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Abandonia is a website dedicated to abandoned games from the DOS era, this site has a very poor library and focuses on more famous titles.
Why It's Better Off Abandoned[edit | edit source]
- As mentioned above, this site, unlike other sites of this type, only focuses on games from the DOS era and hardly any games from the Windows or other platform era, which is already a red flag in itself.
- Despite the fact that the game focuses on games from the DOS era, not all games from this era, only those from the 386 era or earlier, so if you are looking for a game from the 486 era or the pentium era, you are unlikely to find one.
- Like My Abandonware, this site is afraid of game-purchasing sites like Steam, Gog, and Origin, which makes its content even poorer.
- Unlike other abandonware sites, they don't add new games to their site at all, in other words, they put absolutely no effort into adding anything new to their site.
- Their interface is a total mess, there are even more ads than in My Abandonware, it also looks very ugly and poor to the point that you don't know whether to laugh or cry. Sometimes the text even overlaps.
- Total lack of any help in launching games, this site does not even recommend any emulator to launch games like DOSBox.
- The pages of this site sometimes have hidden links leading to sites that have nothing to do with games, which is very frustrating at the moment.
- The people behind this site are just as greedy as those behind My Abadnonware, if not more so because they have a ton of ads, and they tend to demand money from the user almost all the time, either when downloading or doing anything else.
- A whole ton of useless pages and sometimes even features that no one would rather use.
- The translation of the pages, while good on paper, is poorly done because this service is only able to print English-language stamps.
- Generally speaking, the use of this site is completely unnecessary and pointless, especially since there are sites that offer literally everything and way more that this site has to offer.
The Only Redeeming Quality[edit | edit source]
- Despite their fear of being able to buy the game, there are a few games available for free download that My Abandonware is afraid to release, although unfortunately most of these games are not available.