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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Shadowgate

DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1988 point and click adventure

Shadowgate is an abandoned fantasy-themed adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released by Mindscape in 1988 for Macintosh, DOS, and also for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, NES. Shadowgate uses the ICOM MacVenture engine (Deja Vu, Uninvited). Shadowgate was later remade in an enhanced version for Windows 3.1.

Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original

DOS1993 point and click adventure

Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/951998 point and click adventure

In the Dead of Night

DOS1995 point and click adventure

Borrowed Time

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...

Morphman

Windows XP/98/951993

Adventure in Serenia

DOS1982 interactive fiction

Companions of Xanth

DOS1993protected point and click adventure

The Scoop

DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser

Gold Rush!

DOS1988protected graphic adventure with text parser

Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS1989 visual novel, interactive fiction

Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS1991 interactive fiction

Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...

Murders in Venice

DOS1990

Shannara

DOS1995protected point and click adventure

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS1989 interactive fiction

The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1994protectedremake point and click adventure

Forbidden Quest

DOS1983 interactive fiction

Scapeghost

DOS1989 interactive fiction

Dragon's Lair 3: The Curse of Mordread

DOS1992protected interactive movie

Dragon's Lair III, also known as Dragon's Lair III: The Curse of Mordread, is an installment in the classic Dragon's Lair series of animated arcade games. The game was released in 1991 and represents a continuation of the series known for its full-motion video (FMV) animation and interactive gameplay. Players control the hero, Dirk the Daring,...