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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Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/9519983.8/5 point and click adventure
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Bureau 13

DOS19953.8/5 board game, point and click adventure
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City of Lost Children

DOS19973.8/5
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Metropolis

DOS19873.8/5
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Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS19893.8/5 visual novel, interactive fiction
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A Personal Nightmare

DOS19893.8/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 interactive fiction
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Manhunter: New York

DOS19883.8/5 point and click adventure
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Companions of Xanth

DOS1993protected3.8/5 point and click adventure
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The Usurper

DOS19893.8/5 interactive fiction
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Altered Destiny

DOS1990protected3.8/5 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.
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Zork: Grand Inquisitor

Windows XP/98/95Mac1997protected3.8/5 point and click adventure
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Voodoo island

DOS19853.8/5 interactive fiction
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20000 Leagues under the sea

DOS19883.8/5 visual novel, interactive fiction
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Uninvited

DOSMac19873.8/5 point and click adventure
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Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra

DOSWindows 3.x1992protecteddemo3.8/5 point and click adventure
Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1992. The game is a sequel to The Colonel's Bequest and follows the adventures of the protagonist, Laura Bow, a young investigative journalist.In the game, the Dagger of Amon Ra is a valuable Egyptian artifact rumored to have mystical...
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Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction
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In the Dead of Night

DOS19953.8/5 point and click adventure
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Sam and Max Hit the Road

DOSWindows XP/98/95LinuxMac1993protecteddemo3.8/5 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...
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The Gene Machine

DOS19963.8/5 point and click adventure
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Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom

DOS19933.8/5 point and click adventure
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Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original

DOS19933.8/5 point and click adventure
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Fish!

DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction
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Jack the Ripper

DOS19953.8/5 interactive fiction
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Normality

DOS1996protecteddemo3.8/5 point and click adventure
Normality is a first-person adventure video game developed by Gremlin Interactive and released in 1996. The game is set in a dystopian future where a totalitarian regime known as the One True Government (OTG) controls the city of Neutropolis. The player takes on the role of Kent, a rebellious citizen who opposes the oppressive rule of the OTG. The ...
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Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch

DOS19923.8/5 point and click adventure
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Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

DOS19883.8/5 space exploration, space simulation
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The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 interactive fiction
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The Scoop

DOS19893.8/5 graphic adventure with text parser
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Dragon's Lair

DOS1989protected3.7/5 interactive movie