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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Planetfall

DOS1983 interactive fiction

Planetfall is an interactive fiction sci-fie game released in 1983 by Infocom, written by Steve Meretzky. It is often considered one of Infocom's best titles. You play as a low-ranking Ensign Seventh Class in the Stellar Patr...

Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!

DOSWindows 3.x1993protectedNSFW point and click adventure

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOSMac OS1984freeware interactive fiction

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 D...

Sexy Fighter

DOS1993NSFW fighting, visual novel

Gold Rush!

DOS1988protected graphic adventure with text parser

Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity

Windows XP/98/951995 point and click adventure

If you ever wanted to play a point-and-click adventure where the protagonists have the combined IQ of a slice of cheese, Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity is your masterpiece. Join these brainless legends as they attempt t...

Loom

DOSLinuxMac OS1990protecteddemo point and click adventure

Loom is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). It was designed by Brian Moriarty and is known for its unique gameplay mechanics and emphasis on storytelling. Loom is distinctive f...

Day of the Tentacle

DOSMac OS1993protected point and click adventure

Day of the Tentacle is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1993 as a sequel to the game Maniac Mansion. The storyline revolves around three main characters: Bernard Ber...

Geisha

DOS1990NSFW point and click adventure

Dreamweb

DOS1994freeware point and click adventure

Dreamweb is a top-down point and click adventure set in a dark, cyberpunk city. You play as Ryan who has strange, violent, dreams. A top down perspective and the sheer number of items your character can pick up are just two of the...

Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)

DOS1988NSFW graphic adventure with text parser

Full Throttle

DOS1995protecteddemo point and click adventure

Emmanuelle: A Game of Eroticism

DOS1989NSFW

Blade Runner

Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1997protected point and click adventure

One of the best licensed games of the '90s, Blade Runner (1997) puts you in the rain-soaked shoes of Ray McCoy, a detective tracking down replicants in a world where it's always night and nobody smiles. It’s not just point-a...

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo point and click adventure

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1995 as a sequel to the original Gabriel Knight game, "Sins of the Fathers". The game was designe...

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 o...

Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti does a Llittle Undercover Work

DOS1991NSFW point and click adventure

Neuromancer

DOS1989 point and click adventure

The Neuromancer video game, released in 1988 by Interplay Productions, is an adventure/role-playing game loosely based on William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984). It combines elements of science fiction, hackin...

Operation Stealth

DOS1990 point and click adventure

Teresa: House Guest

DOS1993NSFW visual novel

KGB

DOS1992 point and click adventure

Voyeur

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSDOS1993demoNSFW interactive movie

1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003 interactive fiction

1893: A World's Fair Mystery is an interactive fiction game developed by the American studio Illuminated Lantern and released in 2002. Set during the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the game combines historical ficti...

Atlantis: The Lost Tales

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected puzzle 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 ...

Countdown

DOS1990 point and click adventure

Police Quest: Open Season

DOSWindows 3.x1993protected point and click adventure

Escape from Monkey Island

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000protected

Rome: Pathway to Power

DOS1993

Rome: Pathway to Power (also known as Rome AD 92) is an abandoned isometric adventure game with strategy elements set in ancient Rome. Rome was developed by Millennium Interactive and released in 1993 for DOS and Amiga platforms.