Abandonware DOS title

Games set in medieval times sorted by release date

These games are not of the fantasy kind: no dragons, no elves, no dwarves and absolutely no magic. These are all games set in medieval times. This means castles and villages, alchemy and saints, kings and queens, monks and abbeys, knights and tourneys.

Most popular medieval games

Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings
strategyWindows XP/98/95
James Clavell's Shogun
adventureDOS
La Abadia del Crimen
action-adventureDOS
bushido-03

Bushido

DOS19833.7/5 Ebenel enterprises
holy-grail-04

Holy Grail

DOS19843.7/5
knightmare-2

Knightmare

DOS19863.6/5 Konami
shogun-1

Shogun

DOS19863.4/5 Virgin Interactive
blackcauldron-1

The Black Cauldron

DOS1986freeware3.7/5 Sierra On-Line
la-abadia-del-crimen-03

La Abadia del Crimen

DOS19874.2/5 Opera Soft
La Abadía del Crimen (The Abbey of Crime) is an action-adventure developed in Spain by Paco Menéndez in the mid-1980s. It was initially created for the Amstrad CPC and later ported to other popular home computer systems of the time, such as the ZX Spectrum and MSX. The game was released in 1987.
battlechess-1

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.
knight-games-05

Knight Games

DOS19883.9/5 Mastertronic
Olympic games were something back in the 80s and the 90s: Winter Games, Summer Games, California Games, anything-you-can-think-of games. Some imaginative developer thought that the world needed a different kind of "multisport" action game and came up with he idea behind Knight Games.
lancelot-01

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
nobungasambition-3

Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS19883.7/5 KOEI
santaparavia-2

Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio

DOS19883.7/5 Starsoft Development
arthur-excalibur-02

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

DOS19894/5 Infocom
js-shogun-02

James Clavell's Shogun

DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...
joan-of-arc-03

Joan of Arc

DOS19894/5 Chip
nobunaga-ambition-2-03

Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
sword-of-samurai-06

Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected4/5 MicroProse Software
battlechess2-1

Battle Chess 2: Chinese Chess

DOS1990protected3.7/5 Interplay Productions
betrayal-02

Betrayal

DOS1990protected4/5
castlemaster-1

Castle master

DOS19904/5 Incentive Software
castlemaster2-1

Castle master 2

DOS19904/5 Incentive Software
conquests-of-camelot-03

Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail

DOS19904/5 Sierra On-Line
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail is an old DOS point and click adventure game designed by Christy Marx, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1990. As the title implies, Conquests of Camelot setting is based on the Arthurian legends.
elvira1mistress-1

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

DOS19903.9/5 Horror Soft
iron-lord-03

Iron Lord

DOS19903.5/5 UBI Soft
spiritexc-1

Spirit of Excalibur

DOS19903.8/5 Synergistic Software
tom-and-the-ghost-01

Tom and the Ghost

DOS19903/5 Blue Byte Software
castles-5

Castles

DOS1991protected4/5 Quicksilver Software
conquests-of-the-longbow-01

Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood

DOS1991protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
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Defender of the Crown

DOS1991protected3.8/5 Cinemaware
Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue damsels.
realms-2

Realms

DOS19914/5 Graftgold
tristanpinball-1

Tristan Pinball

DOS19914/5 Littlewing