Abandonware vehicle simulation games sorted by year, newest first

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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Windows 10/11LinuxMac OS2007remake space exploration

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 ...

Babylon 5: I've Found Her

Windows XP/98/952003freeware space simulation, space combat

Released in 2003 for Windows XP, Babylon 5: I've Found Her is the kind of fan-made game that makes you question whether it’s actually fan-made or secretly a pilot for a new sci-fi show. You pilot sleek Starfuries in this spa...

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...

Independence War 2: Edge Of Chaos

Windows XP/98/952001protected space combat, space exploration, space simulation

Sub Command

Windows XP/98/952001protected submarine simulation

Sub Command is a naval warfare simulation game developed by Sonalysts Inc. and released in 2001. In Sub Command, you assume the role of a captain commanding one of three advanced nuclear-powered submarines. The game focuses o...

Noctis

DOSWindows XP/98/952000 space exploration, space simulation

Noctis is less of a "game" and more of a meditative ritual performed through DOS interface, with fonts so pixelated they might just be ancient runes. You play as a silent explorer drifting alone through the Feltyrion galaxy - a pr...

Fleet Command

DOS1999protected naval simulation, real-time tactics

Star Trek: Starfleet Command

Windows XP/98/951999protected space combat, space simulation

Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War

Windows XP/98/951998protected space simulation, space combat

In 1998, Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War decided the world needed fewer corridors and more cosmic dogfights. Instead of bumping into walls like a drunken astronaut, you’re now a fighter pilot in a galaxy-wide war ag...

Extreme Assault

DOS1997 flight simulation, first-person shooter

F/A-18 Korea

Windows XP/98/951997 flight simulation

Flying Corps

DOSWindows 3.x1997protected flight simulation

Independence War

Windows XP/98/951997protected space combat, space exploration, space simulation

Streets of SimCity

Windows XP/98/951997

Subhunt

DOS1997 naval simulation, submarine simulation

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...

F-22 Lightning 2

DOS1996 flight simulation

Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18

DOS1996protected naval simulation

Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18 is an abandoned naval simulation game, developed for DOS only by Divide by zero and released by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. in 1996. As the title implies, Great Nav...

Jane's Combat Simulations: Advanced Tactical Fighters

DOS1996 flight simulation

Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries

DOSWindows XP/98/951996 mech simulation

MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries is a standalone expansion to MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, released in 1996 by Activision. Part of the larger BattleTech universe, the game puts players in control of a customizable BattleMech as t...

SimCopter

Windows XP/98/951996 civilian flight simulation, helicopter simulation, flight simulation

Apache Longbow

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected flight simulation, helicopter simulation

Step into the cockpit of the Apache Longbow, a 1995 combat flight simulator where you’ll experience the thrilling sensation of trying to figure out keyboard controls before getting shot down by invisible enemies. It's a seri...