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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Once Upon a Forest

DOS19953.9/5 point and click adventure

Mindshadow

DOSMac OS19853.6/5 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction

The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1994protectedremake3.1/5 point and click adventure

Metropolis

DOS19873.8/5

Plague of the Moon

DOS19944.1/5 point and click adventure

Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon

DOS19923.1/5 interactive movie

Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 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.

Udoiana Raunes

DOS19984/5 point and click adventure

Treasure Island

DOS19853.5/5 interactive fiction

The Dame Was Loaded

DOS1996protected4.2/5 point and click adventure, interactive movie

The Pawn

DOS19864/5 interactive fiction

In the Dead of Night

DOS19953.8/5 point and click adventure

The Feeble Files

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected3.9/5 point and click adventure

Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.

DOS1991protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

Hook

DOS19924.2/5 point and click adventure

Superhero League of Hoboken

DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person party-based RPG

Dream Zone

DOS19884.2/5 interactive fiction

Zyll

DOS19843.9/5

The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian

DOS1992freeware3.2/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Free D.C.!

DOS19913.6/5 point and click adventure

L.A. Crackdown

DOS19884/5

Morphman

Windows XP/98/9519932.4/5

The Orion Conspiracy

DOS19953.5/5 point and click adventure

Mission Critical

DOS1995protected3.8/5 point and click adventure

Return to Ringworld

DOS19943.8/5 point and click adventure

Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction

Gnome Ranger

DOS19873.7/5 interactive fiction

Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.