This is where the Adventure Codex lists its favorite games. Contributions range from the must-have commercial classics to obscure indies. Enjoy!
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Name: 5 Days A Stranger, 7 Days A Skeptic, Trilby's Notes, 6 Days A Sacrifice
Developer: Ben Croshaw
Description: The John DeFoe quadrilogy. I have not played those, yet. I do however plan to do so in the near future as I have heard good things about the games.
Status: Free!
Link: http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/games.htm
Name: A Tale of Two Kingdoms
Developer: Crystal Shard
Description: A Tale of Two Kingdoms is an epic faerie tale, in the classic style of the famous Sierra and LucasArts graphical adventure games. It is a full-length game with an atmosphere of fairy tales, magic, and intrigue. Featuring five different endings; several sidequests and alternate solutions; teamwork with non-player characters; 75 minutes of high quality music; and director's commentary.
Status: Free!
Link: http://crystalshard.net/atotk.php
Name: Alone in the Dark
Developer: Infogrames
Description: "A very atmospheric and Lovecraftian adventure game. Can't beat the badass, early 3D models either." "Jeremy Hartwood has committed suicide in his Louisiana mansion. You take the role of either Edward Carnby, a private investigator, or Emily Hartwood, Jeremy's niece, and investigate the suspicious death. The three-floor mansion is reputed to be haunted by its eccentric past owner." -some guy at Amazon.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/91/Al ... ark+1.html
Name: Azrael's Tear.
Developer: Intelligent Games.
Description: An Adventure Game with some action (in the way of "press space to ready weapon, click to shoot") and some C&C. As a Raptor (a futuristic tomb robber) you must find the not so holy grail in an ancient underground complex, built by the templars, to save the world of destruction, or so you believe. You will meet mutated, insane, double-crossing templar along with ghosts, ancient beasts, weird experiments, a LOT of well written background, and one of the best surprise endings i ever saw. A shame the sequel, fully made, was never published.
Status: Commercial, Amazon has it new.
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Az ... _Tear.shtm
Name: Beneath a Steel Sky
Developer: Revolution Software
Description: "The game is considered to be among the true classics in the early era of graphic adventure games for the early 1990s. This, in part, is related to the mature science fiction theme that was chosen for this game[...] The game takes place at an unknown point in a dystopian future in Australia, where the Earth has been significantly damaged by pollution or nuclear fallout."-Wikipedia
Status: Re-released as freeware!
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky
Name: Beyond the Titanic
Developer: Scott Miller
Description: "Beyond the Titanic is a text adventure game written by Scott Miller for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). In the game, the player has to escape from the sinking ship Titanic." -Wikipedia
Status: Re-released as freeware!
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Titanic http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html
Name:Black Dahlia
Developer: Take 2 Interactive
Description: A horribly underrated, yet one of the best FMV adventure games of all time. It's set in Cleveland, in the early 1940s; the player assumes the role of Jim Pearson (a new member of a recently formed federal agency, the Office of Information), who has been assigned the task of investigating the Brotherhood of Thule (supposedly, a Nazi-related organization). Black Dahlia weaves an intriguing, compelling story with excellent, mind challenging puzzles. It's a truly remarkable, suspenseful game - however, the very ending part of the game might not be everyone's cup of tea.
Status:Commercial
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahl ... puter_game)
Name: Blade Runner
Developer: Westwood
Description: The game's story takes place somewhere in between Phillip K. Dick's book "Do Androinds Dream Of Electric Sheep" and the movie "Blade Runner". Game's storyline takes us to a dystopian Los Angeles of 2019 and moves alongside with the events seen in the movie. Earth's atmosphere and ecology were damaged after the third world war, but humanity managed to reach the depths of outer space. [...]
You are playing a detective Ray McCoy, who is a special Blade Runner unit - a hunter, trained to track-down replicants and "retire"(kill) them.
Blade Runner is a non-linear game, with multiple choices and consequences. [...] But choose carefully as almost each one of your actions has consequences. Short-term and long-term ones.[...]
The minuses of this game are that it's very short and not fully represents the dark atmosphere of the movie - like some areas may have too much sunlight.
But nonetheless it's a wonderful adventure game and probably with some rpg-ish feel to it.
Status: Abandonware.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runn ... eo_game%29
Can be obtained, but the site in question is not known for handling the abandonware concept very strictly, so no link here.
Name: Broken Sword series (The Shadow of the Templars, The Smoking Mirror, The Sleeping Dragon, The Angel of Death)
Developer: Revolution Software
Description: "The Shadow of the Templars introduced the quirky and refreshingly different gaming heroes, George Stobbart and Nico Collard to the gaming world. Humour, adventure, detective work and conspiracy on a global scale are all elements that define the Broken Sword series."-? This series has been running for 11 years now, the first game was truely impressive at the time of its release. Both part 1 and 2 are pretty much brilliant if they rub you the right way, parts 3 and 4 are... well, very much a matter of taste.
Status: Commercial. Pretty sure they are not abandonware at all, actually.
Link: http://www.revolution.co.uk/index.php
Name: Chronomaster.
Developer: DreamForge.
Description: This one, as far as i know, was written by Roger Zelazny and some friend of him - and both had a saying in the development. As Rene, a famous and now retired designer of pocket universes in a future where science has gone so far that small universes with their own rules and laws can be built for those who can pay them, you are hired to investigate why two of such places have gone into stasis, repair them, and find the culprit. Using a supply of bottled time that allows you to "activate" things trapped in stasis for a while, a weird multi-tool including a magic wand and a probability manipulator, and your understanding of each different world you will travel to several pocket universes (each one stranger than the last), restore them (at first...), and uncover the secrets of their rulers and the terrorist behind those attacks. It has mainly inventory puzzles with multiple solutions, has a lot of well built if weird background that gives a lot of depth, is somewhat non-linear, and has several different endings.
Status: Looks pretty abandoned to me, Amazon doesn't have it.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronomaster
Name: Colossal Cave Adventure
Developer: Crowther, 1976; Crowther & Woods, 1977
Description: This is a honorable mention. This game is honored as the first computer adventure game ever. A version of the game was released by Microsoft with DOS 1.0. "The Colossal Cave subnetwork has many entrances, one of which is known as Bedquilt. Crowther reproduced portions of the real cave so faithfully that cavers who have played the game can easily navigate through familiar sections in the Bedquilt region on their first visit." -Wikipedia. Don't get it for gameplay reasons, I guess.
Status: Freeware!
