The most popular hotseat games
Games supporting hotseat multiplayer mode can be played by more than one player (usually two) on the same PC taking turns playing the game. Many strategy games offer an hotseat multiplayer mode.
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Loopz
DOS1990 Audiogenic
Bar Games
DOS1989 Accolade
If you've ever dreamed of throwing darts, arm wrestling, or playing a sleazy round of "Last Call Larry" without actually smelling like stale beer, Bar Games is your digital dive bar. Released in 1989, it’s a collection of mi...
Archon Ultra
DOS1994protected Free Fall Associates
Archon Ultra is what happens when you smash chess into an arcade cabinet and call it a day. This updated version of the original Archon throws in jazzed-up graphics and faster gameplay, but keeps the core idea: when pieces meet, t...
Pinball Dreams 2
DOS1994protected 21st Century Entertainment
Ogre
DOS1986 Origin Systems
Destruction Derby
DOS1995 Reflections Interactive
TwinBlok
DOS1996 Webfoot Technologies
Alpha Waves
DOS1990 Infogrames
Alpha Waves is what happens when someone programs a 3D platformer using only triangles and pure imagination. You bounce. That’s it. You bounce through abstract levels that look like a geometry teacher’s daydream, all w...
Battle Bugs
DOS1994 Epyx
What if ants could use bazookas and beetles had battle plans? Battle Bugs answers this crucial question by turning your screen into a war zone where tiny insects wage strategic warfare over leftovers. The stakes are high and the t...
Fidelity Chessmaster 2100
DOS1989 The Software Toolworks
Silverball
DOS1993 Digital Extremes
Silverball is an abandoned DOS pinball action game developed by Digital Extremes, designed by James Schmalz and published by MicroLeague Multimedia in 1993. Silverball is one of the best pinball games of the 90s published for DOS,...
Solomon's Key
DOS1988 Probe Entertainment
Solomon’s Key is an arcade puzzle-platformer developed by Tecmo and released in 1986. It gained popularity for its challenging gameplay and was later ported to various home systems, including the NES, Commodore 64, and other...
The Civil War
DOS1987 Avalon Hill
Win, Lose or Draw
DOS1988 Softie
Manhole
DOS1992
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
DOS1989 Atari
Desert Rats
DOS1986 Cases Computer Simulations
Nobunaga's Ambition
DOS1988 KOEI
Face Off!
DOS1989 MindSpan
Face Off! is an abandoned hockey sports game developed by MindSpan (known for their Hardball series) and released by Gamestar in 1989 for DOS and also for Commodore 64. Face Off supports multiplayer in competitive or cooperative m...
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS1989 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1
DOS1988 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Monopoly
DOS1985
Gary Grigsby's Pacific War
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Q*Bert
DOS1984 Parker Brothers
Q*bert is a classic arcade game that was created by Warren Davis and Jeff Lee and was released by Gottlieb in 1982. The main goal of Qbert is to change the color of every cube in a pyramid by having the character, Qbert,...
Warheads
Windows XP/98/951997
Dragon Lord
DOS1990 Spotlight Software
Scorched 3D
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS2001freeware
Scorched 3D is a free and open-source artillery game that serves as a modern adaptation of the classic MS-DOS game Scorched Earth. Developed by Gavin Camp, it was first released in 2001, and is available on multiple platforms, inc...
Armada 2525
DOS1991
Armada 2525 is what happens when a spreadsheet decides it wants to conquer the galaxy. This is classic 4X strategy with all the bells, whistles, and menus your early '90s heart could desire. You’ll build colonies, research t...
Pizza Tycoon
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1994protected Software 2000
Subtrade: Return to Irata
DOS1993 Century Interactive
Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clo...