# Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

> Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness is Blizzard Entertainment's 1995 real-time strategy game for MS-DOS, about the second war between orcs and humans.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/warcraft2/
Page updated: 2026-10-26

- Console: Windows
- Released: 1995
- Developer: Blizzard Entertainment

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published in 1995 for MS-DOS, followed by the Beyond the Dark Portal expansion and the Battle.net Edition for Windows in 1999.

Players lead the Alliance of Lordaeron or the Horde through campaigns of base building and battles on land, sea and air, with fog of war hiding unexplored areas. It also had a map editor and multiplayer.

## Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness PC Ports

- [Wargus](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/warcraft2/ports/wargus/index.md): Wargus runs Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness on the open-source Stratagus engine for Windows, looking and sounding like the original, with small gameplay enhancements.