Games similar to board games or based on a tabletop game

Classic board games like Backgammon, Othello, Checkers were an inspiration to the first wave of developers for their simplicity and appeal. In time, modern board games like Diplomacy, Risk, Monopoly or Scrabble were also adapted in a number of games. And let's not forget the strategy games NOT based on actual tabletop games which gameplay is clearly inspired by board games (like the excellent Archon).

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Computer Diplomacy

DOS1984 Avalon Hill

Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow

DOS1992 Sierra On-Line

Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge

DOS1992 Sierra On-Line

Dark Legions

DOS1994protected Silicon Knights

Death by Backgammon

DOS1990

Dogs of War

Windows XP/98/951996demo Software Engineering

Dracula in London

DOS1988 SDJ Enterprises

Dragon Strike

DOS1990protected Westwood Studios

Dragonriders of Pern

DOS1987 Everlasting

Epidemic!

DOS1983protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Felony!

DOS1984 BrainBank

Fields of Glory

DOS1993protected MicroProse Software

Firezone

DOS1988 Arcadia Systems

Fooblitzsky

DOS1986 Infocom

Full Metal Planete

DOSMac OS1990 Hitech Productions

Galaxy

DOS1981 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Global Conquest

DOS1992 Ozark Softscape

Global Thermo War

DOS1985

Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Gulf Strike

DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Harpoon

DOS1989protected Three-Sixty Pacific

HeroQuest

DOSMac OS1991 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive

HeroQuest is a classic video game adaptation of the popular board game HeroQuest, released in 1991 by Gremlin Interactive. HeroQuest faithfully recreates the turn-based, dungeon-crawling, and role-playing gameplay of the board game. Players take on the roles of different heroes, including a barbarian, dwarf, elf, and wizard, as they explo...