command HQ
DOS19904/5 wargame, real-time strategy
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 board game
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware3.9/5 4x
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
Alien Legacy
DOS19944/5 4x
Alpha Centauri
Windows XP/98/951999protected4/5 4x
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge
DOS19904.1/5 real-time tactics
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge is a turn-based strategy game developed by Westwood Associates and published by Infocom in 1990. It is the sequel to "Crescent Hawk's Inception" and is set in the BattleTech universe, a fictional universe where noble houses and mercenary groups vie for power using giant robotic vehicles known as BattleMe...
Patton vs. Rommel
DOS19874/5 wargame, turn-based tactics
Battle Chess 4000
DOS1992protected4/5 chess
5th Fleet
DOS19943.9/5 turn-based tactics, wargame, board game
The Great War: 1914 - 1918
DOS1993protected4.1/5 turn-based tactics