Games based on a novel
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Frankenstein
DOS19944.1/5 Junkyard
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS19924.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway. Tt was designed by Michael Verdu and Glen R. Dahlgren and published by Legend Entertainment in 1992.
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment
Hook
DOS19924.2/5 Shadow Software
I have no Mouth and I Must Scream
DOS1995protected4.1/5 The Dreamers Guild
ICON: Quest for the Ring
DOS19843.6/5 Macrocom
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan
DOS19974.1/5 Papyrus Design Group
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I
DOS19904/5 Interplay Productions
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is an abandoned fantasy top-down DOS RPG game set in the The Lord of the Rings universe. The Lord of the Rings I was developed and released by Interplay Productions in 1990. The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is based on the popular The Lord Of The Rings book by J.R.R. Tolkien and it's focused on the f...
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers
DOS19923.9/5 Interplay Productions
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers is an abandoned fantasy top-down DOS RPG game set in the The Lord of the Rings universe. The Lord of the Rings II was developed and released by Interplay Productions in 1992. The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers is based on the popular The Lord Of The Rings book by J.R.R. Tol...
James Clavell's Shogun
DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...
Journey to the Center of the Earth
DOS19883.5/5 Chip
La Abadia del Crimen
DOS19874.2/5 Opera Soft
La Abadía del Crimen (The Abbey of Crime) is an action-adventure developed in Spain by Paco Menéndez in the mid-1980s. It was initially created for the Amstrad CPC and later ported to other popular home computer systems of the time, such as the ZX Spectrum and MSX. The game was released in 1987.
Lone Wolf: The Mirror of Death
DOS19913.8/5 Mr. Micro
Megafortress
DOS1991protected4.1/5 Artech Studios
Mixed-up Mother Goose
DOS19874.1/5 Sierra On-Line
Neuromancer
DOS19893.9/5 Interplay Productions
Pacific Islands
DOS19924.3/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises
Prisoner of Ice
DOS1995protected4.1/5 Chaosium Inc.
Red Storm Rising
DOS19894/5 MicroProse Software
Rendezvous with Rama
DOS19853.7/5 Telarium
Return of the Phantom
DOS1993protecteddemo3.7/5 MicroProse Software
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 Ringworld
DOS19943.8/5 Tsunami Media
Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch
DOS19923.8/5 Tsunami Media
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2
DOS19904/5 KOEI
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by Koei. It was released in 1989 for various platforms, including the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), MS-DOS.In Romance of the Three Kingdoms II, players take on the role of a ruler during this period, and their objective is to unify China under their rule. ...
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3: Dragon of Destiny
DOS19934/5 KOEI
Scrooge
DOS19913/5 Leisuresoft
Scrooge is an abandoned interactive fiction graphic adventure game developed and released by Leisuresoft in 1991 for DO. Scrooge is based on the popular Christmas tale of the same name.
Shannara
DOS1995protected4/5 Legend Entertainment
Spirit of Excalibur
DOS19903.8/5 Synergistic Software
Team Yankee
DOS19904.2/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises