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 Black Cauldron
DOS1986freeware graphic adventure with text parser
The Colonel's Bequest
DOS1989protecteddemo
The Colonel's Bequest is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1989 for various platforms, including MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. The game was created by Roberta Williams, co-founder of Sierra On-Line.The game is part of the "Laura Bow" series, with the full title being "Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequ...
The Crack of Doom
DOS1989 interactive fiction
The Dame Was Loaded
DOS1996protected point and click adventure, interactive movie
The Dig
DOSMac OS1995protecteddemo point and click adventure
The Dig is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was originally released in 1995 for MS-DOS and later for other platforms, including Mac OS and Windows. The game is known for its atmospheric storytelling, puzzle-solving gameplay, and collaboration with renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke. The Dig inv...
The Feeble Files
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 interactive fiction
The Final Battle
DOS1991 point and click adventure
The Fourth Protocol
DOS1987 interactive fiction
The Fourth Protocol is a 1985 interactive fiction video game inspired by Frederick Forsyth's 1984 Cold War spy novel of the same name. Developed by the Electronic Pencil Company and published by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, the game was released on platforms such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and IBM PC (in 1997). Designed as a ...
The Gene Machine
DOS1996 point and click adventure
The Golden Fleece
DOS1989 interactive fiction
The Guild of Thieves
DOS1987 interactive fiction
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 Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...
The Hobbit
DOS1983 interactive fiction
The Hound of Shadow
DOS1989 interactive fiction
The Island of Dr. Brain
DOS1992 puzzle adventure
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo puzzle adventure
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Presto Studios, released in 1995 as a sequel to The Journeyman Project. The Journeyman Project series is set in a future where time travel has been discovered and is regulated by a temporal security agency called the Temporal Security Annex (TSA). Players...
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1998protected puzzle adventure
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.
The Kristal
DOS1989 point and click adventure
The Last Express
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo point and click adventure
The Last Express, released in 1997, is a unique adventure game designed by Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. Set on the Orient Express in July 1914, just before World War I, the game offers an intricate and immersive narrative that unfolds in real-time.In the game, players assume the role of Robert Cath, an American doctor with a tro...
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo
DOS1996 point and click adventure
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel
DOS1992 point and click adventure
The Lurking Horror
DOS1987 interactive fiction
The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1994protectedremake point and click adventure
The mist
DOS1985 interactive fiction
The Orion Conspiracy
DOS1995 point and click adventure
The Pawn
DOS1986 interactive fiction
The Quest for the Time-bird
DOS1989 point and click adventure
The Scoop
DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
The Secret of Monkey Island
DOS1990protecteddemo point and click adventure
The Secret of Monkey Island is perhaps the most popular point and click adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games and designed by the trio Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer. In Monkey Island you're the would-be pirate Guybrush Threepwood on a quest to become a fearsome pirate in the Caribbean. Monkey Island uses one of the most friendlie...