Abandonware adventure games sorted by release date
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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The Island of Dr. Brain
DOS19923.7/5 puzzle adventure
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel
DOS19924.2/5 point and click adventure
The Summoning
DOS1992protected4/5 dungeon crawl
WaxWorks
DOSMac OS1992protecteddemo4.2/5 dungeon crawl
Waxworks was a horror-themed first-person role-playing game developed by Horror Soft, a subsidiary of Adventure Soft, published in 1992. The game is set in a wax museum where players must travel through different historical periods, each represented by a wax exhibit. Each exhibit serves as a portal to a different time and place, featuring vari...
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe
DOS19924.2/5 puzzle adventure
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
DOS19934/5 point and click adventure
Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom
DOS19933.8/5 point and click adventure
Black Sect
DOS19933.5/5 point and click adventure
BloodNet
DOS1993protected3.9/5 point and click adventure
BloodNet is a blend of point & click adventure (it has puzzles and an adventure style dialogue system) and RPG (player statistics, combat, random encounters), set in a dark cyberpunk New York. BloodNet was developed and published by MicroProse software in 1993. You are Ransom Stark who's goal in the game is to defeat a vampire called Van Helsin...
Blue Force
DOS19934.1/5 point and click adventure
Blue Force is a police procedural adventure game developed and released by Tsunami Games in 1993. Blue Force is a point-and-click adventure game that follows the protagonist, Jake Ryan, a rookie police officer. The gameplay revolves around solving various crimes, gathering evidence, and engaging in police procedures. The game is set in th...
Companions of Xanth
DOS1993protected3.8/5 point and click adventure
Crescent
DOS1993NSFW3.9/5 visual novel
Day of the Tentacle
DOSMac OS1993protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Day of the Tentacle is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1993 as a sequel to the game Maniac Mansion. The storyline revolves around three main characters: Bernard Bernoulli, Hoagie, and Laverne. The trio becomes entangled in a time-traveling escapade caused by the Purple Tentacle, an e...
Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original
DOS19933.9/5 point and click adventure
EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest
DOS19934/5 point and click adventure
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected4.1/5 interactive fiction
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
DOSWindows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1993protected4.2/5 point and click adventure
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a comedy point & click adventure game set in the old American West designed by Al Lowe and Josh Mandel, developed and released by Sierra On-Line in 1993 for DOS, Windows and Macintosh. Initially released on floppy, Freddy Pharkas was later re-released on CD-ROM as a new edition.
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1993protecteddemo4.1/5 point and click adventure
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1993 and designed by Jane Jensen. The game is the first installment in the Gabriel Knight series.The story revolves around Gabriel Knight, a struggling writer living in New Orleans. He inherits a bookstore from his d...
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected3.9/5 interactive fiction
Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon
DOS1993protected3.8/5 point and click adventure
Innocent Until Caught
DOS19934.1/5 point and click adventure
Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox
DOS19933.6/5 point and click adventure
Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of fate
DOSMac OS1993protecteddemo4.2/5 point and click adventure
The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate is the second installment in the Legend of Kyrandia point and click adventure game series developed by Westwood Studios. It was released in 1993 as a sequel to The Legend of Kyrandia.The game's story revolves around Zanthia, a young alchemist who resides in the land of Kyrandia. The villainous jester, Malcolm, r...
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
DOSWindows 3.x1993protectedNSFW4/5 point and click adventure
Lost in Time
DOS19933.9/5 point and click adventure
Morphman
Windows XP/98/9519932.4/5
Pepper's Adventures in Time
DOS19934/5 point and click adventure
Police Quest: Open Season
DOSWindows 3.x1993protected4.2/5 point and click adventure
Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness
DOSWindows 3.x1993protecteddemo4.1/5 point and click adventure
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness is an adventure role-playing game (RPG) developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1993 as the fourth installment in the Quest for Glory series. The game was designed by Lori Ann Cole and Corey Cole, who were also responsible for the previous entries in the series.The game is set in the dar...
Return of the Phantom
DOS1993protecteddemo3.7/5 point and click adventure
Return of the Phantom is adventure game set in France, designed by Raymond Benson, developed by MicroProse Software and released in 1993 for DOS only. Return of the Phantom is a third-person adventure game based on the book Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.