Abandonware DOS title

The most popular 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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Once Upon a Forest

DOS1995 point and click adventure
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The Scoop

DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
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Amazon

DOS1984 interactive fiction
From the mind of Michael Crichton comes Amazon, a game that lets you live out your jungle explorer fantasies—without the bugs or dysentery. You’re off to the Amazon to recover a missing expedition and probably get into mortal peril along the way. Think Indiana Jones if he had access to 16 colors and floppy disks. Packed with weird humor...
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The Kristal

DOS1989 point and click adventure
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Wishbringer

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Border Zone

DOS1987 interactive fiction
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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 (probably). You’ll dodge wild animals, search for artifacts, and occasionally wonder if the devs had ever seen a map of...
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Avon

DOS1989 interactive fiction
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The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo puzzle adventure
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Presto Studios, released in 1995 as a sequel to The Journeyman Project. The Journeyman Project series is set in a future where time travel has been discovered and is regulated by a temporal security agency called the Temporal Security Annex (TSA). Players...
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The Beverly Hillbillies

DOS1993 point and click adventure
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Legend of the Sword

DOS1988 interactive fiction
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Earthrise

DOS1990 graphic adventure with text parser
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Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Dragon World

DOS1984 interactive fiction
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Zork Nemesis

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected puzzle adventure
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Seastalker

DOS1984 interactive fiction
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Perry Mason

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Alice in Wonderland

DOS1989 interactive fiction
Step into the rabbit hole - no, really, step carefully, or you’ll glitch right through the floor. Alice in Wonderland (1989, DOS) is a surreal, side-scrolling adventure that loosely follows the Lewis Carroll classic, if Lewis Carroll had a CRT monitor and a questionable understanding of collision detection. You play as Alice, wandering throug...
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James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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The Feeble Files

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
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Trinity

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS1985 graphic adventure with text parser
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Beyond the Titanic

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Hollywood Hijinx

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Explora 2

DOS1989 point and click adventure
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The Dame Was Loaded

DOS1996protected point and click adventure, interactive movie
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Mystery of the Mummy

DOS1988 point and click adventure
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Dream Zone

DOS1988 interactive fiction