Abandonware DOS title

The most popular abandonware vehicle simulation games

Vehicle simulation games put the player right in the pilot’s seat, for an immersive and realistic game experience. Vehicles can be cars, airplanes, spaceships, or tanks. Simulation is often based on details in order to augment realism, like full-features dashboards, controls, gauges, and indicators.
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Conqueror

DOS1990 tank simulation
Conqueror is what happens when a tank simulator and an arcade game go on a date and forget their purpose. You drive a tank in a pseudo-3D landscape, blow up stuff, and command squads like a battlefield conductor with no baton. It&...
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Ultrabots

DOS1993 first-person shooter, mech simulation
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Jetset

DOS1982 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation
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Flying Corps

DOSWindows 3.x1997protected flight simulation
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Silent Service 2

DOSMac OS1990protected submarine simulation
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Evasive Action

DOS1993 flight simulation
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Thunderhawk AH-73M

DOS1992 flight simulation
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Tau Ceti

DOS1987 space exploration, space simulation
In Tau Ceti, you’re the lone pilot of a heavily armed hoverbike trying to reboot a dying colony under an alien sun. It’s slow, moody, and brilliantly atmospheric. The vector-style graphics might look primitive now, but...
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SSN-21 Seawolf

DOS1994 submarine simulation
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Megafortress

DOS1991protected flight simulation
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Fleet Defender

DOS1994protected flight simulation
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F-16 Combat Pilot

DOS1989 flight simulation
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Protostar: War on the Frontier

DOS1993 space combat, space exploration, space simulation
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Star Trek: Starfleet Command

Windows XP/98/951999protected space combat, space simulation
Star Trek: Starfleet Command (1999, Windows XP) is a dream come true for anyone who memorized warp core schematics. It’s a tactical space combat simulator that rewards patience, planning, and nerves of steel. You command sta...
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Battlecruiser 3000AD

DOSWindows XP/98/951996 space exploration, space simulation, space combat
Battlecruiser 3000AD (1996) is less a game and more a test of faith. Ambitious beyond reason, it promised total control of a massive starship—crew management, planetary landings, space combat, trading, exploration… ba...
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Aquanox

Windows XP/98/952001protected first-person shooter, submarine simulation
Dive into Aquanox (2001), where post-apocalyptic submarines battle it out beneath the ocean in a world that’s half Waterworld, half neon rave. With moody lighting and dialogue that screams “we’re trying to be dee...
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Great Naval Battles vol. 2: Guadalcanal 1942 - 43

DOS1994protected naval simulation
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Millennia: Altered Destinies

DOS1995 space exploration, space simulation
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Air Trax

DOS1983 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation
Ah yes, Air Trax from 1983 - a game where “flight” is more of a philosophical concept. It’s clunky, it's slow, and it looks like it was coded in someone’s garage (because it probably was). But there’s...
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B-1 Nuclear Bomber

DOS1981 flight simulation
Ever wanted to be responsible for ending the world in fewer than ten keypresses? B-1 Nuclear Bomber (1981) gives you that chance, wrapping global annihilation in glorious monochrome and a user interface that feels like it was desi...
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Armored fist

DOS1994 tank simulation
Armored Fist is all about tanks. Big, heavy, no-nonsense tanks. It's essentially a driving sim for people who think speed is overrated and armor is fashion. Missions involve slow, deliberate destruction, long-distance sniping, and...
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Wing Commander Academy

DOS1993protected space combat, space simulation
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Red Storm Rising

DOS1989 submarine simulation
Red Storm Rising is a submarine simulation video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1988, based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond. The game is set during a hypothetical World War III scenario, f...
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Falcon AT

DOS1988 flight simulation
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Deep space: Operation Copernicus

DOS1986 space combat, space simulation
In this 1986 DOS game, you're piloting a spacecraft in the year 2123, defending the United Planets from the Andromedan Hegemony. It's like being the captain of a starship, but with fewer crew members and more pixelated enemies. En...
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Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux2004freeware first-person shooter, mech simulation
Jumping forward to 2004, Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion ditches swords and sorcery for giant mechs stomping across futuristic battlefields. It’s a squad-based online multiplayer experience, heavily inspired by the MechWarrior ...
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ATAC: The Secret War Against Drugs

DOS1992 flight simulation
ATAC (1992) is what you get when someone says, “What if we made SimCity, but for waging the War on Drugs?” You play as the head of an anti-narcotics task force, deploying units, tracking smugglers, and launching airstr...
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PHM Pegasus

DOS1987 naval simulation
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Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon

DOS1987 realistic space simulation, space exploration
Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon (1987) lets you relive the lunar missions in all their... spreadsheet-like glory. This game is as educational as it is punishing; you’ll learn about thrust vectors, fuel efficiency, and your to...
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Archimedean Dynasty

DOS1996protected naval simulation, submarine simulation
In Archimedean Dynasty, humanity did the logical thing after wrecking the surface world: moved underwater and started shooting each other in submarines. It's part tactical sim, part gritty sci-fi novella, and entirely German in it...