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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DOSMac OS19873.9/5 interactive fiction
Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
DOS19874.3/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel is an adventure game released in 1987 by Sierra On-Line, designed by former police officer Jim Walls. It's the first installment in the Police Quest series and is known for its realistic portrayal of police procedures.In the game, you play as Sonny Bonds, a police officer in the fictional city of Lytton, ...
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
DOS1988protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance is a graphical point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1988 as the second installment in the Police Quest series, which was created by former police officer Jim Walls.In Police Quest 2, Sonny Bonds is now a sergeant with the Lytton Police Department, and the gam...
Police Quest 3: The Kindred
DOS1991protected4/5 point and click adventure
Police Quest: Open Season
DOSWindows 3.x1993protected4.2/5 point and click adventure
Prisoner of Ice
DOS1995protected4.1/5 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...
Psycho
DOS19883.4/5
Quest for glory 1: So you want to be a hero
DOS1989protected4/5 point and click adventure
Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire
DOS1990protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire is a the second chapter in the Sierra beloved Quest for Glory series. Trial by Fire is an adventure game with RPG elements (at the very start the player must choose a class from the three available: fighter, wizard, thief) set in a fantasy setting inspired by Middle East lore. It was developed ad released by Sierra ...
Quest for Glory 3: Wages of War
DOS1992protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War is an adventure/role-playing game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1992. The player takes on the role of the Hero, who has journeyed from the city of Shapeir to the savannahs and jungles of Fricana. The main plot revolves around the brewing conflict between two tribes, the Simbani and the Leopardme...
Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness
DOSWindows 3.x1993protecteddemo4.1/5 point and click adventure
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness is an adventure role-playing game (RPG) developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1993 as the fourth installment in the Quest for Glory series. The game was designed by Lori Ann Cole and Corey Cole, who were also responsible for the previous entries in the series.The game is set in the dar...
Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing
DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man
DOS19864.1/5 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 ...
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS19843.9/5 interactive fiction
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS19854.1/5 interactive fiction
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
DOS19964/5 interactive fiction
Rendezvous with Rama
DOS19853.7/5 interactive fiction
Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction (text adventure) game released in 1984. Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, was known for producing narrative-driven games based on popular literary works. This adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's novel is one of the earlier attempts to translate a science fiction classic into an interactive for...
Return of the Phantom
DOS1993protecteddemo3.7/5 point and click adventure
Return of the Phantom is adventure game set in France, designed by Raymond Benson, developed by MicroProse Software and released in 1993 for DOS only. Return of the Phantom is a third-person adventure game based on the book Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
Return to Doom
DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction
Return to Ringworld
DOS19943.8/5 point and click adventure
Return to Zork
DOS19934.1/5 point and click adventure
Rex Nebular and the cosmic gender-bender
DOS1992protected3.9/5 point and click adventure
Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch
DOS19924/5 point and click adventure
Rise of the Dragon
DOS19904/5 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 cyberpunk-inspired future Los Angeles, where the player assumes the role of William "Blade" Hunter, a private detective taske...
Riven: The Sequel to Myst
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo4.1/5 puzzle adventure
Riven is the sequel to the highly successful and critically acclaimed adventure game, Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds, Riven was released in 1997 and continues the narrative established in Myst. Just like its predecessor, Riven is a first-person point-and-click adventure game with a focus on exploration and puzzle-solving.The plot revolves around At...
Romantic encounters at the dome
DOS19883.9/5 interactive fiction
Rome: Pathway to Power
DOS19934/5
Rome: Pathway to Power (also known as Rome AD 92) is an abandoned isometric adventure game with strategy elements set in ancient Rome. Rome was developed by Millennium Interactive and released in 1993 for DOS and Amiga platforms.
Runaway City
DOS1995NSFW4.2/5 visual novel
Sam and Max Hit the Road
DOSWindows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1993protecteddemo3.8/5 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...