Abandonware DOS title

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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The Gene Machine

DOS1996 point and click adventure
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Suspended

DOS1983 interactive fiction
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Gold Rush!

DOS1988protected graphic adventure with text parser
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Borrowed Time

DOS1985 interactive fiction
Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...
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Deadline

DOS1982 interactive fiction
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Myth

DOS1989 interactive fiction
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Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS1989 interactive fiction
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Escape from delirium

DOS1995 point and click adventure
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Manhunter 2: San Francisco

DOSMac OS1989 point and click adventure
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Bureau 13

DOS1995 board game, point and click adventure
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The mist

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS1991 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...
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Universe

DOS1994 point and click adventure
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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...
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Manhunter: New York

DOS1988 point and click adventure
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Ween: The Prophecy

DOS1993 point and click adventure
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Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/951998 point and click adventure
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Plague of the Moon

DOS1994 point and click adventure
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The Wizard of Oz

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Profezia

DOS1991NSFW 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...
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Black Sect

DOS1993 point and click adventure
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Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

DOS1994 point and click adventure
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Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?

DOSMac OS1988 trivia / quiz
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Shadow of the Comet

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected graphic adventure with text parser
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Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1999protected puzzle adventure
Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy is a fantasy/steampunk adventure video game developed by Virtual Studio and released by Microids in 1999 for Windows, Mac and Playstation platforms. Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy is an adventure video game developed by Microïds and released in 1999. The game was created by Benoît Sokal, a Belgi...
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Morphman

Windows XP/98/951993
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Trinity

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Companions of Xanth

DOS1993protected point and click adventure
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Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original

DOS1993 point and click adventure