Abandonware DOS title

The best historical games

Some games are set in a specific historical period, usually a period of time particularly enjoyable for gamers such as the midde ages, the discovery of the Americas or the second world war. Historical games take a step further and try to be more faithful to the time period they are set.
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Clash of Steel

DOS1993protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
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Crusade in Europe

DOS19853.9/5 MicroProse Software
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Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
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Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x19963.9/5 Big Time Software
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Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS19863.9/5 Broderbund
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Bandit Kings of Ancient China

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
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Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44

DOS1992protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Defender of the Crown

DOS1991protected3.8/5 Cinemaware
Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue damsels.
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Crisis in the Kremlin

DOS1991protected3.8/5 Spectrum HoloByte
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Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

DOS19883.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations
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Wolfpack

DOS19903.8/5 NovaLogic
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Knights of the Desert

DOS1983protected3.8/5 Tactical Design Group
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The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow

DOS1982protected3.8/5 Tactical Design Group
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Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS19893.8/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Great Napoleonic Battles

DOS19913.8/5 Impressions Games
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The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter

DOS19903.8/5 Mindscape
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Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS19883.7/5 KOEI
berlin1948-4

Berlin 1948

DOS19893.7/5 Time Warp Software
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Gary Grigsby's War in Russia

DOS1993protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Gengis Khan

DOS19893.7/5 KOEI
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Legions

Windows 3.xMac19943.7/5 Mindscape
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Operation Market Garden

DOS1985protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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The Ancient Art of War in the Skies

DOS19923.7/5 Evryware
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The Lost Patrol

DOS19913.7/5 Astros Productions
The Lost Patrol is an abandoned multi-type action game set in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war. The Lost Patrol was developed by Astros Productions (DOS version) and released by Ocean Software in 1991 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.
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Kampfgruppe

DOS1987protected3.6/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Computer Diplomacy

DOS19843.6/5 Avalon Hill
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Battle of Antietam

DOS1985protected3.6/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Galleons of Glory

DOS19903.5/5 Broderbund
Galleons of Glory is an abandoned educational historical simulation game developed and published by Broderbund in 1990. As Magellan your mission is to circumnavigate the world while managing your crew and ship.