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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Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night
DOS19903.3/5 interactive fiction
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW4.1/5 interactive fiction
Castle of Dr. Brain
DOS19913.9/5 puzzle adventure
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
DOS1991protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Cruise for a Corpse
DOS19914/5 point and click adventure
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
DOS19914.1/5 point and click adventure
Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus
DOS19914/5 dungeon crawl, point and click adventure
Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is an abandoned horror adventure/RPG hybrid game with elements of dark fantasy, developed by Horror Soft and published by Accolade for DOS in 1991. Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is also part of the Elvira series of games, each of one based on the popular movie/TV personality Elvira.
Fascination
DOS1991NSFW3.9/5 point and click adventure
Free D.C.!
DOS19913.6/5 point and click adventure
Gobliiins
DOSMac OS1991protected4.2/5 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...
Heart of China
DOS19914.2/5 point and click adventure
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.
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti does a Llittle Undercover Work
DOS1991NSFW4/5 point and click adventure
Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.
DOS1991protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS19914.1/5 interactive fiction
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
Martian Memorandum
DOS1991protecteddemo4/5 point and click adventure
Martian Memorandum is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Access Software. It was released in 1991 and is the sequel to the game Mean Streets. The game is set in a dystopian future on Mars, where players take on the role of Tex Murphy, a private investigator with a sarcastic and humorous demeanor.The story begins with Tex Mu...
Maupiti Island
DOS19914.2/5 point and click adventure
Mission: Impossible
DOS19913.5/5
Mixed-up Fairy Tales
DOS19914.2/5 point and click adventure
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
DOS1991protecteddemo4.3/5 point and click adventure
Monkey Island 2 is the second game of the Monkey Island series, a point and click adventure game set in a world of pirates and mysterious treasures. Monkey Island 2 utilizes a command-based SCUMM interface and a branching dialogue system.
Murder Club
DOSWindows XP/98/9519914.1/5 visual novel
Police Quest 3: The Kindred
DOS1991protected4/5 point and click adventure
Profezia
DOS1991NSFW4.3/5 visual novel
Profezia is an adventure video game developed by the Italian company Trecision and released in 1991. It was available on both the Amiga and MS-DOS platforms. The game is notable for its multiple-choice interface, where the storyline unfolds automatically, and the player is presented with sets of choices that affect the progression of the game. Unli...
Scrooge
DOS19913/5 interactive fiction
Scrooge is an abandoned interactive fiction graphic adventure game developed and released by Leisuresoft in 1991 for DO. Scrooge is based on the popular Christmas tale of the same name.
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Windows XP/98/951991protected4.1/5 interactive movie
Space Ace 2: Borf's Revenge
DOS19913.7/5 interactive movie
Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
DOSWindows 3.x1991protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance
DOS1991protectedNSFW4/5 interactive fiction
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance is an adventure game released in 1991, developed by Steve Meretzky and published by Legend Entertainment. It’s the second installment in the "Spellcasting" series. In Spellcasting 201, you reprise the role of Ernie Eaglebeak, an apprentice wizard who is attending the Sorcerer University. The sto...
The adventures of Willy Beamish
DOS19914.1/5 point and click adventure
The Final Battle
DOS19913.8/5 point and click adventure