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Space is the Place 7 Mar, 2023 @ 6:45pm
Missing Adventure games on Steam
This is an ever expanding list of adventure games not present currently on steam (which I inititally posted on another PnC steam group now mostly dead), doing it for my own pourpose but decided to share it in case people have more titles to add (note that some of these ARE available on GOG though). They are not neccesarily all have to be point and click but I will mostly leave out hidden object games, interactive narrative movies (TellTale style games) or any other subgenre, also no 1st person exploration+puzzles ala Myst. Games have being organized by developers or in some cases publishers, you can see the year it came out and the platforms it did.

Can´t you find that one amazing PnC adventure you play once? Tell us about it and I´ll try to add it. Here´s the list:

7th Level
Defunct since 1998.
  • Ace Ventura: The CD-Rom Game - (1996) PC

Access Software
Defunct since 2006
  • Countdown - (1990) DOS
  • Amazon: Guardians of Eden - (1992) DOS

Art 9 Entertainment Inc.
No info
  • Heaven's Dawn - (1995) DOS

Artech Digital Entertainment
Defunct since 2011
  • U.F.O.s aka GNAP - (1997) PC/Mac

Artematica
Italian developer, still in active.
  • Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray - (2005) PC
  • Belief & Betrayal - (2007) PC
  • Diabolik: The Original Sin - (2009) PC/PS2/NintendoDS/PSP/Wii

AWE Productions
Small studio from Florida, USA that started out as a one person company. They developed several license games like Spongebob and Nancy Drew. Went defunct in 2011.
  • Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None - (2005) PC/Wii
  • Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express - (2006) PC
  • Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun - (2007) PC/Wii

Braingame
No information
  • The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure - (2008) PC

Capstone
Defunct since 1996
  • (As Publisher) Wayne's World - (1993) DOS

Clipper Software
No info
  • Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer - (1995) PC/DOS

Coktel Vision
Acquiered by Sierra on 1992, which after many buy outs ended up on Vivendi. Eventually all previous Coktel Vision properties and remaining stuff was acquiered by Mindscape, which exited the videogame industry in 2011.
  • Fascination - (1991) DOS/Amiga/Atari
  • Bargon Attack - (1992) DOS/Amiga/Atari
  • Ween: The Prophecy - (1992) DOS/Amiga/Atari
  • Lost in Time - (1993) DOS
  • Gobliiins - (1992)
  • Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon - (1992)
  • Goblins Quest 3 - (1993)
  • Gobliiins 4 - (2009)
  • The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble - (1995) PC

Core Design
Acquiered by CentreGold in 1994, then by Eidos in 1996,then in 2006 by Rebellion Developments whom rebranded it as Rebellion Derby and was shut down on 2010 after many failure games (they made Rogue Warrior and the 2010 Alien vs Predator, among other "gems"). Rights of these games should belong to Rebellion which is mostly a comicbook company this days with their future goals set on movie for the 2000AD IPs (Judge Dreed).
  • Curse of Enchantia - (1992) DOS/Amiga
  • Universe - (1994) DOS/Amiga

Cyberdreams
Closed down on 1997. The rights to their most famous game, I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream (a true classic you can get here on Steam and GOG) ended up in Nightdive Studios
  • Darkseed - (1992) DOS/Amiga/MAC/SegaSaturn/PS
  • Dark Seed II - (1995) PC/Mac/SegaSaturn/PS

Delphine Software International
Creators of Another World and Flashback. Defunct since 2004
  • Future Wars: Adventures in Time - (1989) DOS/Amiga/Atari
  • Operation Stealth aka 007: James Bond - The Stealth Affair - (1990) DOS/Amiga/Atari
  • Cruise for a Corpse - (1991) DOS/Amiga/Atari

Divide By Zero
Company went defunct in 1996, all their games were published by Psygnosis, which still exist as a financial entity owned by Sony, they do not develop or publish games any more.
  • Innocent Until Caught - (1993) Amiga/DOS
  • Innocent Until Caught 2: Presumed Guilty/Guilty - (1995) DOS
  • The Orion Conspiracy - (1995) DOS (first game to ever use swear words)
  • The Gene Machine - (1996) DOS

Dynabyte
Difficult to find info due to the name being used for several active companies. Assumed defunct.
  • Nippon Safes, Inc. - (1992) DOS/Amiga
  • The Big Red Adventure - (1995) DOS/Amiga
  • Tequila & Boom Boom - (1995) DOS

Dynamix
Defunct since 2001
  • Rise of the Dragon - (1990) DOS/Mac/Amiga/SegaCD
  • Heart of China - (1991) DOS/Mac/Amiga
  • The Adventures of Willy Beamish - (1991) DOS/Mac/Amiga/SegaCD

