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...