The most popular board game games
Classic board games like Backgammon, Othello, Checkers were an inspiration to the first wave of developers for their simplicity and appeal. In time, modern board games like Diplomacy, Risk, Monopoly or Scrabble were also adapted in a number of games. And let's not forget the strategy games NOT based on actual tabletop games which gameplay is clearly inspired by board games (like the excellent Archon).
Most popular board game games
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HeroQuest
DOSMac OS19913.9/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
HeroQuest is a classic video game adaptation of the popular board game HeroQuest, released in 1991 by Gremlin Interactive. HeroQuest faithfully recreates the turn-based, dungeon-crawling, and role-playing gameplay of the board game. Players take on the roles of different heroes, including a barbarian, dwarf, elf, and wizard, as they explo...
Axis and Allies
Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Wargaming West
Autoduel
DOS19853.9/5 Origin Systems
Autoduel is an abandoned top-down open world post apocalyptic RPG/driving game hybrid designed by Chuck Bueche and Richard Garriott of Ultima fame. Autoduel was developed by Origin Systems and was released in 1985 for DOS, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, C64, Apple II, Macintosh, Amiga. Autoduel is based on a board game designed by Steve Jackson himself.
Space Hulk
DOS19934.3/5 Electronic Arts
Space Hulk is an abandoned real-time tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40000 universe, developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS and Amiga systems. In Space Hulk, the player is tasked with wiping out hordes of aliens by the means of a squad of Space Marines armored and armed to the teeth. Space Hulk is the adaptation...
Battle Chess
DOS1988protected4.2/5 Interplay Productions
Chess was a niche genre in video gaming. There were lots of chess simulations: black and white very old games, licensed games from chess champions, etc. No one ever attempted to broaden the audience until Interplay published Battle Chess. Battle Chess appeal was almost entirely focused on the animations when two pieces ended on the same square.
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception
DOS19884/5 Westwood Studios
4Play
Windows 3.x1995NSFW3.9/5
4Play is a multi-player board-like strategy party-game for adults released for Windows 3.1 in 1995. 4Play is a board-game very similar to Monopoly in which players have to perform certain (adult) actions in response to events happening on the board.
Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance
Windows XP/98/9519964.2/5 Synergistic Software
Archon: the Light and the Dark
DOS19844.2/5 Free Fall Associates
Archon: The Light and the Dark is an abandoned DOS fantasy blend of strategy and action game, developed by Free Fall Associates and published for DOS by Electronic Arts in 1984. Archon and its sequels are a unique mix of chess-like turn-based strategy and arcade action games. Take chess and add the fact that every time two pieces land on the same s...
Risk: the World Conquest Game
DOS19893.8/5 Mastertronic
Nuclear War
DOS19894/5 New World Computing
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...
Advanced Civilization
DOS19954/5 Avalon Hill
Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary
DOS19873.6/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Bureau 13
DOS19953.8/5 Take-Two Interactive
Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz
Windows XP/98/9519994.2/5 Wargaming West
Twilight 2000
DOS19914.3/5 Paragon Software
Dark Legions
DOS1994protected4/5 Silicon Knights
Dragonriders of Pern
DOS19873.2/5 Everlasting
Monopoly Deluxe
DOSWindows 3.x19924/5 Parker Brothers
Monopoly Deluxe is an abandoned turn-based top-down Monopoly adaptation of the classic board game, developed by Parker Brothers and released by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Monopoly Deluxe was published for DOS, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh.
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Dogs of War
Windows XP/98/951996demo4.2/5 Software Engineering
5th Fleet
DOS19943.9/5
Settlers of Catan
DOS19984.1/5
Classic Concentration
DOS19884.2/5 Softie
WinRisk
Windows 3.x19924.1/5
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Space 1889
DOS19903.6/5 Paragon Software
Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.
Black Crown
DOS19953.9/5
Archon Ultra
DOS1994protected3.7/5 Free Fall Associates
Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter
DOS19914.1/5 Pc globe