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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King's Quest 5: Absence makes the heart go yonder
DOSWindows 3.x1990protected point and click adventure
Tass Times in Tonetown
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Last Half of Darkness
DOS1989 point and click adventure
The 7th Guest
Windows XP/98/951993protected puzzle adventure
Dragon's Lair
DOS1989protected interactive movie
Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back
DOS1988 interactive fiction
Mission Critical
DOS1995protected point and click adventure
Moonmist
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Sam and Max Hit the Road
DOSWindows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1993protecteddemo point and click adventure
Sam & Max Hit the Road is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1993 and is based on the characters Sam and Max created by comic artist Steve Purcell. The game follows the ti...
Death Gate
DOS1994protected point and click adventure
Mortville Manor
DOS1988 point and click adventure
Companions of Xanth
DOS1993protected point and click adventure
Altered Destiny
DOS1990protected point and click adventure, graphic adventure with text parser
In Altered Destiny, a perfectly average guy named P.J. Barrett gets sucked into a bizarre alien dimension because he answered a phone call. Seriously. What follows is a classic point-and-click adventure filled with weird puzzles, ...
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Before Titanic was a movie with a lot of weeping, there was Beyond the Titanic, a text adventure where surviving the iceberg is just the beginning. The game takes the historic disaster and then says, “What if we added a secr...
Escape from Monkey Island
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000protected
The Quest for the Time-bird
DOS1989 point and click adventure
Curse of Enchantia
DOS1992 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, ...
Return to Ringworld
DOS1994 point and click adventure
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
Windows XP/98/951998 point and click adventure
20000 Leagues under the sea
DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction
Based loosely on Jules Verne’s famous tale, this game lets you live your steampunk submarine dreams with all the elegance of a DOS interface. You command the Nautilus, explore the ocean depths, and encounter strange sea crea...
Forbidden Quest
DOS1983 interactive fiction
1893: A World's Fair Mystery
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003 interactive fiction
1893: A World's Fair Mystery is an interactive fiction game developed by the American studio Illuminated Lantern and released in 2002. Set during the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the game combines historical ficti...
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction
Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon
DOS1993protected point and click adventure
The Black Cauldron
DOS1986freeware graphic adventure with text parser
King's Quest 4: The Perils of Rosella
DOS1988protecteddemo point and click adventure
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella is an adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1988. It is the fourth installment in the popular King's Quest series created by Roberta Williams. The game was originally re...
Star Trek: The Rebel Universe
DOS1988 space exploration, space simulation
The Crack of Doom
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Uninvited
DOSMac OS1987 point and click adventure
Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom
DOS1989 visual novel, interactive fiction
More illustrations, more intrigue, more doom. The Crystal of Doom continues the hybrid of comic-style storytelling and light role-playing with just enough choices to make you feel clever (or guilty). This time, you’re chasin...