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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Emmanuelle: A Game of Eroticism
DOS1989NSFW
Explora 2
DOS1989 point and click adventure
GrailQuest
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Hero's Quest: So you want to be a hero
DOS1989 point and click adventure
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
DOS1989protecteddemo point and click adventure
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure is a point-and-click adventure game released in 1989 by Lucasfilm Games. The game was designed by Ron Gilbert, David Fox, and Noah Falstein. It is based on the 1989 film "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", directed by Steven Spielberg.The game follows the plot of the movie closely and incl...
James Clavell's Shogun
DOS1989 interactive fiction
James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...
Journey: The Quest Begins
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Last Half of Darkness
DOS1989 point and click adventure
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
DOS1989NSFW graphic adventure with text parser
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals is a comedic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1989 as the third installment in the Leisure Suit Larry series, created by Al Lowe.In Larry 3, players once again control the lovable loser Larry Laffer, who is on a quest to find tru...
Manhunter 2: San Francisco
DOSMac OS1989 point and click adventure
Mean Streets
DOS1989protected point and click adventure
Myth
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Neuromancer
DOS1989 point and click adventure
The Neuromancer video game, released in 1988 by Interplay Productions, is an adventure/role-playing game loosely based on William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984). It combines elements of science fiction, hacking, and RPG-style exploration in a digital world, set in a dystopian future dominated by artificial intelligence, corpora...
Omnicron Conspiracy
DOS1989
Ooze: Creepy Nites
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Planet of Lust
DOS1989NSFW graphic adventure with text parser
Quest for glory 1: So you want to be a hero
DOS1989protected point and click adventure
Scapeghost
DOS1989 interactive fiction
Sex Vixens from Space
DOS1989NSFW interactive fiction
Space Ace
DOS1989 interactive movie
Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon
DOSMac OS1989protected point and click adventure
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Transinium Challenge
DOSMac OS1989
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Transinium Challenge is an abandoned adventure game set in the Star Trek TNG universe designed by Ron Martinez, developed by TRANS Fiction Systems and released by Simon & Schuster Interactive in 1989. Star Trek: TNG - The Transinium Challenge was developed for DOS and Mac.
The Colonel's Bequest
DOS1989protecteddemo
The Colonel's Bequest is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1989 for various platforms, including MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. The game was created by Roberta Williams, co-founder of Sierra On-Line.The game is part of the "Laura Bow" series, with the full title being "Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequ...
The Crack of Doom
DOS1989 interactive fiction
The Golden Fleece
DOS1989 interactive fiction
The Hound of Shadow
DOS1989 interactive fiction
The Kristal
DOS1989 point and click adventure
The Quest for the Time-bird
DOS1989 point and click adventure
The Scoop
DOS1989 graphic adventure with text parser
The Third Courier
DOS1989
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.