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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The Usurper

DOS1989 interactive fiction
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The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1998protected puzzle adventure
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is the third chapter in The Journeyman Project series. It's a science fiction adventure game developed by Presto Studios, designed by Phil Saunders and published by Red Orb Entertainment in 1998 for Windows and Macintosh.
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Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Border Zone

DOS1987 interactive fiction
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Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass

DOS1992 point and click adventure
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Innocent Until Caught

DOS1993 point and click adventure
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Teen Agent

DOS1995freeware point and click adventure
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African Adventure

DOS1997remake interactive fiction
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Castle Elsinore

DOS1992 interactive fiction
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The Final Battle

DOS1991 point and click adventure
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Mortville Manor

DOS1988 point and click adventure
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The Feeble Files

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
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Holy Grail

DOS1984 interactive fiction
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L.A. Crackdown

DOS1988
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Mystery of the Mummy

DOS1988 point and click adventure
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Daughter of Serpents

DOS1992 point and click adventure
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Noctropolis

DOS1994protected point and click adventure
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Farenheit 451

DOS1984 interactive fiction
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Psycho

DOS1988
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Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected interactive fiction
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Breakers

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS1987 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.
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Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox

DOS1993 point and click adventure
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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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Explora 2

DOS1989 point and click adventure
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Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.

DOS1991protected point and click adventure
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Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

DOS1996 interactive fiction
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Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS1988 interactive fiction
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Shadow of the Comet

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected graphic adventure with text parser