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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Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo point and click adventure

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1995 as a sequel to the original Gabriel Knight game, "Sins of the Fathers". The game was designe...

True Love

Windows XP/98/951995NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure

True Love is abandoned visual novel and dating simulation developed by Software House Parsley and released by JAST USA in 1995 for Windows. True Love is one of the many erotic anime-style visual novels released in the 1990s.

Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards

DOS1987NSFW graphic adventure with text parser

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the debut title in the Leisure Suit Larry series, created by Al Lowe and originally published by Sierra On-Line in 1987. The game follows Larry Laffer, a leisure-suit-wearing...

Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel

DOS1987 graphic adventure with text parser

Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel is an adventure game released in 1987 by Sierra On-Line, designed by former police officer Jim Walls. It's the first installment in the Police Quest series and is known for its realistic...

King's Quest 1: Quest for the Crown

DOS1984 graphic adventure with text parser

King's Quest: Quest for the Crown is the first game in the popular series of King's Quest. Developed by Sierra On-line, King's Quest is an early adventure game (one of the first animated adventures), a step up from the classic gra...

The Secret of Monkey Island

DOS1990protecteddemo point and click adventure

The Secret of Monkey Island is perhaps the most popular point and click adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games and designed by the trio Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer. In Monkey Island you're the would-be pirate G...

Three Sisters' Story

DOS1999NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure

Loom

DOSLinuxMac OS1990protecteddemo point and click adventure

Loom is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). It was designed by Brian Moriarty and is known for its unique gameplay mechanics and emphasis on storytelling. Loom is distinctive f...

Legend of Kyrandia

DOS1992 point and click adventure

The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One is the first installment in The Legend of Kyrandia series of point-and-click adventure games developed by Westwood Studios and released in 1992 for DOS, Amiga, Mac, etc.. The story revolves ar...

Amy's Fantasies

Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/111995NSFW visual novel

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS1982 interactive fiction

Zork is one of the most popular text-adventures and one of the first interactive fiction games ever created. The first Zork was developed in the seventies and ported on various platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom wa...

Season of the Sakura

DOS1997NSFW 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.

Dark Seed

DOS1992 point and click adventure

When H.R. Giger is involved, you know things will get weird. Dark Seed (1992) is a point-and-click horror adventure where you play Mike Dawson, a man haunted by nightmarish visions after an alien embryo is implanted in his skull. ...

Neuromancer

DOS1989 point and click adventure

The Neuromancer video game, released in 1988 by Interplay Productions, is an adventure/role-playing game loosely based on William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984). It combines elements of science fiction, hackin...

Rise of the Dragon

DOS1990 point and click adventure

Rise of the Dragon is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Dynamix in 1990. It was originally released for MS-DOS and later ported to other platforms such as the Amiga and Sega CD. The game is set in a cyber...

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...

Phantasmagoria

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1995protecteddemo point and click adventure, interactive movie

Phantasmagoria is a point-and-click horror adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line, released in 1995. Directed by Roberta Williams, Phantasmagoria departed from Sierra's usual fantasy and comedic themes to explore...

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

DOS1990

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a horror-themed point-and-click adventure and RPG video game released in 1990 by Accolade for platforms including Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It’s loosely based on the campy, gothic horror pe...

Geisha

DOS1990NSFW point and click adventure

Released in 1990, Geisha is one of those games that makes you ask, “Who thought this was a good idea?” Part adventure, part fever dream, it’s filled with surreal art, bizarre puzzles, and enough questionable cont...

The Hobbit

DOS1983 interactive fiction

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS2009protected point and click adventure

Templars, assassins, and a clueless American tourist named George. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is a 2D point-and-click masterpiece with more intrigue than a Vatican basement. Originally released in the ‘90s and ...

Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity

Windows XP/98/951995 point and click adventure

If you ever wanted to play a point-and-click adventure where the protagonists have the combined IQ of a slice of cheese, Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity is your masterpiece. Join these brainless legends as they attempt t...

Fairy Nights

Windows XP/98/952000NSFW visual novel

Myst

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1995protecteddemo puzzle adventure

Myst is a classic puzzle-adventure video game that was first released in 1993. It was developed by Cyan, a small independent game development studio. The game was initially released for the Macintosh platform and later ported to o...

A Night with Troi

DOS1991NSFW interactive fiction

A Night with Troi (1991) sounds like a fan fiction gone too far - and, well, that’s pretty much what it is. It’s a DOS-based “adventure” in the loosest sense, where you find yourself on the Enterprise with ...

Mixed-up Fairy Tales

DOS1991 point and click adventure

Emmanuelle: A Game of Eroticism

DOS1989NSFW

Planetfall

DOS1983 interactive fiction

Planetfall is an interactive fiction sci-fie game released in 1983 by Infocom, written by Steve Meretzky. It is often considered one of Infocom's best titles. You play as a low-ranking Ensign Seventh Class in the Stellar Patr...