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
Starcross
DOS19823.7/5 interactive fiction
Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass
DOS19923.6/5 point and click adventure
Troll's Tale
DOS19843.6/5
Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox
DOS19933.6/5 point and click adventure
Essex
DOS19853.6/5 interactive fiction
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...
Explora 2
DOS19893.6/5 point and click adventure
Free D.C.!
DOS19913.6/5 point and click adventure
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS19853.6/5 interactive fiction, life simulation
Mystery of the Mummy
DOS19883.6/5 point and click adventure
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected3.6/5 point and click adventure, interactive movie
Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood
DOS19843.6/5
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...
Star Trek: First Contact
DOS19883.6/5 interactive fiction
Donald Duck's Playground
DOS19863.6/5
The Orion Conspiracy
DOS19953.6/5 point and click adventure
Adventure in Serenia
DOS19823.6/5 interactive fiction
African Adventure
DOS1997remake3.6/5 interactive fiction
Mindshadow
DOSMac OS19853.6/5 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction
Earthly delights
DOS19843.6/5 interactive fiction
Ballyhoo
DOS19863.5/5 interactive fiction
Voyeur
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSDOS1993demoNSFW3.5/5 interactive movie
Castle Elsinore
DOS19923.5/5 interactive fiction
Mission: Impossible
DOS19913.5/5
King's Quest III Redux: To Heir is Human
Windows 10/11Mac OS2011freewareremake3.5/5 point and click adventure
Igor Objective Uuklaonia
DOS19953.5/5 point and click adventure
Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy
DOS1988protected3.5/5 interactive fiction
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.
Sexy Fighter
DOS1993NSFW3.5/5 fighting, visual novel