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).

Recently added and trending adventure games

Lure of the Temptress

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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

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The Third Courier

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Mystery of the Mummy

DOS19883/5 Time Warp Software
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance

DOS1988protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
Psycho

DOS19883.2/5 Starsoft Development
Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software
Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions
Shadowgate

DOSWindows 3.xMac19884.1/5 ICOM Simulations

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.
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19883.9/5 Challenge
Star Trek: First Contact

DOS19883.5/5 Simon & Schuster Interactive
Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

DOS19883.8/5 Firebird
The Shadows of Mordor

DOS19883.7/5 Beam Software
The Twilight Zone

DOS19884/5

The Twilight Zone is an abandoned sci-fi themed adventure game based on the popular TV series of the same name. The Twilight zone released in 1988 by First Row Software Publishing for DOS and Amiga. At it's core, The Twilight Zone is a text adventure, so you have to type in commands, but it's supported by the graphics.
Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?

DOSMac19884/5 Broderbund
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

DOS1988protected4.1/5 LucasArts
Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS19883.4/5 Tom Snyder Productions
A Personal Nightmare

DOS19893.8/5 Horror Soft
Alice in Wonderland

DOS19893.6/5
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

DOS19894.1/5 Infocom
Avon

DOS19893.4/5 Topologika Software
Berlin 1948

DOS19893.7/5 Time Warp Software
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess

DOS1989protected3.8/5 ERE Informatique
Code-name: Iceman

DOS19894/5 Sierra On-Line
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS19893.5/5 Silhouette Software
Dragon's Lair

DOS1989protected3.6/5 Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media
Emmanuelle

DOS19894/5 Coktel Vision
Hero's Quest: So you want to be a hero

DOS19894.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

DOS1989protected4.2/5 LucasArts

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a point & click adventure developed by LucasFilm. INJaLC uses the widely known Scumm interface, with the addition of the Look and Talk verbs, not included in the previous games. Another innovation is the IQ point system, similar to the one present in every Sierra Online game.
James Clavell's Shogun

DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894/5 Infocom
Last Half of Darkness

DOS19894/5 SoftLab Laboratories