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The 10 best DOS add-on games

The 10 best DOS add-on games, as the players of dos.games rate them. Duke: Nuclear Winter leads the list, ahead of Aftershock for Quake and Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon.

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

  • 11DOS add-on games in the archive
  • 10 of 10Play in your browser
  • 3.3Score of #1, out of 5
  1. 4. Abyss of Pandemonium

    1998 · Impel Development Team · Add-on

    3.2No ratings yet

    An unofficial add-on for Quake (like Shrak for Quake), Abyss of Pandemonium cheekily positions itself as the next part of the story, following on from Quake's official mission packs: Quake's fearsome general, the Dark Reaver Legond returns from conquering another dimension in the name of her master, to find out that a single human has repeatedly defeated Quake's minions.

Ranks 11–11

More great DOS add-on games

  1. Shrak for Quake — playable in the browserQuantum Axcess · Add-on · 1997Not 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.

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Questions

Frequently asked

What is the best DOS add-on game?

Duke: Nuclear Winter (1997, Simply Silly Software) is the best DOS add-on game by our players' ratings, ahead of Aftershock for Quake and Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon. The ranking follows players' ratings and real play time, so it changes as people play.

Can I play these DOS add-on 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 add-on games are there on dos.games?

11. 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 add-on games?

1997. 6 of the games on this list came out that year: Duke: Nuclear Winter, Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, Duke it out in D.C., Duke Nukem's Penthouse Paradise, Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity and Tremor for Quake.

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.