I recently played an amazing DOS game where you have your country and you can declare war or peace with other ones, and i really enjoyed it. Growing up one of my favorite DOS games was Gobliiins 3, such cool memories!
Prince of Persia. I guess that was also the first DOS game I played…🤔
The new Prince of Persia game they just announced looks really good. An action platformer, hopefully it’s a ton of fun. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754342/ubisoft-prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown-release-date
- Crystal caves, for platformers
- Loom, for graphic adventures
- Heretic, for FPS, since Doom has already been mentioned.
Edit: I actually forgot about Commander Keen. That’s THE platform game of my childhood.
Loom and the other games written for that platform can now be run by the modern Scummvm, if you have the data files.
Gog.com currently has Loom on sale for $2.09. IIRC they have something rigged up to run it on modern systems, though I don’t recall if it’s Scummvm or some sort of DOS emulation environment.
Dune 2
Duke Nukem 3D, absolutely no question whatsoever. The first game I played that had environments that aped real life and had real life levels of interaction detail… Light switches, CCTV cameras, so much incidental detail and environmental transformation. No other game had done that to the same extent before then and I’d argue that no other game has done it since!
I will cheat a little but pretty I love whole Commander Keen series of games