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
Name: Dark Earth
Developer: Kalisto
Description: A grtty, far post apocalyptic (comet, not nuclear, been over a hundred years since) science fiction setting, a mostly compelling story, too few, but quite good puzzles along with some affect of choice and a minor plot branch, make this a game I’d highly recommend. It does have an action component (real-time combat), and it’s not all that enjoyable, luckily it is possible to automate it, so that all you need do is hold Ctrl (though I’ve not tried it). Dark Earth is set 300 years in the future, and there is a decent amount of information and history provided in the manual. By modern standards the graphics are mixed, very nice 2D backgrounds, but blocky and low detail character models. From the manual: Join Arkhan, a Guardian of Fire in the city of Sparta, as he is swept from his routine life and daily duties to a new and terrifying ordeal. Ever-darkening plots of treachery and greed surround him as a fearful darkness envelops the city and an unknown evil threatens to transform him into a monstrous creature.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=4596
Name: Dark Fall.
Developer: XXv Productions.
Description: One of the few really spooky horror games, this originally indie adventure, along with Rhem, was to adventure games what we expect AoD to be for the crpg genre. A lot of ambience as you go around an abandoned train station and hotel trying to find out about the fate of its past inhabitants and the entities you face. You will get to use some ghost hunting tools, you will talk with dead things using a parser, and you will solve some pretty original puzzles along with some very unoriginal ones. If you think the "Haunted Hotel" in Bloodlines was spooky you will be crying like a baby with this one.
Status: Judging by Amazon.com, it's pretty abandoned. However, as a recent part of an active series, with the dev still in business, I would rather call it commercial.
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Da ... kFall.shtm
Name: Dark Fall 2, Lights out.
Developer: XXv Productions.
Description: The sequel to Dark Fall is less spooky, more plot-heavy, and not as good as the first - even if not bad at any rate. Maybe a bit more plastic, without so much of a soul? Something like that. The story this time is more of the Twilight Zone and less Supernatural Horror, with time travel and what not, and has a cameo from a character of the first one.
Status: Commercial.
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Da ... lLO_2.shtm
Name: Day of the Tentacle
Developer: LucasArts
Description: "Day of the Tentacle is simply marvelous. The game is packed with humor, witty sarcasm, interesting characters and even-more-interesting scenery and places. It's immensely fun to play, and to solve it you'll need to let your imagination run wild." -Abandonia. Seriously, while I may be repeating myself - this is a real classic, so massively over the top in a good way that you would have to be dead inside to not at least get a few good laugh out of this one. This game is what humor in gaming is all about for me. Do NOT miss out. Oh, and be sure to get yourself a version that includes digitized speech - in this case, it's a good thing, trust me. Also includes Maniac Mansion, you can play it from within the main game. Good stuff.
Status: Abandoned, but protected.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle
Name: Daemonica.
Developer: RA Images.
Description: As a hunter of human "monsters," mainly killers and so, in medieval europe you come to a small village in order to solve a murder - only, as always, to find some interesting plot going on behind the scenes. Using potions you have to brew yourself, including one that puts you in an almost dead state so you can talk with the departed and other entities, and some old school adventuring you must discover what the fuck is really going on and then decide what to do about it. Good story, interesting and unusual endings, and a main character that i would like to see more of. Note that the game uses an isometric 3d engine and looks somewhat like a diablo clone, but is a pure adventure.
Status: Commercial, Amazon has it.
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Da ... onica.shtm
Name: Dark Seed
Developer: Cyberdreams
Description: (By HotU) One of the most memorable (and few) science fiction- horror games ever released, Dark Seed is an interesting horror/scifi story based on the haunting artwork of H.R. Giger, creator of Aliens. As writer Mike Dawson, you must travel in both the human and alien dimensions to thwart the aliens' evil plans. Interesting premise and outstanding graphics make for an interesting game that unfortunately gets bogged down with too many illogical (and timed) puzzles.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=276
Name: Discworld, Discworld 2
Developer: Psygnosis, Avalon
Description: With a graphical style similar to the Monkey Island games, these games are going to be a real treat for anyone who likes Terry Pratchets Discworls series, especially the storys around mighty mage Rincewind. Puzzles are often based on humor rather than on strict logic. The author was involved heavily in the creation of these games. Since I love Discworld and want to marry Terry Pratchet asap, I consider these games as essential to any real adventure collection as the Monkey Islands.
Status: Part 1 is abandonware, not sure about part 2.
Link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/878/Discworld.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_2
Name: Discworld Noir
Developer: Perfect 10 Productions
Description: (By HotU) Discworld Noir is set in the most depraved city in the Discworld, Ankh-Morpork, where the sun never shines (because it is always night). You play Lewton, a downtrodden P.I. who was once a member of the Watch (i.e. Discworld police) until he was fired for accepting a bribe. The beautiful and mysterious Carlotta just hired you to find Mundy, her ex-lover. As you start looking into Mundy's disappearance more missing persons cases present themselves to you. Missing persons start turning up dead with yours truly as the prime suspect. Throw in a missing artifact, some shady underworld characters, and the ex-girlfriend who broke you heart, and you have all the elements of classic Raymond Chandler noir novels.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1505
Name: Dreamweb
Developer: Creative Reality
Description: The bartender Ryan must become the deliverer, killing those who threaten the Dreamweb, in order to stop his increasingly disturbing nightmares. What follows is a bloody descent into madness, paranoia and murder.
A dark story in a cold and dystopic future, Dreamweb is a game that feature great atmosphere, style and logical puzzles. Some of the weaker points is the dialogue, which features no options or branching and the fact that you have a limited inventory but can pick up a lot of useless stuff.
Status: Free
Link: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Dreamweb
Name: Flight of the Amazon Queen
Developer: Renegade Software / Interactive Binary Illusions
Description: "To make a long story short, you have a spoiled dame on board your plane and you crash in the middle of the Amazon rain forest. While you're looking for a way to repair your plane she's off into the wild green yonder. You, of course, have to go after her to discover that she's with a tribe of Amazons, that like to take men prisoners and do unspeakable things to them (in the most pleasurable way possible). That's why two guys are desperately trying to get back to their camp (last time they didn't want them, because they had a strange rash on a part of the body not appropriate to mention – at this point). There's also a gorilla in the jungle, but after a series of long philosophical conversations[...]"-Abandonia. So, yeah, never got a chance to play this one before, but I propably should.
Status: Not really Abandonware. I had no trouble finding a new copy of the game on Amazon. However, the game has been Re-released as freeware! Strange.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Amazon_Queen
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/ ... mes/fotaq/
Abandonia has it, too.
