Abandonware DOS title

Abandonware strategy games

Games based on strategy allow for reasoning and planning of one’s moves and actions. The gameplay may be based on player’s turns (Turn-based Strategy) or it may be in real time (Real-Time Strategy, RTS). These games focus on strategy and tactics rather than action, sometimes with the addition of financial or logistic features.

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strategyWindows XP/98/95
Sid Meier's CivNet
strategyWindows XP/98/95, Windows 3.x
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101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy

Windows XP/98/951998 turn-based tactics
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221B Baker Street

DOS1986 board game
221B Baker Street is a turn-based strategy strategy game developed by Datasoft. 221B Baker Street is base on the tabletop game of the same name "221B Baker Street" and it plays in a very similar way, with dices, etc.
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4 Queens Computer Casino

DOS1992 cards
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4Play

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1995NSFW board game
4Play was a risqué trivia and multi-player board-style game released in the mid-1990s. Designed as a party game, it combined trivia questions, mini-games, and challenges that often leaned toward suggestive or adult themes. It was intended to be played in social settings, often among friends or couples, with the goal of breaking the...
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5th Fleet

DOS1994 turn-based tactics, wargame, board game
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8088 Othello

DOS1985 board game
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9 Poker

DOS1989 cards
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A Line in the Sand

DOS1992protected board game, wargame, turn-based tactics
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Accordion

DOS1990 cards
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Acquire

DOS1989 board game
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Action in the North Atlantic

DOS1989 naval simulation
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Advanced Civilization

DOS1995 board game
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Age of Empires

Windows XP/98/951997protecteddemo real-time strategy
Age of Empires, published by Microsoft and developed by Ensemble Studios, is one of the most popular historical RTS and started a successful series. The player must guide a civilization from prehistory to the iron age, battling other civilizations, building and gathering resources.
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Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings

Windows XP/98/951999protecteddemo real-time strategy
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Age of Wonders

Windows XP/98/951999protecteddemo turn-based tactics
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Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne

Windows XP/98/952002protecteddemo turn-based tactics
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne is a turn-based strategy game developed by Triumph Studios and published by Gathering of Developers. It was released in 2002 as a sequel to the original Age of Wonders. The game is set in a fantasy world where players take on the role of a leader, either as a wizard or a warlord, and compete for control of the...
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Alien Legacy

DOS1994 4x
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Alpha Centauri

Windows XP/98/951999protected 4x
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Ambush at Sorinor

DOS1993 real-time strategy, real-time tactics
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Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021

DOS1987freeware 4x
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.
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Annals of Rome

DOS1988 kingdom simulation
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Archon Ultra

DOS1994protected board game
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Archon: the Light and the Dark

DOS1984 board game
Archon: The Light and the Dark is an abandoned DOS fantasy blend of strategy and action game, developed by Free Fall Associates and published for DOS by Electronic Arts in 1984. Archon and its sequels are a unique mix of chess-like turn-based strategy and arcade action games. Take chess and add the fact that every time two pieces land on the same s...
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Armada 2525

DOS1991 4x
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Army Men

Windows XP/98/951998 real-time tactics
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Army Men 2

Windows XP/98/951998protected real-time tactics
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Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation

DOS1988 turn-based tactics, wargame
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Arrakis

DOS2000 real-time strategy
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Ascendancy

DOS1995 4x
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.