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
If you ever wanted to play a video game that doubles as a philosophical think piece, A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985) is your ride. Released for DOS and Macintosh, this is one of Infocom’s most ambitious works - a text adventu...
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 ...
Brimstone
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Ever wanted to fight fire with... even more fire? Brimstone tosses you into a magical mess of spells, dungeons, and monsters who woke up on the wrong side of the crypt. It’s a 1985 RPG that oozes charm and confusion in equal...
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 o...
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Spellbreaker
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS1985 interactive fiction
The mist
DOS1985 interactive fiction
The Tracer Sanction
DOS1985 graphic adventure with text parser
The Wizard of Oz
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Treasure Island
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Voodoo island
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1985 puzzle adventure
Wishbringer
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Amnesia
DOS1986 interactive fiction
In Amnesia, you wake up in a hotel room with no idea who you are, where you are, or why someone wants you dead. And no, this isn’t a gritty FPS—it’s a text adventure. That’s right, no graphics, just your im...
Ballyhoo
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Come one, come all, to the saddest circus ever pixelated. In Ballyhoo, you're stuck in a depressing carnival trying to solve a kidnapping while dealing with clowns, carnies, and the worst text parser since your last therapy sessio...
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Before Titanic was a movie with a lot of weeping, there was Beyond the Titanic, a text adventure where surviving the iceberg is just the beginning. The game takes the historic disaster and then says, “What if we added a secr...
Breakers
DOS1986 interactive fiction
In Breakers, you're a high-tech wrecking crew with a mission: break stuff. Computers, walls, enemy morale—whatever gets in your way. Released in 1986, it feels like a mutant crossbreed of action game and low-budget sci-fi mo...
Donald Duck's Playground
DOS1986