Abandonware adventure games sorted by year, newest first

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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Star Trek: First Contact

DOS1988 interactive fiction

Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

DOS1988 space exploration, space simulation

The Shadows of Mordor

DOS1988 interactive fiction

The Twilight Zone

DOS1988 graphic adventure with text parser

The Twilight Zone is an abandoned sci-fi themed adventure game based on the popular TV series of the same name. The Twilight zone released in 1988 by First Row Software Publishing for DOS and Amiga. At it's core, The Twilight Zone...

Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS1988 interactive fiction

Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?

DOSMac OS1988 trivia / quiz

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

DOS1988protected point and click adventure

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). It was first released in 1988 for various platforms, including the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Amig...

Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction

Interactive fiction meets comic book in this spin-off, where you follow a fantasy story through illustrated panels and scripted choices. Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle feels like your dungeon master turned into a storyboard ...

Acheton

DOS1987 interactive fiction

Acheton (1987, DOS) is one of those text adventures where the game cheerfully tries to kill you every five minutes — and does so with words. You're tossed into a sprawling, brain-melting maze of puzzles so obscure they might...

Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor

DOS1987 interactive fiction

If you ever wanted to roleplay in a text adventure where a coconut is of utmost importance, Beyond Zork has your back. This is Infocom at its most delightfully weird: part RPG, part parser game, all nonsense. You’ll customiz...

Border Zone

DOS1987 interactive fiction

Welcome to Border Zone (1987, DOS), where the Cold War is hot and your only weapon is your brain (and maybe a good map). This text-based espionage thriller from Infocom combines spy drama with multiple protagonists and a real-time...

Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS1987 interactive fiction

Douglas Adams, the twisted genius behind Hitchhiker’s Guide, brings you the most terrifying adventure of all: paperwork. Bureaucracy turns mundane modern life into a text-based hellscape of lost forms, passive-aggressive cle...

Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True

DOS1987 point and click adventure

Demon's Forge

DOS1987 interactive fiction

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.

Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

DOS1987 interactive fiction

Kingdom of Hamil

DOS1987 interactive fiction

Knight Orc

DOSMac OS1987 interactive fiction

Knight Orc is a text-based adventure game released in 1987 by Level 9 Computing, a British game development studio renowned for creating interactive fiction during the 1980s. In Knight Orc, you play as Grindleguts the Orc, fl...

Kobayashi Naru

DOS1987 point and click adventure

Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards

DOS1987NSFW graphic adventure with text parser

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the debut title in the Leisure Suit Larry series, created by Al Lowe and originally published by Sierra On-Line in 1987. The game follows Larry Laffer, a leisure-suit-wearing...

Maniac Mansion

DOSLinuxMac OS1987protected point and click adventure

Maniac Mansion is one of the most famous point-and-click adventure games developed by Lucasfilm Games, designed by Ron Gilbert (who later created Monkey Island) and Gary Winnick. The story is a blend of old sci-fi and horror B-mov...

Metropolis

DOS1987

Mixed-up Mother Goose

DOS1987 graphic adventure with text parser

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It

DOS1987 interactive fiction

Passengers on the Wind 2

DOS1987 interactive fiction, visual novel

Plundered Hearts

DOSMac OS1987 interactive fiction

Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel

DOS1987 graphic adventure with text parser

Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel is an adventure game released in 1987 by Sierra On-Line, designed by former police officer Jim Walls. It's the first installment in the Police Quest series and is known for its realistic...