The most popular 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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A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac OS1985 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.
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Les Manley in: Search for the King
DOS1990protected graphic adventure with text parser
Countdown
DOS1990 point and click adventure
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.
Innocent Until Caught
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Legend of Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge
DOSMac OS1994protecteddemo point and click adventure
The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge is the third and final installment in the Legend of Kyrandia series. This point-and-click adventure game was developed and published by Westwood Studios, released in 1994. Unlike the first two games, where players assumed the role of a protagonist fighting against the villain Malcolm, Malcolm's Revenge take...
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
DOS1984 interactive fiction
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Mission: Impossible
DOS1991
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe
DOS1992 puzzle adventure
Bureau 13
DOS1995 board game, point and click adventure
The Hound of Shadow
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
DOS1991protected point and click adventure
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1985 puzzle adventure
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls
DOS1990protected interactive fiction
Pepper's Adventures in Time
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Donald Duck's Playground
DOS1986
Mixed-up Mother Goose
DOS1987 graphic adventure with text parser
Space Ace 2: Borf's Revenge
DOS1991 interactive movie
Castle of Dr. Brain
DOS1991 puzzle adventure
LA Law: The Computer Game
DOS1992 interactive movie
LA Law: The Computer Game is an abandoned adventure game based on the popular TV series from the 80s and 90s. L.A. Law. LA Law was developed by Synergistic Software and released by Capstone in 1992. LA Law plays like a multiple choice adventure game where you have to build up cases and bring them to court.
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW interactive fiction
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected interactive fiction
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
DOSWindows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1993protecteddemo point and click adventure
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a humorous point-and-click adventure game from 1993 developed by Sierra On-Line and co-designed by Al Lowe (creator of Leisure Suit Larry) and Josh Mandel. Set in the Old West, Freddy Pharkas is a blend of comedy and Western tropes. The game follows Freddy Pharkas, a former gunslinger who left his gun-sli...
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS1987 interactive fiction
King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human
DOSMac OS1986protected graphic adventure with text parser
King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human is a fantasy adventure game designed by Roberta Williams, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1986 for DOS and for other platforms such as Apple 2, Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh. King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human is also part of the King's quest series.
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS1987 interactive fiction
The mist
DOS1985 interactive fiction