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).

Recently added and trending adventure games

Lure of the Temptress

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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

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The Third Courier

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Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware
Blue Force

DOS19934.2/5 Tsunami Media
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Interplay Productions
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti does a Llittle Undercover Work

DOS1991NSFW4.1/5 Sierra On-Line
Quest for glory 4: Shadows of darkness

DOSWindows 3.x1993protected4.1/5 Sierra On-Line
Day of the Tentacle

DOS1993protected4.1/5 LucasArts
Legend of Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge

DOS19944.1/5 Westwood Studios
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

DOS1988protected4.1/5 LucasArts
Police Quest: Open Season

DOSWindows 3.x1993protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist

DOSWindows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac1993protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a comedy point & click adventure game set in the old American West designed by Al Lowe and Josh Mandel, developed and released by Sierra On-Line in 1993 for DOS, Windows and Macintosh. Initially released on floppy, Freddy Pharkas was later re-released on CD-ROM as a new edition.
Toonstruck

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1996protected4.2/5 Virgin Interactive
Where in time is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS19894.2/5 Broderbund
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1994protected3.9/5 Access Software
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe

DOS19924.1/5 Broderbund
Lost in Time

DOS19934/5 Coktel Vision
Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation

DOS1993protected4.2/5 Dynamix
King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human

DOSMac1986protected4.1/5 Sierra On-Line

King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human is a fantasy adventure game designed by Roberta Williams, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1986 for DOS and for other platforms such as Apple 2, Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh. King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human is also part of the King's quest series.
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

DOS19914.2/5 Sierra On-Line
I have no Mouth and I Must Scream

DOS1995protected4/5 The Dreamers Guild
Universe

DOS19944/5 Core Design
Lure of the Temptress

DOS1992freeware4/5 Revolution Software

Lure of the Temptress is an DOS fantasy adventure game, developed by Revolution Software, designed by Dave Cummins and published by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Lure of the Temptress was the first game to use Virtual Theatre, a game engine also developed by Revolution Software. Lure of the Temptress was later released as freeware in 2003.
Guilty

DOS19954.1/5 Divide by zero
Shadowgate

DOSWindows 3.xMac19884.1/5 ICOM Simulations

Shadowgate is an abandoned fantasy-themed adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released by Mindscape in 1988 for Macintosh, DOS, and also for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, NES. Shadowgate uses the ICOM MacVenture engine (Deja Vu, Uninvited). Shadowgate was later remade in an enhanced version for Windows 3.1.
Amazon

DOS19843.7/5 Telarium
Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
Mixed-up Mother Goose

DOS19874.1/5 Sierra On-Line
Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra

DOSWindows 3.x1992protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
Flight of the Amazon Queen

DOS1995freeware3.9/5 Interactive Binary Illusions
King's Quest 2: Romancing the Throne

DOS1985protected3.9/5 Sierra On-Line