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Games set in medieval times sorted by release date

These games are not of the fantasy kind: no dragons, no elves, no dwarves and absolutely no magic. These are all games set in medieval times. This means castles and villages, alchemy and saints, kings and queens, monks and abbeys, knights and tourneys.

Most popular medieval games

Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings
strategyWindows XP/98/95
Empire Earth
strategyWindows XP/98/95
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Bushido

DOS1983 Ebenel enterprises
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Holy Grail

DOS1984
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Knightmare

DOS1986 Konami
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Shogun

DOS1986 Virgin Interactive
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The Black Cauldron

DOS1986freeware Sierra On-Line
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La Abadia del Crimen

DOS1987 Opera Soft
La Abadía del Crimen (The Abbey of Crime) is an action-adventure developed in Spain by Paco Menéndez in the mid-1980s. It was initially created for the Amstrad CPC and later ported to other popular home computer systems of the time, such as the ZX Spectrum and MSX. The game was released in 1987.
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Battle Chess

DOS1988protected Interplay Productions
Chess was a niche genre in video gaming. There were lots of chess simulations: black and white very old games, licensed games from chess champions, etc. No one ever attempted to broaden the audience until Interplay published Battle Chess. Battle Chess appeal was almost entirely focused on the animations when two pieces ended on the same square.
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Knight Games

DOS1988 Mastertronic
Olympic games were something back in the 80s and the 90s: Winter Games, Summer Games, California Games, anything-you-can-think-of games. Some imaginative developer thought that the world needed a different kind of "multisport" action game and came up with he idea behind Knight Games.
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Lancelot

DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
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Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS1988 KOEI
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Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio

DOS1988 Starsoft Development
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James Clavell's Shogun

DOS1989 Infocom
James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...
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Joan of Arc

DOS1989 Chip
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Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS1989 KOEI
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Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected MicroProse Software
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Battle Chess 2: Chinese Chess

DOS1990protected Interplay Productions
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Betrayal

DOS1990protected
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Castle master

DOS1990 Incentive Software
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Castle master 2

DOS1990 Incentive Software
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Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail

DOS1990 Sierra On-Line
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail is an old DOS point and click adventure game designed by Christy Marx, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1990. As the title implies, Conquests of Camelot setting is based on the Arthurian legends.
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

DOS1990 Horror Soft
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Iron Lord

DOS1990 UBI Soft
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Spirit of Excalibur

DOS1990 Synergistic Software
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Tom and the Ghost

DOS1990 Blue Byte Software
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Castles

DOS1991protected Quicksilver Software
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Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood

DOS1991protected Sierra On-Line
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Defender of the Crown

DOS1991protected Cinemaware
Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue damsels.
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Profezia

DOS1991NSFW Trecision
Profezia is an adventure video game developed by the Italian company Trecision and released in 1991. It was available on both the Amiga and MS-DOS platforms. The game is notable for its multiple-choice interface, where the storyline unfolds automatically, and the player is presented with sets of choices that affect the progression of the game. Unli...
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Realms

DOS1991 Graftgold