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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Spider-Man 2: The Game
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 10/112004 third-person action-adventure
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 Thef...
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 ar...
Star Wars: Yoda Stories
Windows XP/98/951997
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 p...
Castle Wolfenstein
DOS1984 maze
Fade to Black
DOS1995 third-person shooter, third-person action-adventure
Castle Adventure
DOS1984freeware interactive fiction, dungeon crawl
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures
Windows 3.xMac OS1996demo
Fantastic Dizzy
DOS1994 platform
Cadaver: The Payoff
DOS1991 isometric action-adventure
Karadoc’s back, and apparently inflation hit the dungeon economy hard—he wants his gold! Cadaver: The Payoff is less a sequel and more a direct continuation, like finding an extra serving of mystery meat in your RPG st...
Below The Root
DOS1984 platform, metroidvania
Based on a book series almost nobody remembers, Below The Root drops you into a serene world of treehouses, talking children, and deeply philosophical moral choices. Combat does not exist. Instead, you explore, read minds, and try...
Jurassic Park
DOS1993
Alone in the Dark 3
DOS1994protected third-person action-adventure
By the time Alone in the Dark 3 (1994, DOS) rolls around, Edward Carnby has seen it all - so now it’s off to the Wild West, because of course it is. Zombies? Check. Cowboys? Check. Zombie cowboys? You bet. The gameplay is st...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Windows XP/98/952001 third-person action-adventure
Castlevania
DOS1990 metroidvania, platform
Castlevania, originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986, was developed and published by Konami. The game was known in Japan as Akumajo Dracula (Devil's Castle Dracula) and was later renamed Castlevania for i...
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 di...
Ecstatica
DOS1994 third-person action-adventure
Flashback: The Quest for Identity
DOS1993protected platform
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 envir...
Tomb Raider
DOS1996protected third-person action-adventure
The Immortal
DOS1991protected dungeon crawl, isometric 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 th...
Cadaver
DOS1990 isometric action-adventure
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a grave-robbing dwarf with a flair for interior dungeon decoration? Cadaver grants that peculiar wish. As Karadoc, you’ll wander an eerie fortress filled with traps, puzzles, and enough...
D/Generation
DOS1991 isometric action-adventure
Veil of Darkness
DOS1993protected isometric action-adventure
King of Chicago
DOSMac OS1987
American McGee's Alice
Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/11Mac OS2000 third-person action-adventure
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Windows XP/98/951999protected third-person action-adventure
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is an action-adventure game released in 1999, developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive. It’s the second game in the Legacy of Kain series. The game is set in the world...
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, ...