Name: Full Throttle
Developer: LucasArts
Description: This game uses the famous SCUMM engine. It was the first game from Lucasarts to only appear on CD. The graphics are rather cartoonish, some of the cutscenes actually look rather like something out of a (cool and funny) movie. "The story focuses on Ben, the leader of a biker gang called the Polecats. It seems to take place in a semi-apocalyptic dark future not too far removed from that of the first Mad Max film or that of the table top game Car Wars.[...]" -Wikipedia. Just let me say that the gameplay (even the one action sequence that's in the game) is very smooth, the story creative and the mostly good natured humor works well. If you liked DOTT, chances are you will embrace this one.
Status: Commercial, possibly abandoned.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Throt ... er_game%29
Name: Gabriel Knight: Sins of The Fathers
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Description: The first game in the series, Sins of The Fathers, tells of how a struggling, no-good writer comes to grip with his dark family history and accepts his fate to become the next Shattenjäger - shadowhunter. As Gabriel Knight, aspiring writer and owner of St. George's bookstore, you are researching the voodoo murders as a basis for your new book. The authorities, including your policeman friend Mosely, believe that the voodoo aspect is faked by the murderer, and that the real voodoo cult does not exist in New Orleans. With the help of Grace Nakimura, your assistant, you will slowly unravel the web of intrigue that leads to the powerful voodoo cult... as well as your own destiny.
Status: Sierra still kind of exists, but Amazon.com doesn't have it, so...
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=2348
Name: Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Description: The Beast Within picks up where Sins of The Fathers left off. Gabriel has moved into Schloss Ritter, the family castle that he inherits from uncle Wolfgang after he sacrificed his life to save Gabriel's. While hitting a writer's block trying to churn out a sequel to his best-selling novel The Voodoo Murders, a group of distressed villagers knocks on the castle's door. Their leader, Werner Huber, tells Gabriel that as local Shattenjäger, he is needed to track down and kill a supposed werewolf who killed a young girl at the outskirts of Munich. Gabriel soon finds himself on Huber's farm, where his troubles are just beginning...
Status: Sierra still kind of exists, but Amazon.com doesn't have it, so...
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=2349
Name: Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of The Sacred, Blood of The Damned
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Description: As in the first two games, no prior experience with the series is required to enjoy GK3, although you won't understand some subtle comments and retorts (mostly by Grace) if you haven't played the first 2 games. Although GK3 has a lot to live up to given the outstanding plots of its predecessors, Jane Jansen does one even better by tackling Rennes-le-Château, one of the world's most famous unsolved mysteries and one of the most hotly-contested locations of the Holy Grail. And how does it relate to our Shattenjager? As it turns out, Gabriel and Grace was requested by Prince James to help guard son from evil men he suspected to be vampires. One night as they were on watch, a mysterious kidnapper succeeds in abducting the baby. Gabriel pursued them on a train, only to find himself whacked on the head and woke up in Rennes-le-Château. He has no choice but to check himself in a hotel, explores the area, and find the missing baby. True to the region's rich history, you will soon come across references to various legends including the Knight Templars, vampires, political conspiracies, and of course the Holy Grail itself... the unravelling of which will explain not only why Prince James' son is important, but also sheds light on Gabriel's own destiny.
Status: Sierra still kind of exists, but Amazon.com doesn't have it, so...
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=2350
Name: Gateway
Developer: Legend Entertainment
Description: "Gateway shares its premise with Pohl's first book, of a poor space prospector arrives on the eponymously named space station with the intent to use the dangerously poorly understood alien crafts that are based there to explore distant worlds and strike it rich. The similarities soon end as the game introduces original elements, changes (in the novel's terms: travel times are negligible, Gateway has earthnorm gravity, all ships are ones and bastard control panels are the norm) and material from the later books." -Wikipedia. This is another text-adventure.
Status: So abandonware it is not even funny anymore. It was released as freeware under a non-distributable license, but is no longer available from the devs homepage.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_%2 ... er_game%29
Name: Grim Fandango
Developer: LucasArts
Description: "So, you're not sure what Grim Fandango is? Or you just want to know some more about it? Well, to put it in a nutshell, Grim Fandango is an epic adventure game which combines beautiful visuals, a highly emotional storyline, a masterful soundtrack, and some of the most memorable characters to ever exist in any game ever. It really is the pinnacle of gaming, and is a title that should not be missed. " -grimfandango.net
Status: Commercial
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Fandango
Name: I have no mouth and i must scream.
Developer: The Dreamer's Guild.
Description: Quite the surreal game. Based on the story by Harlan Ellison, who also was quite involved in the game's development, this one puts you in the shoes of the last five humans on earth, trapped and kept alive by an AI known as AM. For the sadistic pleasure of AM they must traverse several worlds built around their pasts and fears, while looking for a way to escape their master. Ellison wanted to have the game end as the short story, but others thought it would not be nice to have the game be impossible to win - So he left that ending as the optional "You suck" one and made other that can be understood as "you won" if you do not think too much about it. Beautiful, complex, and dark - A true classic. A shame that, given the ending change because lossing by default was not considered fair, if you do not know the story before hand you will not understand fully why the game has such a title but by really sucking at games.
Status: Amazon doesn't have it. It's Dos. What do you think?
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/IH ... h_Ray.shtm
Name: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Developer: LucasArts
Description: "As Indiana Jones, you must save the Secret of Atlantis from falling into the wrong hands - Nazi hands - specifically the ones of Dr. Ubermann, a Nazi nuclear scientist. Germany hasn't got sufficient quantities of uranium to produce an atom bomb, but would be able to create even more devastating weapons if they were to discover the energetic metal from Atlantis. Beating the Nazis to Atlantis is your primary concern, and you can accomplish this task in one of three different ways, for the game forks at a certain point. Every way is almost a completely new game!"
Status: Abandoned, but protected.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jo ... f_Atlantis
Name: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Developer: Lucasarts
Description: (By MobyGames) It is 1938 and adventurer Indiana Jones is joined by his father on this quest, preventing Adolf Hitler from capturing the Holy Grail. He will have to deal with Nazi guards, the Luftwaffe and enemy spies as he tries to stop the tyrannical Nazi leader.
Status: Commercial
Link: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/india ... -adventure
Name: King's Quest Series
Developer: Sierra
Description: Undoubtly one of the most well-known Adventure game franchises, The King's Quest series is Roberta Williams' suite set in the land of Daventry. All of the games revolve around King Graham and his royal family and their countless escapades. While each game feature a different adventure and you don't play Sir Graham in all of them, all of the games are a continuation of the family's story.
Up until King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder the games used Sierra's text parser for actions. With KQ V VGA and also a graphical interface was introduced (with icons for look, talk, pick up and walk). The puzzles can be real tricky and (especially in the early games) a single pixel, looking at something or just standing around will almost certainly spell the doom of King Graham and his family. The player can also mess up the games by missing an object or not doing something in the early parts of the games, but less so in the less dated games. With the fourth game the series becomes increasingly beautiful, with King's Quest V being nothing short of stunning and the music is excellent. If you enjoy dying countless horrible deaths in a compelling fairy-tale land, these games are your coffin size.
