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The most popular isometric action-adventure games

In isometric action-adventure games the action (and the adventure too...) takes place in an isometric environment. Isometric perspective allow the player to walk around in a 3D environment in a third-person view without the need of real 3D graphics. Like every action-adventure game, isometric action-adventure games can include features of both adventure and action elements: action mini-games, inventory, a story, etc.
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Veil of Darkness

DOS1993protected Event Horizon
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Little Big Adventure

DOS1994protected Adeline Software International
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Cadaver: The Payoff

DOS1991 Bitmap Brothers
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Cadaver

DOS1990 Bitmap Brothers
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The Immortal

DOS1991protected Sandcastle
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D/Generation

DOS1991 The Software Toolworks
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Last Ninja

DOS1988 System 3
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The Great Escape

DOS1986protected Denton Designs
As a prisoner of war, you must find a way to escape a prison in Germany in 1942. The prisoner has a daily routine which will follow if not controlled by the player for a certain amount of time.
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La Abadia del Crimen

DOS1987 Opera Soft
La Abadía del Crimen (The Abbey of Crime) is an action-adventure developed in Spain by Paco Menéndez in the mid-1980s. It was initially created for the Amstrad CPC and later ported to other popular home computer systems of the time, such as the ZX Spectrum and MSX. The game was released in 1987.
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Where Time Stood Still

DOS1987protected Denton Designs
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Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey)

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Adeline Software International
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Treasure Trap

DOS1990 Emerald Software
Treasure Trap is an abandoned isometric action-adventure game published for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST by Electronic Zoo in 1990. Treasure Trap was developed by Emerald Software and designed by Brian Kelly.
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