Your top ten dos games

LineOf7s

First thing that comes to mind: Psycho Pinball.

skraz

Betrayal at Krondor - amazing early RPG
Raptor Call of the Shadows - great vertical scroller shooter
OMF 2097 - robot street fighter
Dune - surprisingly robust
RoTT - amazing fps
Syndicate - Dystopian rpg-ish

those above come to mind as great games that might not be super well known (tried to avoid the cliche answers of like doom, duke 3d etc)

LiveFreeDead

Astro Fire
Commander Keen
Epic Pinball
Fury Of The Furries
Jazz Jackrabbit
Links386 Pro
Lure Of The Temptress
Monster Bash
One Must Fall
Paganitzu
Prince Of Persia 1
Quadrax 1
Sid And Als Incredible Toons
Wacky Wheels

Sorted alphabetically, not by preference, also I have included 4 extras as this is my favorite DOS games folder content.

quicksilver

Little Big Adventure 2 (aka Twinsens Odyssey)
Tie Fighter
Commander Keen
Dark Forces
Timeshock Pro Pinball

bollwerk

Master of Magic

UDb23

@bollwerk
Dune II: Battle for Arrakis
Falcon 4.0 (realistic F16 simulator)

Niejeden

Maybe not the "top" list, as some of this games weren't rated very high when released, but as a kid I found them fun to play:

Reunion - rare mix of space strategy with adventure game. Important: If you wish to give it a try, don't read any walkthroughs. The game is linear an once you know what to do, you'll always win. The challenge is to fin the winning path on your own.
Imperium Galactica - spiritual successor of the above.
Fragile Allegiance - real time space strategy with nice graphics. Flawed by lack of active pause, a lot of micromanagement and cumbersome UI but still very playable.
Sim City 2000 - father of all isometric citybuilders. There's even a multiplayer version, allowing many players to build on the same map.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe - father of all isometric transport simulators. Not really worth playing today, as we have free Open Transport Tycoon, which offers many more features and runs on modern platforms
Syndicate - already mentioned.
Jagged Alliance - tactical game with a lot of fully voice-acted mercs to chose from. IMO better than the sequel (JA: Dealy Games).
Master of Orion 2 - not sure if it's DOS or early Win game, but still one of my favourites. MOO 1 is also worth trying.
Star Trek 25th Anniversary and ST: Judgement Rites - adventure games in ST:TOS setting
Another World - no need to introduce :) PC version has some additional levels, compared to Amiga.
Raptor - good top-own flying shooter with ability to upgrade your fighter between the missions
Wing Commander 3 and 4 - space sim with great FMVs.

BobHarris

Many of my favorites (that are still enjoyable today) are already mentioned (Timeshock, Raptor, Prince of persia 1, Raptor). I would like to add Prince of Persia 2 The shadow and the flame. I never really got far in the game, but always enjoyed playing it. I must have jumped towards that ship at least a 100 times.

shavecat

Fallout 1
Heroes of might&magic 1&2
Dangerous dave
Star Control 2

cyperghost

Some are already mentioned here nevertheless

XCOM (Enemy Unknowen and the second part Terror from the Deep, Checkout OpenXCOM for RPi port)
Syndicate (already mentioned)
Worms
Jagged Alliance (with extension Deadly Games) (mentioned already)
Crusader (Both parts: No Remorse & No Regret)
Reunion (already mentioned - realy a great game)
Warcraft 1 & 2
Heretic (imho the best Doom-engine game through the mid 90)
Dungeon Keeper (wish there would be a port for this genius game)
Fugger II
Tony and Friends in Kellogs Land (Nice Mario style with Kelloggs characters)
Judgement Rites (thanks for mentioning this one! - great adventure game, hard!)
TFX - Tactical Fighter Experiment
Descent and Descent II
BLOOD
Heroes of Might and Magic (part II)

I think I could count to 50 or more :)
I think most of these games are to slow to run on DOSBOX and Raspberry :)

dudleydes

@cyperghost said in Your top ten dos games:

Dungeon Keeper (wish there would be a port for this genius game)

Any good?

https://opendungeons.github.io/downloads.html
https://github.com/OpenDungeons/OpenDungeons/

btw this page has a list of open source game clones/ports: https://osgameclones.com/