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The Warcraft series

Blizzard Entertainment released Warcraft: Orcs & Humans for MS-DOS in November 1994. It was the first game in the Warcraft universe: a real-time strategy game about the war between the humans of Azeroth and the invading orcs. Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness followed in December 1995 and won most of the major PC gaming awards of 1996, and the Beyond the Dark Portal expansion arrived the same year.

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos came out in July 2002, the first in the series in three dimensions, and its expansion The Frozen Throne followed in 2003. World of Warcraft (2004) turned the setting into an online role-playing game, and Warcraft III: Reforged (2020) remade the third game. Blizzard has been part of Microsoft since 2023.

The browser versions listed here

• Warcraft: Orcs & Humans: the 1994 original in its MS-DOS version on DOS.Zone, with a multiplayer room.
• Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness: the 1995 sequel in its MS-DOS version on DOS.Zone, also with a multiplayer room.
• Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne: melee and custom maps on Warsmash, an open re-implementation of Blizzard’s engine that DOS.Zone has compiled for the web. It isn’t emulation, and it offers online co-op and PvP.

All three open dos.zone in a new tab. There’s nothing to install, no account and no ads. The first two run on js-dos, DOS.Zone’s browser version of DOSBox.

Which one to try

To play the series in order, start with Orcs & Humans and move on to Warcraft II, which is the one most people remember from the 1990s. Warcraft III is the pick for multiplayer and for custom maps such as tower defense, but it doesn’t include the story campaigns. All three need a keyboard and mouse. For a fan-made arena game built from Warcraft III art, see Arena of Champions, and for more strategy games, try Command & Conquer or Age of Empires II.