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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Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon

DOS19923.1/5 interactive movie

Syberia

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

Suspended

DOS19833.9/5 interactive fiction

Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 interactive fiction

Rome: Pathway to Power

DOS19934/5

Rome: Pathway to Power (also known as Rome AD 92) is an abandoned isometric adventure game with strategy elements set in ancient Rome. Rome was developed by Millennium Interactive and released in 1993 for DOS and Amiga platforms.

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

DOS19894/5 interactive fiction

The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 interactive fiction

Toonstruck

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

Guilty

DOS19954.2/5 point and click adventure

Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS19914.1/5 interactive fiction

Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...

The Dame Was Loaded

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

The Summoning

DOS1992protected4/5 dungeon crawl

Mystery of the Mummy

DOS19883.6/5 point and click adventure

Mission Critical

DOS1995protected4/5 point and click adventure

Seastalker

DOS19844/5 interactive fiction

Zork Nemesis

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected4.1/5 puzzle adventure

The Beverly Hillbillies

DOS19933.4/5 point and click adventure

The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1998protected4.2/5 puzzle adventure

The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is the third chapter in The Journeyman Project series. It's a science fiction adventure game developed by Presto Studios, designed by Phil Saunders and published by Red Orb Entertainment in 1998 for Windows and Macintosh.

Hook

DOS19924.2/5 point and click adventure

A Dudley Dilemma

DOS19883.3/5 interactive fiction

GrailQuest

DOS19893.3/5 interactive fiction

Fuck Quest

DOS1998freewareNSFW3.7/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 interactive fiction

Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS19853/5 graphic adventure with text parser

1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS20033.6/5 interactive fiction

EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

DOS19914.1/5 point and click adventure

The Wizard of Oz

DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction

Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 interactive fiction

The Twilight Zone

DOS19884.2/5 graphic adventure with text parser

The Twilight Zone is an abandoned sci-fi themed adventure game based on the popular TV series of the same name. The Twilight zone released in 1988 by First Row Software Publishing for DOS and Amiga. At it's core, The Twilight Zone is a text adventure, so you have to type in commands, but it's supported by the graphics.