Abandonware DOS title

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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Future Wars: Adventures in Time

DOS19904.1/5 point and click adventure
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Flight of the Amazon Queen

DOS1995freeware3.9/5 point and click adventure
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The Black Cauldron

DOS1986freeware3.7/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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King's Quest III Redux: To Heir is Human

WindowsMac2011freewareremake3.8/5 point and click adventure
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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.
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BloodNet

DOS1993protected4/5 point and click adventure
BloodNet is a blend of point & click adventure (it has puzzles and an adventure style dialogue system) and RPG (player statistics, combat, random encounters), set in a dark cyberpunk New York. BloodNet was developed and published by MicroProse software in 1993. You are Ransom Stark who's goal in the game is to defeat a vampire called Van Helsin...
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Castle of Dr. Brain

DOS19914/5 puzzle adventure
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Planet of Lust

DOS1989NSFW4.2/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Space Quest 2: Vohaul's Revenge

DOS1987protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Borrowed Time

DOS19853.6/5 interactive fiction
Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...
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The Gene Machine

DOS19963.8/5 point and click adventure
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.2/5 interactive fiction
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James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction
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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1996protected4/5 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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Blackstar: Agent of Justice

DOS19953.4/5 point and click adventure
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1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac20033.4/5 interactive fiction
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Space Ace 2: Borf's Revenge

DOS19913.7/5 interactive movie
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Dragonsphere

DOS1994protecteddemo3.9/5 point and click adventure
Dragonsphere is a point-and-click adventure game released in 1994 by MicroProse. It's set in a fantasy world where you play as a sorcerer named Callash, tasked with saving the land of Granville from an evil sorceress named Sanwe. The game involves exploring various locations, solving puzzles, and interacting with characters to gather magical sphere...
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Amnesia

DOS19864/5 interactive fiction
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Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail

DOS19904/5 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.
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Space Ace

DOS19894.1/5 interactive movie
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Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS19854.2/5 puzzle adventure
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The Guild of Thieves

DOS19874.1/5 interactive fiction
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Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe

DOS19924.2/5 puzzle adventure
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Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer

DOS19954.1/5 point and click adventure
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Cruise for a Corpse

DOS19914/5 point and click adventure
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Grim Fandango

Windows XP/98/951998protecteddemo4.1/5
Grim Fandango is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1998 and is known for its unique setting and distinctive art style. The game was directed by Tim Schafer, who also co-wrote the script.The story is set in the Land of the Dead and follows the protagonist, Manny Calavera, a travel agent working for the Depart...
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Hugo 2: Whodunit?

DOS1991protecteddemo3.5/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Hugo 2: Whodunit? is an old school graphic adventure game designed by David P. Gray, developed by Gray Design Associates and released in 1991 for MS-DOS only. Hugo 2: Whodunit? is the second installment of the Hugo game series.
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Star Trek: First Contact

DOS19883.6/5 interactive fiction
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Berlin 1948

DOS19893.7/5