Games similar to board games or based on a tabletop game sorted by year, newest first

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

Axis and Allies

strategyWindows XP/98/95

HeroQuest

rpgDOS, Mac

WinRisk

strategyWindows 3.x

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Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz

Windows XP/98/9519994.2/5 Wargaming West

Axis and Allies

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Wargaming West

Monopoly (Adam Stevens)

DOS19983.9/5

Settlers of Catan

DOS19984.1/5

Checkers for Windows

Windows 3.x19974.1/5

Battlestar

Windows 3.x1996freeware3.7/5

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance

Windows XP/98/9519964.2/5 Synergistic Software

Chaos Overlords

Windows XP/98/95Mac1996protected3/5 Stick Man Games

Dogs of War

Windows XP/98/951996demo4.2/5 Software Engineering

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.

Advanced Civilization

DOS19954/5 Avalon Hill

Black Crown

DOS19953.8/5

Bureau 13

DOS19953.8/5 Take-Two Interactive

Mario's Game Gallery

DOSMac19953.8/5 Presage Software

5th Fleet

DOS19943.9/5

Archon Ultra

DOS1994protected3.7/5 Free Fall Associates

Codebreaker

DOS1994freeware3/5

Dark Legions

DOS1994protected4/5 Silicon Knights

Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space

DOS19934.1/5 Strategic Visions

Fields of Glory

DOS1993protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software

King's Table: The Legend of Ragnarok

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Imagitec Design

Redhook's Revenge

DOS19933.3/5 ImagiSoft

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...