Abandonware adventure games sorted by release date
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 Curse of Monkey Island
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
The Curse of Monkey Island is the third installment in the iconic Monkey Island point-and-click adventure series developed by LucasArts. Released in 1997, it introduced a new visual style with hand-drawn cartoon-like animations.&n...
The Feeble Files
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
The Last Express
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo point and click adventure
The Last Express, released in 1997, is a unique adventure game designed by Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. Set on the Orient Express in July 1914, just before World War I, the game offers an intricate and immersiv...
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...
Fatal Relations
Windows XP/98/951998NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
Fuck Quest
DOS1998freewareNSFW graphic adventure with text parser
Grim Fandango
Windows XP/98/951998protecteddemo
Grim Fandango is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1998 and is known for its unique setting and distinctive art style. The game was directed by Tim Schafer, who also co-wrote the script.The...
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
Windows XP/98/951998 point and click adventure
Sanitarium
Windows XP/98/951998protected point and click adventure
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1998protected puzzle adventure
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is the third chapter in The Journeyman Project series. It's a science fiction adventure game developed by Presto Studios, designed by Phil Saunders and published by Red Orb Entertainment in...
Udoiana Raunes
DOS1998 point and click adventure
Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans
Windows XP/98/951998canceled point and click adventure
Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1999protected puzzle adventure
Amerzone is like stepping into a dream where logic is optional and atmosphere is everything. You play a journalist unraveling the mystery of a dying explorer’s last journey, which involves a lost civilization, mystical eggs,...
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Windows XP/98/951999protected point and click adventure
Three Sisters' Story
DOS1999NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
Escape from Monkey Island
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000protected
Fairy Nights
Windows XP/98/952000NSFW visual novel
Kingdom Without End
DOS2001freeware interactive fiction
Space Quest: The Lost Chapter
DOS2001 graphic adventure with text parser
Syberia
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected point and click adventure
1893: A World's Fair Mystery
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003 interactive fiction
1893: A World's Fair Mystery is an interactive fiction game developed by the American studio Illuminated Lantern and released in 2002. Set during the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the game combines historical ficti...
Cirque de Zale
Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/112004freeware point and click adventure
Cirque de Zale is a point-and-click adventure game released in 2004, developed by Rebecca Clements as a freeware title. Created using the Adventure Game Studio (AGS) engine, the game is heavily inspired by classic LucasArts advent...
Maniac Mansion Deluxe
Windows 10/112004freewareremake point and click adventure
Maniac Mansion Deluxe is the unofficial sequel to the acclaimed point & click adventure game released by LucasFilm in 1987. Maniac Mansion Deluxe it's a fan-made adventure developed by LucasFans Games and released in 2004 and ...
Syberia 2
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 10/112004protected point and click adventure
Syberia 2 is an adventure game developed by Microïds and released in 2004 as a direct sequel to the critically acclaimed Syberia (2002). The story picks up where the first game left off, with Kate Walker leaving behind h...
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS2009protected point and click adventure
Templars, assassins, and a clueless American tourist named George. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is a 2D point-and-click masterpiece with more intrigue than a Vatican basement. Originally released in the ‘90s and ...
King's Quest III Redux: To Heir is Human
Windows 10/11Mac OS2011freewareremake point and click adventure