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
The Scoop
DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
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...
The Kristal
DOS1989 point and click adventure
Wishbringer
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Border Zone
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Omnicron Conspiracy
DOS1989
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...
Avon
DOS1989 interactive fiction
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...
The Beverly Hillbillies
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Legend of the Sword
DOS1988 interactive fiction
Earthrise
DOS1990 graphic adventure with text parser
Tass Times in Tonetown
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Dragon World
DOS1984 interactive fiction
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess
DOS1989protected
Zork Nemesis
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected puzzle adventure
Seastalker
DOS1984 interactive fiction
Perry Mason
DOS1985 interactive fiction
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...
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS1986 interactive fiction
The Feeble Files
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
Trinity
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Mickey's Space Adventure
DOS1985 graphic adventure with text parser
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Explora 2
DOS1989 point and click adventure
The Dame Was Loaded
DOS1996protected point and click adventure, interactive movie
Mystery of the Mummy
DOS1988 point and click adventure
Dream Zone
DOS1988 interactive fiction