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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Monopoly
DOS1985
Monopoly
DOS1985
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS1998
Monopoly Deluxe
DOSWindows 3.x1992 Parker Brothers
Monopoly Deluxe is an abandoned turn-based top-down Monopoly adaptation of the classic board game, developed by Parker Brothers and released by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Monopoly Deluxe was published for DOS, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh.
Moraff's Morejongg
Windows XP/98/951992 Moraffware
Nuclear War
DOS1989 New World Computing
Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
Ogre
DOS1986 Origin Systems
Oligopoly
DOS1987 Pc design associates
Oligopoly is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by James Kerwin, developed by PC Design Associates and released by XOR Corporation in 1987 for DOS.
Othello
DOS1986
Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw
DOS1989 Oxford Mobius
Redhook's Revenge
DOS1993 ImagiSoft
Renegade Legion Interceptor
DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Risk
Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth
Risk: the World Conquest Game
DOS1989 Mastertronic
Robot Rascals
DOS1987 Ozark Softscape
Scrabble
DOS1989
Scrabble
DOS1992 U.S. Gold
Settlers of Catan
DOS1998
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
Windows 3.xMac OS1990 Activision
Space 1889
DOS1990 Paragon Software
Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.
Space Hulk
DOS1993 Electronic Arts
Space Hulk is an abandoned real-time tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40000 universe, developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS and Amiga systems. In Space Hulk, the player is tasked with wiping out hordes of aliens by the means of a squad of Space Marines armored and armed to the teeth. Space Hulk is the adaptation...
Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary
DOS1987 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS1989 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Stratego
DOS1990 Accolade
Super Battleship
DOS1988
The Ball Game
DOS1991 Esprit Software Programs
The computer edition of Scrabble
DOS1989 Leisure Genius
Theatre of War
DOS1992protected Artech Studios
Trivial Pursuit
DOS1989
Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces that correspond to those categories. The goal is to collect all the pie pieces and complete a full pie before your opponents.
Trivial Pursuit Deluxe
DOS1992 Oxford Digital Enterprises