The most popular underrated underdog games

In order to be an underdog, a game has to be "not well known" to the public (not now, nor at the time of its release) or underrated, but worth mentioning and playing for some reason. There are plenty of games that won the love of gamers against all odds; some of them even had a cult following. By the way, this keyword pays tribute to Sarinee Achavanuntakul, the owner of the first version of Home of the Underdogs, the site that started and popularized the abandonware concept.

Most popular underrated underdog games

Albion

rpgDOS

Dope Wars

simulationWindows XP/98/95

Death Rally

racingDOS

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Albion

DOS19964.2/5 Blue Byte Software
Dope Wars

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Beermat Software
Death Rally

DOS1996freeware4.1/5 Remedy Entertainment Ltd.
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

Windows XP/98/9519954.1/5 Activision

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is an abandoned action platform game set in South America and it's the fourth installment of the Pitfall series. Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure was designed by John Spinale, developed and released by Activision in 1995 for Windows, Super Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, Genesis, Jaguar, etc. The Mayan Adventure is part of the ...
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.
Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Starflight

DOS19864.2/5 Binary Systems
QBasic Gorillas

DOS1991freeware3.9/5 Microsoft
Blood

DOS1997protected4.2/5 Monolith Productions
D/Generation

DOS19914/5 Software Toolworks
Magic Carpet

DOSMac1994protected3.8/5 Bullfrog

Magic Carpet is an action shooter game set in a fictional Middle East developed by Bullfrog and released by Electronic Arts in 1994 for DOS and Macintosh. Your goal is to fly around a magic carpet and collect mana to expand your castle. When you reach the required mana "equilibrium" you move on to the next world and so on.
Shadowgate

DOSWindows 3.xMac19884.1/5 ICOM Simulations

Shadowgate is an abandoned fantasy-themed adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released by Mindscape in 1988 for Macintosh, DOS, and also for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, NES. Shadowgate uses the ICOM MacVenture engine (Deja Vu, Uninvited). Shadowgate was later remade in an enhanced version for Windows 3.1.
SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony

DOS19914.1/5 Maxis
Alter Ego: Male Version

DOS19864.1/5 Activision
Scorched Earth

DOS1991protected4.1/5
Alter Ego: Female Version

DOS19864.1/5 Activision
Abuse

DOSLinuxMac1995freeware4/5 Crack dot Com
Redneck Rampage

DOS1997protected4/5 Xatrix Entertainment
Epic Pinball

DOS1993protected3.8/5 Digital Extremes
Virus

DOS19884/5
Driller

DOS19874.1/5 Incentive

Driller (also known as Space Station Oblivion) is an abandoned action-adventure game developed by Incentive and released by Epyx in 1987 based on the Freescape Engine. In Driller, you control an excavation probe in a real 3d environment, through a first person view. The goal of the game is to place a drilling rig in each of the 8 regions of the moo...
I have no Mouth and I Must Scream

DOS1995protected4/5 The Dreamers Guild
Betrayal at Krondor

DOS1993protected4/5 Dynamix
Jazz Jackrabbit

DOS1994protected3.8/5 Epic MegaGames
Altered Destiny

DOS1990protected3.8/5 Accolade

Altered Destiny is a sci-fi themed point and click adventure game designed by Michael Berlyn, developed and released by Accolade in 1990. Altered Destiny runs on DOS but was also published for Amiga.
Cadaver

DOS19903.9/5 Bitmap Brothers
Power Drift

DOS19904.1/5 Sega
Ultra Mortal Kombat Vendetta

Windows XP/98/952001freeware4.3/5
Fast Food Dizzy

DOS19894/5 Codemasters
Knight Games

DOS19883.8/5 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.