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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Shadowgate
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1988 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.
Amnesia
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1994protected point and click adventure
Snoopy and Peanuts
DOS1990
The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2
DOS1992NSFW point and click adventure
Deja Vu 2: Lost in Las Vegas
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Countdown
DOS1990 point and click adventure
EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Rome: Pathway to Power
DOS1993
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.
Beneath a Steel Sky
DOS1994freeware point and click adventure
Beneath a Steel Sky is a classic point-and-click adventure game released in 1994, developed by Revolution Software. Set in a dystopian, cyberpunk future, the game is renowned for its rich atmosphere and distinctive artwork. The game follows Robert Foster, who, after being abducted from his tribal home in the Outback, finds himself in Union Cit...
Pepper's Adventures in Time
DOS1993 point and click adventure
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo
DOS1996 point and click adventure
Neuromancer
DOS1989 point and click adventure
The Neuromancer video game, released in 1988 by Interplay Productions, is an adventure/role-playing game loosely based on William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984). It combines elements of science fiction, hacking, and RPG-style exploration in a digital world, set in a dystopian future dominated by artificial intelligence, corpora...
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
DOS1990 graphic adventure with text parser
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail is an old DOS point and click adventure game designed by Christy Marx, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1990. As the title implies, Conquests of Camelot setting is based on the Arthurian legends.
Sanitarium
Windows XP/98/951998protected point and click adventure
Corruption
DOS1988 interactive fiction
Cruise for a Corpse
DOS1991 point and click adventure
Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus
DOS1991 dungeon crawl, point and click adventure
Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is an abandoned horror adventure/RPG hybrid game with elements of dark fantasy, developed by Horror Soft and published by Accolade for DOS in 1991. Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is also part of the Elvira series of games, each of one based on the popular movie/TV personality Elvira.
Forbidden Castle
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Gumboots Australia
DOS1990
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Inspector Gadget: Global terror!
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Jinxter
DOS1988 interactive fiction
L.A. Crackdown
DOS1988
Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen
DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction
Legend of the Sword
DOS1988 interactive fiction