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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Journey: The Quest Begins

DOS19894/5 Infocom
Last Half of Darkness

DOS19894/5 SoftLab Laboratories
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line
Manhunter 2: San Francisco

DOSMac19893.9/5 Evryware
Mean Streets

DOS1989protected4/5 Access Software
Myth

DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Neuromancer

DOS19894/5 Interplay Productions
Omnicron Conspiracy

DOS19894.1/5 First Star Software
Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games
Planet of Lust

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software
Quest for glory 1: So you want to be a hero

DOS1989protected3.9/5 Sierra On-Line
Scapeghost

DOS19893.8/5 Level 9 Computing
Sex Vixens from Space

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Free Spirit Software
Space Ace

DOS19894.1/5 ReadySoft
Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon

DOSMac1989protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
Star Trek: the next generation - The transinium challenge

DOS19893.9/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
The Colonel's Bequest

DOS1989protected4.1/5 Sierra On-Line

Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequest is adventure game designed by Roberta Williams, developed and released by Sierra On-Line in 1989 for DOS. The titular character is one of the lesser known of Sierra On-Line but she got its own sequel in 1989 called Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra.
The Crack of Doom

DOS19893.7/5 Beam Software
The Golden Fleece

DOS19894/5
The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games
The Kristal

DOS19893.9/5
The Quest for the Time-bird

DOS19893.8/5 Infogrames
The Scoop

DOS19894.1/5 Telarium
The Third Courier

DOS19894.1/5 Manley Associates

The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 1989 for DOS, but it was also published for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST platforms.
The Usurper

DOS19893.6/5 Sir-tech Software
Where in time is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS19894.2/5 Broderbund
Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS19893.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS19894/5 Infocom
Altered Destiny

DOS1990protected3.8/5 Accolade

Altered Destiny is a sci-fi themed point and click adventure game designed by Michael Berlyn, developed and released by Accolade in 1990. Altered Destiny runs on DOS but was also published for Amiga.
B.A.T.

DOS19903.9/5 Computer's dream