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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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected point and click adventure, interactive movie
The Island of Dr. Brain
DOS1992 puzzle adventure
Wishbringer
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Chrono Quest II
DOS1989 point and click adventure
Gnome Ranger
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.
Holy Grail
DOS1984 interactive fiction
Plan 9 From Outer Space
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe edition
DOS1993 trivia / quiz
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe Edition is an educational computer game released in 1992 by Broderbund Software. It's part of the popular Carmen Sandiego franchise, designed to teach players about geography and history...
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...
Scapeghost
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Starcross
DOS1982 interactive fiction
Fuck Quest
DOS1998freewareNSFW graphic adventure with text parser
Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Troll's Tale
DOS1984
Atlantis: The Lost Tales
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected puzzle adventure
Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a graphic adventure game developed by Cryo Interactive and released in 1997. It is the first in a series of games set around the legendary lost city of Atlantis. You play as Seth, a young hero who ...
Essex
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Silicon Dreams
DOS1986 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 com...
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS1985 interactive fiction, life simulation
Mystery of the Mummy
DOS1988 point and click adventure
Bargon Attack
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Imagine stepping into a sci-fi fever dream written during a caffeine crash, and you’ll get Bargon Attack (1992). This French point-and-click adventure is stylish, surreal, and frequently confusing—but in a charming &ld...
Star Trek: First Contact
DOS1988 interactive fiction
Black Sect
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Ah, Black Sect (1993), where the puzzles are cryptic, the villagers are creepy, and the atmosphere is so thick you could spread it on toast. A classic first-person point-and-click adventure, it has that early '90s Euro-horror vibe...
Borderworld
DOS1996 point and click adventure
Borderworld (1996, DOS) is a sci-fi RPG with big ideas, a tiny budget, and enough ambition to fuel a space shuttle. You’re thrown into a galaxy of politics, smuggling, and star-hopping adventure, where everyone has a quest a...
Donald Duck's Playground
DOS1986
King's Quest III Redux: To Heir is Human
Windows 10/11Mac OS2011freewareremake point and click adventure
African Adventure
DOS1997remake interactive fiction
African Adventure is one of those games that feels like it was made during a two-hour layover at the airport - but somehow, it works. Set in the savannah, it combines survival, exploration, and a splash of educational trivia (prob...
Mindshadow
DOSMac OS1985 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction
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 ...