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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Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected interactive fiction
Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1991 trivia / quiz
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1986 trivia / quiz
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware interactive fiction
Syberia
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected point and click adventure
Death Gate
DOS1994protected point and click adventure
The Wizard of Oz
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Universe
DOS1994 point and click adventure
Last Half of Darkness
DOS1989 point and click adventure
Hugo 2: Whodunit?
DOS1991protecteddemo 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.
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS1984 interactive fiction
Snoopy and Peanuts
DOS1990
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?
DOSMac OS1988 trivia / quiz
Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation
DOS1993protected point and click adventure
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo puzzle adventure
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Presto Studios, released in 1995 as a sequel to The Journeyman Project. The Journeyman Project series is set in a future where time travel has been discovered and is regulated by a temporal security agency called the Temporal Security Annex (TSA). Players...
Zork: Grand Inquisitor
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
Gnome Ranger
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.
Morphman
Windows XP/98/951993
Ballyhoo
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Follow the Reader
DOS1992 puzzle adventure
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1994protected point and click adventure
Daughter of Serpents
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Jinxter
DOS1988 interactive fiction
Mean Streets
DOS1989protected point and click adventure
Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon
DOS1992 interactive movie
Berlin 1948
DOS1989
Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.
DOS1991protected point and click adventure
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS1986 interactive fiction
The Twilight Zone
DOS1988 graphic adventure with text parser
The Twilight Zone is an abandoned sci-fi themed adventure game based on the popular TV series of the same name. The Twilight zone released in 1988 by First Row Software Publishing for DOS and Amiga. At it's core, The Twilight Zone is a text adventure, so you have to type in commands, but it's supported by the graphics.
WaxWorks
DOSMac OS1992protecteddemo 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...