Abandonware strategy games sorted by release date

Games based on strategy allow for reasoning and planning of one’s moves and actions. The gameplay may be based on player’s turns (Turn-based Strategy) or it may be in real time (Real-Time Strategy, RTS). These games focus on strategy and tactics rather than action, sometimes with the addition of financial or logistic features.

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Day of the Pharaoh

DOS19893.1/5

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS19894/5 wargame, turn-based tactics

Fidelity Chessmaster 2100

DOS19893.8/5 chess

Final Frontier

DOS19892.8/5 real-time strategy

Gengis Khan

DOS19893.5/5 kingdom simulation

Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS19893.8/5 board game

House of Cards

DOS19893.3/5 cards

Joan of Arc

DOS19894.1/5 turn-based tactics

MinerVGA

DOS1989freeware4/5 business simulation

Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS19893.8/5

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...

Omega

DOS19894/5 real-time tactics

Omega is an abandoned science fiction themed strategy game developed and released by Origin Systems in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Omega is a rare example of a programming game about robots.

Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw

DOS19893/5 board game

Populous

DOS19893.9/5 sandbox strategy, god game, real-time strategy

Populous is an abandoned strategy game designed by the video game celebrity Peter Molyneux, developed by Bullfrog. Populous was released by Electronic Arts in 1989 for DOS and for a long list of other 16-bit and 8-bit systems, both console and PCs. Populos is a really unique game: it gave the name to the the whole god-game genre since, well, in the...

Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS19893.8/5 board game

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

DOS19893.9/5

Scrabble

DOS19893.6/5 board game

Star Fleet 2: Krellan Commander

DOS19894.2/5 space exploration, space simulation

Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace

DOS19893.9/5 board game

Sword of Aragon

DOS1989protected4.3/5 4x, kingdom simulation, turn-based tactics

Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected4/5

The Big Three

DOS19893.5/5 wargame

The computer edition of Scrabble

DOS19893.2/5 board game

Trivial Pursuit

DOS19893.4/5 trivia / quiz, board game

Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces that correspond to those categories. The goal is to collect all the pie pieces and complete a full pie before your opponents.

War in Middle Earth

DOS19893.9/5 real-time tactics, real-time strategy

War in Middle-earth is a real-time strategy game developed by Synergistic Software and published by Melbourne House. It was released in 1988 for various platforms including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC.The game is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy world of Middle-earth, specifically focusing on the events depicted in "The Lor...