Turn-based games sorted by release date
In direct contrast with real-time games, turn-based games gameplay is based on the players taking turns to do what needs to be done: move in a dungeon, play cards, attack enemy units.
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Annals of Rome
DOS1988 Personal Software Services
In Annals of Rome, you don’t just play history — you command it, badly. This 1988 strategy title lets you take control of the Roman Empire and try to keep it from falling apart, which it will, probably because you let Gaul get too uppity. It’s part turn-based strategy, part “HR simulator,” as you shuffle around senator...
Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation
DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
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 sideways. The graphics are what you’d call “functional,” the sound is silent, and your troops have the survi...
Battle Chess
DOS1988protected Interplay Productions
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’t just move; they duel, they decapitate, they turn into dragons. Sure, the AI might still wipe the floor with you,...
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception
DOS1988 Westwood Studios
Released in 1988, BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception is part RPG, part strategy, part “did I just die in the tutorial again?” You’re a young MechWarrior on the run, assembling allies and blowing stuff up with your giant robot. It’s a slow burn, but the lore is rich and the permadeath unforgiving. You’ll learn to...
Centerfold Squares
DOS1988NSFW Artworx Software
Classic Concentration
DOS1988 Softie
Dracula in London
DOS1988 SDJ Enterprises
EGA Bomb
DOS1988
Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles
DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
Firezone
DOS1988 Arcadia Systems
Jeopardy! Second Edition
DOS1988 Sharedata
Journey to the Center of the Earth
DOS1988 Chip
Knight Exchange
DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
Mini Putt
DOS1988 Artech Studios
Moraff's Revenge
DOS1988 Moraffware
Nobunaga's Ambition
DOS1988 KOEI
Omega
DOSLinux1988freeware
Playhouse Strip Poker
DOS1988NSFW Eurosoft
Pool of Radiance
DOSMac OS1988protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Power Struggle
DOS1988 Personal Software Services
Rack 'em
DOS1988 Artech Studios
Reach for the Stars
DOS1988 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio
DOS1988 Starsoft Development
Star Command
DOS1988protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Stellar Crusade
DOS1988protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Strip Poker 2
DOS1988NSFW Artworx Software
Strip Poker 2 plus
DOS1988NSFW Anco Software
Super Battleship
DOS1988
Teenage Queen
DOS1988NSFW ERE Informatique
The $100,000 pyramid
DOS1988 Magicom Multimedia
Ever wanted to be on a game show without leaving your CRT-lit basement? The $100,000 Pyramid brings you that chance. You guess words. Your partner gives clues. Sometimes you wonder if your partner is helping or having a keyboard-related meltdown. The graphics scream "business presentation" and the host seems to have gone missing, but hey, you are h...