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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Yellow Kid: Giallo al Circo

DOS19943.1/5 point and click adventure

Murder Club

DOSWindows XP/98/9519914.1/5 visual novel

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction

Troll's Tale

DOS19843.5/5

Psycho

DOS19883.4/5

Trinity

DOS19864.1/5 interactive fiction

Borderworld

DOS19963.3/5 point and click adventure

Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 interactive fiction

Supernova

DOS1987freeware3.5/5 interactive fiction

Earthrise

DOS19903.4/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch

DOS19924/5 point and click adventure

Passengers on the Wind

DOS19863/5 interactive fiction, visual novel

The Third Courier

DOS19893.9/5

The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 1989 for DOS, but it was also published for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST platforms.

Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 interactive fiction

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 interactive fiction

Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood

DOS19843.6/5

Follow the Reader

DOS19923.9/5 puzzle adventure

Les Manley in: Search for the King

DOS1990protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Suspect

DOS19844.2/5 interactive fiction

Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 interactive fiction

Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night

DOS19903.3/5 interactive fiction

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 interactive fiction

Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 interactive fiction

Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.