The best abandonware action-adventure games

Action adventure games combine features from both action and adventure games. The name itself is quite generic, as it includes a large number of different games. Normally, action adventures require quickness and dexterity when it's about the action, and careful thinking for the adventure part.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

action-adventureWindows XP/98/95

Driller

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Thief: The Dark Project

action-adventureWindows XP/98/95

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Castle master

DOS19904.1/5 Incentive
Alone in the Dark

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Infogrames
It Came from the Desert

DOS1990freeware4.1/5 Cinemaware

It Came from the Desert is an abandonware action-adventure game developed by Cinemaware and released in 1990 for PC (DOS) and Amiga. It Came From the Desert is an action-adventure game with a peculiar flavor: it's set in the 50s, in the USA, and it's based on those old monster movies like Them! (also involving killer ants).
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein

DOS19854.1/5 Muse Software
Where Time Stood Still

DOS1987protected4.1/5 Denton Designs
Fantasy World Dizzy

DOS19914.1/5 Codemasters
Dizzy

DOS19874.1/5 Codemasters
Castle master 2

DOS19904/5 Incentive
Framed

DOS19954/5 Machination
La Abadia del Crimen

DOS19874/5 Opera Soft
Alone in the Dark 2

DOS1993protected4/5 Infogrames
D/Generation

DOS19914/5 Software Toolworks
Golden Eagle

DOS19914/5 Loriciels
Indenture

DOS1995remake4/5
Thief: The Dark Project

Windows XP/98/951998protected4/5 Looking Glass Studios
Tomb Raider II

Windows XP/98/95Mac1997protected4/5 Core Design
The Great Escape

DOS1986protected4/5 Denton Designs

As a prisoner of war, you must find a way to escape a prison in Germany in 1942. The prisoner has a daily routine which will follow if not controlled by the player for a certain amount of time.
Cadaver

DOS19903.9/5 Bitmap Brothers
Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality

DOS1990freeware3.9/5
System Shock

DOS1994protected3.9/5 Looking Glass Studios
Heroes of the Lance

DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
Creatures Village

Windows XP/98/95Mac2001protected3.9/5 Creature Labs
Batman: the Caped Crusader

DOS19883.9/5 Special FX
Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon

DOS1988freeware3.9/5 Cinemaware
Asterix: Operation Getafix

DOS19893.9/5 Coktel Vision
Veil of Darkness

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Event Horizon
Cadaver: The Payoff

DOS19913.9/5 Bitmap Brothers
Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey)

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected3.8/5 Adeline Software International
In Search of Dr. Riptide

DOS19943.8/5 MindStorm Software
Realms of the Haunting

DOS1997protected3.8/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive