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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Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected interactive fiction

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 for DOS and Amiga. At it's core, The Twilight Zone...

Once Upon a Forest

DOS1995 point and click adventure

Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS1985 interactive fiction, life simulation

Inspector Gadget: Global terror!

DOS1992 point and click adventure

Seastalker

DOS1984 interactive fiction

Forbidden Castle

DOS1985 interactive fiction

L.A. Crackdown

DOS1988

Welcome to Los Angeles, where crime runs rampant and your job is to bring the chaos down with nothing but surveillance skills and a stern attitude. L.A. Crackdown puts you in the shoes of a tactical commander who never actually le...

Essex

DOS1985 interactive fiction

Blackstar: Agent of Justice

DOS1995 point and click adventure

In Blackstar: Agent of Justice (1995), you play a noir-style detective in a trench coat so dramatic it probably has its own union. Set in a dark, crime-ridden city where everyone talks like they’ve swallowed gravel, it&rsquo...

Udoiana Raunes

DOS1998 point and click adventure

The Orion Conspiracy

DOS1995 point and click adventure

Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/951998 point and click adventure

The Beverly Hillbillies

DOS1993 point and click adventure

The Summoning

DOS1992protected dungeon crawl

Acheton

DOS1987 interactive fiction

Acheton (1987, DOS) is one of those text adventures where the game cheerfully tries to kill you every five minutes — and does so with words. You're tossed into a sprawling, brain-melting maze of puzzles so obscure they might...

Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction

Infidel

DOS1983 interactive fiction

Murder Club

DOSWindows XP/98/951991 visual novel

Dragon World

DOS1984 interactive fiction

Trinity

DOS1986 interactive fiction

ShadowForce

DOS1994

Plague of the Moon

DOS1994 point and click adventure

Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS1989 visual novel, interactive fiction

More illustrations, more intrigue, more doom. The Crystal of Doom continues the hybrid of comic-style storytelling and light role-playing with just enough choices to make you feel clever (or guilty). This time, you’re chasin...

Return to Doom

DOS1988 interactive fiction

Normality

DOS1996protecteddemo point and click adventure

Normality is a first-person adventure video game developed by Gremlin Interactive and released in 1996. The game is set in a dystopian future where a totalitarian regime known as the One True Government (OTG) controls the city of ...