Note that Sierra remade some of the earlier games in better graphics (ega). There's also AGD Interactive who are remaking the series in (S)VGA and with speech. The first two are already out.
Status: Mixed, but rather commercial.
Link: Moby Games, AGD Interactive[/quote]
Name: Larry 6 - Shape Up or Slip Out
Developer: Sierra
Description: Ah, what a cool game. Again, it stands for the whole series, which you can easily research on your own. I was 13 when I played it, so that may have helped. A more recent go at the game was good as well, though. Note that it is more funny and less porny than the description below makes it sound. "Larry is at it again. While he is cruising along Muscle Beach and exercising (his pick-up skills), a stretch limo pulls up behind him. Inside, a beautiful blonde lady wants comfort, and Larry is not the kind of guy who would keep a lady waiting. So our god of love is on the move again - or so he thinks. The lady needs a guy to fill the empty seat on the popular dating show Stallions! Unfortunately for Larry, he loses first prize and makes a complete fool of himself on national TV ... but not all is lost. Larry wins second prize: a paid stay at a fashionable hotel with plenty of nice-looking girls. And so Larry is back to doing what he does best, pleasing the female population." -Abandonia
Status: Abandoned, but protected.
Link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/124/L ... p+Out.html
Name: Dark Seed
Developer: Cyberdreams
Description: (By HotU) One of the most memorable (and few) science fiction- horror games ever released, Dark Seed is an interesting horror/scifi story based on the haunting artwork of H.R. Giger, creator of Aliens. As writer Mike Dawson, you must travel in both the human and alien dimensions to thwart the aliens' evil plans. Interesting premise and outstanding graphics make for an interesting game that unfortunately gets bogged down with too many illogical (and timed) puzzles.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=276
Name: Discworld Noir
Developer: Perfect 10 Productions
Description: (By HotU) Discworld Noir is set in the most depraved city in the Discworld, Ankh-Morpork, where the sun never shines (because it is always night). You play Lewton, a downtrodden P.I. who was once a member of the Watch (i.e. Discworld police) until he was fired for accepting a bribe. The beautiful and mysterious Carlotta just hired you to find Mundy, her ex-lover. As you start looking into Mundy's disappearance more missing persons cases present themselves to you. Missing persons start turning up dead with yours truly as the prime suspect. Throw in a missing artifact, some shady underworld characters, and the ex-girlfriend who broke you heart, and you have all the elements of classic Raymond Chandler noir novels.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1505
Name: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Developer: Lucasarts
Description: (By MobyGames) It is 1938 and adventurer Indiana Jones is joined by his father on this quest, preventing Adolf Hitler from capturing the Holy Grail. He will have to deal with Nazi guards, the Luftwaffe and enemy spies as he tries to stop the tyrannical Nazi leader.
Status: Commercial
Link: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/india ... -adventure
Name: Legend Of Kyrandia Trilogy (The Legend Of Kyrandia, Hand Of Fate, Malcom's Revenge)
Developer:Westwood Studios
Description: (By HotU)
Arguably among the best adventure games series ever, Kyrandia games tell the stories set in the fantasy land of Kyrandia, told from 3 different perspectives: Brandon (a hero chosen to save the land), Zanthia (a Royal Mystic searching for the Anchor Stone to save Kyrandia from disappearing), and Malcolm (the evil jester from the first 2 games out to get his revenge). Each game is better than the last, despite the annoying random elements in some puzzles which can only be solved through tenacious trial-and-error. Great games nonetheless, with a gentle sense of humor, Westwood's acclaimed graphics and user-friendly interface, and great music.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/search.ph ... f+kyrandia
Name: Legend of the Sword
Developer: Rainbird
Description: The evil sorcerer Suzar and his army of mutated humanoids attacked the land of Anar and defeated its bravest warriors in a bloody battle. You were the only one who was able to escape. [...]
Legend of the Sword is a fantasy adventure game with slight RPG elements (top-down view, day and night cycle, world map exploration, traditional RPG plot, etc.). But the core gameplay is that of a pure puzzle-solving adventure. You interact with the environment by typing commands, and only a few of them are represented by icons (movement in eight directions as well as going in and out).
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=627
Name: Loom
Developer: LucasFilm Games
Description: You are Bobbin Threadbare, the mysterious "Loom child" and member of the Weaver Guild who must embark on a perilous journey to follow his guild members who were turned into geese and flew away from the Loom island. Instead of using an inventory the game's puzzles are solved using spells. These spells are cast by playing melodies on Bobbin's staff, and some can be played in reverse for a reversed effect of a spell.
Status: NOT abandonware.
Link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/21/Loom.html
http://www.lucasarts.com/ (If you have the floppy version, it can be upgraded to the CD-ROM version not sold at Lucasarts: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=655 )
Name: Lure of the Temptress
Developer: Revolution Software
Description: "In Lure, you take on the role of a young peasant named Diermot. You were most recently employed as a beater for the king's hunting party. One night, the king receives a note from a bedraggled messenger, requesting the king's services to help stamp out a rebellion led by a young and beautiful apprentice sorceress named Selena in the remote village of Turnvale." -Wikipedia
Status: Re-released as freeware!
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lure_of_the_Temptress http://www.revolution.co.uk/_display.php?id=10
Name: Of Light and Darkness
Developer: Tribal Dreams
Description: A fully 3D FPP Adventure, where you are tasked with preventing the Apocalypse by defeating Gar Hob (voiced by James Woods), the Dark Lord of the Seventh Millennium. Gameplay entails redeeming the Dark Lord’s apparitions (evil-doers through the ages, such as Aleister Crowley and Caligula) by matching them with one of the deadly sins and the correct colour star. There’s little adventuring in this game, you pick up artifacts from which you learn clues about an apparition’s crimes, bringing you closer to deducing the apparition’s sin, repeat this for each apparition and that’s the gameplay. The game is timed, and it is important to move about the world quickly (this gets very hectic late in the game), speaking of moving about, the quick, automated movement of the camera in OLAD up, down, and side to side is likely to cause motion sickness for those who are susceptible. Whilst this is a severely flawed game, I still quite enjoyed it, it looks great (environments created by supposedly world famous artist, Gil Bruvel), the voice acting is good and I enjoyed piecing together each apparition’s sin (well, maybe for a bit over half the game anyway). Could have been a very good game with more varied and less timed gameplay.
