Category description: Adventure games involve solving puzzles in order to reach a goal and/or progress the storyline. Some of the earliest computer games available (such as Colossal Cave) are text-based adventure games. This category also includes graphical adventure games of the sort popularized by Sierra and Lucasarts.
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Borderworld

Views: 15,4551996SharewareAdventure Jeff KintzNorthstar Solutions
Borderworld is an interesting graphical adventure game, or perhaps more accurately a text adventure game including … VIEW

Captain Spleen

Views: 10,2701996SharewareAdventure Colin Gagnon
Captain Spleen is an adventure game, but a strange one. Rather than typing commands or clicking objects, you simple use … VIEW

Captain Spleen II

Views: 4,2371997SharewareAdventure Colin Gagnon
This is part two of the mercifully short-lived Captain Spleen series. The first Captain Spleen game is a strange … VIEW

Castle Adventure

Views: 27,8951985FreewareAdventure Kevin Bales
This is a very old "graphic" adventure game which uses textmode / ASCII characters. Despite its simplicity, there is … VIEW

Castles of Mew

Views: 7,1621991FreewareAdventure R.L.B Programs
Castles of Mew is not a good game, but it's at least an ... interesting game? Created in QuickBasic by a new programmer … VIEW

Cavern of the Evil Wizard

Views: 19,1972020FreewareAdventure demino2
If you've ever seen the Tom Hanks movie Big (1988) you'll probably remember a PC graphical adventure game that is shown … VIEW

Caves of Thor

Views: 13,4031990Full versionAdventure Apogee Software
Caves of Thor is an extremely interesting and oddly playable ASCII game released early in Apogee's existance, shortly … VIEW

Cendric's Quest

Views: 6,0421998SharewareAdventure SerpentHead Software
Cendric's Quest is a first-person adventure game using a slightly upgraded version of the engine used in SerpentHead … VIEW

Chesterland Adventure

Views: 4,4101995FreewareAdventure Garote
Written "as an attempt to learn C", Chesterland Adventure is a hybrid text adventure game with simple, one-letter … VIEW

Colossal Cave Adventure

Views: 37,7981990Public DomainAdventure Kevin Black
This is a bit before my time ... however, it's worth playing at least once, just to see one of the first text adventure … VIEW

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