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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Future Wars: Adventures in Time
DOS19904.1/5 point and click adventure
9 Princes in Amber
DOS19854.1/5 interactive fiction
Blue Force
DOS19934.1/5 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 revolves around solving various crimes, gathering evidence, and engaging in police procedures. The game is set in th...
Season of the Sakura
DOS1997NSFW4.1/5 visual novel
Season of the Sakura is an abandoned visual novel game developed by JAST USA and released by in 1997 for DOS. Season of the Sakura is one of the many Japanese visual novels published in the 90s with a eroge theme.
Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.
DOS1991protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected4.1/5 interactive fiction
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break
DOS1992protected4.1/5 interactive fiction
Ween: The Prophecy
DOS19934.1/5 point and click adventure
Discworld
DOS19954.1/5 point and click adventure
Murder Club
DOSWindows XP/98/9519914.1/5 visual novel
Plague of the Moon
DOS19944.1/5 point and click adventure
Time and Magik: The Trilogy
DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction
Amazon: Guardians of Eden
DOS19924.1/5 point and click adventure
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
DOS1988protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). It was first released in 1988 for various platforms, including the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Amiga, and others.The game follows the adventures of Zak McKracken, a tabloid newspaper reporter, as he uncovers a plot by a...
Innocent Until Caught
DOS19934.1/5 point and click adventure
The Lurking Horror
DOS19874.1/5 interactive fiction
Day of the Tentacle
DOSMac OS1993protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Day of the Tentacle is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1993 as a sequel to the game Maniac Mansion. The storyline revolves around three main characters: Bernard Bernoulli, Hoagie, and Laverne. The trio becomes entangled in a time-traveling escapade caused by the Purple Tentacle, an e...
The Dig
DOSMac OS1995protecteddemo4.1/5 point and click adventure
The Dig is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was originally released in 1995 for MS-DOS and later for other platforms, including Mac OS and Windows. The game is known for its atmospheric storytelling, puzzle-solving gameplay, and collaboration with renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke. The Dig inv...
Trinity
DOS19864.1/5 interactive fiction
Discworld 2: Mortality Bytes!
DOS19964.1/5 point and click adventure
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS19914.1/5 interactive fiction
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
The Colonel's Bequest
DOS1989protecteddemo4.1/5
The Colonel's Bequest is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1989 for various platforms, including MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. The game was created by Roberta Williams, co-founder of Sierra On-Line.The game is part of the "Laura Bow" series, with the full title being "Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequ...
Dreamweb
DOS1994freeware4.1/5 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 peculiarities of this game. Dreamweb was developed by Creative Reality and published by Empire Interactive for DOS in 1...
Gold Rush!
DOS1988protected4.1/5 graphic adventure with text parser
The 11th Hour
Windows XP/98/951995protected4.1/5 puzzle adventure
Prisoner of Ice
DOS1995protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Shadowgate
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS19884.1/5 point and click adventure
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.
KGB
DOS19924.1/5 point and click adventure
Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation
DOS1993protected4.1/5 point and click adventure
Timequest
DOS1991protected4.1/5 interactive fiction