The 10 best DOS adventure games, as the players of dos.games rate them. The Dig leads the list, ahead of Discworld and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Every game on the list plays in your browser, with nothing to install. The order comes from players' ratings and real play time, so it moves as people play.
Updated How the lists are ranked
1995 · LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC · Adventure
A DEEP SPACE ADVENTURE BY SEAN CLARK IN COLLABORATION WITH FILMMAKER STEVEN SPIELBERG An asteroid the size of a small moon is on a crash course toward Earth, and only NASA veteran Boston Low has the expertise to stop it.
1995 · Teeny Weeny Games, Ltd. · Adventure
This adventure game puts the player in the shoes of Rincewind, a wizard whose sole purpose in life is to stay alive.
1992 · LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC · Adventure
Fate of Atlantis has the player explore environments and interact with objects and characters by using commands constructed with predetermined verbs.
1996 · Revolution Software Ltd. · Adventure
George Stobbart is an American tourist spending his autumn vacation in Paris.
1998 · SleepTeam · Adventure
Guide detective Pankrac through a strange kidnapping case in SleepTeam's 1998 MS-DOS adventure Polda, solving inventory puzzles and talking to suspects.
1998 · Maxon · Adventure
Guide Honza Majer through Maxon's 1998 MS-DOS comedy adventure Horké léto, a point-and-click search for his kidnapped family voiced by Zdeněk Izer.
1982 · Infocom, Inc. · Adventure
Zork: The Great Underground Empire is a classic text adventure game.
1990 · LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC · Adventure
The game begins on the Caribbean island of Mêlée, where a youth named Guybrush Threepwood wants to be a pirate.
1995 · LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC · Adventure
The story is set in a dystopian future where motorized vehicles are giving way to anti-gravitational hovercrafts.
1995 · Interactive Binary Illusions · Adventure
Joe King is the hero of this point and click adventure.
| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity2 players · 4m · capped at +0.50 | +0.12 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Dune| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity2 players · 3m · capped at +0.50 | +0.12 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (1987)| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity1 player · 9m · capped at +0.50 | +0.08 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Loom| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity1 player · 9m · capped at +0.50 | +0.08 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open L.A. Law: The Computer Game| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity1 player · 6m · capped at +0.50 | +0.08 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Trick or Treat| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity1 player · 6m · capped at +0.50 | +0.08 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two - The Hand of Fate| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity1 player · 6m · capped at +0.50 | +0.08 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Beneath a Steel Sky| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity1 player · 6m · capped at +0.50 | +0.08 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity1 player · 5m · capped at +0.50 | +0.08 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Mutation of J.B.| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activity1 player · 4m · capped at +0.50 | +0.08 | ||
| Score | 3.3 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
