

LK Avalon · Windows
As two survivors of a spaceship crash, you must solve insidious puzzles to rendezvous with each other and uncover the mystery of the abandoned planet Argilus.
1 list8 h main storyOften paired


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320 games like Timequest · 1980 – 2025


LK Avalon · Windows
As two survivors of a spaceship crash, you must solve insidious puzzles to rendezvous with each other and uncover the mystery of the abandoned planet Argilus.
1 list8 h main storyOften paired


Kheops Studio · Windows
Make fantastic discoveries and dare to go into the deepest depths of the moon to solve puzzles that will allow you to go back to Earth.
70 rating2 lists9.5 h main storyOften paired


Apple II, FM-7, PC-8800 Series +1
In order to save Earth's future you are given a time machine enabling you to travel into several time periods of the distant past where you meet famous people like Robin Hood, Christopher Columbos or Cleopatra who will help you to change Ea
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Valve Corporation · Linux, Windows
Aperture Desk Job reimagines the been-there-done-that genre of walking simulators and puts them in the lightning-spanked, endorphin-gorged world of sitting still behind things. You play as an entry-level nobody on their first day at work —
76 rating1 list1 h main storyOften paired


Intelligent Games · MS-DOS, Windows
The player is a Raptor, a highly sophisticated thief armed with cutting edge equipment, who has just received word from a competitor that they may have found the Holy Grail. Offering to split the profits with your for your help, you make yo
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Presto Studios · Windows, macOS, MS-DOS
The year is 2318. As Agent #5 of the Temporal Security Agency, you must safeguard history from sabotage. Explore photorealistic 3D worlds of the past and future, solve mind-bending puzzles, and outwit menacing robots in a struggle to undo t
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Mobius Digital · Switch, PS4, PS5 +4
Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a s
87 rating8 lists12 h main storyOften paired


Presto Studios · 3DO, MS-DOS, Windows +1
The year is 2318. As Agent #5 of the Temporal Security Agency, you must safeguard history from sabotage. Explore photorealistic 3D worlds of the past and future, solve mind-bending puzzles, and outwit menacing robots in a struggle to undo t
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Mages · Switch, PS4, Windows
This is the latest work by Steins;Gate creator Chiyomaru Shikura, in collaboration with returning staff from the Science Adventure Series.
73 rating5 lists15 h main storyOften paired


FM Towns, Linux, MS-DOS +2
Eternam is a humorous graphical adventure game from Infogrames, released originally in 1992 for DOS. A CD-ROM version with full speech was published in 1993. The game was developed by Hubert Chardot, who is better remembered from his Lovecr
2 lists7.5 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games


Loiste Interactive · Windows
Infra is an atmospheric and completely non-violent first-person puzzle/adventure that deals with the issues of deteriorating infrastructure. The player controls an ordinary structural analyst through abandoned factories, forgotten tunnels a
67 rating2 lists16 h main storyOften paired


Apple II
Text adventure with some graphics. You are stranded on a strange planet have to find a way back home.
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Adventure Soft · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro +4
Kayleth is a first person adventure video game for the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum that was developed and published by Adventure Soft. The game has cyberpunk, sci fi and photo adventure elements.
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +3
A science fiction text adventure game in which an artificial intelligence is electronically merged with your body as the result of a scientific experiment. Your mission is to find a source of energy to keep you alive. The game uses a text p
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Ian Livingstone · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
You have to solve a series of text adventures set in different periods of time (prehistoric times, ancient Rome, Arthurian Britain, WWII and the Cold War) to find various pieces of a talisman.
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Rigel's Revenge is a text adventure published in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum home computers by Mastertronic on their "Bulldog" label. It was written by British studio Smart Egg Software using a heavily modified v
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Browser
4 people are trapped in a building fire and need your help to escape.
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ERE Informatique · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +2
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess (originally entitled Kult: The Temple of Flying Saucers) is a puzzle-solving adventure game. To solve the puzzles, Raven will sometimes need to collect and trade items; but more often, usage of the eight
1 list1 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games


Automata UK · BBC Microcomputer System, Dragon 32/64, Sinclair ZX81 +2
In what is possibly the most baffling text adventure ever devised, navigate a surreal landscape with the aid of the Pi-Man in an attempt to discover the (real world) location of a golden sundial. Originally published in 1982.
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Detalion · Windows
As two survivors of a spaceship crash, you must solve insidious puzzles to rendezvous with each other and uncover the mystery of the abandoned planet Argilus.
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Apple II, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +2
Somewhere in Hong Kong, two martial artists face each other in a vast courtyard. The challenger is a stout man in brown skin. The ground has been tainted with blood. However, his crescent blade hasn't touched his opponent yet. It was a one-
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Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +2
An adventure game based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Infocom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +14
The year is 2186. Humanity has established colonies on the moon, Mars, and several of the larger asteroids. Earth's sky is dotted with space habitats, and the spaceways are always busy. As usual, there is the urgent need for energy to power
63 rating4 lists
Atari exclusive
Starpath · Atari 2600, Atari 7800, ColecoVision
Are you smart (and fast) enough to escape from the maze of the MindMaster? Featuring realistic first-person graphics, four separate Multi Load segments, maze maps, real-time clock, Alien stalker, direction indicator, sliding force field obs
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Level 9 Computing · Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari 8-bit +7
You are a time traveller and have to find nine objects from different time periods in order to prevent the Time Lords to alter human history.
80 rating3 lists


