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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101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy
Windows XP/98/951998 turn-based tactics
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.
4 Queens Computer Casino
DOS1992 cards
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...
5th Fleet
DOS1994 turn-based tactics, wargame, board game
8088 Othello
DOS1985 board game
9 Poker
DOS1989 cards
A Line in the Sand
DOS1992protected board game, wargame, turn-based tactics
Accordion
DOS1990 cards
Acquire
DOS1989 board game
Action in the North Atlantic
DOS1989 naval simulation
Advanced Civilization
DOS1995 board game
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.
Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings
Windows XP/98/951999protecteddemo real-time strategy
Age of Wonders
Windows XP/98/951999protecteddemo turn-based tactics
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...
Alien Legacy
DOS1994 4x
Alpha Centauri
Windows XP/98/951999protected 4x
Ambush at Sorinor
DOS1993 real-time strategy, real-time tactics
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.
Annals of Rome
DOS1988 kingdom simulation
Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club
DOS1990 cards
Archon Ultra
DOS1994protected board game
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...
Armada 2525
DOS1991 4x
Army Men
Windows XP/98/951998 real-time tactics
Army Men 2
Windows XP/98/951998protected real-time tactics
Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation
DOS1988 turn-based tactics, wargame
Arrakis
DOS2000 real-time strategy
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.