Status: Probably rather not abandonware. Very close, though.
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1367
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Name: 5 Days A Stranger, 7 Days A Skeptic, Trilby's Notes, 6 Days A Sacrifice
Developer: Ben Croshaw
Description: The John DeFoe quadrilogy. I have not played those, yet. I do however plan to do so in the near future as I have heard good things about the games.
Status: Free!
Link: http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/games.htm
Name: A Tale of Two Kingdoms
Developer: Crystal Shard
Description: A Tale of Two Kingdoms is an epic faerie tale, in the classic style of the famous Sierra and LucasArts graphical adventure games. It is a full-length game with an atmosphere of fairy tales, magic, and intrigue. Featuring five different endings; several sidequests and alternate solutions; teamwork with non-player characters; 75 minutes of high quality music; and director's commentary.
Status: Free!
Link: http://crystalshard.net/atotk.php
Name: Alone in the Dark
Developer: Infogrames
Description: "A very atmospheric and Lovecraftian adventure game. Can't beat the badass, early 3D models either." "Jeremy Hartwood has committed suicide in his Louisiana mansion. You take the role of either Edward Carnby, a private investigator, or Emily Hartwood, Jeremy's niece, and investigate the suspicious death. The three-floor mansion is reputed to be haunted by its eccentric past owner." -some guy at Amazon.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/91/Al ... ark+1.html
Name: Azrael's Tear.
Developer: Intelligent Games.
Description: An Adventure Game with some action (in the way of "press space to ready weapon, click to shoot") and some C&C. As a Raptor (a futuristic tomb robber) you must find the not so holy grail in an ancient underground complex, built by the templars, to save the world of destruction, or so you believe. You will meet mutated, insane, double-crossing templar along with ghosts, ancient beasts, weird experiments, a LOT of well written background, and one of the best surprise endings i ever saw. A shame the sequel, fully made, was never published.
Status: Commercial, Amazon has it new.
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Az ... _Tear.shtm
Name: Beneath a Steel Sky
Developer: Revolution Software
Description: "The game is considered to be among the true classics in the early era of graphic adventure games for the early 1990s. This, in part, is related to the mature science fiction theme that was chosen for this game[...] The game takes place at an unknown point in a dystopian future in Australia, where the Earth has been significantly damaged by pollution or nuclear fallout."-Wikipedia
Status: Re-released as freeware!
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky
Name: Beyond the Titanic
Developer: Scott Miller
Description: "Beyond the Titanic is a text adventure game written by Scott Miller for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). In the game, the player has to escape from the sinking ship Titanic." -Wikipedia
Status: Re-released as freeware!
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Titanic http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html
Name:Black Dahlia
Developer: Take 2 Interactive
Description: A horribly underrated, yet one of the best FMV adventure games of all time. It's set in Cleveland, in the early 1940s; the player assumes the role of Jim Pearson (a new member of a recently formed federal agency, the Office of Information), who has been assigned the task of investigating the Brotherhood of Thule (supposedly, a Nazi-related organization). Black Dahlia weaves an intriguing, compelling story with excellent, mind challenging puzzles. It's a truly remarkable, suspenseful game - however, the very ending part of the game might not be everyone's cup of tea.
Status:Commercial
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahl ... puter_game)
Name: Blade Runner
Developer: Westwood
Description: The game's story takes place somewhere in between Phillip K. Dick's book "Do Androinds Dream Of Electric Sheep" and the movie "Blade Runner". Game's storyline takes us to a dystopian Los Angeles of 2019 and moves alongside with the events seen in the movie. Earth's atmosphere and ecology were damaged after the third world war, but humanity managed to reach the depths of outer space. [...]
You are playing a detective Ray McCoy, who is a special Blade Runner unit - a hunter, trained to track-down replicants and "retire"(kill) them.
Blade Runner is a non-linear game, with multiple choices and consequences. [...] But choose carefully as almost each one of your actions has consequences. Short-term and long-term ones.[...]
The minuses of this game are that it's very short and not fully represents the dark atmosphere of the movie - like some areas may have too much sunlight.
But nonetheless it's a wonderful adventure game and probably with some rpg-ish feel to it.
Status: Abandonware.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runn ... eo_game%29
Can be obtained, but the site in question is not known for handling the abandonware concept very strictly, so no link here.
Name: Broken Sword series (The Shadow of the Templars, The Smoking Mirror, The Sleeping Dragon, The Angel of Death)
Developer: Revolution Software
Description: "The Shadow of the Templars introduced the quirky and refreshingly different gaming heroes, George Stobbart and Nico Collard to the gaming world. Humour, adventure, detective work and conspiracy on a global scale are all elements that define the Broken Sword series."-? This series has been running for 11 years now, the first game was truely impressive at the time of its release. Both part 1 and 2 are pretty much brilliant if they rub you the right way, parts 3 and 4 are... well, very much a matter of taste.
Status: Commercial. Pretty sure they are not abandonware at all, actually.
Link: http://www.revolution.co.uk/index.php
Name: Chronomaster.
Developer: DreamForge.
Description: This one, as far as i know, was written by Roger Zelazny and some friend of him - and both had a saying in the development. As Rene, a famous and now retired designer of pocket universes in a future where science has gone so far that small universes with their own rules and laws can be built for those who can pay them, you are hired to investigate why two of such places have gone into stasis, repair them, and find the culprit. Using a supply of bottled time that allows you to "activate" things trapped in stasis for a while, a weird multi-tool including a magic wand and a probability manipulator, and your understanding of each different world you will travel to several pocket universes (each one stranger than the last), restore them (at first...), and uncover the secrets of their rulers and the terrorist behind those attacks. It has mainly inventory puzzles with multiple solutions, has a lot of well built if weird background that gives a lot of depth, is somewhat non-linear, and has several different endings.
Status: Looks pretty abandoned to me, Amazon doesn't have it.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronomaster
Name: Colossal Cave Adventure
Developer: Crowther, 1976; Crowther & Woods, 1977
Description: This is a honorable mention. This game is honored as the first computer adventure game ever. A version of the game was released by Microsoft with DOS 1.0. "The Colossal Cave subnetwork has many entrances, one of which is known as Bedquilt. Crowther reproduced portions of the real cave so faithfully that cavers who have played the game can easily navigate through familiar sections in the Bedquilt region on their first visit." -Wikipedia. Don't get it for gameplay reasons, I guess.
Status: Freeware!
