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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EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

DOS19914.1/5 point and click adventure

Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus

DOS19914/5 dungeon crawl, point and click adventure

Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is an abandoned horror adventure/RPG hybrid game with elements of dark fantasy, developed by Horror Soft and published by Accolade for DOS in 1991. Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is also part of the Elvira series of games, each of one based on the popular movie/TV personality Elvira.

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

DOS19904/5

Emmanuelle: A Game of Eroticism

DOS1989NSFW3.9/5

Enchanter

DOS19833.3/5 interactive fiction

Eric the Unready

DOS1993protected4.1/5 interactive fiction

Escape from delirium

DOS19953.9/5 point and click adventure

Essex

DOS19853.6/5 interactive fiction

Explora 2

DOS19893.6/5 point and click adventure

Fable

DOS19964.2/5 point and click adventure

Fairy Nights

Windows XP/98/952000NSFW4/5 visual novel

Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 interactive fiction

Fascination

DOS1991NSFW3.9/5 point and click adventure

Fatal Relations

Windows XP/98/951998NSFW4.1/5 visual novel, point and click adventure

Fish!

DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction

Flight of the Amazon Queen

DOS1995freeware3.9/5 point and click adventure

Flight of the Amazon Queen is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Interactive Binary Illusions and originally released in 1995. The game is heavily inspired by the likes of Indiana Jones and Monkey Island, combining humor, a pulp-style adventure, and a variety of puzzles. The game is set in the 1940s and follows the story of Joe King...

Follow the Reader

DOS19923.9/5 puzzle adventure

Forbidden Castle

DOS19854/5 interactive fiction

Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 interactive fiction

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist

DOSWindows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1993protecteddemo4.2/5 point and click adventure

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a humorous point-and-click adventure game from 1993 developed by Sierra On-Line and co-designed by Al Lowe (creator of Leisure Suit Larry) and Josh Mandel. Set in the Old West, Freddy Pharkas is a blend of comedy and Western tropes. The game follows Freddy Pharkas, a former gunslinger who left his gun-sli...

Frederik Pohl's Gateway

DOS19924.1/5 interactive fiction

Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway. Tt was designed by Michael Verdu and Glen R. Dahlgren and published by Legend Entertainment in 1992.

Free D.C.!

DOS19913.6/5 point and click adventure

Fuck Quest

DOS1998freewareNSFW3.7/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Full Throttle

DOS1995protecteddemo4.2/5 point and click adventure

Future Wars: Adventures in Time

DOS19904.1/5 point and click adventure

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo4.1/5 point and click adventure

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1995 as a sequel to the original Gabriel Knight game, "Sins of the Fathers". The game was designed by Jane Jensen, who also wrote the story and script.In GK2 The Beast Within, players assume the role of Gabriel Knight...

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1993protecteddemo4.1/5 point and click adventure

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1993 and designed by Jane Jensen. The game is the first installment in the Gabriel Knight series.The story revolves around Gabriel Knight, a struggling writer living in New Orleans. He inherits a bookstore from his d...