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The 10 best DOS board game games

The 10 best DOS board game games, as the players of dos.games rate them. Mario's Game Gallery leads the list, ahead of Battle Chess and Astérix: Caesar's Challenge.

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

  • 17DOS board game games in the archive
  • 10 of 10Play in your browser
  • 3.2Score of #1, out of 5
  1. 2. Battle Chess

    1988 · Interplay Productions, Inc. · Strategy / tactics

    3.2No ratings yet

    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.

  2. 7. Battle Chess 4000

    1992 · Interplay Productions, Inc. · Strategy / tactics

    3.2No ratings yet

    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.

  3. 10. Risk

    1986 · Panther Programs · Strategy / tactics

    3.2No ratings yet

    Risk is a turn-based strategy game based on the board game of the same name.

Ranks 11–17

More great DOS board game games

  1. Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess — playable in the browserInterplay Productions, Inc. · Strategy / tactics · 1990Not played yet
    3.2
    How this score is built
    SignalAdds
    Player ratings0% · no ratings yet0.00
    Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings3.20
    Blended rating3.20
    Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50+0.00
    Score3.2

    Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.

    Open Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess
  2. Hex — playable in the browserDimitrovsky & Sarnak · Strategy / tactics · 1983Not played yet
    3.2
    How this score is built
    SignalAdds
    Player ratings0% · no ratings yet0.00
    Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings3.20
    Blended rating3.20
    Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50+0.00
    Score3.2

    Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.

    Open Hex
  3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars — playable in the browserCapstone Software · Strategy / tactics · 1993Not played yet
    3.2
    How this score is built
    SignalAdds
    Player ratings0% · no ratings yet0.00
    Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings3.20
    Blended rating3.20
    Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50+0.00
    Score3.2

    Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.

    Open Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars
  4. Hexxagon — playable in the browserSoftware Creations · Strategy / tactics · 1993Not played yet
    3.2
    How this score is built
    SignalAdds
    Player ratings0% · no ratings yet0.00
    Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings3.20
    Blended rating3.20
    Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50+0.00
    Score3.2

    Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.

    Open Hexxagon
  5. Animated Bugs — playable in the browserFlix Productions · Educational · 1994Not played yet
    3.2
    How this score is built
    SignalAdds
    Player ratings0% · no ratings yet0.00
    Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings3.20
    Blended rating3.20
    Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50+0.00
    Score3.2

    Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.

    Open Animated Bugs
  6. Battle Chess: Enhanced CD-ROM — playable in the browserInterplay Productions, Inc. · Strategy / tactics · 1992Not played yet
    3.2
    How this score is built
    SignalAdds
    Player ratings0% · no ratings yet0.00
    Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings3.20
    Blended rating3.20
    Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50+0.00
    Score3.2

    Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.

    Open Battle Chess: Enhanced CD-ROM
  7. Hexxagon II — playable in the browserSoftware Creations · Strategy / tactics · 1993Not played yet
    3.2
    How this score is built
    SignalAdds
    Player ratings0% · no ratings yet0.00
    Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings3.20
    Blended rating3.20
    Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50+0.00
    Score3.2

    Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.

    Open Hexxagon II
Questions

Frequently asked

What is the best DOS board game game?

Mario's Game Gallery (1995, Presage Software, Inc.) is the best DOS board game game by our players' ratings, ahead of Battle Chess and Astérix: Caesar's Challenge. The ranking follows players' ratings and real play time, so it changes as people play.

Can I play these DOS board game games online?

Yes. 10 of the games on this list play free in your browser on dos.games, with no download and no emulator to set up. Press Play on any of them; your progress can be saved.

How many DOS board game games are there on dos.games?

17. This list ranks the best 10 in full and the next ones below them; the catalogue has every one, with filters for year, studio and more.

Which year had the most great DOS board game games?

1995. 3 of the games on this list came out that year: Mario's Game Gallery, Astérix: Caesar's Challenge and 1830: Railroads and Robber Barons.

How is this list ranked?

With the same score as our Best DOS Games ranking: players' ratings, pulled toward the archive's own rating while a game has few of them, plus a small bonus for the games people actually keep playing. No editor and no sponsor decides a place.