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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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

DOS1991protecteddemo4.3/5 point and click adventure

Monkey Island 2 is the second game of the Monkey Island series, a point and click adventure game set in a world of pirates and mysterious treasures. Monkey Island 2 utilizes a command-based SCUMM interface and a branching dialogue system.

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.9/5 interactive fiction

Emmanuelle: A Game of Eroticism

DOS1989NSFW4/5

Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night

DOS19903/5 interactive fiction

Fable

DOS19964.2/5 point and click adventure

Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/9519983.8/5 point and click adventure

The Twilight Zone

DOS19884.2/5 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 is a text adventure, so you have to type in commands, but it's supported by the graphics.

Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch

DOS19923.8/5 point and click adventure

Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 interactive fiction

Mortville Manor

DOS19883.8/5 point and click adventure

Return to Ringworld

DOS19943.8/5 point and click adventure

Bargon Attack

DOS19923.7/5 point and click adventure

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 interactive fiction

Timequest

DOS1991protected4.1/5 interactive fiction

Avon

DOS19893.4/5 interactive fiction

Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.9/5 interactive fiction

Castle of Dr. Brain

DOS19914/5 puzzle adventure

Return of the Phantom

DOS1993protecteddemo3.7/5 point and click adventure

Return of the Phantom is adventure game set in France, designed by Raymond Benson, developed by MicroProse Software and released in 1993 for DOS only. Return of the Phantom is a third-person adventure game based on the book Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 interactive fiction

Metropolis

DOS19873.8/5

Brimstone

DOS19853.4/5 interactive fiction

Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

DOS19874/5 interactive fiction

Gumboots Australia

DOS19904/5

Riven: The Sequel to Myst

Windows XP/98/95Mac1997protecteddemo4/5 puzzle adventure

Riven is the sequel to the highly successful and critically acclaimed adventure game, Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds, Riven was released in 1997 and continues the narrative established in Myst. Just like its predecessor, Riven is a first-person point-and-click adventure game with a focus on exploration and puzzle-solving.The plot revolves around At...

Quest for glory 1: So you want to be a hero

DOS1989protected4/5 point and click adventure

Jinxter

DOS19884/5 interactive fiction

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS19824.2/5 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 was one of the most prolific developers of text-adventures for home computers and created memorable interactive fiction ga...