Abandonware DOS title

Abandonware adventure games sorted by release date

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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Altered Destiny

DOS1990protected3.8/5 point and click adventure, graphic adventure with text parser
Altered Destiny is a sci-fi themed point and click adventure game designed by Michael Berlyn, developed and released by Accolade in 1990. Altered Destiny runs on DOS but was also published for Amiga.
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B.A.T.

DOS19903.9/5 point and click adventure
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Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail

DOS19904/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail is an old DOS point and click adventure game designed by Christy Marx, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1990. As the title implies, Conquests of Camelot setting is based on the Arthurian legends.
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Countdown

DOS19904/5 point and click adventure
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Deja Vu 2: Lost in Las Vegas

DOS19904.2/5 point and click adventure
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Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp

DOS1990protected4.1/5 interactive movie
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Earthrise

DOS19903.4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Future Wars: Adventures in Time

DOS19904.1/5 point and click adventure
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Geisha

DOS1990NSFW3.9/5 point and click adventure
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Gumboots Australia

DOS19904/5
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Hugo's House of Horrors

DOS19903.9/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Hugo's House of Horrors is an adventure game developed by David P. Gray and released in the early 1990s. The game is a text-based adventure with simple graphics, and it gained popularity for its witty and often tongue-in-cheek approach to the horror genre.The story of the game revolves around the main character, Hugo, who receives a letter from his...
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King's Quest 5: Absence makes the heart go yonder

DOSWindows 3.x1990protected3.8/5 point and click adventure
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Les Manley in: Search for the King

DOS1990protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Loom

DOSLinuxMac1990protecteddemo4.2/5 point and click adventure
Loom is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). It was designed by Brian Moriarty and is known for its unique gameplay mechanics and emphasis on storytelling. Loom is distinctive for its interface, which revolves around musical notes and spells. The protagonist, Bobbin Threadbare, is a young weaver ...
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Operation Stealth

DOS19904/5 point and click adventure
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Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire

DOS1990protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire is a the second chapter in the Sierra beloved Quest for Glory series. Trial by Fire is an adventure game with RPG elements (at the very start the player must choose a class from the three available: fighter, wizard, thief) set in a fantasy setting inspired by Middle East lore. It was developed ad released by Sierra ...
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Rise of the Dragon

DOS19904.1/5 point and click adventure
Rise of the Dragon is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Dynamix in 1990. It was originally released for MS-DOS and later ported to other platforms such as the Amiga and Sega CD. The game is set in a cyberpunk-inspired future Los Angeles, where the player assumes the role of William "Blade" Hunter, a private detective taske...
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Sex Olympics

DOS1990NSFW4/5 point and click adventure
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Snoopy and Peanuts

DOS19904/5
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Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls

DOS1990protected4.1/5 interactive fiction
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The Secret of Monkey Island

DOS1990protecteddemo4.3/5 point and click adventure
The Secret of Monkey Island is perhaps the most popular point and click adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games and designed by the trio Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer. In Monkey Island you're the would-be pirate Guybrush Threepwood on a quest to become a fearsome pirate in the Caribbean. Monkey Island uses one of the most friendlie...
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Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night

DOS19903/5 interactive fiction
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A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW4/5 interactive fiction
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Castle of Dr. Brain

DOS19914/5 puzzle adventure
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Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood

DOS1991protected4.2/5 point and click adventure
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Cruise for a Corpse

DOS19914/5 point and click adventure
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EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

DOS19914.1/5 point and click adventure
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Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus

DOS19914/5 dungeon crawl, point and click adventure
Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is an abandoned horror adventure/RPG hybrid game with elements of dark fantasy, developed by Horror Soft and published by Accolade for DOS in 1991. Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is also part of the Elvira series of games, each of one based on the popular movie/TV personality Elvira.
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Fascination

DOS1991NSFW3.8/5 point and click adventure