Abandonware adventure games sorted by title, from Z to A

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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Death Gate

DOS1994protected3.9/5 point and click adventure

Deadline

DOS19823.8/5 interactive fiction

Day of the Tentacle

DOSMac1993protected4.1/5 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 Bernoulli, Hoagie, and Laverne. The trio becomes entangled in a time-traveling escapade caused by the Purple Tentacle, an e...

Daughter of Serpents

DOS19924/5 point and click adventure

Dark Seed

DOS19924.1/5 point and click adventure

Cutthroats

DOS19843.4/5 interactive fiction

Curse of Enchantia

DOS19923.8/5 point and click adventure

Curse of Enchantia is a point-and-click graphic adventure game that was released in 1992. It was developed by Core Design and initially published by Core Design in Europe and by Cyberdreams in North America.In Curse of Enchantia, players control a teenage boy named Brad who is mysteriously transported to the fantasy world of Enchantia. The game fol...

Cruise for a Corpse

DOS19914/5 point and click adventure

Crescent

DOS1993NSFW3/5 visual novel

Countdown

DOS19904/5 point and click adventure

Corruption

DOS19884/5 interactive fiction

Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood

DOS1991protected4.2/5 point and click adventure

Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail

DOS19904/5 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 on the Arthurian legends.

Companions of Xanth

DOS1993protected3.8/5 point and click adventure

Code-Name: Iceman

DOS19894.1/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Code-Name: Iceman is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1989. Designed by Jim Walls, known for his work on the "Police Quest" series, "Code-Name: Iceman" blends elements of adventure, puzzle-solving, and espionage in a Cold War-era setting.In the game, players assume the role of John Westland, a United States Navy...

City of Lost Children

DOS19973.8/5

Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess

DOS1989protected3.8/5

Castle of Dr. Brain

DOS19914/5 puzzle adventure

Castle Elsinore

DOS19923.5/5 interactive fiction

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

DOS19974/5 point and click adventure

Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 interactive fiction

Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.

Bureau 13

DOS19953.8/5 board game, point and click adventure

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac2009protected4.2/5 point and click adventure

Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.2/5 point and click adventure

Brimstone

DOS19853.4/5 interactive fiction

Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 interactive fiction

Borrowed Time

DOS19853.6/5 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...