Abandonware DOS title

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
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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...
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Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1994protected4/5 point and click adventure
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The Fourth Protocol

DOS19874/5 interactive fiction
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The Golden Fleece

DOS19894/5 interactive fiction
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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...
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The Summoning

DOS1992protected4/5 dungeon crawl
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The Witness

DOS19834/5 interactive fiction
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Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?

DOSMac OS19884/5 trivia / quiz
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Cruise for a Corpse

DOS19914/5 point and click adventure
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Quest for glory 1: So you want to be a hero

DOS1989protected4/5 point and click adventure
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Mean Streets

DOS1989protected4/5 point and click adventure
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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.
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Countdown

DOS19904/5 point and click adventure
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Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5 interactive fiction
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Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

DOS19874/5 interactive fiction
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Les Manley in: Search for the King

DOS1990protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Noctropolis

DOS1994protected4/5 point and click adventure
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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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Follow the Reader

DOS19924/5 puzzle adventure
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Sex Olympics

DOS1990NSFW4/5 point and click adventure
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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.
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Neuromancer

DOS19894/5 point and click adventure
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The Pawn

DOS19864/5 interactive fiction
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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...
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The mist

DOS19854/5 interactive fiction
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Udoiana Raunes

DOS19984/5 point and click adventure
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The Hobbit

DOS19834/5 interactive fiction
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Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor

DOS19874/5 interactive fiction