The best abandonware rpg games
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Conan: the Cimmerian
DOS19914.2/5 action RPG
Rogue
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac19844.2/5 dungeon crawl, roguelike
Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...
Ultima 8: Pagan
DOSMac1994protected4.2/5 action RPG
Ultima 3: Exodus
DOSMac19854.2/5 top-down party-based RPG
Ultima III: Exodus is a role-playing video game developed by Richard Garriott and published by Origin Systems. It was released in 1983 for the Apple II and later ported to various other platforms such as the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and NES.The game is set in the fantasy world of Sosaria, where the player controls a party of adventurers on a quest to ...
Dungeon Master
DOS19924.2/5 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
Dungeon Master, released in 1987 by FTL for Atari ST and later for Amiga and DOS, is a classic dungeon-crawling role-playing game (RPG) that holds a special place in the hearts of many nostalgic gamers. Dungeon Master is considered the father of first-person, 3D, grid-based dungeon crawlers.
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
DOS1990protected4.2/5
Crystals of Arborea
DOS19904.2/5 first-person party-based RPG
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
DOS1994freeware4.2/5 sandbox RPG, action RPG
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is the first installment in the highly acclaimed Elder Scrolls series of fantasy ARPG (action role-playing games), developed and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was initially released in 1994. Arena is set in the continent of Tamriel, which later becomes the central location for all the Elder Scrolls games (Skyrim,...
Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
DOS2001protected4.2/5
Starflight 2: Trade routes of the Cloud Nebula
DOS19894.2/5 sandbox RPG
Legends of Valour
DOS19924.2/5 sandbox RPG, action RPG
Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny
DOS19884.2/5 sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
Bad Blood
DOS19904.2/5
Diablo
Windows XP/98/951996protecteddemo4.2/5 dungeon crawl, action RPG
Nox
Windows XP/98/95Mac2000protected4.1/5 action RPG
Alternate Reality: The City
DOSMac19884.1/5
Alternate Reality: The City is a role-playing video game developed by Paradise Programming for various platforms including Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. It was released in 1985. In Alternate Reality: The City, players find themselves in a mysterious and surreal city known as simply "The City". The game takes place in a fantasy setti...
Anachronox
Windows XP/98/952001protected4.1/5 action RPG
Joyous Rebel
DOS1996freeware4.1/5
Heimdall 2: Into the Hall of Worlds
DOS19944.1/5
Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar
DOS1985freeware4.1/5 sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
Ultima IV is remembered as one of the best Ultima games ever released, designed as usual by Richard Garriott. Garriott took the Ultima series to a whole new level by introducing the eight virtues: honesty, compassion, valor, justice, sacrifice, honor, spirituality, humility. Ultima IV started the trilogy known as "Age of Enlightenment".
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Windows XP/98/952002protected4.1/5 action RPG, sandbox RPG
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a critically acclaimed open-world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios. It was released in 2002 and is the third installment in the Elder Scrolls series. The game is set in the fantasy world of Tamriel, on the island of Vvardenfell in the province of Morrowind.The game offers a vast a...
Phantasie 3: The Wrath of Nikademus
DOS19874.1/5 top-down party-based RPG
Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
DOSLinuxMac1990protected4.1/5 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
Worlds of Legend: Son of the Empire
DOS19934.1/5
Secret of the Silver Blades
DOSMac1990protected4.1/5
Secret of the Silver Blades is a fantasy RPG set in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons universe, developed and released by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. in 1990 for DOS, Macintosh, Amiga and Commodore 64 systems. Secret of the Silver Blades is part of the Pool of Radiance series and uses the same "GoldBox" engine with isometric turn-based combat ...
Prophecy of the Shadow
DOS1992protected4.1/5
Dark Queen of Krynn
DOS1992protected4.1/5
Beneath Apple Manor
DOS1983freeware4.1/5 roguelike
Fountain of Dreams
DOS19904.1/5 top-down party-based RPG
Slash'Em
Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.1/5 dungeon crawl, roguelike