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Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware3.9/5 Thinking Machine Associates
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
Armada 2525
DOS19913.3/5
Ascendancy
DOS19954.2/5 The Logic Factory
Ascendancy is a science fiction themed turn-based strategy game developed by The Logic Factory and released in 1995 for DOS. Ascendancy is a classic 4X game (eXpand, eXplore, eXploit, eXterminate), similar to Master of Orion, yet with a few differences such as a technology tree.
Ascii Sector
WindowsLinuxDOS2007freeware3.8/5
Astro Dodge
DOS19823.6/5 Digital Marketing Corporation
Babylon 5: I've Found Her
Windows XP/98/952003freeware3.9/5 Space Dream Factory
Battlestar
Windows 3.x1996freeware3.7/5
Blasteroids
DOS19893.8/5 Atari
Captain Blood
DOSMac19883.8/5 ERE Informatique
Captain Blood is a space exploration video game released in 1988. It was developed by the French company ERE Informatique, and it was designed by Philippe Ulrich and Didier Bouchon.The game is set in a futuristic universe, where players take on the role of Captain Blood, a human abducted by an alien race known as the Thiiny. The gameplay revolves a...
CHAMP Asteroids
DOS1997remake3.9/5 ChamProgramming corp.
Command Adventures: Starship
DOS19953.6/5 Future Vision
Cosmic Crusader
DOS19823.8/5 Funatics Software
Deep space: Operation Copernicus
DOS19863.9/5 Lerner Research
Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War
Windows XP/98/951998protected4/5 Volition
Devastator
DOS19843.4/5 COMPUTE! Publications
Eagle's Rider
DOS19913.9/5 Microids
Earthrise
DOS19903.4/5 Interstel Corporation
EGA Trek
DOS1988remake3/5
EGA-Roids
DOS1986freewareremake3.7/5 Designer Software
Elite
DOS1987freeware4.1/5 Firebird
Elite Plus
DOS1991freeware4/5 Realtime Games
Epic
DOS1992protected3.9/5 Digital Image Design
Eye of the Storm
DOS19932.4/5 Rebellion Developments
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS19924.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway. Tt was designed by Michael Verdu and Glen R. Dahlgren and published by Legend Entertainment in 1992.
Frontier: Elite 2
DOS19934.1/5 Frontier Developments
Frontier: Elite II is a classic space simulation and trading game released in 1993, developed by David Braben and his company Frontier Developments. Frontier is the sequel to the pioneering 1984 game Elite and is often considered a landmark title in the space simulation genre.
Frontier: First Encounters
DOS19954.1/5 Frontier Developments
Galactix
DOS19923.3/5 Cygnus Studios
Galaxian
DOS19834/5 Namco
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
DOS19883.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions