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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Star Trek: First Contact

DOS19883.6/5 interactive fiction
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Berlin 1948

DOS19893.7/5
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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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Dragon's Lair 3: The Curse of Mordread

DOS1992protected3.9/5 interactive movie
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Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction
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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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LA Law: The Computer Game

DOS19924/5 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.
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Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS19894/5 interactive fiction
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Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe

DOS19924.2/5 puzzle adventure
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Snoopy and Peanuts

DOS19904/5
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Space Quest 2: Vohaul's Revenge

DOS1987protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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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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Simon the Sorcerer

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1993protected4/5 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...
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Bargon Attack

DOS19923.7/5 point and click adventure
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Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom

DOS1992protected3.8/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Manhunter: New York

DOS19883.8/5 point and click adventure
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Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 interactive fiction
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Return to Ringworld

DOS19943.8/5 point and click adventure
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Legend of the Sword

DOS19884/5 interactive fiction
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Return of the Phantom

DOS1993protecteddemo3.7/5 point and click adventure
Return of the Phantom is adventure game set in France, designed by Raymond Benson, developed by MicroProse Software and released in 1993 for DOS only. Return of the Phantom is a third-person adventure game based on the book Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.2/5 interactive fiction
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Escape from delirium

DOS19953.9/5 point and click adventure
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Sanitarium

Windows XP/98/951998protected4/5 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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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

DOS19974/5 point and click adventure
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Les Manley in: Search for the King

DOS1990protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected4.1/5 interactive fiction
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Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction
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Manhunter 2: San Francisco

DOSMac19894/5 point and click adventure
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The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 interactive fiction