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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Simon the Sorcerer

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1993protected 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...

Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor

DOS1987 interactive fiction

Plan 9 From Outer Space

DOS1992 point and click adventure

Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe

DOS1993 trivia / quiz, puzzle adventure

Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass

DOS1992 point and click adventure

Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp

DOS1990protected interactive movie

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

DOS1988protected point and click adventure

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). It was first released in 1988 for various platforms, including the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Amiga, and others.The game follows the adventures of Zak McKracken, a tabloid newspaper reporter, as he uncovers a plot by a...

Sam and Max Hit the Road

DOSWindows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1993protecteddemo point and click adventure

Sam & Max Hit the Road is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1993 and is based on the characters Sam and Max created by comic artist Steve Purcell. The game follows the titular characters, Sam, a detective canine, and Max, a hyperkinetic rabbity thing, as they embark on a bizarre and humoro...

The Crack of Doom

DOS1989 interactive fiction

Companions of Xanth

DOS1993protected point and click adventure

Murders in Space

DOS1990protected

Adventure in Serenia

DOS1982 interactive fiction

Once Upon a Forest

DOS1995 point and click adventure

3 Skulls of the Toltecs

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected point and click adventure

The Fellowship of the Ring

DOS1986 interactive fiction

The Shadows of Mordor

DOS1988 interactive fiction

Free D.C.!

DOS1991 point and click adventure

Gobliiins

DOSMac OS1991protected point and click adventure

Gobliiins is a peculiar adventure game designed by Pierre Gilhodes, developed by French company Coktel Vision and released by Sierra On-Line in 1991 for DOS, Mac, Amiga and Atari ST. In Gobliiins, you control multiple goblins and you must find a way to progress to the next area by solving typical adventure puzzles. The story is almost non-exis...

Inspector Gadget: Global terror!

DOS1992 point and click adventure

Ween: The Prophecy

DOS1993 point and click adventure

Maniac Mansion Deluxe

Windows 10/112004freewareremake point and click adventure

Maniac Mansion Deluxe is the unofficial sequel to the acclaimed point & click adventure game released by LucasFilm in 1987. Maniac Mansion Deluxe it's a fan-made adventure developed by LucasFans Games and released in 2004 and it's a complete remake of Maniac Mansion in every aspect, developed using the Adventure Game Studio engine.

Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer

DOS1995 point and click adventure

Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man

DOS1986 interactive fiction

Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ZX Spectrum, MSX. Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is part of the Questprobe game series, the ...