The best 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).
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Ogre
DOS1986 Origin Systems
Global Conquest
DOS1992 Ozark Softscape
Space Hulk
DOS1993 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
DOS1988protected Interplay Productions
You’ve never really lived until you’ve watched a rook pick up a pawn and slam dunk it into the floor. Battle Chess (1988) turns the world’s most intellectual board game into a medieval cage match. The pieces don’t just move; they duel, they decapitate, they turn into dragons. Sure, the AI might still wipe the floor with you,...
Twilight 2000
DOS1991 Paragon Software
Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter
DOS1991 Pc globe
Dogs of War
Windows XP/98/951996demo Software Engineering
Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance
Windows XP/98/951996 Synergistic Software
Ever wanted to manage a kingdom, lead armies, go dungeon-crawling, and attend budget meetings? Birthright: The Gorgon’s Alliance makes all your fantasy micromanagement dreams come true. Released in 1996 for Windows XP (yes, you read that right), it tries to do everything—and sort of does... in the way a one-man band tries to play Mozart...
Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space
DOS1993 Strategic Visions
Archon: the Light and the Dark
DOS1984 Free Fall Associates
Before Battle Chess, there was Archon. Imagine a board game where pawns and knights settle disputes not with rules, but with full-on gladiatorial combat. Archon gives you light versus dark, spellcasters versus golems, and battles that feel like Pong with grudges. It's chess, but spicy. Despite the primitive graphics, it’s shockingly addictive...
Classic Concentration
DOS1988 Softie
Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz
Windows XP/98/951999 Wargaming West
Now with 27% more diplomacy and 300% more frustration! Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz (1999) takes everything from the original game and throws in extra scenarios, improved AI, and more ways to accidentally cause a Cold War. Want to play as Italy and change the course of history? Go for it. Just don’t expect your allies to be, you know, allied. ...
Clue Master Detective
DOS1989 Dalali Software
Clue Master Detective is an abandoned strategy game developed by Dalali Software and released by Leisure Genius in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Clue Master Detective is based on the well known board game Clue (also known as Cluedo). Clue can be played in single player, but the best gaming experience come from the multi-player mode.
Mario's Game Gallery
DOSMac OS1995 Presage Software
Axis and Allies
Windows XP/98/951998 Wargaming West
Board game night went digital in 1998 with Axis and Allies, a strategy title that lets you rewrite WWII—assuming you don’t forget where you left your infantry. Fans of the tabletop classic will feel right at home maneuvering little units across the world map, making huge plans and then watching them fail because you rolled a one. It&rsq...
Renegade Legion Interceptor
DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Mah Jongg Solitaire
DOS1987 Arcanum Computing
Felony!
DOS1984 BrainBank
Monopoly
DOS1985
Settlers of Catan
DOS1998
Fooblitzsky
DOS1986 Infocom
Othello
DOS1986
WinRisk
Windows 3.x1992
Fields of Glory
DOS1993protected MicroProse Software
Epidemic!
DOS1983protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
King's Table: The Legend of Ragnarok
DOS1993protected Imagitec Design
Gulf Strike
DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Harpoon
DOS1989protected Three-Sixty Pacific
Nuclear War
DOS1989 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...
Galaxy
DOS1981 Microcomputer Games Inc.