The most popular espionage games

James Bond is the iconic embodiment of the spy genre (or 'espionage'), but he is not alone in the colorful world of old video games, there are plenty of spies still around on AbandonwareDOS: Apogee's Secret Agent, Spy vs Spy and Mission: Impossible and more!

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Code-Name: Iceman

DOS1989 Sierra On-Line

Part Cold War thriller, part adventure game, part submarine simulator, Code-Name: Iceman is a Sierra title that demands patience, precision, and a deep respect for diplomacy and torpedoes. You play as a super-agent with a license ...

Operation Stealth

DOS1990 Delphine software

Impossible Mission 2

DOS1988 Novotrade Software

007: License to Kill

DOS1989 Quixel

Before James Bond was saving the world with cinematic flair, he was crashing pixelated helicopters in 007: License to Kill. This top-down action game takes the movie and crams it into six bite-sized missions of explosions, awkward...

KGB

DOS1992 Cryo Interactive Entertainment

Spy Hunter

DOS1984 Midway Manufacturing Company

Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter

DOS1991protected MicroProse Software

Countdown

DOS1990 Access Software

In Countdown, the clock is always ticking—literally. This spy thriller adventure drops you into a web of international intrigue, shady characters, and puzzles that don’t care you’re on a deadline. Fail to crack t...

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS1985 Angelsoft

Mission: Impossible

DOS1991 Distinctive Software

Rise of the Triad: Dark War

DOS1994protected Apogee Software

James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS1986 Angelsoft

Secret Agent

DOS1992protected Apogee Software

Lethal Tender

DOS1993 Pie in the Sky Software

Megafortress

DOS1991protected Artech Studios

Metal Gear

DOS1990 Konami

The Operative: No One Lives Forever

Windows XP/98/952000 Monolith Productions

The Operative: No One Lives Forever is a first-person shooter with stealth gameplay elements, developed by Monolith Productions and released by Fox Interactive in 2000 for Windows, Mac and PS2. As Cate Archer, a spy working for a ...

Red Storm Rising

DOS1989 MicroProse Software

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...

Spy vs Spy 3: Arctic Antics

DOS1988 First Star Software

Floor 13

DOS1992 PSI Software Designers

The Cardinal of the Kremlin

DOS1990 Capstone Software

The Cardinal of the Kremlin is an abandoned simulation game involving espionage, politics and govern management set in the cold war years. It was designed by Kenneth Rothschild, developed by Capstone and released by IntraCorp...

Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers

DOS1986 Activision

Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers is a video computer game developed by Steve Cartwright and published by Activision. It was released in 1986 and is a sequel to the original Hacker game. The game was available for various home comput...

Conflict

DOS1990 Mastertronic

Conflict is a turn-based war game where you get to play Commander-in-Chief and yell at your virtual generals when things go wrong (which they often do). It's part military sim, part lesson in frustration, with menus nested inside ...

Inspector Gadget: Global terror!

DOS1992 Azeroth

Teen Agent

DOS1995freeware Metropolis Software House

Sid Meier's Covert Action

DOS1990protected MicroProse Software

David Wolf: Secret Agent

DOS1989 Dynamix

Back in 1989, David Wolf: Secret Agent tried really hard to make you feel like James Bond. You get car chases, fistfights, and enough cheesy dialogue to fill an action movie marathon. The graphics are blocky, the acting nonexisten...

Midwinter 2: Flames of Freedom

DOS1991 Maelstrom Games

The Third Courier

DOS1989 Manley Associates

The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 198...