Abandonware DOS title

Games set in Japan sorted by year, newest first

Old PC games set in Japan, as you can imagine, are mainly set during the medieval era and often involve sword wielding samurais, ninjas or martial artists of some kind.

Most popular Japan games

Fairy Nights
adventureWindows XP/98/95
Sword of Honour
actionDOS
James Clavell's Shogun
adventureDOS
fairy-nights-win-01

Fairy Nights

Windows XP/98/952000NSFW4/5 Milky House
nobunaga-ambition-6-03

Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS19943.9/5 KOEI
sword-of-honour-03

Sword of Honour

DOS19933.5/5 Dynafield Systems International
conquest-of-japan-02

Conquest of Japan

DOS19924.1/5 Impressions Games
first-samurai-02

First Samurai

DOS19923.9/5 Vivid Image
nippon-safes-02

Nippon Safes, Inc.

DOS1992freeware3.7/5 Dynabyte
lastninja2-4

Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance

DOS19903.5/5 System 3
shadow-knights-02

Shadow Knights

DOS19903.7/5 Softdisk Publishing
budokan-04

Budokan: the Martial Spirit

DOS19894.1/5 Electronic Arts
js-shogun-02

James Clavell's Shogun

DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
nobunaga-ambition-2-03

Nobunaga's Ambition 2

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

Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected4/5 MicroProse Software
lastninja1-3

Last Ninja

DOS19883.6/5 System 3
nobungasambition-3

Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS19883.7/5 KOEI
karateka-2

Karateka

DOS19864.1/5 Broderbund
Karateka is a martial arts themed action / fighting game released by Broderbund in 1986 for DOS. Karateka is the first game designed by Jordan Mechner, the father of the Prince of Persia franchise. Karateka was also published for Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, C64, MSX, NES, ZX Spectrum.
ninja-mastetronic-03

Ninja

DOS19862.5/5 Acclaim Entertainment
shogun-1

Shogun

DOS19863.4/5 Virgin Interactive
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