Future Games
Defunct since 2011. A few of their other games are on Steam.
  • NiBiRu: Age of Secrets - (2005) PC
  • Next Life aka Reprobates - (2007) PC
  • Tale of a Hero - (2008) PC

Housemarque
Acquired by Sony in 2021
  • Alien Incident - (1996) DOS

Illusions Gaming Company
While their last game was made in 1999 there is no info on the company having shut down
  • Scooby Doo Mystery: Blake's Hotel+Ha Ha Carnival - (1995) SegaGenesis
  • Blazing Dragons - (1996) PS/SegaSaturn
  • Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick - (1997) PC
  • Beavis and Butthead Do U - (1999) PC

Infocom
As a developer it went defunct in 1989, but continued as a publishing label for Activision, whom are belive to keep holding all their assets and rights. They were most famous for the Zork series.
  • Leather Goddesses of Phobos! 2 - (1992) DOS

Invention
No information
  • Mutation of J.B. (game only exist in Slovak and German languages)- (1996) MS-DOS

Kalisto Entertainment
Defunct since 2002
  • Dark Earth - (1997) PC

Merit Studios
Defunct since 1996
  • Bud Tucker in Double Trouble - (1996) DOS
  • (Publisher) Trick or Treat - (1994) DOS

Metropolis Software House
Defunct since 2009
  • Teenagent - (1994) DOS/Amiga

MP Entertainment
No information
  • Hopkins FBI - (1998) PC/Linux

Mythos Software
Supposedly defunct since 2004, they only made 3 games. Electronic Arts publish their games so they could be the rights owners for all we know.
  • The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel - (1994) DOS
  • The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo - (1996) DOS

New Generation Software
Took me some digging to find out, some places it states that it´s defunct since 1986, but the date made no sense with the game I know about them. Eventually found out that the company released two erotic games and decided to focus on that, they are now named Redfire Software for anyone curious about it.
  • Chewy: ESC from F5 - (1996) DOS/PC

Ocean Software
Defunct since 1998. Currently all their assets belong to Bandai UK
  • Hook - (1992) DOS/Amiga/Atari

Pendulo Studios
Still in active and still developing adventure games
  • Igor: Objective Uikokahonia - (1994) DOS
  • Hollywood Monsters - (1997) PC

Perfect Entertainment/Teeny Weeny Games
  • Discworld - (1995) DOS/Mac/PS/SegaSaturn
  • Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!? - (1996) PC/PS/SegaSaturn
  • Discworld Noir - (1999) PC/PS

Phoenix Online Studios
Active and still developing PnC adventures, this one it´s just missing from Steam.
  • The Silver Lining - (2010-2011) PC

PowerVision
No information
  • The Adventures of Down Under Dan - (1995) DOS

Prograph Research
Founded in 1998 and from Italy, there´s no info on if it´s still active or defunct.
  • Tony Tough 2: A Rake's Progress - (2006) PC

Psygnosis
Stoped developing and publishing in 2012, but still exist as a legal entity for Sony.
  • The City of Lost Children - (1997) DOS/PS

Razbor Studios
No information
  • Legacy: Dark Shadows - (2004) PC

Revistronic
Spanish dev that went defunct in 2011, the other two games from the Fenimore Fillmore series are published on Steam by Casual Brothers dev/publisher, a company with his headquarters in London, England were at least one person who worked on the fisrt Fenimore game still works there.
  • Fenimore Fillmore's Revenge - (2008) PC

Revolution Software
Still in active and still developing adventure games. All their games are on steam except for this one.
  • Lure of the Temptress - (1992) DOS/Amiga/Atari

Sanctuary Woods
Defunct since 2001
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu - (1995) DOS/Mac
  • Orion Burger - (1996) DOS/Mac

Sierra On Line
Defunct since 2008, although most of the rest of their games are on Steam
  • The Black Cauldron - (1986) DOS/Amiga/Atari
  • Code-Name: Iceman - (1989) DOS/Amiga/Atari
  • The Colonel's Bequest - (1989) DOS/Amiga/Atari
  • The Dagger of Amon Ra - (1992) DOS/PC
  • Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail - (1990) DOS/Amiga/Atari
  • Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood - (1991) DOS/Amiga
  • EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus - (1991) DOS
  • EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest - (1993) DOS/PC
  • Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist - (1993) DOS/Mac/PC
  • Torin's Passage - (1995) DOS/PC/Mac

Silver Style
German developer who got bought out by The Games Company (yeah, someone actually made a dev company called like that) and then went solo again once this one declared insolvent, four years later on 2014 Silver Style would declare itself insolvent. Besides Simon 4 and 5 they also made The Dark Eye: Demonicon (here on Steam republished by another company) and a tabletop game also in The Dark Eye universe.
  • Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens - (2007) PC
  • Simon the Sorcerer: Who'd Even Want Contact?! - (2009) PC

