Abandonware adventure games sorted by release date
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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The Usurper
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1989 trivia / quiz
Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? is an educational computer game and television game show franchise created by Broderbund. It focuses on teaching geography and history while players try to track down the infamous thief, Carmen Sa...
Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom
DOS1989 visual novel, interactive fiction
More illustrations, more intrigue, more doom. The Crystal of Doom continues the hybrid of comic-style storytelling and light role-playing with just enough choices to make you feel clever (or guilty). This time, you’re chasin...
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS1989 interactive fiction
With Zork Zero, Infocom decided to throw everything into the cauldron: graphics, mouse support, and a jester who won’t shut up. A prequel to the original trilogy, it’s stuffed with puzzles, jokes, and deeply Zorkian no...
Altered Destiny
DOS1990protected point and click adventure, graphic adventure with text parser
In Altered Destiny, a perfectly average guy named P.J. Barrett gets sucked into a bizarre alien dimension because he answered a phone call. Seriously. What follows is a classic point-and-click adventure filled with weird puzzles, ...
Angel 3
DOS1990NSFW visual novel
Angel 3 is that kind of DOS game where you sit down thinking "I'll give it five minutes" and three hours later you're still trying to figure out what just happened. Released in 1990, it's part shooter, part surrealist fever dream,...
B.A.T.
DOS1990 point and click adventure
B.A.T. is a cyberpunk-themed adventure game released in 1989 by UBI Soft for various platforms, including Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and later the Commodore 64. It blends adventure, role-playing, and simulation elements in a futuris...
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
DOS1990 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 o...
Countdown
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Crime Time
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Deja Vu 2: Lost in Las Vegas
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp
DOS1990protected interactive movie
Earthrise
DOS1990 graphic adventure with text parser
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
DOS1990
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a horror-themed point-and-click adventure and RPG video game released in 1990 by Accolade for platforms including Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It’s loosely based on the campy, gothic horror pe...
Future Wars: Adventures in Time
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Geisha
DOS1990NSFW point and click adventure
Gumboots Australia
DOS1990
Hugo's House of Horrors
DOS1990 graphic adventure with text parser
Hugo's House of Horrors is an adventure game developed by David P. Gray and released in the early 1990s. The game is a text-based adventure with simple graphics, and it gained popularity for its witty and often tongue-in-cheek app...
King's Quest 5: Absence makes the heart go yonder
DOSWindows 3.x1990protected point and click adventure
Les Manley in: Search for the King
DOS1990protected graphic adventure with text parser
Loom
DOSLinuxMac OS1990protecteddemo point and click adventure
Loom is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). It was designed by Brian Moriarty and is known for its unique gameplay mechanics and emphasis on storytelling. Loom is distinctive f...
Murders in Space
DOS1990protected
Murders in Venice
DOS1990
Operation Stealth
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire
DOS1990protecteddemo point and click adventure
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is the second installment in Sierra On-Line's Quest for Glory series, blending classic adventure gameplay with RPG elements in a world inspired by Middle Eastern folklore. Released in 1990 for Ami...
Rise of the Dragon
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Rise of the Dragon is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Dynamix in 1990. It was originally released for MS-DOS and later ported to other platforms such as the Amiga and Sega CD. The game is set in a cyber...
Sex Olympics
DOS1990NSFW point and click adventure
Snoopy and Peanuts
DOS1990
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls
DOS1990protected interactive fiction
The Secret of Monkey Island
DOS1990protecteddemo point and click adventure
The Secret of Monkey Island is perhaps the most popular point and click adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games and designed by the trio Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer. In Monkey Island you're the would-be pirate G...