The most popular abandonware action-adventure games
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Grand Theft Auto
DOSWindows XP/98/9519974/5 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/98/9519994.1/5 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/98/95Mac20044.2/5 third-person action-adventure
System Shock 2
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac1999protected4.2/5 first-person shooter, action RPG, first-person action-adventure
System Shock 2 is a first-person action role-playing video game developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios. It was released in 1999 and is known for its innovative gameplay, atmospheric setting, and deep narrative.The game is set in a futuristic cyberpunk universe aboard the starship Von Braun in the year 2114. Players assume the role ...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Windows XP/98/9520014.1/5 third-person action-adventure
Star Wars: Yoda Stories
Windows XP/98/9519974.1/5
La Abadia del Crimen
DOS19874.2/5 isometric action-adventure
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.
Driller
DOS19874.3/5 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...
Castlevania
DOS19903.9/5 metroidvania, platform
Outcast
Windows XP/98/951999protected4.2/5 third-person action-adventure
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures
Windows 3.xMac1996demo4.1/5
Alone in the Dark
DOS1992protected4.1/5 third-person action-adventure
Ecstatica
DOS19944.2/5 third-person action-adventure
D/Generation
DOS19914/5 isometric action-adventure
Castle Wolfenstein
DOS19844.1/5 maze
Another World
DOS1991protected4.1/5 platform
Little Big Adventure
DOS1994protected4.2/5 isometric action-adventure
Alone in the Dark 2
DOS1993protected4/5 third-person action-adventure
Alone in the Dark 3
DOS1994protected4/5 third-person action-adventure
It Came from the Desert
DOS1990freeware4.1/5
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).
Flashback: The Quest for Identity
DOS1993protected4.2/5 platform
Below The Root
DOS19843.7/5 platform, metroidvania
Below the root is an atipycal early 2 dimensional adventure game based on the Zilpha Keatley Snyder novels: the Green Sky Trilogy. The player can choose one of many characters, each with different skills and embark in a quest to eliminate the distrust between two races: the Erdling and the Kindar.
System Shock
DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person shooter, action RPG, first-person action-adventure
Tomb Raider II
Windows XP/98/95Mac1997protected4/5 third-person action-adventure
Jurassic Park
DOS19934.2/5
Impossible Mission 2
DOS19884.3/5 platform, tile-matching
Fade to Black
DOS19954.1/5 third-person action-adventure
Thief: The Dark Project
Windows XP/98/951998protected4.4/5 first-person action-adventure
Beverly Hills Cop
DOS19903.2/5 racing: car, platform
The Beverly Hills Cop video game by Tynesoft is an action-adventure game based on the popular film franchise starring Eddie Murphy. It was released in 1990 for various home computer platforms, including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC.In the game, players take on the role of Axel Foley, the wise-cracking detective played by Murphy in...
Metal Gear
DOS19904.1/5