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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The Witness

DOS19834/5 interactive fiction

The Three Musketeers

DOS19873/5 graphic adventure with text parser

The Quest for the Time-bird

DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure

Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror

DOS19863.4/5 interactive fiction

Knight orc

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 interactive fiction

Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 interactive fiction

Suspended

DOS19833.9/5 interactive fiction

Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS19883.8/5 visual novel, interactive fiction

Silicon Dreams

DOS19863.6/5 interactive fiction

Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...

Suspect

DOS19844.2/5 interactive fiction

Demon's Forge

DOS19873.1/5 interactive fiction

Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction

Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 interactive fiction

Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS19893/5 interactive fiction

Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS19853.6/5 interactive fiction, life simulation

Gnome Ranger

DOS19873.7/5 interactive fiction

Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.