Abandonware rpg games
In a Role-Playing Game (RPG), players control one or more characters in a fictional world, be it fantasy-oriented, contemporary, sci-fi, etc. RPGs follow up on traditional tabletop role-playing games features, including narrative threads full of obstacles and enigmas, character development, combat systems, or complex inventories.
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DOS1986
The Adventures of Robin Hood
DOS1992 action RPG
The Aethra Chronicles
DOS1994 top-down party-based RPG
The Aethra Chronicles is not a well know fantasy RPG, but it deserves some praise. It was developed by only one person (Micheal Lawrence) and, as the title implies, was intended to be the first volume of a saga. Unfortunately, vol...
The Bard's Tale
DOS1987 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown was developed by Interplay Productions and published by Electronic Arts for DOS and other systems. The game takes place in the fictional city of Skara Brae, which is overrun by monsters a...
The Bard's Tale 2: The Destiny Knight
DOS1988 first-person party-based RPG
The Bard's Tale 3: Thief of Fate
DOS1990 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
The Bard’s Tale III: Thief of Fate is the third and final installment in the original The Bard’s Tale trilogy, developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts in 1988. It is a classic turn-based dungeon crawler...
The Dark Heart of Uukrul
DOS1989 top-down party-based RPG
The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall
DOS1996freeware action RPG, sandbox RPG
The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall is an old school first-person 3D RPG developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996 for DOS. Daggerfall is the second chapter in popular The Elder Scrolls series. The open world gameplay, the ...
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Windows XP/98/952002protected action RPG, sandbox RPG
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a critically acclaimed open-world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios. It was released in 2002 and is the third installment in the Elder Scrolls series. The game is...
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
DOS1994freeware sandbox RPG, action RPG
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is the first installment in the highly acclaimed Elder Scrolls series of fantasy ARPG (action role-playing games), developed and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was initially released in 1994. Are...
The Faery Tale Adventure: Book I
DOS1987 action RPG
The Four Crystals of Trazere
DOS1992
The Legacy: Realm of Terror
DOSLinuxMac OS1993protected
The Legacy: Realm of Terror is a first-person view survival horror RPG set in the modern world, in a haunted house. The Legacy was developed by Magnetic Scrolls and published by MicroProse Software in 1993.
The Magic Candle
DOS1989 sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
The Magic Candle: Volume 1 is the first chapter of a series of fantasy old school RPGs. The Magic Candle was developed and released by Mindcraft Software in 1989 for DOS but was also published for Apple II and Commodore 64. The wh...
The Magic Candle 2: The Four and Forty
DOS1991 sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
The Magic Candle 3
DOS1992 top-down party-based RPG, sandbox RPG
The Temple of Elemental Evil
Windows XP/98/952003protected top-down party-based RPG
The Temple of Elemental Evil is a computer role-playing game (CRPG) released in 2003 by Troika Games and published by Atari. The game is set in the World of Greyhawk, one of D&D's most famous campaign settings. The story ...
The Wizard's Castle
DOS1981freeware
The Wizard's Castle is a classic text-based, dungeon-crawling adventure game released in 1980, designed by Joseph R. Power. The game was originally developed for the Exidy Sorcerer computer and later ported to various platforms, s...
Times of Lore
DOS1989 action RPG
Times of Lore is an abandoned action RPG designed by Chris Roberts, developed and released by Origin Systems in 1989 for DOS and many more 8 bit and 16 bit platforms. Compared to Ultima (the much more popular franchise also by Ori...
TomeNET
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS2001freeware roguelike, dungeon crawl
TomeNET (Troubles of Middle Earth, Net) is an online, multiplayer rogue-like game set in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. It’s a persistent-world game inspired by Angband, a single-player dungeon-crawler based on ...
Treasures of the Savage Frontier
DOS1992protected
Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan
DOS1990 top-down party-based RPG
Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan is a computer RPG released in 1990 for MS-DOS and PC-98 platforms. It is based on the tabletop role-playing game Tunnels & Trolls created by Ken St. Andre, which was a lighter and more...
Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness
DOS1981 top-down party-based RPG
Before Ultima 1 came along, role-playing games on PC were about as sophisticated as a pocket calculator. Then Richard Garriott threw players into a digital world full of space travel, dungeons, and dragons—yes, all at once. ...
Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress
DOS1983 top-down party-based RPG
Ultima 2 asks the pressing question: what if you mixed time travel with fantasy and a truly mean sorceress named Minax? The answer is chaos. You’ll bounce between eras—from prehistoric landscapes to futuristic space co...
Ultima 3: Exodus
DOSMac OS1985 top-down party-based RPG
By Ultima 3, the series had discovered the magic of party-based adventuring. No longer a lonely trek, now you command a ragtag group of heroes who bicker only in your imagination. Exodus, the mysterious villain, is less a person a...
Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar
DOS1985freeware sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar is one of the most influential and innovative role-playing games (RPGs) in video game history. Released in 1985 by Richard Garriott under the Origin Systems banner, it is the fourth installment of th...
Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny
DOS1988 sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
Ultima 5 takes a darker turn. Lord British is missing, and his regent, Lord Blackthorn, has turned Britannia into a police state where virtues are enforced at sword-point. You know things are bad when honesty is compulsory and pun...
Ultima 6: The False Prophet
DOS1990protected sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
In Ultima 6, you finally meet the Gargoyles, who aren’t the snarling monsters everyone assumed—they’re just misunderstood neighbors with a different perspective. Cue moral dilemmas and cross-cultural negotiations...
Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate
DOS1992 sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
Ultima 7 is often hailed as the crown jewel of the series, and with good reason. It throws you into an open world that feels startlingly alive, even decades later. Townsfolk go about their daily routines, you can bake bread if you...
Ultima 7 Part 2: Serpent Isle
DOS1993 sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
As sequels go, Serpent Isle is less “more of the same” and more “everything is different, good luck.” Shipwrecked on a strange new land, you’ll deal with political intrigue, bizarre magical phenomena,...