Simbiosis Interactive
No information
  • Fable - (1996) DOS/PC

Spectrum HoloByte
Defunct since 1999
  • Star Trek A Final Unity - (1995) DOS/MAC

Sproing Interactive Media
Australian dev. defunct since 2018, however, the employees founded Purple Lamp, which has release the two remakes of Spongebob platform games as well as making Sea of Thieves.
  • Undercover: Operation Wintersun - (2006) PC

Synergistic Software
Acquired by Sierra on 1996
  • The Beverly Hillbillies - (1993) DOS

Team 17
The Worms guys, most of their catalogue is on Steam
  • Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy - (1998) PC/Amiga

TechToons Ltd.
This one is a curious one. It´s a british company with their headquarters in Hong Kong specialized on investing on animation, but there are no registers of the company to be found anywhere except for the fact they try to do a game, they hired american comedians Martin Short and Eugene Levy and after that the company disappears completely.
  • Creature Crunch - (1996) PC

The Neverhood, Inc.
Defunct since 1999
  • The Neverhood - (1996) PC/PS

Tsunami Media
Defunct since 1999. This company was created by Sierra On Line ex-employees.
  • Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch - (1992) DOS
  • Return to Ringworld - (1994) DOS
  • Blue Force - (1993) DOS

Wanderlust Interactive
No information
  • The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril - (1996) PC

Westwood Studios
Bought by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Bought by Electronic Arts in 1998 alongside Virgin. Merged with into EA Los Angeles (later Dreamworks Interactive, later Danger Close Games). Close down in 2013. Rights of other Westwood series like Comand and Conquer have shifted internally on EA and recently we got a Blade Runner from Nightdive Studios. So at this point is completely unclear who owns the rights, most likely EA.
  • The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One - (1992) DOS/PC/Mac
  • The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two - Hand of Fate - (1993) DOS/PC/Mac
  • The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three - Malcolm's Revenge - (1994) DOS/PC/Mac

White Birds Productions
Defunct since 2011
  • Benoît Sokal's Paradise - (2006) PC/NintendoDS

Wizarbox
Defunct since 2012, their latest games are on Steam, but not this two.
  • So Blonde - (2008) PC
  • So Blonde: Back to the Island - (2010) Wii/NintendoDS

Xilam
Mostly an animation french studio, but they own the IP and decided to make the game themselves
  • Stupid Invaders - (2000) PC/Mac/Dreamcast

PD: Thinking about looking for a way to maybe add genre on the mix, but it may take much space and make the list less easy to read on the go, we´ll see.
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Space is the Place 7 Mar, 2023 @ 6:45pm 
*RESERVED*
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Space is the Place 7 Mar, 2023 @ 6:46pm 
*RESERVED* (just in case, a third one shouldn´t be nedded, probably not even a second, will delete both eventually if not requiered)
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Artemur 21 Mar, 2023 @ 10:55am 
Jack The Ripper
Carole Reed series
Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
The Cameron Files: Pharaoh’s Curse
The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript
Destination: Treasure Island
Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny
Aura 2 Sacred Rings
So Blonde
NiBiRu: Age of Secrets
Next Life
Cleopatra: Riddle of the Tomb
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Space is the Place 21 Mar, 2023 @ 11:13am 
Hey thanks @Artemur, kind of in the run right now but I´ll be sure to check them and include them in the list tonight. Thanks again.

EDIT: It seems most of those games you mentioned are 1st person with specific one screen puzzles, while most of the ones I did include are 3rd person with inventory combination puzzles. So I think I´m going to specify the type of adventure each game is. Also most of the ones you mentioned were published by the same company, so I guess I´ll order them that way.
Last edited by Space is the Place; 24 Mar, 2023 @ 7:17am
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Artemur 24 Mar, 2023 @ 11:26am 
Originally posted by Space is the Place:
Hey thanks @Artemur, kind of in the run right now but I´ll be sure to check them and include them in the list tonight. Thanks again.

EDIT: It seems most of those games you mentioned are 1st person with specific one screen puzzles, while most of the ones I did include are 3rd person with inventory combination puzzles. So I think I´m going to specify the type of adventure each game is. Also most of the ones you mentioned were published by the same company, so I guess I´ll order them that way.

is there anyway to bring these games to Steam?
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Space is the Place 24 Mar, 2023 @ 12:11pm 
Other than bringing attention to the developers or IP owners of some of these titles I don´t think so. And even then, it would have to be small studios or studios with one person that controls part of the company. Like for instance Lure of the Tempress is on Gog, it´s from a company still active and Cecil is a known person, so technically someone could contact him on twitter or whatever and ask directly if the game will ever be on Steam.

