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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Lost in Time
DOS19933.9/5 point and click adventure
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.
Death Gate
DOS1994protected3.9/5 point and click adventure
City of Lost Children
DOS19973.9/5
Geisha
DOS1990NSFW3.9/5 point and click adventure
Kingdom: The Far Reaches
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected3.9/5 point and click adventure
Teresa: House Guest
DOS1993NSFW3.9/5 visual novel
B.A.T.
DOS19903.9/5 point and click adventure
The Quest for the Time-bird
DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure
Romantic encounters at the dome
DOS19883.9/5 interactive fiction
Superhero League of Hoboken
DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person party-based RPG
Teen Agent
DOS1995freeware3.9/5 point and click adventure
The Final Battle
DOS19913.9/5 point and click adventure
The Kristal
DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure
Deadline
DOS19823.9/5 interactive fiction
Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing
DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction
Curse of Enchantia
DOS19923.9/5 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...
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected3.9/5 interactive fiction
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 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.
Tass Times in Tonetown
DOS19863.9/5 interactive fiction
The Wizard of Oz
DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction
Universe
DOS19943.9/5 point and click adventure
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS19863.9/5 trivia / quiz
Last Half of Darkness
DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure
Fascination
DOS1991NSFW3.9/5 point and click adventure
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...
Maniac Mansion Deluxe
Windows2004freewareremake3.9/5 point and click adventure
Maniac Mansion Deluxe is the unofficial sequel to the acclaimed point & click adventure game released by LucasFilm in 1987. Maniac Mansion Deluxe it's a fan-made adventure developed by LucasFans Games and released in 2004 and it's a complete remake of Maniac Mansion in every aspect, developed using the Adventure Game Studio engine.
The 7th Guest
Windows XP/98/951993protected3.9/5 puzzle adventure
Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom
DOS19933.8/5 point and click adventure
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess
DOS1989protected3.8/5