The most popular abandonware adventure games

Adventure games focus on cracking enigmas and exploring and contemplating the game world in a narrative-driven scenario. In order to progress within the story arc, the player has to interact with different items, the environment itself, and other non-playing characters (NPC in short).

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Cutthroats

DOS19843.4/5 interactive fiction

Hollywood Hijinx

DOS19863.3/5 interactive fiction

Curse of Enchantia

DOS19923.8/5 point and click adventure

Curse of Enchantia is a point-and-click graphic adventure game that was released in 1992. It was developed by Core Design and initially published by Core Design in Europe and by Cyberdreams in North America.In Curse of Enchantia, players control a teenage boy named Brad who is mysteriously transported to the fantasy world of Enchantia. The game fol...

Toonstruck

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction

Dragon's Lair 3: The Curse of Mordread

DOS1992protected3.9/5 interactive movie

Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 interactive fiction

The Black Cauldron

DOS1986freeware3.7/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Rendezvous with Rama

DOS19853.7/5 interactive fiction

Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 interactive fiction

Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.

Trinity

DOS19864.1/5 interactive fiction

Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

DOS19874/5 interactive fiction

Starcross

DOS19823.7/5 interactive fiction

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

DOS19974/5 point and click adventure

B.A.T.

DOS19903.9/5 point and click adventure

LA Law: The Computer Game

DOS19924/5 interactive movie

LA Law: The Computer Game is an abandoned adventure game based on the popular TV series from the 80s and 90s. L.A. Law. LA Law was developed by Synergistic Software and released by Capstone in 1992. LA Law plays like a multiple choice adventure game where you have to build up cases and bring them to court.

The Summoning

DOS1992protected4/5 dungeon crawl

Kingdom: The Far Reaches

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected3.9/5 point and click adventure

The Last Express

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

Deja Vu 2: Lost in Las Vegas

DOS19904.2/5 point and click adventure

Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 interactive fiction

The Dame Was Loaded

DOS1996protected4.2/5 point and click adventure, interactive movie

Last Half of Darkness

DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure

Myth

DOS19894.1/5 interactive fiction

Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.

DOS1991protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

Mean Streets

DOS1989protected4/5 point and click adventure

Riven: The Sequel to Myst

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo4/5 puzzle adventure

Riven is the sequel to the highly successful and critically acclaimed adventure game, Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds, Riven was released in 1997 and continues the narrative established in Myst. Just like its predecessor, Riven is a first-person point-and-click adventure game with a focus on exploration and puzzle-solving.The plot revolves around At...