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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Sanitarium

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 interactive fiction

Scrooge

DOS19913/5 interactive fiction

Scrooge is an abandoned interactive fiction graphic adventure game developed and released by Leisuresoft in 1991 for DO. Scrooge is based on the popular Christmas tale of the same name.

Season of the Sakura

DOS1997NSFW4.1/5 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.

Seastalker

DOS19844/5 interactive fiction

Sex Olympics

DOS1990NSFW3.9/5 point and click adventure

Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW4/5 interactive fiction

Sexy Fighter

DOS1993NSFW3.8/5 fighting, visual novel

Shadow of the Comet

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected3.9/5 graphic adventure with text parser

ShadowForce

DOS19943.3/5

Shadowgate

DOSWindows 3.xMac OS19884/5 point and click adventure

Shadowgate is an abandoned fantasy-themed adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released by Mindscape in 1988 for Macintosh, DOS, and also for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, NES. Shadowgate uses the ICOM MacVenture engine (Deja Vu, Uninvited). Shadowgate was later remade in an enhanced version for Windows 3.1.

Shannara

DOS1995protected4/5 point and click adventure

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

Windows XP/98/951991protected4.1/5 interactive movie

Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS19853.5/5 interactive fiction

Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 interactive fiction

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction

Silicon Dreams

DOS19863.6/5 interactive fiction

Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...

Simon the Sorcerer

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1993protected4.1/5 point and click adventure

Simon the Sorcerer is adventure game designed by Simon Woodroffe, developed and published by Adventure Soft and released in 1993. Often overlooked, Simon The Sorcerer is one of the finest point & click adventure games ever designed for DOS. In an era dominated by LucasFilm Games (later renamed LucasArts) and Sierra, Adventure Soft (the guys beh...

Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror

DOS19863.4/5 interactive fiction

Snoopy and Peanuts

DOS19904/5

Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 interactive fiction

Sorcerer

DOS19843.9/5 interactive fiction

Space Ace

DOS19894.2/5 interactive movie

Space Ace 2: Borf's Revenge

DOS19913.7/5 interactive movie

Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter

DOSMac OS19864.3/5 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...