The best 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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Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness
DOSWindows 3.x1993protecteddemo point and click adventure
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness is an adventure role-playing game (RPG) developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1993 as the fourth installment in the Quest for Glory series. The game was designed by L...
Discworld
DOS1995 point and click adventure
Breakers
DOS1986 interactive fiction
In Breakers, you're a high-tech wrecking crew with a mission: break stuff. Computers, walls, enemy morale—whatever gets in your way. Released in 1986, it feels like a mutant crossbreed of action game and low-budget sci-fi mo...
Mixed-up Mother Goose
DOS1987 graphic adventure with text parser
Fatal Relations
Windows XP/98/951998NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti does a Llittle Undercover Work
DOS1991NSFW point and click adventure
Riven: The Sequel to Myst
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo puzzle adventure
Riven is the sequel to the highly successful and critically acclaimed adventure game, Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds, Riven was released in 1997 and continues the narrative established in Myst. Just like its predecessor, Riven is ...
Simon the Sorcerer
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1993protected point and click adventure
Simon the Sorcerer is adventure game designed by Simon Woodroffe, developed and published by Adventure Soft and released in 1993. Often overlooked, Simon The Sorcerer is one of the finest point & click adventure games ever des...
The Fourth Protocol
DOS1987 interactive fiction
The Fourth Protocol is a 1985 interactive fiction video game inspired by Frederick Forsyth's 1984 Cold War spy novel of the same name. Developed by the Electronic Pencil Company and published by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, the...
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
DOSWindows 3.x1993protectedNSFW point and click adventure
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro...
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
DOS1988protected graphic adventure with text parser
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance is a graphical point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1988 as the second installment in the Police Quest series, which was created by former ...
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
DOS1988 interactive fiction
The Lurking Horror
DOS1987 interactive fiction
King's Quest 2: Romancing the Throne
DOS1985protected graphic adventure with text parser
Rise of the Dragon
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Rise of the Dragon is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Dynamix in 1990. It was originally released for MS-DOS and later ported to other platforms such as the Amiga and Sega CD. The game is set in a cyber...
Crescent
DOS1993NSFW visual novel
Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original
DOS1993 point and click adventure
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
DOS1991 point and click adventure
Countdown
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Syberia
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected point and click adventure
The adventures of Willy Beamish
DOS1991 point and click adventure
Amnesia
DOS1986 interactive fiction
In Amnesia, you wake up in a hotel room with no idea who you are, where you are, or why someone wants you dead. And no, this isn’t a gritty FPS—it’s a text adventure. That’s right, no graphics, just your im...
EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
DOS1984 interactive fiction
The final part of the original trilogy, Zork III ditches treasure-hunting in favor of introspection, moral puzzles, and the looming presence of the Dungeon Master—basically the Gandalf of passive-aggressive mentorship. It&rs...
Prisoner of Ice
DOS1995protected point and click adventure
The Dame Was Loaded
DOS1996protected point and click adventure, interactive movie
Fairy Nights
Windows XP/98/952000NSFW visual novel
Sex Vixens from Space
DOS1989NSFW interactive fiction
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2
DOS1992NSFW point and click adventure