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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Moonmist
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Mortville Manor
DOS1988 point and click adventure
Avon
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Holy Grail
DOS1984 interactive fiction
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS1985 interactive fiction, life simulation
Noctropolis
DOS1994protected point and click adventure
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break
DOS1992protected interactive fiction
Shadow of the Comet
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected graphic adventure with text parser
Breakers
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Udoiana Raunes
DOS1998 point and click adventure
Silicon Dreams
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...
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.
Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox
DOS1993 point and click adventure
The Feeble Files
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
L.A. Crackdown
DOS1988
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Companions of Xanth
DOS1993protected point and click adventure
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess
DOS1989protected
Ween: The Prophecy
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Seastalker
DOS1984 interactive fiction
Spellbreaker
DOS1985 interactive fiction
ShadowForce
DOS1994
Dragon World
DOS1984 interactive fiction
The Final Battle
DOS1991 point and click adventure
The Scoop
DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
Mindwheel
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Explora 2
DOS1989 point and click adventure
Passengers on the Wind 2
DOS1987 interactive fiction, visual novel
Borderworld
DOS1996 point and click adventure