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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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. Players take on the role of a detective working for the ACME Detective Agency. The objective is to track Carmen S...
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 of Arthur C. Clarke's novel is one of the earlier attempts to translate a science fiction classic into an interactive for...
Scapeghost
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Starcross
DOS1982 interactive fiction
Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Fuck Quest
DOS1998freewareNSFW graphic adventure with text parser
Troll's Tale
DOS1984
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 combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...
Explora 2
DOS1989 point and click adventure
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS1985 interactive fiction, life simulation
Mystery of the Mummy
DOS1988 point and click adventure
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected point and click adventure, interactive movie
Bargon Attack
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Star Trek: First Contact
DOS1988 interactive fiction
Borderworld
DOS1996 point and click adventure
Donald Duck's Playground
DOS1986
King's Quest III Redux: To Heir is Human
Windows 10/11Mac OS2011freewareremake point and click adventure
Adventure in Serenia
DOS1982 interactive fiction
African Adventure
DOS1997remake interactive fiction
Mindshadow
DOSMac OS1985 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction
Earthly delights
DOS1984 interactive fiction
Ballyhoo
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Castle Elsinore
DOS1992 interactive fiction
Mission: Impossible
DOS1991
Igor Objective Uuklaonia
DOS1995 point and click adventure
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 for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...
Free D.C.!
DOS1991 point and click adventure