What Is DOS haven?

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DOS haven (doshaven.eu) is a catalog site for 21st-century DOS games — new titles built for MS-DOS long after the platform's commercial heyday. Its own tagline is "modern DOS games, new games for DOS," and the homepage states the site's purpose directly: collect DOS games from the 2000s onward and encourage people to keep making them. If you want to find recently released DOS homebrew rather than 1980s–90s classics, this is the site's reason for existing.

What the site actually contains

The homepage reports a running count — 265 games at the time of the captured page — and organizes them into browsable lists rather than long articles.

Section What it shows
Last 6 games added Newest entries with release dates, e.g. Star Cadre: Team Command (October 2, 2026), FOKOOM (September 7, 2026), Penult (August 31, 2026), Skellywave (August 18, 2026), Destroyer (August 17, 2026), Europa Panic! (August 15, 2026)
Latest comments Recent user posts, including suggestions to add specific games and reports of broken links
Filter games Faceted browsing by genre, presentation, and release year

The filter panel is the most useful part for searching. Genres listed include Action, Adventure, Beat'em up, FPS, Interactive Fiction, Platformer, Puzzle, Racing, Roguelike, RPG, Simulation, Sport, Strategy, and Other. There are also two presentation filters — Graphics and Textmode — plus a Released filter broken out by year starting at 2001.

Who it's for

  • Players curious about the DOS homebrew scene — people who want to know whether new DOS games still get made (the site's framing assumes this is a common question) and want a single place to browse them.
  • Retro enthusiasts running DOSBox — the site notes that DOSBox lets DOS programs run on Windows, Linux, macOS, smartphones, tablets, and Raspberry Pi, which is the practical reason a modern DOS game is playable at all today.
  • Developers and tinkerers — the site explicitly aims to encourage new DOS development, and the comments section shows developers announcing their own releases.

How to use it

  1. Open doshaven.eu.
  2. Use Filter games to narrow by genre, presentation (Graphics vs. Textmode), or release year — useful if you want, say, only textmode roguelikes from 2015 onward.
  3. Check Last 6 games added for the newest releases without filtering.
  4. Read Latest comments before downloading: users post additions the catalog is missing and flag broken links, so it doubles as a light quality signal.

Things to know before relying on it

  • The catalog is community-driven. Comments show people submitting games for inclusion ("Please add the game Recoil by…") and correcting entries, so coverage depends on contributors.
  • Link rot happens. At least one comment reports a broken link on the site itself, so a listed game may not always be downloadable from its entry.
  • The site is a directory, not a store or launcher. Nothing in the page evidence indicates pricing, accounts, or payments — treat it as an index that points you toward games, and check each game's own page for how it's distributed.

The site is powered by high-voltage.cz and includes Home, Tools, Sources, Suggestions, and About sections alongside the game catalog.