Abandonware adventure games sorted by release date

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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A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac OS1985 interactive fiction

Borrowed Time

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...

Brimstone

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Essex

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Forbidden Castle

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS1985 interactive fiction, life simulation

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS1985 interactive fiction

King's Quest 2: Romancing the Throne

DOS1985protected graphic adventure with text parser

Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS1985 graphic adventure with text parser

Mindshadow

DOSMac OS1985 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction

Mindwheel

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Perry Mason

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Rendezvous with Rama

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction (text adventure) game released in 1984. Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, was known for producing narrative-driven games based on popular literary works. This adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's novel is one of the earlier attempts to translate a science fiction classic into an interactive for...