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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Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS1987 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

DOS1986 interactive fiction

Last Half of Darkness

DOS1989 point and click adventure

The 7th Guest

Windows XP/98/951993protected puzzle adventure

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 titular characters, Sam, a detective canine, and Max, a hyperkinetic rabbity thing, as they embark on a bizarre and humoro...

Dragon's Lair

DOS1989protected interactive movie

Death Gate

DOS1994protected point and click adventure

The Usurper

DOS1989 interactive fiction

Mortville Manor

DOS1988 point and click adventure

Altered Destiny

DOS1990protected point and click adventure, graphic adventure with text parser

Altered Destiny is a sci-fi themed point and click adventure game designed by Michael Berlyn, developed and released by Accolade in 1990. Altered Destiny runs on DOS but was also published for Amiga.

Beyond the Titanic

DOS1986 interactive fiction

King's Quest 5: Absence makes the heart go yonder

DOSWindows 3.x1990protected point and click adventure

Return to Ringworld

DOS1994 point and click adventure

20000 Leagues under the sea

DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction

Forbidden Quest

DOS1983 interactive fiction

Companions of Xanth

DOS1993protected point and click adventure

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 fiction with mystery-solving gameplay.In 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, players take on the role of a detective investigating ...

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

Amazon

DOS1984 interactive fiction

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 released for MS-DOS and Apple II computers and later ported to other platforms.The story of King's Quest IV follows Prince...