Abandonware DOS title

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 Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1994protectedremake
The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition (1994, Windows/Mac) is the kind of game that makes you feel like you’ve fallen into a dream. Created by the same minds behind Myst, it...
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The mist

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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The Orion Conspiracy

DOS1995 point and click adventure
A moody sci-fi adventure drenched in neon gloom, The Orion Conspiracy (1995, DOS) tosses you into a futuristic murder mystery where everyone seems to be hiding something—ofte...
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The Pawn

DOS1986 interactive fiction
A text adventure with just enough graphics to remind you what year it is, The Pawn (1986, DOS) wraps you in a fantasy world where the puzzles are clever and the parser occasionally...
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The Quest for the Time-bird

DOS1989 point and click adventure
Based on the French comic series, The Quest for the Time-bird (1989, DOS) offers a fantasy adventure full of personality, odd creatures, and enough lore to fill a small library. Th...
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The Scoop

DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
A detective adventure inspired by Agatha Christie’s collaborative story, The Scoop (1989, DOS) turns you into a newspaper reporter poking around a suspicious death with nothi...
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The Secret of Monkey Island

DOS1990protecteddemo point and click adventure
The Secret of Monkey Island is perhaps the most popular point and click adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games and designed by the trio Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Scha...
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The Shadows of Mordor

DOS1988 interactive fiction
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The Summoning

DOS1992protected dungeon crawl
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The Third Courier

DOS1989
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...
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The Three Musketeers

DOS1987 graphic adventure with text parser
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The Tracer Sanction

DOS1985 graphic adventure with text parser
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The Twilight Zone

DOS1988 graphic adventure with text parser
The Twilight Zone is an abandoned sci-fi themed adventure game based on the popular TV series of the same name. The Twilight zone released in 1988 by First Row Software Publishing ...
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The Usurper

DOS1989 interactive fiction
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The Witness

DOS1983 interactive fiction
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The Wizard of Oz

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Three Sisters' Story

DOS1999NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
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Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS1988 interactive fiction
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Timequest

DOS1991protected interactive fiction
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Toonstruck

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected point and click adventure
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Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer

DOS1995 point and click adventure
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Transylvania

DOS1986freeware interactive fiction
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Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night

DOS1990 interactive fiction
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Treasure Island

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Trinity

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Troll's Tale

DOS1984
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True Love

Windows XP/98/951995NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
True Love is abandoned visual novel and dating simulation developed by Software House Parsley and released by JAST USA in 1995 for Windows. True Love is one of the many erotic...
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Udoiana Raunes

DOS1998 point and click adventure
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Uninvited

DOSMac OS1987 point and click adventure
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Universe

DOS1994 point and click adventure