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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Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?

DOSMac OS19884/5 trivia / quiz

Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation

DOS1993protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

The mist

DOS19854/5 interactive fiction

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.

Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

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

Simon the Sorcerer

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1993protected4/5 point and click adventure

Simon the Sorcerer is adventure game designed by Simon Woodroffe, developed and published by Adventure Soft and released in 1993. Often overlooked, Simon The Sorcerer is one of the finest point & click adventure games ever designed for DOS. In an era dominated by LucasFilm Games (later renamed LucasArts) and Sierra, Adventure Soft (the guys beh...

Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected3.5/5 point and click adventure, interactive movie

Zork III: The Dungeon Master

DOS19844/5 interactive fiction

Kingdom Without End

DOS2001freeware3/5 interactive fiction

9 Princes in Amber

DOS19854.1/5 interactive fiction

Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom

DOS1992protected3.9/5 graphic adventure with text parser

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction

Space Ace

DOS19894.1/5 interactive movie

Ween: The Prophecy

DOS19934.1/5 point and click adventure

Berlin 1948

DOS19893.7/5

Les Manley in: Search for the King

DOS1990protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Star Trek: First Contact

DOS19883.6/5 interactive fiction

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.2/5 interactive fiction

Wayne's World

DOS19933.9/5 point and click adventure

Wayne's World is an abandoned point and click adventure game based on the movie of the same name. In Wayne's World you control both the characters of Wayne and Garth (created by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey) in a quest to save their TV show. Wayne's World was developed and released by Capstone in 1993.

Zork: Grand Inquisitor

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected3.8/5 point and click adventure

Full Throttle

DOS1995protecteddemo4.2/5 point and click adventure

Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom

DOS19933.8/5 point and click adventure

Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS19914.2/5 trivia / quiz

Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe

DOS19934.1/5 trivia / quiz, puzzle adventure

WaxWorks

DOSMac OS1992protecteddemo4.2/5 dungeon crawl

Waxworks was a horror-themed first-person role-playing game developed by Horror Soft, a subsidiary of Adventure Soft, published in 1992. The game is set in a wax museum where players must travel through different historical periods, each represented by a wax exhibit. Each exhibit serves as a portal to a different time and place, featuring vari...