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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Curse of Enchantia
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Curse of Enchantia is a point-and-click graphic adventure game that was released in 1992. It was developed by Core Design and initially published by Core Design in Europe and by Cyberdreams in North America.In Curse of Enchantia, players control a teenage boy named Brad who is mysteriously transported to the fantasy world of Enchantia. The game fol...
3 Skulls of the Toltecs
DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected point and click adventure
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Code-Name: Iceman
DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
Code-Name: Iceman is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1989. Designed by Jim Walls, known for his work on the "Police Quest" series, "Code-Name: Iceman" blends elements of adventure, puzzle-solving, and espionage in a Cold War-era setting.In the game, players assume the role of John Westland, a United States Navy...
Sex Olympics
DOS1990NSFW point and click adventure
Geisha
DOS1990NSFW point and click adventure
King's Quest 4: The Perils of Rosella
DOS1988protecteddemo point and click adventure
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella is an adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1988. It is the fourth installment in the popular King's Quest series created by Roberta Williams. The game was originally released for MS-DOS and Apple II computers and later ported to other platforms.The story of King's Quest IV follows Prince...
Mixed-up Fairy Tales
DOS1991 point and click adventure
Legend of Kyrandia
DOS1992 point and click adventure
The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One is the first installment in The Legend of Kyrandia series of point-and-click adventure games developed by Westwood Studios and released in 1992 for DOS, Amiga, Mac, etc.. The story revolves around Malcolm, who has seized power and turned Brandon's grandfather, Kallak, into stone. To save Kallak and the kingdom,...
King's Quest 2: Romancing the Throne
DOS1985protected graphic adventure with text parser
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
DOS1989NSFW graphic adventure with text parser
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals is a comedic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1989 as the third installment in the Leisure Suit Larry series, created by Al Lowe.In Larry 3, players once again control the lovable loser Larry Laffer, who is on a quest to find tru...
Fatal Relations
Windows XP/98/951998NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
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-movie elements. Players can choose between several characters, each with unique abilities useful for solving various puzzle...
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti does a Llittle Undercover Work
DOS1991NSFW point and click adventure
Angel 3
DOS1990NSFW visual novel
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
DOSWindows 3.x1993protectedNSFW point and click adventure
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
DOS1990 graphic adventure with text parser
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail is an old DOS point and click adventure game designed by Christy Marx, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1990. As the title implies, Conquests of Camelot setting is based on the Arthurian legends.
Crescent
DOS1993NSFW visual novel
Heart of China
DOS1991 point and click adventure
Discworld
DOS1995 point and click adventure
Teresa: House Guest
DOS1993NSFW visual novel
Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)
DOS1988NSFW graphic adventure with text parser
Return to Zork
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance
DOS1991protectedNSFW interactive fiction
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance is an adventure game released in 1991, developed by Steve Meretzky and published by Legend Entertainment. It’s the second installment in the "Spellcasting" series. In Spellcasting 201, you reprise the role of Ernie Eaglebeak, an apprentice wizard who is attending the Sorcerer University. The sto...
Zork Nemesis
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected puzzle adventure
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS1987 interactive fiction
Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.
Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1999protected puzzle adventure
Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy is a fantasy/steampunk adventure video game developed by Virtual Studio and released by Microids in 1999 for Windows, Mac and Playstation platforms. Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy is an adventure video game developed by Microïds and released in 1999. The game was created by Benoît Sokal, a Belgi...
Snoopy and Peanuts
DOS1990
Sex Vixens from Space
DOS1989NSFW interactive fiction
Atlantis: The Lost Tales
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a graphic adventure game developed by Cryo Interactive and released in 1997. It is the first in a series of games set around the legendary lost city of Atlantis. You play as Seth, a young hero who becomes entangled in the political and mysterious happenings of the city. Seth is tasked with finding the missing queen,...