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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Hollywood Hijinx
DOS1986 interactive fiction
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Jewels of Darkness
DOS1986 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction
King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human
DOSMac OS1986protected graphic adventure with text parser
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 ...
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Moonmist
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Passengers on the Wind
DOS1986 interactive fiction, visual novel
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro...
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Silicon Dreams
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game com...
Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter
DOSMac OS1986 graphic adventure with text parser
Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line, released in 1986. It was created by the duo of Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, who later became known as the "Two Guys from An...
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS1986 interactive fiction
Tass Times in Tonetown
DOS1986 interactive fiction
The Black Cauldron
DOS1986freeware graphic adventure with text parser
The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 interactive fiction
The Pawn
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware interactive fiction
Trinity
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1986 trivia / quiz
Acheton
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Acheton (1987, DOS) is one of those text adventures where the game cheerfully tries to kill you every five minutes — and does so with words. You're tossed into a sprawling, brain-melting maze of puzzles so obscure they might...
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS1987 interactive fiction
If you ever wanted to roleplay in a text adventure where a coconut is of utmost importance, Beyond Zork has your back. This is Infocom at its most delightfully weird: part RPG, part parser game, all nonsense. You’ll customiz...
Border Zone
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Welcome to Border Zone (1987, DOS), where the Cold War is hot and your only weapon is your brain (and maybe a good map). This text-based espionage thriller from Infocom combines spy drama with multiple protagonists and a real-time...
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS1987 interactive fiction
Douglas Adams, the twisted genius behind Hitchhiker’s Guide, brings you the most terrifying adventure of all: paperwork. Bureaucracy turns mundane modern life into a text-based hellscape of lost forms, passive-aggressive cle...
Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True
DOS1987 point and click adventure
Demon's Forge
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Gnome Ranger
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Kingdom of Hamil
DOS1987 interactive fiction
Knight Orc
DOSMac OS1987 interactive fiction
Knight Orc is a text-based adventure game released in 1987 by Level 9 Computing, a British game development studio renowned for creating interactive fiction during the 1980s. In Knight Orc, you play as Grindleguts the Orc, fl...