The 10 best DOS board games, as the players of dos.games rate them. Battle Chess leads the list, ahead of Mario's Game Gallery and Advanced Civilization.
Every game on the list plays in your browser, with nothing to install. The order comes from players' ratings and real play time, so it moves as people play.
Updated How the lists are ranked
1988 · Interplay Productions, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
3.2 out of 5Played all the time
Battle Chess is a quite typical chess game, but it comes with a twist: all pieces are represented by small, realistic figures that walk around on the chessboard, and when one piece takes another, they both take part in an animated battle.
1995 · Presage Software, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
3.2 out of 5Played all the time
The game is a collection of board games, in which you play with Mario.
1995 · Avalon Hill · Strategy / tactics
3.2 out of 5Played a lot
Based on the board game with the same name this game places you as a nation in the Mediterranean to rise and become the supreme ruler.
1995 · Infogrames · Strategy / tactics
3.2 out of 5Played a lot
This interactive board game offers action and adventure as Asterix and his friends journey around the Roman Empire on a challenge from Caesar while learning about different countries' history and culture.
1991 · 221B Software Development · Strategy / tactics
3.2 out of 5Played a lot
The famous fantasy-themed board game was converted into an isometric-viewed role playing game in which the evil Wizard Morcar must be defeated.
1995 · SimTex, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
3.2 out of 5Played a lot
Based on Avalon Hill's board game of the same name, 1830 is a railroad empire building game that is along the same lines (although a different style of gameplay) as the much more famous Railroad Tycoon.
1990 · Accolade, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
3.2 out of 5Played a lot
The board game Stratego is a more elaborate version of Capture the Flag.
1992 · Sierra On-Line, Inc. · Simulation
3.2 out of 5Played a lot
Functionally identical to the original Jones in the Fast Lane, but delivered on a CDROM and containing the following enhancements: DOS version: Redbook CD Audio for the voice acting; additional animation and actor portraits; takes very little space on hard drive.
1992 · Interplay Productions, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
3.2 out of 5Played a lot
The Battle Chess series took the basic game of chess and added animations for each battle between pieces, bringing the game to a wider audience, with no intention of providing something for Kasparov to spar with.
1983 · Dimitrovsky & Sarnak · Strategy / tactics
3.2 out of 5Played a lot
Hex is a computer translation of the strategy game of the same name: a 11x11 grid of hexagonal cells makes up the four-sided game board; each of the two players (black and white) is assigned a pair of opposing sides.
