The best 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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The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo puzzle adventure
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Presto Studios, released in 1995 as a sequel to The Journeyman Project. The Journeyman Project series is set in a future where time tra...
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...
True Love
Windows XP/98/951995NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
True Love is abandoned visual novel and dating simulation developed by Software House Parsley and released by JAST USA in 1995 for Windows. True Love is one of the many erotic anime-style visual novels released in the 1990s.
A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac OS1985 interactive fiction
If you ever wanted to play a video game that doubles as a philosophical think piece, A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985) is your ride. Released for DOS and Macintosh, this is one of Infocom’s most ambitious works - a text adventu...
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS1992 interactive fiction
Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel ...
I have no Mouth and I Must Scream
DOS1995protected point and click adventure
Return to Zork
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Journey: The Quest Begins
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1993protecteddemo point and click adventure
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1993 and designed by Jane Jensen. The game is the first installment in the Gabriel Knight series...
Blue Force
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Blue Force is a police procedural adventure game developed and released by Tsunami Games in 1993. Blue Force is a point-and-click adventure game that follows the protagonist, Jake Ryan, a rookie police officer. The gameplay r...
Future Wars: Adventures in Time
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Lancelot
DOS1988 interactive fiction
Myth
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls
DOS1990protected interactive fiction
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe
DOS1993 trivia / quiz, puzzle adventure
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break
DOS1992protected interactive fiction
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS1986 interactive fiction
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...
Dreamweb
DOS1994freeware point and click adventure
Dreamweb is a top-down point and click adventure set in a dark, cyberpunk city. You play as Ryan who has strange, violent, dreams. A top down perspective and the sheer number of items your character can pick up are just two of the...
Timequest
DOS1991protected interactive fiction
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...
Innocent Until Caught
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Amazon: Guardians of Eden
DOS1992 point and click adventure
Think Indiana Jones meets 90s daytime TV. Amazon: Guardians of Eden is a cinematic point-and-click adventure filled with jungles, conspiracies, and more hair gel than any explorer should carry. As a square-jawed hero investigating...
Quest for Glory 3: Wages of War
DOS1992protecteddemo point and click adventure
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War is an adventure/role-playing game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1992. The player takes on the role of the Hero, who has journeyed from the city of Shapeir to the savannahs and ...
Runaway City
DOS1995NSFW visual novel
Code-Name: Iceman
DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
Code-Name: Iceman is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1989. Designed by Jim Walls, known for his work on the "Police Quest" series, "Code-Name: Iceman" blends elements of adventure, puzzle-solv...
Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.
DOS1991protected point and click adventure
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected interactive fiction
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW interactive fiction
A Night with Troi (1991) sounds like a fan fiction gone too far - and, well, that’s pretty much what it is. It’s a DOS-based “adventure” in the loosest sense, where you find yourself on the Enterprise with ...