Abandonware DOS title

The best 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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Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 interactive fiction
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Starcross

DOS19823.7/5 interactive fiction
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Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass

DOS19923.6/5 point and click adventure
trolls-tale-07

Troll's Tale

DOS19843.6/5
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Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox

DOS19933.6/5 point and click adventure
essex-02

Essex

DOS19853.6/5 interactive fiction
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Silicon Dreams

DOS19863.6/5 interactive fiction
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...
explora2-03

Explora 2

DOS19893.6/5 point and click adventure
free-dc-03

Free D.C.!

DOS19913.6/5 point and click adventure
golden-oldies-v-03

Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS19853.6/5 interactive fiction, life simulation
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Mystery of the Mummy

DOS19883.6/5 point and click adventure
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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected3.6/5 point and click adventure, interactive movie
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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...
startrek1stcontact-1

Star Trek: First Contact

DOS19883.6/5 interactive fiction
orion-conspiracy-01

The Orion Conspiracy

DOS19953.6/5 point and click adventure
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Adventure in Serenia

DOS19823.6/5 interactive fiction
african-adventure-01

African Adventure

DOS1997remake3.6/5 interactive fiction
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Mindshadow

DOSMac OS19853.6/5 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction
earthlydelights-1

Earthly delights

DOS19843.6/5 interactive fiction
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Ballyhoo

DOS19863.5/5 interactive fiction
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Voyeur

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSDOS1993demoNSFW3.5/5 interactive movie
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Castle Elsinore

DOS19923.5/5 interactive fiction
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Mission: Impossible

DOS19913.5/5
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King's Quest III Redux: To Heir is Human

Windows 10/11Mac OS2011freewareremake3.5/5 point and click adventure
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Igor Objective Uuklaonia

DOS19953.5/5 point and click adventure
guardinfinity-1

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 interactive fiction
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Hugo 2: Whodunit?

DOS1991protecteddemo3.5/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Hugo 2: Whodunit? is an old school graphic adventure game designed by David P. Gray, developed by Gray Design Associates and released in 1991 for MS-DOS only. Hugo 2: Whodunit? is the second installment of the Hugo game series.
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Sexy Fighter

DOS1993NSFW3.5/5 fighting, visual novel