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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Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/9519983.8/5 point and click adventure

Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction

The Pawn

DOS19864/5 interactive fiction

Wayne's World

DOS19933.9/5 point and click adventure

Wayne's World is an abandoned point and click adventure game based on the movie of the same name. In Wayne's World you control both the characters of Wayne and Garth (created by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey) in a quest to save their TV show. Wayne's World was developed and released by Capstone in 1993.

Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 interactive fiction

Jewels of Darkness

DOS19864.2/5 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction

Dragon World

DOS19844.2/5 interactive fiction

Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction

Mortville Manor

DOS19883.8/5 point and click adventure

Morphman

Windows XP/98/9519932.5/5

Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS19854/5 interactive fiction

Seastalker

DOS19844/5 interactive fiction

Sorcerer

DOS19844.1/5 interactive fiction

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction

Zork Nemesis

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected4.1/5 puzzle adventure

Mission: Impossible

DOS19913.6/5

The Witness

DOS19834/5 interactive fiction

Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS19914.2/5 trivia / quiz

Gnome Ranger

DOS19873.7/5 interactive fiction

Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.