Abandonware adventure games sorted by release date

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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Atlantis: The Lost Tales

adventureDOS, Windows XP/98/95, Mac OS

Angel 3

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Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW3.9/5 interactive fiction

Adventure in Serenia

DOS19823.6/5 interactive fiction

Deadline

DOS19823.9/5 interactive fiction

Starcross

DOS19823.7/5 interactive fiction

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS19824.2/5 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...

Enchanter

DOS19833.3/5 interactive fiction

Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 interactive fiction

Infidel

DOS19833.3/5 interactive fiction

Planetfall

DOS19834.2/5 interactive fiction

Suspended

DOS19833.9/5 interactive fiction

The Hobbit

DOS19834/5 interactive fiction

The Witness

DOS19834/5 interactive fiction

Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

DOS19834.2/5 interactive fiction

Amazon

DOS19843.8/5 interactive fiction

Cutthroats

DOS19843.4/5 interactive fiction

Dragon World

DOS19843.9/5 interactive fiction

Earthly delights

DOS19843.6/5 interactive fiction

Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 interactive fiction

Holy Grail

DOS19843.7/5 interactive fiction

King's Quest 1: Quest for the Crown

DOS19844.3/5 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 ...

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.9/5 interactive fiction

Seastalker

DOS19844/5 interactive fiction

Sorcerer

DOS19843.9/5 interactive fiction

Suspect

DOS19844.2/5 interactive fiction

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOSMac OS1984freeware4.2/5 interactive fiction

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...