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

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DOS19943/5 interactive fiction

The Summoning

DOS1992protected4/5 dungeon crawl

Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS19853.5/5 interactive fiction

Zyll

DOS19843.9/5

Mortville Manor

DOS19883.8/5 point and click adventure

Ballyhoo

DOS19863.5/5 interactive fiction

The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac1994protectedremake3.1/5 point and click adventure

Dragon World

DOS19844.2/5 interactive fiction

Death Gate

DOS1994protected3.9/5 point and click adventure

Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 interactive fiction

Teen Agent

DOS1995freeware3.9/5 point and click adventure

Zork: Grand Inquisitor

Windows XP/98/95Mac1997protected3.8/5 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...