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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SRAM
DOS19873.5/5 graphic adventure with text parser
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS19883.3/5 interactive fiction
Spellbreaker
DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction
The 11th Hour
Windows XP/98/951995protected4.1/5 puzzle adventure
Border Zone
DOS19873.8/5 interactive fiction
Yellow Kid: Giallo al Circo
DOS19943.1/5 point and click adventure
Essex
DOS19853.6/5 interactive fiction
The Kristal
DOS19893.9/5 point and click adventure
The Usurper
DOS19893.8/5 interactive fiction
Return to Doom
DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction
The Tracer Sanction
DOS19853/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Seastalker
DOS19844/5 interactive fiction
Infidel
DOS19833.3/5 interactive fiction
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS19893.3/5 interactive fiction
Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen
DOS19884.1/5 visual novel, interactive fiction
Tass Times in Tonetown
DOS19863.9/5 interactive fiction
Psycho
DOS19883.4/5
Castle Elsinore
DOS19923.5/5 interactive fiction
Silicon Dreams
DOS19863.6/5 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...
Supernova
DOS1987freeware3.5/5 interactive fiction
Fish!
DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction
Suspended
DOS19833.9/5 interactive fiction
Forbidden Castle
DOS19854/5 interactive fiction
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS19873.4/5 interactive fiction
Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood
DOS19843.6/5
The Final Battle
DOS19913.9/5 point and click adventure
Borderworld
DOS19963.3/5 point and click adventure
The Scoop
DOS19893.8/5 graphic adventure with text parser
Mystery of the Mummy
DOS19883.6/5 point and click adventure
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.