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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Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
DOS1990 graphic adventure with text parser
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail is an old DOS point and click adventure game designed by Christy Marx, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1990. As the title implies, Conquests of Camelot setting is based o...
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
DOS1985 interactive fiction
Planet of Lust
DOS1989NSFW graphic adventure with text parser
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo
DOS1996 point and click adventure
Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra
DOSWindows 3.x1992protecteddemo point and click adventure
Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1992. The game is a sequel to The Colonel's Bequest and follows the adventures of the protagonist, Laura Bow, a yo...
The Last Express
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo point and click adventure
The Last Express, released in 1997, is a unique adventure game designed by Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. Set on the Orient Express in July 1914, just before World War I, the game offers an intricate and immersiv...
Fable
DOS1996 point and click adventure
Countdown
DOS1990 point and click adventure
Cruise for a Corpse
DOS1991 point and click adventure
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS1989 interactive fiction
With Zork Zero, Infocom decided to throw everything into the cauldron: graphics, mouse support, and a jester who won’t shut up. A prequel to the original trilogy, it’s stuffed with puzzles, jokes, and deeply Zorkian no...
Amnesia
DOS1986 interactive fiction
In Amnesia, you wake up in a hotel room with no idea who you are, where you are, or why someone wants you dead. And no, this isn’t a gritty FPS—it’s a text adventure. That’s right, no graphics, just your im...
Simon the Sorcerer
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1993protected point and click adventure
Simon the Sorcerer is adventure game designed by Simon Woodroffe, developed and published by Adventure Soft and released in 1993. Often overlooked, Simon The Sorcerer is one of the finest point & click adventure games ever des...
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...
Lost in Time
DOS1993 point and click adventure
City of Lost Children
DOS1997
Wayne's World
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Wayne's World is an abandoned point and click adventure game based on the movie of the same name. In Wayne's World you control both the characters of Wayne and Garth (created by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey) in a quest to save their...
BloodNet
DOS1993protected point and click adventure
BloodNet combines vampires, cyberspace, and noir in a cocktail so strange it probably shouldn’t work but somehow does. You are a hacker who just got bitten by a vampire and now you must juggle your thirst for blood with your...
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...
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS1986 interactive fiction
The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 interactive fiction
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
DOS1989protecteddemo point and click adventure
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure is a point-and-click adventure game released in 1989 by Lucasfilm Games. The game was designed by Ron Gilbert, David Fox, and Noah Falstein. It is based on the 1989 film "I...
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 ...
Flight of the Amazon Queen
DOS1995freeware point and click adventure
Flight of the Amazon Queen is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Interactive Binary Illusions and originally released in 1995. The game is heavily inspired by the likes of Indiana Jones and Monkey Island, combining humo...
Ween: The Prophecy
DOS1993 point and click adventure
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
DOS1992protected point and click adventure
Guilty
DOS1995 point and click adventure
Uninvited
DOSMac OS1987 point and click adventure
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...
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Windows XP/98/951999protected point and click adventure
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...