Abandonware adventure games sorted by release date

Adventure games focus on cracking enigmas and exploring and contemplating the game world in a narrative-driven scenario. In order to progress within the story arc, the player has to interact with different items, the environment itself, and other non-playing characters (NPC in short).

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The Fourth Protocol

DOS19874/5 interactive fiction

The Guild of Thieves

DOS19874.1/5 interactive fiction

The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 interactive fiction

Uninvited

DOSMac19873.8/5 point and click adventure

20000 Leagues under the sea

DOS19883.8/5 visual novel, interactive fiction

A Dudley Dilemma

DOS19883.3/5 interactive fiction

Corruption

DOS19884/5 interactive fiction

Dream Zone

DOS19884.2/5 interactive fiction

Fish!

DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction

Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS19883.8/5 visual novel, interactive fiction

Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction

Gold Rush!

DOS1988protected4.1/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 interactive fiction

Jinxter

DOS19884/5 interactive fiction

King's Quest 4: The Perils of Rosella

DOS1988protecteddemo3.8/5 point and click adventure

King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella is an adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1988. It is the fourth installment in the popular King's Quest series created by Roberta Williams. The game was originally released for MS-DOS and Apple II computers and later ported to other platforms.The story of King's Quest IV follows Prince...

L.A. Crackdown

DOS19884/5

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 interactive fiction

Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS19884/5 visual novel, interactive fiction

Legend of the Sword

DOS19884/5 interactive fiction

Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)

DOS1988NSFW4.1/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Manhunter: New York

DOS19883.8/5 point and click adventure

Mortville Manor

DOS19883.8/5 point and click adventure

Mystery of the Mummy

DOS19883.6/5 point and click adventure

Police Quest 2: The Vengeance

DOS1988protected4/5 graphic adventure with text parser

Police Quest 2: The Vengeance is a graphical point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1988 as the second installment in the Police Quest series, which was created by former police officer Jim Walls.In Police Quest 2, Sonny Bonds is now a sergeant with the Lytton Police Department, and the gam...

Psycho

DOS19883.4/5

Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 interactive fiction

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 interactive fiction

Shadowgate

DOSWindows 3.xMac19884/5 point and click adventure

Shadowgate is an abandoned fantasy-themed adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released by Mindscape in 1988 for Macintosh, DOS, and also for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, NES. Shadowgate uses the ICOM MacVenture engine (Deja Vu, Uninvited). Shadowgate was later remade in an enhanced version for Windows 3.1.