The most popular abandonware action-adventure games

Action-adventure video games combine elements of both the action and adventure genres, offering a mix of fast-paced gameplay and exploration within a narrative-driven context. These games often feature a central storyline, character development, and a world for players to explore. The genre encompasses a broad range of gameplay styles and settings.

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Star Wars: Yoda Stories

Windows XP/98/951997

Grand Theft Auto

DOSWindows XP/98/951997 racing: car

In Grand Theft Auto the player takes the role of a criminal who can freely roam around the city (Liberty City) completing tasks for the local mobs: stealing cars, killing pedestrians, all of it while avoiding the police and the army. The freedom of gameplay and the "I'm the bad guy" appeal of the game made the Grand Theft Auto series very popular.

Grand Theft Auto 2

Windows XP/98/951999 racing: car

Grand Theft Auto 2 is the second chapter in the successful Grand Theft Auto series. GTA 2 is an abandoned top-down action-adventure / driving hybrid game developed by DMA Design and released by Rockstar Games in 1999 for various platforms, including PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, and Game Boy Color. GTA2 is set in a fictional city called "Any...

Spider-Man 2: The Game

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2004 third-person action-adventure

Little Big Adventure

DOS1994protected isometric action-adventure

Driller

DOS1987 first-person action-adventure

Driller (also known as Space Station Oblivion) is an abandoned action-adventure game developed by Incentive and released by Epyx in 1987 based on the Freescape Engine. In Driller, you control an excavation probe in a real 3d environment, through a first person view. The goal of the game is to place a drilling rig in each of the 8 regions of the moo...

Tomb Raider

DOS1996protected third-person action-adventure

Castle Wolfenstein

DOS1984 maze

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Windows XP/98/952001 third-person action-adventure

Dark Side

DOS1988 first-person action-adventure

Another World

DOS1991protected platform

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected racing: car

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an open-world action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games in 2002. It's the fourth main entry in the GTA series and serves as a spiritual successor to Grand Theft Auto III. Set in Vice City, a fictional metropolis inspired by Miami in the 1980s, the game captures the neon-soa...

Total Eclipse

DOS1988 first-person action-adventure

Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures

Windows 3.xMac OS1996demo

L'Eternauta: Gli Invasori della Città Eterna

DOS1994

Jack in the Dark

DOS1993 third-person action-adventure

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams

Windows XP/98/952002 third-person action-adventure

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is an enhanced version of the original Silent Hill 2, released in 2001 for the Xbox. It later appeared on PC and PlayStation 2 under titles like Director’s Cut or Greatest Hits, depending on the region. In the main game, James Sunderland receives a letter from his dead wife, Mary, beckoning him to Silent Hi...

Fade to Black

DOS1995 third-person shooter, third-person action-adventure

Eternam

DOS1992protected first-person action-adventure

Eternam is an action-adventure video game developed by Infogrames and released in 1992. It's known for its unique and innovative approach to the adventure game genre.In Eternam, players take on the role of Don Jonz, a bored and disillusioned computer programmer. The game's story begins with Don Jonz being transported into a fantasy world by his com...

It Came from the Desert

DOS1990freeware

It Came from the Desert is an abandonware action-adventure game developed by Cinemaware and released in 1990 for PC (DOS) and Amiga. It Came From the Desert is an action-adventure game with a peculiar flavor: it's set in the 50s, in the USA, and it's based on those old monster movies like Them! (also involving killer ants).

D/Generation

DOS1991 isometric action-adventure

Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware interactive fiction, dungeon crawl

Ranx: The Video Game

DOS1990

Ranx is a 1990 action-adventure video game based on the Italian cyberpunk comic RanXerox, created by artist Tanino Liberatore. The game was developed by Ubisoft and released for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS platforms. The game follows RanXerox, a violent and artificially enhanced cyborg in dystopian cyberpunk world. The gameplay is a mix of...