Strategy games have a long history; ancient games of intellect like Chess have paved the way for modern masterpieces like Starcraft.
Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Strategy games have a long history; ancient games of intellect like Chess have paved the way for modern masterpieces like Starcraft.
Chris Crawford’s Eastern Front (1941) is a wargame released in 1981 for the Atari 8-bit family. It is widely recognized as one of the earliest examples of a truly sophisticated computer wargame for home systems.
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Special Forces is a tactical action game with stealth elements created by MicroProse and released in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It's the sequel of Airborne Ranger, an 8-bit game released five years earlier.
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Lords of Conquest is a turn-based strategy game developed by Eon Software and published by Electronic Arts in 1986 for the Commodore 64. The same year, the Atari 8-bit and Apple II...
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Carrier Command is a vehicle simulation and a real-time strategy game developed by Realtime Games in 1988 for the Atari ST. Later it was ported to several other platforms, includin...
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Celtic Legends is a turn-based strategy game with RPG elements created by Ubisoft exclusively for the Amiga. It was released in 1991. The game allows you to challenge the computer ...
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Jagged Alliance is a turn-based tactical role-playing game developed by Sir-tech Software and released in 1994 for MS-DOS by Madlab Software. I remember watching my father play Jag...
Year: 1995 Genre: Role Playing
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Utopia: The New Worlds is a data-disk expansion to the sci-fi city building sim created by Gremlin Graphics. The data disk adds 10 new worlds to Utopia: The Creation of a Nation, each one with a new alien race.
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Battle Isle '93 - The Moon of Chromos is an expansion of the sci-fi wargame created by Blue Byte for Amiga and MS-DOS. The first Battle Isle was released in 1991, and it was a hu...
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UFO: Alien Invasion is an entirely free and open-source game inspired by the X-COM video game series. The year is 2084, and you control a secret organization tasked with defending Earth from an alien invasion.
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Burntime is a strategy-RPG game developed and published by Max Design for MS-DOS and Amiga in 1993 for Europe and 1994 in North America. Max Design was founded in Austria by the brothers Albert and Martin Lasser and Wilfried Reiter.
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High Seas Trader is a business simulation strategy game developed and published by Impressions in 1995 for Amiga with AGA chipset and DOS. It is the follow-up to the earlier Impres...
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Stratego is an adaptation of the popular board game. It was developed by Imagitec and published by Accolade for the Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh and Amiga in 1991..
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War Planets: Age of Chaos is a sci-fi real-time strategy game set in the War Planets universe created by the toy company Trendmasters. The game, created by Trendmasters itself, was...
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Roadwar Europa is a futuristic turn-based strategy game designed by Jeff Johnson and developed for the Apple II and Commodore 64. It was released initially in 1986 and published by Strategic Simulations Inc.
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