Abandonware DOS title

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
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Demon's Forge

DOS1987 interactive fiction
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Treasure Island

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Moonmist

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Metropolis

DOS1987
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Fish!

DOS1988 interactive fiction
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Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

DOS1988 space exploration, space simulation
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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.
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Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction
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Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW interactive fiction
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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...
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Zork: Grand Inquisitor

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
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Rex Nebular and the cosmic gender-bender

DOS1992protected point and click adventure
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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...
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Scapeghost

DOS1989 interactive fiction
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Troll's Tale

DOS1984
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Toonstruck

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected point and click adventure
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Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS1988 interactive fiction
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Mean Streets

DOS1989protected point and click adventure
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Jack the Ripper

DOS1995 interactive fiction
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Wishbringer

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Cutthroats

DOS1984 interactive fiction
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The Kristal

DOS1989 point and click adventure
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Shadow of the Comet

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected graphic adventure with text parser
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Ballyhoo

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS1989 interactive fiction
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Teen Agent

DOS1995freeware point and click adventure
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The Orion Conspiracy

DOS1995 point and click adventure
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Noctropolis

DOS1994protected point and click adventure