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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Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation

DOS1993protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction

Fairy Nights

Windows XP/98/952000NSFW4.1/5 visual novel

The adventures of Willy Beamish

DOS19914.1/5 point and click adventure

Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer

DOS19954.1/5 point and click adventure

Syberia

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

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...

Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

DOS1991protected4/5 interactive fiction

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo

DOS19964/5 point and click adventure

Shadowgate

DOSWindows 3.xMac OS19884/5 point and click adventure

Shadowgate is an abandoned fantasy-themed adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released by Mindscape in 1988 for Macintosh, DOS, and also for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, NES. Shadowgate uses the ICOM MacVenture engine (Deja Vu, Uninvited). Shadowgate was later remade in an enhanced version for Windows 3.1.

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

DOS19934/5 point and click adventure

Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS19854/5 interactive fiction

Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

DOS19944/5 point and click adventure

Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in The Spinal Frontier

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protecteddemo4/5 point and click adventure

Amnesia

DOS19864/5 interactive fiction

Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS19894/5 interactive fiction

Corruption

DOS19884/5 interactive fiction

Sanitarium

Windows XP/98/951998protected4/5 point and click adventure

Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW4/5 interactive fiction

EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest

DOS19934/5 point and click adventure

Zork III: The Dungeon Master

DOS19844/5 interactive fiction

Rome: Pathway to Power

DOS19934/5

Rome: Pathway to Power (also known as Rome AD 92) is an abandoned isometric adventure game with strategy elements set in ancient Rome. Rome was developed by Millennium Interactive and released in 1993 for DOS and Amiga platforms.