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 anime-style visual novels released in the 1990s.
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Code-Name: Iceman

DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
Code-Name: Iceman is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1989. Designed by Jim Walls, known for his work on the "Police Quest" series, "Code-Name: Iceman" blends elements of adventure, puzzle-solving, and espionage in a Cold War-era setting.In the game, players assume the role of John Westland, a United States Navy...
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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 animated adventures), a step up from the classic graphical interactive fiction of the time. The player can use the keyword both to move the character around the game world ...
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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 Police Quest series and is known for its realistic portrayal of police procedures.In the game, you play as Sonny Bonds, a police officer in the fictional city of Lytton, ...
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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 game follows Larry Laffer, a leisure-suit-wearing man in his forties who, despite being a virgin, is determined to find true love over the course of a wild night in the ...
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Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail

DOS1990 graphic adventure with text parser
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail is an old DOS point and click adventure game designed by Christy Marx, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1990. As the title implies, Conquests of Camelot setting is based on the Arthurian legends.
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Three Sisters' Story

DOS1999NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
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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 Crowe, who later became known as the "Two Guys from Andromeda". The game is renowned for its humor and engaging story set in a science fiction universe.In Space Quest I playe...
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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 Schafer. In Monkey Island you're the would-be pirate Guybrush Threepwood on a quest to become a fearsome pirate in the Caribbean. Monkey Island uses one of the most friendlie...
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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 platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom was one of the most prolific developers of text-adventures for home computers and created memorable interactive fiction ga...
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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 DOS, Amiga, Mac, etc.. The story revolves around Malcolm, who has seized power and turned Brandon's grandfather, Kallak, into stone. To save Kallak and the kingdom,...
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Angel 3

DOS1990NSFW visual novel
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The Lurking Horror

DOS1987 interactive fiction
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Fairy Nights

Windows XP/98/952000NSFW visual novel
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Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire

DOS1990protecteddemo point and click adventure
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is the second installment in Sierra On-Line's Quest for Glory series, blending classic adventure gameplay with RPG elements in a world inspired by Middle Eastern folklore. Released in 1990 for Amiga and DOS, it was developed by Lori and Corey Cole.At the start of the game, players must choose a class from one of th...
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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 cyberpunk-inspired future Los Angeles, where the player assumes the role of William "Blade" Hunter, a private detective taske...
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Geisha

DOS1990NSFW point and click adventure
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Fatal Relations

Windows XP/98/951998NSFW visual novel, point and click adventure
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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.
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Fuck Quest

DOS1998freewareNSFW graphic adventure with text parser
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Dark Seed

DOS1992 point and click adventure
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Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS2009protected point and click adventure
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Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protecteddemoNSFW point and click adventure
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It is the sixth installment in the Leisure Suit Larry series and was released in 1996. The game was designed by Al Lowe, the creator of the series, and it continued the humorous and adult-themed style that the series is known for. In Love for...
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Hero's Quest: So you want to be a hero

DOS1989 point and click adventure
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The Curse of Monkey Island

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected point and click adventure
The Curse of Monkey Island is the third installment in the iconic Monkey Island point-and-click adventure series developed by LucasArts. Released in 1997, it introduced a new visual style with hand-drawn cartoon-like animations. This time, Guybrush accidentally curses his beloved, Elaine Marley, by giving her a cursed engagement ring that turn...
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Heart of China

DOS1991 point and click adventure
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

DOS1991protecteddemo point and click adventure
Monkey Island 2 is the second game of the Monkey Island series, a point and click adventure game set in a world of pirates and mysterious treasures. Monkey Island 2 utilizes a command-based SCUMM interface and a branching dialogue system.
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Crescent

DOS1993NSFW visual novel
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Teresa: House Guest

DOS1993NSFW visual novel
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Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)

DOS1988NSFW graphic adventure with text parser