Abandonware DOS title

The best 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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The Third Courier

DOS19893.9/5
The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 1989 for DOS, but it was also published for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST platforms.
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Death Gate

DOS1994protected3.9/5 point and click adventure
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Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 interactive fiction
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Kingdom: The Far Reaches

Windows XP/98/95Mac1995protected3.9/5 point and click adventure
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Shadow of the Comet

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected3.9/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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The Quest for the Time-bird

DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure
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Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 interactive fiction
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Superhero League of Hoboken

DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person party-based RPG
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Teen Agent

DOS1995freeware3.9/5 point and click adventure
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The Final Battle

DOS19913.9/5 point and click adventure
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Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction
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B.A.T.

DOS19903.9/5 point and click adventure
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Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 interactive fiction
Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.
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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected3.9/5 point and click adventure, interactive movie
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Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS19863.9/5 interactive fiction
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The Kristal

DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure
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The Wizard of Oz

DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction
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Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS19863.9/5 trivia / quiz
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Last Half of Darkness

DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure
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Hugo's House of Horrors

DOS19903.9/5 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 approach to the horror genre.The story of the game revolves around the main character, Hugo, who receives a letter from his...
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Teresa: House Guest

DOS1993NSFW3.9/5 visual novel
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The 7th Guest

Windows XP/98/951993protected3.9/5 puzzle adventure
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Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess

DOS1989protected3.8/5
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Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 interactive fiction
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Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction
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Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 interactive fiction
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Deadline

DOS19823.8/5 interactive fiction
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Fascination

DOS1991NSFW3.8/5 point and click adventure
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Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom

DOS1992protected3.8/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Curse of Enchantia

DOS19923.8/5 point and click adventure
Curse of Enchantia is a point-and-click graphic adventure game that was released in 1992. It was developed by Core Design and initially published by Core Design in Europe and by Cyberdreams in North America.In Curse of Enchantia, players control a teenage boy named Brad who is mysteriously transported to the fantasy world of Enchantia. The game fol...