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 Gene Machine
DOS19963.8/5 point and click adventure
The Golden Fleece
DOS19894/5 interactive fiction
The Guild of Thieves
DOS19874.1/5 interactive fiction
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
DOSMac OS1984freeware4.2/5 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
DOS19834/5 interactive fiction
The Hound of Shadow
DOS19893.8/5 interactive fiction
The Island of Dr. Brain
DOS19923.7/5 puzzle adventure
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo4/5 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 OS1998protected4.2/5 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
DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure
The Last Express
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo4.1/5 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
DOS19964/5 point and click adventure
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel
DOS19924.2/5 point and click adventure
The Lurking Horror
DOS19874.1/5 interactive fiction
The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1994protectedremake3.1/5 point and click adventure
The mist
DOS19854/5 interactive fiction
The Orion Conspiracy
DOS19953.5/5 point and click adventure
The Pawn
DOS19864/5 interactive fiction
The Quest for the Time-bird
DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure
The Scoop
DOS19893.8/5 graphic adventure with text parser
The Secret of Monkey Island
DOS1990protecteddemo4.3/5 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...
The Shadows of Mordor
DOS19883.7/5 interactive fiction
The Summoning
DOS1992protected4/5 dungeon crawl
The Third Courier
DOS19893.9/5
The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 1989 for DOS, but it was also published for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST platforms.
The Three Musketeers
DOS19873/5 graphic adventure with text parser
The Tracer Sanction
DOS19853/5 graphic adventure with text parser
The Twilight Zone
DOS19884.2/5 graphic adventure with text parser
The Twilight Zone is an abandoned sci-fi themed adventure game based on the popular TV series of the same name. The Twilight zone released in 1988 by First Row Software Publishing for DOS and Amiga. At it's core, The Twilight Zone is a text adventure, so you have to type in commands, but it's supported by the graphics.
The Usurper
DOS19893.8/5 interactive fiction
The Witness
DOS19834/5 interactive fiction
The Wizard of Oz
DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction