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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Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen
DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction
Demon's Forge
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Treasure Island
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Moonmist
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Metropolis
DOS1987
Fish!
DOS1988 interactive fiction
Star Trek: The Rebel Universe
DOS1988 space exploration, space simulation
Gnome Ranger
DOS1987 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.
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW interactive fiction
Amazon
DOS1984 interactive fiction
From the mind of Michael Crichton comes Amazon, a game that lets you live out your jungle explorer fantasies—without the bugs or dysentery. You’re off to the Amazon to recover a missing expedition and probably get into mortal peril along the way. Think Indiana Jones if he had access to 16 colors and floppy disks. Packed with weird humor...
Zork: Grand Inquisitor
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
Rex Nebular and the cosmic gender-bender
DOS1992protected point and click adventure
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...
Scapeghost
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Troll's Tale
DOS1984
Toonstruck
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected point and click adventure
Time and Magik: The Trilogy
DOS1988 interactive fiction
Mean Streets
DOS1989protected point and click adventure
Jack the Ripper
DOS1995 interactive fiction
Wishbringer
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Cutthroats
DOS1984 interactive fiction
The Kristal
DOS1989 point and click adventure
Shadow of the Comet
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected graphic adventure with text parser
Ballyhoo
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Journey: The Quest Begins
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Teen Agent
DOS1995freeware point and click adventure
The Orion Conspiracy
DOS1995 point and click adventure
Noctropolis
DOS1994protected point and click adventure
Omnicron Conspiracy
DOS1989