The best 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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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel

DOS19924.2/5 Mythos Software
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

DOS19914.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of fate

DOS19934.2/5 Westwood Studios
Trinity

DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
Discworld

DOS19954.2/5 Perfect Entertainment
Mixed-up Fairy Tales

DOS19914.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Where in time is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS19894.2/5 Broderbund
Fable

DOS19964.2/5 Simbiosis Interactive
Blue Force

DOS19934.2/5 Tsunami Media
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS19824.2/5 Infocom

Zork is one of the most popular text-adventures and one of the first interactive fiction games ever created. The first Zork was developed in the seventies and ported on various platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom was one of the most prolific developers of text-adventures for home computers and created memorable interactive fiction ga...
Quest for glory 4: Shadows of darkness

DOSWindows 3.x1993protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Season of the Sakura

DOS1997NSFW4.2/5 JAST USA

Season of the Sakura is an abandoned visual novel game developed by JAST USA and released by in 1997 for DOS. Season of the Sakura is one of the many Japanese visual novels published in the 90s with a eroge theme.
WaxWorks

DOSMac1992protected4.2/5 Horror Soft
Dragon World

DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
James Clavell's Shogun

DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
Jewels of Darkness

DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

DOSWindows 3.x1991protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
The Dame Was Loaded

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Beam Software
The Final Battle

DOS19914.2/5 Silicon Software
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

DOS1993protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
The Dig

DOS1995protected4.2/5 LucasArts
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood

DOS1991protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Myst

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac1995protected4.2/5 Cyan Worlds
Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS19914.2/5 Broderbund
A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW4.2/5
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOSMac1984freeware4.2/5 Infocom

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time

Windows XP/98/95Mac1998protected4.2/5 Presto Studios

The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is the third chapter in The Journeyman Project series. It's a science fiction adventure game developed by Presto Studios, designed by Phil Saunders and published by Red Orb Entertainment in 1998 for Windows and Macintosh.
True Love

Windows XP/98/951995NSFW4.2/5 Software House Parsley

True Love is abandoned visual novel and dating simulation developed by Software House Parsley and released by JAST USA in 1995 for Windows. True Love is one of the many erotic anime-style visual novels released in the 1990s.
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protectedNSFW4.2/5 Sierra On-Line