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...