David Mullich · Apple II
Text-based adventure game inspired by the cult classic British television show about a former spy who is abducted and sent to a resort-themed "prison" where his captors attempt to get him to reveal why he resigned from his classified job.
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The Lonely Game Dev · Windows, macOS
A sci-fi dark-comedy puzzle game. In Chiral, you'll assume the role of a disembodied brain in a jar, paired with a digital AI companion. Together, you'll navigate a labyrinth of mirror, laser, and gravity puzzles that will challenge your sp
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Infocom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +11
The year is 1936, and suddenly the protagonist is abducted by the Leather Goddesses for the final testing in the plan which will enslave every man and woman on earth. These Leather Goddesses of Phobos are just finishing up their plans for t
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Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +5
Mindfighter is a text adventure game developed by British studio Abstract Concepts and published by Activision in 1988 for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and the ZX Spectrum computers.
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Rocket Science Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
Obsidian is a first-person 3-D graphical adventure/puzzle game, in which the player controls scientist Lilah Kerlins, who has to stop artificial intelligence Ceres from recreating the world.
2 lists4 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games


Graham Nelson · Windows, Z-machine, macOS
In the course of searching the attic for an old tourist map of Paris, Victor Meldrew steps into a surreal adventure to uncover a centuries-old curse that has been placed on his family.
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Ocelot Society · Windows, macOS
"Event[0] is a game about building a personal relationship with a machine. You type messages into a computer, and Kaizen answers. As in any relationship, you experience gratitude, disappointment, and sometimes jealousy. It is by working th
72 rating2 lists2.5 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo DS
Time Hollow follows the story of Ethan Kairos and the mysterious disappearance of his entire family. As Ethan searches for his family he comes across a Hollow Pen, an uncanny object with the unique power to open portals to the past. This al
61 rating2 listsAlso in Graphic adventure games
Nintendo exclusive
Eidos Interactive · SNES
On the reptilian planet of Tirmat, scientists have discovered a rift in space and plan to use it to transport the planet's inhabitants before the planet is extinguished by sending their elite army through the rift and invade their closest n
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit
Adventure in Time is a text-based adventure game, that requires the player to adventure through multiple time zones. All commands are typed via VERB NOUN entries. The player must gather inventory and solve text-based puzzles, and can hold u
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Seabase Delta is a text adventure game by Firebird released in 1986 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum home computers. It is the sequel to Subsunk.
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
As reporter Ed Lines, you are on board HMS Sea Lion when it is attacked and sunk. Now you must send the Subsunk message..
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Magnetic Scrolls · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +10
The aim of this interactive fiction with graphics is to escape from the land of Kerovnia, where strange occurrences are routine. The Roobikyoub dwarves have been banished from the kingdom, which is not good as they produce high-quality whis
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Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16 +3
You are visiting the Twin KIngdom Valley in order to find (and steal) some treasure.
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Level 9 Computing · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +10
Knight Orc is a standard text adventure game, with limited graphics on some platforms, by Level 9 released in 1987. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Sign of the Orc") explaining the background to the story. After a ni
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Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro +4
Take your family on a holiday vacation they will never forget.
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Legend · ZX Spectrum
The Great Space Race is a combination role-playing game and science-fiction space combat game. The basic premise of the game is that a new super-drink called Natof has been discovered. Natof has three key properties, which are to get the pe
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Linux, Windows, macOS
Achron is the world's first meta-time strategy game, allowing you to dynamically alter your past and future actions, send your units back and forth through time, even engineer temporal paradoxes that work to your advantage. Play through fou
50 rating3 lists70 h main story


Apple II, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +6
The time is not too long from now. The place is New York City. Yet it is a setting few of us would ever recognize. For this is a world where simply owning a book is dangerously illegal. Where Firemen come not to save houses, but to burn th
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Magnetic Scrolls · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +8
Inter-Dimensional Espionage. Inter-Dimensional... because you can "warp" into the body of a living thing in this or any other dimension. Espionage... because there are good guys and bad. And you're a good one... with years under your belt a
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Gargoyle Games · ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
Axil the Able stood in three inches of stagnant water and surveyed one of the most dismal dungeons he had ever been thrown into... 30 seconds earlier, he was sitting in front of the ox-roast in that famed haunt of the Occult. The Golden Thu
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Windows, macOS
Adventure game authored in Macromedia Director puts you in the role of an agent trying to scout and book one of 2 comics. Fail and you're booted to mini-games which you can beat to return to the main game. Gameplay consists mostly of explo
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +6
Time Bandit is a maze shoot 'em up written for the TRS-80 Model I by Bill Dunlevy and Harry Lafnear and published by MichTron in 1983. It was ported to the TRS-80 Color Computer and Dragon 32, but enjoyed its greatest popularity several yea
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