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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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS19864/5 interactive fiction
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected4/5 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...
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1994protected4/5 point and click adventure
The Fourth Protocol
DOS19874/5 interactive fiction
The Golden Fleece
DOS19894/5 interactive fiction
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo4/5 puzzle adventure
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Presto Studios, released in 1995 as a sequel to The Journeyman Project. The Journeyman Project series is set in a future where time travel has been discovered and is regulated by a temporal security agency called the Temporal Security Annex (TSA). Players...
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo
DOS19964/5 point and click adventure
The Summoning
DOS1992protected4/5 dungeon crawl
The Witness
DOS19834/5 interactive fiction
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?
DOSMac OS19884/5 trivia / quiz
Cruise for a Corpse
DOS19914/5 point and click adventure
Quest for glory 1: So you want to be a hero
DOS1989protected4/5 point and click adventure
Mean Streets
DOS1989protected4/5 point and click adventure
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Transinium Challenge
DOSMac OS19894/5
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Transinium Challenge is an abandoned adventure game set in the Star Trek TNG universe designed by Ron Martinez, developed by TRANS Fiction Systems and released by Simon & Schuster Interactive in 1989. Star Trek: TNG - The Transinium Challenge was developed for DOS and Mac.
Countdown
DOS19904/5 point and click adventure
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5 interactive fiction
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS19874/5 interactive fiction
Les Manley in: Search for the King
DOS1990protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Noctropolis
DOS1994protected4/5 point and click adventure
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.
Follow the Reader
DOS19924/5 puzzle adventure
Sex Olympics
DOS1990NSFW4/5 point and click adventure
Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus
DOS19914/5 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.
Neuromancer
DOS19894/5 point and click adventure
The Pawn
DOS19864/5 interactive fiction
Martian Memorandum
DOS1991protecteddemo4/5 point and click adventure
Martian Memorandum is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Access Software. It was released in 1991 and is the sequel to the game Mean Streets. The game is set in a dystopian future on Mars, where players take on the role of Tex Murphy, a private investigator with a sarcastic and humorous demeanor.The story begins with Tex Mu...
The mist
DOS19854/5 interactive fiction
Udoiana Raunes
DOS19984/5 point and click adventure
The Hobbit
DOS19834/5 interactive fiction
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS19874/5 interactive fiction