Abandonware DOS title

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
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Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Last Half of Darkness

DOS1989 point and click adventure
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The 7th Guest

Windows XP/98/951993protected puzzle adventure
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Dragon's Lair

DOS1989protected interactive movie
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Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS1988 interactive fiction
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Mission Critical

DOS1995protected point and click adventure
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Moonmist

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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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...
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Death Gate

DOS1994protected point and click adventure
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Mortville Manor

DOS1988 point and click adventure
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Companions of Xanth

DOS1993protected point and click adventure
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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, ...
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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...
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Escape from Monkey Island

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000protected
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The Quest for the Time-bird

DOS1989 point and click adventure
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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, ...
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Return to Ringworld

DOS1994 point and click adventure
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Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/951998 point and click adventure
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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...
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Forbidden Quest

DOS1983 interactive fiction
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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...
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Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction
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Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon

DOS1993protected point and click adventure
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The Black Cauldron

DOS1986freeware graphic adventure with text parser
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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...
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Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

DOS1988 space exploration, space simulation
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The Crack of Doom

DOS1989 interactive fiction
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Uninvited

DOSMac OS1987 point and click adventure
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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...