Abandonware DOS title

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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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...
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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...
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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 an...
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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 ...
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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 Scha...
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Three Sisters' Story

DOS1999NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
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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...
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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 pla...
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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...
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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 Crow...
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Amy's Fantasies

Windows XP/98/951995NSFW visual novel
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The Hobbit

DOS1983 interactive fiction
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Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW interactive fiction
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The adventures of Willy Beamish

DOS1991 point and click adventure
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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 ...
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Code-Name: Iceman

DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
Part Cold War thriller, part adventure game, part submarine simulator, Code-Name: Iceman is a Sierra title that demands patience, precision, and a deep respect for diplomacy and to...
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Operation Stealth

DOS1990 point and click adventure
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Discworld 2: Mortality Bytes!

DOS1996 point and click adventure
Released in 1996, Discworld 2: Mortality Bytes! continues the misadventures of Rincewind, who once again proves that cowardice can be a powerful survival tool. This time, Death has...
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KGB

DOS1992 point and click adventure
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Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW interactive fiction
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

DOS1990
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a strange but fascinating blend of adventure game, RPG, and comedy horror. You wander through a spooky mansion, solve puzzles, fight monsters, and g...
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Angel 3

DOS1990NSFW visual novel
Angel 3 is that kind of DOS game where you sit down thinking "I'll give it five minutes" and three hours later you're still trying to figure out what just happened. Released in 199...
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Discworld

DOS1995 point and click adventure
If you like your point-and-click adventures served with a side of absurd British humor, Discworld (1995, DOS) is a feast. Based on Terry Pratchett’s beloved universe, the gam...
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Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Windows Vista/7/8DOSLinuxMac 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 ba...
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Season of the Sakura

DOS1997NSFW visual novel
Season of the Sakura (1997) is what happens when a high school dating sim meets anime melodrama. You play a student navigating the treacherous waters of friendship, love, and quest...
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Mixed-up Fairy Tales

DOS1991 point and click adventure
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Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS1985 puzzle adventure
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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...
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Fatal Relations

Windows XP/98/951998NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
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Day of the Tentacle

DOSMac OS1993protected point and click adventure
Few games deserve the title of “classic” more than Day of the Tentacle (1993). It’s Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman at their weirdest, giving us time travel, mutant...