Abandonware DOS title

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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Return to Zork

DOS19934.1/5 point and click adventure
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The Last Express

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
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Toonstruck

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1996protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
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Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 interactive fiction
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Fatal Relations

Windows XP/98/951998NSFW4.1/5 visual novel, point and click adventure
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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...
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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1996protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive is the sequel to Under a Killing Moon and the 4th game in the Tex Murphy series. The Pandora Directive is a first-person 3D adventure game set in a dark sci-fi version of the U.S.A., more specifically in a futuristic San Francisco. The Pandora Directive was developed by Access Software and released in 1996 for...
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EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

DOS19914.1/5 point and click adventure
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Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction
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Sanitarium

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
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The 11th Hour

Windows XP/98/951995protected4.1/5 puzzle adventure
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The adventures of Willy Beamish

DOS19914.1/5 point and click adventure
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Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer

DOS19954.1/5 point and click adventure
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Syberia

Windows XP/98/95Mac2002protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
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Dreamweb

DOS1994freeware4.1/5 point and click adventure
Dreamweb is a top-down point and click adventure set in a dark, cyberpunk city. You play as Ryan who has strange, violent, dreams. A top down perspective and the sheer number of items your character can pick up are just two of the peculiarities of this game. Dreamweb was developed by Creative Reality and published by Empire Interactive for DOS in 1...
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Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protected4/5 interactive fiction
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Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals

DOS1989NSFW4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals is a comedic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1989 as the third installment in the Leisure Suit Larry series, created by Al Lowe.In Larry 3, players once again control the lovable loser Larry Laffer, who is on a quest to find tru...
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3 Skulls of the Toltecs

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected4/5 point and click adventure
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An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

DOS19934/5 point and click adventure
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Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS19854/5 interactive fiction
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Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

DOS19944/5 point and click adventure
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Amnesia

DOS19864/5 interactive fiction
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Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS19894/5 interactive fiction
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Corruption

DOS19884/5 interactive fiction
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Daughter of Serpents

DOS19924/5 point and click adventure
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EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest

DOS19934/5 point and click adventure
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Space Quest 2: Vohaul's Revenge

DOS1987protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Pepper's Adventures in Time

DOS19934/5 point and click adventure