But that would only be on some titles, the ones from big companies that don´t really communicate much to the fans I don´t think you would ever get a response, even though technically you could do the same thing. And for IPs who´s devs are defunct, that´s kind of hard, you could also ask, but to whom? I have tried to explain on the small description where the rights may be currently, but that´s just an oppinion, some of these games may be completely lost, or the IPs still being owned by an unreacheable party.

At least the ones that are on Gog it shouldn´t be too hard to find the devs and ask them, like I said on twitter or in their own page forums or whatever. But let´s say for example the Goblin series, the developer went defunct and the IP ended up being owned by another company that also went defunct, so it´s a completely mystery to whom does it belong currently.

Sadly, except for the ones in this list supported by ScumMVM and present in abandonware pages, a lot of this games are completely unreacheable, either legally or else.
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Artemur 24 Mar, 2023 @ 11:28pm 
Originally posted by Artemur:
Jack The Ripper
Carole Reed series
Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
The Cameron Files: Pharaoh’s Curse
The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript
Destination: Treasure Island
Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny
Aura 2 Sacred Rings
So Blonde
NiBiRu: Age of Secrets
Next Life
Cleopatra: Riddle of the Tomb
And Paradise (i forgot the mention about this). it's another game from Benoit Sokal. it's kind of similar to Syberia but it's not as good as Syberia.
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Space is the Place 22 Apr, 2023 @ 5:45pm 
Had to remove a few titles which actually were on Steam, but with their American names rather than the European ones.

Also, Atari just bought a lot of back catalog from older companies, among them Accolade. It´s not likely this will change the fact their older adventure games are not on steam, but at least the possibility is there unlike before when those IPs were basically on limbo.
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Space is the Place 29 Apr, 2023 @ 3:59pm 
After debating myself over it, I have decided to remove the titles you recomended Artemur. I really really appreciate the input and your messages are here for anyone to find those titles, but alas I just don´t see myself adding Myst clones or any type of first person puzzle games. Mostly because, well, I feel that´s what they are, mostly puzzle games with light touches of exploration, rather than actual adventure. A lot of these games also don´t have inventory management, there are no NPCs to talk... frankly most are walking around until you find a puzzle which is a static one screen image to solve and only some of the ones attempting to have a story do have maybe some voice over narration, maybe.

Again, thanks again and sorry to remove them, but I think in this day and age, those games get better represented withing the Walking Simulator/Puzzle/Exploration categories rather than Point and Click Adventure.

I have also moved the thread to another more active Steam group about adventure gaming because sadly it seems this group is rather inactive (well overall most steam groups are inactive, I think the allure has wind off and they tend to requiere an engament on the moderators to keep it aflot that most people will eventually found unworthy and pointless). I´ll try to update this one as the one gets more entries and viceversa, although the list of older PnC Advnt. games not on Steam that are worth checking out I don´t think can grow much more, specially since I don´t want to get into subgenres like I said on the OP.

Thank you for reading this if you are in the future looking for adventure games on steam groups and curators and I hope when that happens all this games can be bought and play normally on Steam (hopefully on remastered editions that do not requiere third party software like ScummVM or DOSbox and with modern features, upscalling graphics and what not to at least make them playable and enjoyable beyond just the nostalgic players).

Good luck out there and click away.
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Artemur 29 Apr, 2023 @ 11:37pm 
Originally posted by Space is the Place:
After debating myself over it, I have decided to remove the titles you recomended Artemur. I really really appreciate the input and your messages are here for anyone to find those titles, but alas I just don´t see myself adding Myst clones or any type of first person puzzle games. Mostly because, well, I feel that´s what they are, mostly puzzle games with light touches of exploration, rather than actual adventure. A lot of these games also don´t have inventory management, there are no NPCs to talk... frankly most are walking around until you find a puzzle which is a static one screen image to solve and only some of the ones attempting to have a story do have maybe some voice over narration, maybe.

Again, thanks again and sorry to remove them, but I think in this day and age, those games get better represented withing the Walking Simulator/Puzzle/Exploration categories rather than Point and Click Adventure.

I have also moved the thread to another more active Steam group about adventure gaming because sadly it seems this group is rather inactive (well overall most steam groups are inactive, I think the allure has wind off and they tend to requiere an engament on the moderators to keep it aflot that most people will eventually found unworthy and pointless). I´ll try to update this one as the one gets more entries and viceversa, although the list of older PnC Advnt. games not on Steam that are worth checking out I don´t think can grow much more, specially since I don´t want to get into subgenres like I said on the OP.

Thank you for reading this if you are in the future looking for adventure games on steam groups and curators and I hope when that happens all this games can be bought and play normally on Steam (hopefully on remastered editions that do not requiere third party software like ScummVM or DOSbox and with modern features, upscalling graphics and what not to at least make them playable and enjoyable beyond just the nostalgic players).

Good luck out there and click away.
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