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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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac19864/5 interactive fiction

Jewels of Darkness

DOS19864.2/5 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction

Acheton

DOS19873.7/5 interactive fiction

Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS19853.5/5 interactive fiction, life simulation

The Beverly Hillbillies

DOS19933.4/5 point and click adventure

Zork Nemesis

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1996protected4.1/5 puzzle adventure

Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected4.1/5 interactive fiction

In the Dead of Night

DOS19953.8/5 point and click adventure

Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protected4/5 interactive fiction

Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894.1/5 interactive fiction

Omnicron Conspiracy

DOS19894.1/5

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.9/5 interactive fiction

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 interactive fiction

Murder Club

DOSWindows XP/98/9519914.1/5 visual novel

Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom

DOS19933.8/5 point and click adventure

Stationfall

DOS19873.9/5 interactive fiction

Superhero League of Hoboken

DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person party-based RPG

Free D.C.!

DOS19913.6/5 point and click adventure

Mindshadow

DOSMac19853.6/5 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction

Nippon Safes, Inc.

DOS1992freeware3.7/5 point and click adventure

Metropolis

DOS19873.8/5

Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 interactive fiction

Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

DOS19883.8/5 space exploration, space simulation

Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 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.

Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon

DOS19923.1/5 interactive movie

Amazon

DOS19843.7/5 interactive fiction

Normality

DOS1996protecteddemo3.8/5 point and click adventure

Normality is a first-person adventure video game developed by Gremlin Interactive and released in 1996. The game is set in a dystopian future where a totalitarian regime known as the One True Government (OTG) controls the city of Neutropolis. The player takes on the role of Kent, a rebellious citizen who opposes the oppressive rule of the OTG. The ...