1990s Adventure games

33 Adventure classics first released 1990 to 1999, in release order, and 60 games looking back to them.

Games looking back to them

• ScummVM: Huge project that reimplements hundreds of adventure and RPG engines from LucasArts, Sierra, Origin and more.
• Darkness of Monkey Island: Monkey Island fan sequel, declared dead by its team.
• Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure: Small follow-up made to test Ron Gilbert's new engine.
• Fate of Monkey Island: Finished one-person Monkey Island fan game hosted on the creator's own site.
• Legend of LeChuck: Second Monkey Island fan game by the Fate of Monkey Island author; demo released.
• Monkey Island: Carnaval Vudu: Spanish Monkey Island fan adventure.
• Picaroon: The Lost Years: Episodic Monkey Island fan project.
• The Secret of Mount Monkey: Unfinished German Monkey Island fan adventure with a demo.
• Thimbleweed Park: Kickstarted point-and-click by Maniac Mansion's creators.
• Thimbleweed Park 2: Announced sequel listed for 2028.
• Unforeseen Incidents: Hand-drawn German indie adventure in the LucasArts tradition.
• Drox Operative: Space action RPG mixing 4X politics with loot.
• Drox Operative 2: Sequel to Drox Operative.
• Star Control: Origins: Licensed prequel-reboot of Star Control.
• Starsector: Top-down space fleet RPG sold DRM-free only from the developer's own site, never on Steam.
• Strange Adventures in Infinite Space: Short space exploration and strategy game first sold from the developer's own site.
• The Ur-Quan Masters: Port of the 3DO Star Control II source, free to play.
• The Ur-Quan Masters HD MegaMod: HD remaster mod of The Ur-Quan Masters.
• Ur-Quan Masters: Open-source port of Star Control II from the 3DO source.
• Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space: Sequel to Strange Adventures in Infinite Space.
• Another World JS: Another World engine running in the browser.
• OnEscapee: Hungarian cinematic platformer in the style of Another World and Flashback.
• rawgl: Another World engine reimplementation supporting many versions.
• Gobliiins 5: Crowdfunded new Gobliiins game by series creator Pierre Gilhodes.
• f2bgl: Fade to Black engine reimplementation from cyx's site.
• REminiscence: Flashback engine rewrite from cyx's personal site.
• Resonance: Sci-fi thriller adventure with a short-term and long-term memory system.
• Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 1 - In Search of the Skunk-Ape: Free AGS point-and-click mystery in the Sierra style.
• Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 3 - The Sorceress of Smailholm: Free AGS adventure episode.
• Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 4 - Horror at Number 50: Free AGS adventure episode.
• Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 5 - Land of the Rising Dead: Free AGS adventure episode set in Japan.
• Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 6 - Scourge of the Sea People: Free AGS adventure episode.
• Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 7 - The Cardinal Sins: Free AGS adventure episode.
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition: Remake supervised by creator Jane Jensen.
• Gray Matter: Jane Jensen's supernatural adventure.
• Kathy Rain: Pixel-art mystery adventure inspired by Gabriel Knight.
• Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer: Sequel to Kathy Rain.
• Moebius: Empire Rising: Kickstarted adventure by Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen.
• Old Skies: Time-travel point-and-click adventure.
• The Blackwell Epiphany: Final chapter of the Blackwell ghost-medium adventure series.
• The Excavation of Hob's Barrow: Folk-horror pixel adventure set on the Victorian English moors.
• Unavowed: Party-based supernatural adventure from a studio that sells its retro adventures directly.
• Firmament: Kickstarted steampunk puzzle adventure from Cyan.
• Obduction: Kickstarted first-person puzzle adventure by Myst's creators.
• Quern: Undying Thoughts: Myst-style first-person puzzle adventure.
• Beyond a Steel Sky: Sequel by Charles Cecil and Dave Gibbons, 26 years later.
• Gemini Rue: Cyberpunk noir adventure in early-90s pixel style.
• Primordia: Post-human robot adventure in VGA-style pixel art.
• Technobabylon: Cyberpunk point-and-click adventure.
• Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars: German fan sequel to Broken Sword, later endorsed by Revolution.
• Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse: Kickstarted return to 2D for the series.
• Armikrog: Kickstarted claymation adventure by The Neverhood's creators.
• CroftEngine: Faithful Tomb Raider I engine with modern rendering.
• OpenLara: Tomb Raider engine that runs on many retro and modern platforms.
• OpenTomb: Open engine for the classic Tomb Raider games.
• TombEngine: Level-editor engine descended from Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation.
• TRX: Community edition engine for Tomb Raider I and II.
• Outcast: A New Beginning: Sequel by the original Outcast studio.
• Shenmue III: Record-setting 2015 Kickstarter continuation by Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki.
• Dreamfall Chapters: Kickstarted conclusion of the Longest Journey saga.

The classics

• Loom (1990)
• Monkey Island (1990)
• Star Control (1990)
• Another World (1991)
• Gobliiins (1991)
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1991)
• Darkseed (1992)
• Ecco the Dolphin (1992)
• Flashback (1992)
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992)
• Lure of the Temptress (1992)
• Night Trap (1992)
• The Legend of Kyrandia (1992)
• Gabriel Knight (1993)
• Myst (1993)
• Sam & Max (1993)
• Simon the Sorcerer (1993)
• Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
• Little Big Adventure (1994)
• Discworld (1995)
• Full Throttle (1995)
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995)
• The Dig (1995)
• Broken Sword (1996)
• The Neverhood (1996)
• Tomb Raider (1996)
• Blade Runner (1997)
• Grim Fandango (1998)
• Sanitarium (1998)
• Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999)
• Outcast (1999)
• Shenmue (1999)
• The Longest Journey (1999)