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
Name: Dark Earth
Developer: Kalisto
Description: A grtty, far post apocalyptic (comet, not nuclear, been over a hundred years since) science fiction setting, a mostly compelling story, too few, but quite good puzzles along with some affect of choice and a minor plot branch, make this a game I’d highly recommend. It does have an action component (real-time combat), and it’s not all that enjoyable, luckily it is possible to automate it, so that all you need do is hold Ctrl (though I’ve not tried it). Dark Earth is set 300 years in the future, and there is a decent amount of information and history provided in the manual. By modern standards the graphics are mixed, very nice 2D backgrounds, but blocky and low detail character models. From the manual: Join Arkhan, a Guardian of Fire in the city of Sparta, as he is swept from his routine life and daily duties to a new and terrifying ordeal. Ever-darkening plots of treachery and greed surround him as a fearful darkness envelops the city and an unknown evil threatens to transform him into a monstrous creature.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=4596
Name: Dark Fall.
Developer: XXv Productions.
Description: One of the few really spooky horror games, this originally indie adventure, along with Rhem, was to adventure games what we expect AoD to be for the crpg genre. A lot of ambience as you go around an abandoned train station and hotel trying to find out about the fate of its past inhabitants and the entities you face. You will get to use some ghost hunting tools, you will talk with dead things using a parser, and you will solve some pretty original puzzles along with some very unoriginal ones. If you think the "Haunted Hotel" in Bloodlines was spooky you will be crying like a baby with this one.
Status: Judging by Amazon.com, it's pretty abandoned. However, as a recent part of an active series, with the dev still in business, I would rather call it commercial.
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Da ... kFall.shtm
Name: Dark Fall 2, Lights out.
Developer: XXv Productions.
Description: The sequel to Dark Fall is less spooky, more plot-heavy, and not as good as the first - even if not bad at any rate. Maybe a bit more plastic, without so much of a soul? Something like that. The story this time is more of the Twilight Zone and less Supernatural Horror, with time travel and what not, and has a cameo from a character of the first one.
Status: Commercial.
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Da ... lLO_2.shtm
Name: Day of the Tentacle
Developer: LucasArts
Description: "Day of the Tentacle is simply marvelous. The game is packed with humor, witty sarcasm, interesting characters and even-more-interesting scenery and places. It's immensely fun to play, and to solve it you'll need to let your imagination run wild." -Abandonia. Seriously, while I may be repeating myself - this is a real classic, so massively over the top in a good way that you would have to be dead inside to not at least get a few good laugh out of this one. This game is what humor in gaming is all about for me. Do NOT miss out. Oh, and be sure to get yourself a version that includes digitized speech - in this case, it's a good thing, trust me. Also includes Maniac Mansion, you can play it from within the main game. Good stuff.
Status: Abandoned, but protected.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle
Name: Daemonica.
Developer: RA Images.
Description: As a hunter of human "monsters," mainly killers and so, in medieval europe you come to a small village in order to solve a murder - only, as always, to find some interesting plot going on behind the scenes. Using potions you have to brew yourself, including one that puts you in an almost dead state so you can talk with the departed and other entities, and some old school adventuring you must discover what the fuck is really going on and then decide what to do about it. Good story, interesting and unusual endings, and a main character that i would like to see more of. Note that the game uses an isometric 3d engine and looks somewhat like a diablo clone, but is a pure adventure.
Status: Commercial, Amazon has it.
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Da ... onica.shtm
Name: Dark Seed
Developer: Cyberdreams
Description: (By HotU) One of the most memorable (and few) science fiction- horror games ever released, Dark Seed is an interesting horror/scifi story based on the haunting artwork of H.R. Giger, creator of Aliens. As writer Mike Dawson, you must travel in both the human and alien dimensions to thwart the aliens' evil plans. Interesting premise and outstanding graphics make for an interesting game that unfortunately gets bogged down with too many illogical (and timed) puzzles.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=276
Name: Discworld, Discworld 2
Developer: Psygnosis, Avalon
Description: With a graphical style similar to the Monkey Island games, these games are going to be a real treat for anyone who likes Terry Pratchets Discworls series, especially the storys around mighty mage Rincewind. Puzzles are often based on humor rather than on strict logic. The author was involved heavily in the creation of these games. Since I love Discworld and want to marry Terry Pratchet asap, I consider these games as essential to any real adventure collection as the Monkey Islands.
Status: Part 1 is abandonware, not sure about part 2.
Link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/878/Discworld.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_2
Name: Discworld Noir
Developer: Perfect 10 Productions
Description: (By HotU) Discworld Noir is set in the most depraved city in the Discworld, Ankh-Morpork, where the sun never shines (because it is always night). You play Lewton, a downtrodden P.I. who was once a member of the Watch (i.e. Discworld police) until he was fired for accepting a bribe. The beautiful and mysterious Carlotta just hired you to find Mundy, her ex-lover. As you start looking into Mundy's disappearance more missing persons cases present themselves to you. Missing persons start turning up dead with yours truly as the prime suspect. Throw in a missing artifact, some shady underworld characters, and the ex-girlfriend who broke you heart, and you have all the elements of classic Raymond Chandler noir novels.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1505
Name: Dreamweb
Developer: Creative Reality
Description: The bartender Ryan must become the deliverer, killing those who threaten the Dreamweb, in order to stop his increasingly disturbing nightmares. What follows is a bloody descent into madness, paranoia and murder.
A dark story in a cold and dystopic future, Dreamweb is a game that feature great atmosphere, style and logical puzzles. Some of the weaker points is the dialogue, which features no options or branching and the fact that you have a limited inventory but can pick up a lot of useless stuff.
Status: Free
Link: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Dreamweb
Name: Flight of the Amazon Queen
Developer: Renegade Software / Interactive Binary Illusions
Description: "To make a long story short, you have a spoiled dame on board your plane and you crash in the middle of the Amazon rain forest. While you're looking for a way to repair your plane she's off into the wild green yonder. You, of course, have to go after her to discover that she's with a tribe of Amazons, that like to take men prisoners and do unspeakable things to them (in the most pleasurable way possible). That's why two guys are desperately trying to get back to their camp (last time they didn't want them, because they had a strange rash on a part of the body not appropriate to mention – at this point). There's also a gorilla in the jungle, but after a series of long philosophical conversations[...]"-Abandonia. So, yeah, never got a chance to play this one before, but I propably should.
Status: Not really Abandonware. I had no trouble finding a new copy of the game on Amazon. However, the game has been Re-released as freeware! Strange.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Amazon_Queen
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/ ... mes/fotaq/
Abandonia has it, too.
Name: Full Throttle
Developer: LucasArts
Description: This game uses the famous SCUMM engine. It was the first game from Lucasarts to only appear on CD. The graphics are rather cartoonish, some of the cutscenes actually look rather like something out of a (cool and funny) movie. "The story focuses on Ben, the leader of a biker gang called the Polecats. It seems to take place in a semi-apocalyptic dark future not too far removed from that of the first Mad Max film or that of the table top game Car Wars.[...]" -Wikipedia. Just let me say that the gameplay (even the one action sequence that's in the game) is very smooth, the story creative and the mostly good natured humor works well. If you liked DOTT, chances are you will embrace this one.
Status: Commercial, possibly abandoned.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Throt ... er_game%29
Name: Gabriel Knight: Sins of The Fathers
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Description: The first game in the series, Sins of The Fathers, tells of how a struggling, no-good writer comes to grip with his dark family history and accepts his fate to become the next Shattenjäger - shadowhunter. As Gabriel Knight, aspiring writer and owner of St. George's bookstore, you are researching the voodoo murders as a basis for your new book. The authorities, including your policeman friend Mosely, believe that the voodoo aspect is faked by the murderer, and that the real voodoo cult does not exist in New Orleans. With the help of Grace Nakimura, your assistant, you will slowly unravel the web of intrigue that leads to the powerful voodoo cult... as well as your own destiny.
Status: Sierra still kind of exists, but Amazon.com doesn't have it, so...
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=2348
Name: Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Description: The Beast Within picks up where Sins of The Fathers left off. Gabriel has moved into Schloss Ritter, the family castle that he inherits from uncle Wolfgang after he sacrificed his life to save Gabriel's. While hitting a writer's block trying to churn out a sequel to his best-selling novel The Voodoo Murders, a group of distressed villagers knocks on the castle's door. Their leader, Werner Huber, tells Gabriel that as local Shattenjäger, he is needed to track down and kill a supposed werewolf who killed a young girl at the outskirts of Munich. Gabriel soon finds himself on Huber's farm, where his troubles are just beginning...
Status: Sierra still kind of exists, but Amazon.com doesn't have it, so...
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=2349
Name: Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of The Sacred, Blood of The Damned
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Description: As in the first two games, no prior experience with the series is required to enjoy GK3, although you won't understand some subtle comments and retorts (mostly by Grace) if you haven't played the first 2 games. Although GK3 has a lot to live up to given the outstanding plots of its predecessors, Jane Jansen does one even better by tackling Rennes-le-Château, one of the world's most famous unsolved mysteries and one of the most hotly-contested locations of the Holy Grail. And how does it relate to our Shattenjager? As it turns out, Gabriel and Grace was requested by Prince James to help guard son from evil men he suspected to be vampires. One night as they were on watch, a mysterious kidnapper succeeds in abducting the baby. Gabriel pursued them on a train, only to find himself whacked on the head and woke up in Rennes-le-Château. He has no choice but to check himself in a hotel, explores the area, and find the missing baby. True to the region's rich history, you will soon come across references to various legends including the Knight Templars, vampires, political conspiracies, and of course the Holy Grail itself... the unravelling of which will explain not only why Prince James' son is important, but also sheds light on Gabriel's own destiny.
Status: Sierra still kind of exists, but Amazon.com doesn't have it, so...
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=2350
Name: Gateway
Developer: Legend Entertainment
Description: "Gateway shares its premise with Pohl's first book, of a poor space prospector arrives on the eponymously named space station with the intent to use the dangerously poorly understood alien crafts that are based there to explore distant worlds and strike it rich. The similarities soon end as the game introduces original elements, changes (in the novel's terms: travel times are negligible, Gateway has earthnorm gravity, all ships are ones and bastard control panels are the norm) and material from the later books." -Wikipedia. This is another text-adventure.
Status: So abandonware it is not even funny anymore. It was released as freeware under a non-distributable license, but is no longer available from the devs homepage.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_%2 ... er_game%29
Name: Grim Fandango
Developer: LucasArts
Description: "So, you're not sure what Grim Fandango is? Or you just want to know some more about it? Well, to put it in a nutshell, Grim Fandango is an epic adventure game which combines beautiful visuals, a highly emotional storyline, a masterful soundtrack, and some of the most memorable characters to ever exist in any game ever. It really is the pinnacle of gaming, and is a title that should not be missed. " -grimfandango.net
Status: Commercial
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Fandango
Name: I have no mouth and i must scream.
Developer: The Dreamer's Guild.
Description: Quite the surreal game. Based on the story by Harlan Ellison, who also was quite involved in the game's development, this one puts you in the shoes of the last five humans on earth, trapped and kept alive by an AI known as AM. For the sadistic pleasure of AM they must traverse several worlds built around their pasts and fears, while looking for a way to escape their master. Ellison wanted to have the game end as the short story, but others thought it would not be nice to have the game be impossible to win - So he left that ending as the optional "You suck" one and made other that can be understood as "you won" if you do not think too much about it. Beautiful, complex, and dark - A true classic. A shame that, given the ending change because lossing by default was not considered fair, if you do not know the story before hand you will not understand fully why the game has such a title but by really sucking at games.
Status: Amazon doesn't have it. It's Dos. What do you think?
Link: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/IH ... h_Ray.shtm
Name: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Developer: LucasArts
Description: "As Indiana Jones, you must save the Secret of Atlantis from falling into the wrong hands - Nazi hands - specifically the ones of Dr. Ubermann, a Nazi nuclear scientist. Germany hasn't got sufficient quantities of uranium to produce an atom bomb, but would be able to create even more devastating weapons if they were to discover the energetic metal from Atlantis. Beating the Nazis to Atlantis is your primary concern, and you can accomplish this task in one of three different ways, for the game forks at a certain point. Every way is almost a completely new game!"
Status: Abandoned, but protected.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jo ... f_Atlantis
Name: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Developer: Lucasarts
Description: (By MobyGames) It is 1938 and adventurer Indiana Jones is joined by his father on this quest, preventing Adolf Hitler from capturing the Holy Grail. He will have to deal with Nazi guards, the Luftwaffe and enemy spies as he tries to stop the tyrannical Nazi leader.
Status: Commercial
Link: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/india ... -adventure
Name: King's Quest Series
Developer: Sierra
Description: Undoubtly one of the most well-known Adventure game franchises, The King's Quest series is Roberta Williams' suite set in the land of Daventry. All of the games revolve around King Graham and his royal family and their countless escapades. While each game feature a different adventure and you don't play Sir Graham in all of them, all of the games are a continuation of the family's story.
Up until King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder the games used Sierra's text parser for actions. With KQ V VGA and also a graphical interface was introduced (with icons for look, talk, pick up and walk). The puzzles can be real tricky and (especially in the early games) a single pixel, looking at something or just standing around will almost certainly spell the doom of King Graham and his family. The player can also mess up the games by missing an object or not doing something in the early parts of the games, but less so in the less dated games. With the fourth game the series becomes increasingly beautiful, with King's Quest V being nothing short of stunning and the music is excellent. If you enjoy dying countless horrible deaths in a compelling fairy-tale land, these games are your coffin size.
Note that Sierra remade some of the earlier games in better graphics (ega). There's also AGD Interactive who are remaking the series in (S)VGA and with speech. The first two are already out.
Status: Mixed, but rather commercial.
Link: Moby Games, AGD Interactive[/quote]
Name: Larry 6 - Shape Up or Slip Out
Developer: Sierra
Description: Ah, what a cool game. Again, it stands for the whole series, which you can easily research on your own. I was 13 when I played it, so that may have helped. A more recent go at the game was good as well, though. Note that it is more funny and less porny than the description below makes it sound. "Larry is at it again. While he is cruising along Muscle Beach and exercising (his pick-up skills), a stretch limo pulls up behind him. Inside, a beautiful blonde lady wants comfort, and Larry is not the kind of guy who would keep a lady waiting. So our god of love is on the move again - or so he thinks. The lady needs a guy to fill the empty seat on the popular dating show Stallions! Unfortunately for Larry, he loses first prize and makes a complete fool of himself on national TV ... but not all is lost. Larry wins second prize: a paid stay at a fashionable hotel with plenty of nice-looking girls. And so Larry is back to doing what he does best, pleasing the female population." -Abandonia
Status: Abandoned, but protected.
Link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/124/L ... p+Out.html
Name: Dark Seed
Developer: Cyberdreams
Description: (By HotU) One of the most memorable (and few) science fiction- horror games ever released, Dark Seed is an interesting horror/scifi story based on the haunting artwork of H.R. Giger, creator of Aliens. As writer Mike Dawson, you must travel in both the human and alien dimensions to thwart the aliens' evil plans. Interesting premise and outstanding graphics make for an interesting game that unfortunately gets bogged down with too many illogical (and timed) puzzles.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=276
Name: Discworld Noir
Developer: Perfect 10 Productions
Description: (By HotU) Discworld Noir is set in the most depraved city in the Discworld, Ankh-Morpork, where the sun never shines (because it is always night). You play Lewton, a downtrodden P.I. who was once a member of the Watch (i.e. Discworld police) until he was fired for accepting a bribe. The beautiful and mysterious Carlotta just hired you to find Mundy, her ex-lover. As you start looking into Mundy's disappearance more missing persons cases present themselves to you. Missing persons start turning up dead with yours truly as the prime suspect. Throw in a missing artifact, some shady underworld characters, and the ex-girlfriend who broke you heart, and you have all the elements of classic Raymond Chandler noir novels.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1505
Name: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Developer: Lucasarts
Description: (By MobyGames) It is 1938 and adventurer Indiana Jones is joined by his father on this quest, preventing Adolf Hitler from capturing the Holy Grail. He will have to deal with Nazi guards, the Luftwaffe and enemy spies as he tries to stop the tyrannical Nazi leader.
Status: Commercial
Link: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/india ... -adventure
Name: Legend Of Kyrandia Trilogy (The Legend Of Kyrandia, Hand Of Fate, Malcom's Revenge)
Developer:Westwood Studios
Description: (By HotU)
Arguably among the best adventure games series ever, Kyrandia games tell the stories set in the fantasy land of Kyrandia, told from 3 different perspectives: Brandon (a hero chosen to save the land), Zanthia (a Royal Mystic searching for the Anchor Stone to save Kyrandia from disappearing), and Malcolm (the evil jester from the first 2 games out to get his revenge). Each game is better than the last, despite the annoying random elements in some puzzles which can only be solved through tenacious trial-and-error. Great games nonetheless, with a gentle sense of humor, Westwood's acclaimed graphics and user-friendly interface, and great music.
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/search.ph ... f+kyrandia
Name: Legend of the Sword
Developer: Rainbird
Description: The evil sorcerer Suzar and his army of mutated humanoids attacked the land of Anar and defeated its bravest warriors in a bloody battle. You were the only one who was able to escape. [...]
Legend of the Sword is a fantasy adventure game with slight RPG elements (top-down view, day and night cycle, world map exploration, traditional RPG plot, etc.). But the core gameplay is that of a pure puzzle-solving adventure. You interact with the environment by typing commands, and only a few of them are represented by icons (movement in eight directions as well as going in and out).
Status: Abandonware
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=627
Name: Loom
Developer: LucasFilm Games
Description: You are Bobbin Threadbare, the mysterious "Loom child" and member of the Weaver Guild who must embark on a perilous journey to follow his guild members who were turned into geese and flew away from the Loom island. Instead of using an inventory the game's puzzles are solved using spells. These spells are cast by playing melodies on Bobbin's staff, and some can be played in reverse for a reversed effect of a spell.
Status: NOT abandonware.
Link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/21/Loom.html
http://www.lucasarts.com/ (If you have the floppy version, it can be upgraded to the CD-ROM version not sold at Lucasarts: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=655 )
Name: Lure of the Temptress
Developer: Revolution Software
Description: "In Lure, you take on the role of a young peasant named Diermot. You were most recently employed as a beater for the king's hunting party. One night, the king receives a note from a bedraggled messenger, requesting the king's services to help stamp out a rebellion led by a young and beautiful apprentice sorceress named Selena in the remote village of Turnvale." -Wikipedia
Status: Re-released as freeware!
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lure_of_the_Temptress http://www.revolution.co.uk/_display.php?id=10
Name: Of Light and Darkness
Developer: Tribal Dreams
Description: A fully 3D FPP Adventure, where you are tasked with preventing the Apocalypse by defeating Gar Hob (voiced by James Woods), the Dark Lord of the Seventh Millennium. Gameplay entails redeeming the Dark Lord’s apparitions (evil-doers through the ages, such as Aleister Crowley and Caligula) by matching them with one of the deadly sins and the correct colour star. There’s little adventuring in this game, you pick up artifacts from which you learn clues about an apparition’s crimes, bringing you closer to deducing the apparition’s sin, repeat this for each apparition and that’s the gameplay. The game is timed, and it is important to move about the world quickly (this gets very hectic late in the game), speaking of moving about, the quick, automated movement of the camera in OLAD up, down, and side to side is likely to cause motion sickness for those who are susceptible. Whilst this is a severely flawed game, I still quite enjoyed it, it looks great (environments created by supposedly world famous artist, Gil Bruvel), the voice acting is good and I enjoyed piecing together each apparition’s sin (well, maybe for a bit over half the game anyway). Could have been a very good game with more varied and less timed gameplay.
Status: Probably rather not abandonware. Very close, though.
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1367
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