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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Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans
Windows XP/98/951998canceled point and click adventure
WaxWorks
DOSMac OS1992protecteddemo dungeon crawl
Waxworks was a horror-themed first-person role-playing game developed by Horror Soft, a subsidiary of Adventure Soft, published in 1992. The game is set in a wax museum where players must travel through different historical p...
Wayne's World
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Wayne's World is an abandoned point and click adventure game based on the movie of the same name. In Wayne's World you control both the characters of Wayne and Garth (created by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey) in a quest to save their...
Ween: The Prophecy
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1991 trivia / quiz
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?
DOSMac OS1988 trivia / quiz
Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe
DOS1993 trivia / quiz, puzzle adventure
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1986 trivia / quiz
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe edition
DOS1993 trivia / quiz
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe Edition is an educational computer game released in 1992 by Broderbund Software. It's part of the popular Carmen Sandiego franchise, designed to teach players about geography and history...
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1985 puzzle adventure
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe
DOS1992 puzzle adventure
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1989 trivia / quiz
Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? is an educational computer game and television game show franchise created by Broderbund. It focuses on teaching geography and history while players try to track down the infamous thief, Carmen Sa...
Wishbringer
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW interactive fiction
Yellow Kid: Giallo al Circo
DOS1994 point and click adventure
Italian noir meets circus mystery in Yellow Kid: Giallo al Circo, where you play a journalist with a yellow trench coat and more curiosity than self-preservation. The game’s art style oozes comic book flair, while the puzzle...
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
DOS1988protected point and click adventure
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). It was first released in 1988 for various platforms, including the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Amig...
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
DOS1982 interactive fiction
Zork is one of the most popular text-adventures and one of the first interactive fiction games ever created. The first Zork was developed in the seventies and ported on various platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom wa...
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
DOS1983 interactive fiction
You survived Zork I, and now it’s personal. In Zork II, you face off against the enigmatic Wizard of Frobozz, who exists mostly to mess with you like a magical prankster with way too much free time. The puzzles get harder, t...
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
DOS1984 interactive fiction
The final part of the original trilogy, Zork III ditches treasure-hunting in favor of introspection, moral puzzles, and the looming presence of the Dungeon Master—basically the Gandalf of passive-aggressive mentorship. It&rs...
Zork Nemesis
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected puzzle adventure
Dark, moody, and surprisingly creepy, Zork Nemesis is what happens when the whimsical world of Zork goes goth. The text adventures are gone—now it’s full-motion video, eerie soundscapes, and a storyline involving alche...
Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle
DOS1988 visual novel, interactive fiction
Interactive fiction meets comic book in this spin-off, where you follow a fantasy story through illustrated panels and scripted choices. Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle feels like your dungeon master turned into a storyboard ...
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...
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS1989 interactive fiction
With Zork Zero, Infocom decided to throw everything into the cauldron: graphics, mouse support, and a jester who won’t shut up. A prequel to the original trilogy, it’s stuffed with puzzles, jokes, and deeply Zorkian no...
Zork: Grand Inquisitor
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
Zork: Grand Inquisitor is the ultimate swan song for the series—and what a finale it is. Combining laugh-out-loud humor, point-and-click puzzles, and a talking lantern voiced by Michael McKean, it’s a love letter to fa...
Zyll
DOS1984
Released in 1984, Zyll is what happens when a Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master learns to code and decides to build a text adventure inside a coffee machine. There are no graphics - just glorious walls of text - but boy, is it...