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You can actually still buy it: http://www.whicken.com/scorch/index.html

I wish it was on gog or steam. I'm lazy but would love to just have it work on the steam deck without me buying it, backing up the zip, configuring dosbox etc...

Seems you should be able to play at least the Shareware version online: https://archive.org/details/msdos_SCORCH15_shareware

EDIT: this seems to be the full one, but I'm not sure how one would check (never played this game): https://archive.org/details/ScorchedEarth

I would not call "forgotten" Scorched Earth. Even there is a remake in 3d.

Atomic Tanks is an open source clone of Scorched Earth taking it to it's natural conclusion. Then there's the open source 3d version... Scorched3d. Still a good time waster when you are on hold.

Scorched Earth was great fun. Was going to suggest Nuclear War, but I see that's actually from '89...