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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Lure of the Temptress

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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

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Jack the Ripper

DOS19954/5 Intergalactic Development
Kingdom: The Far Reaches

Windows XP/98/95Mac1995protected3.8/5 Virtual Image Productions
Mission Critical

DOS1995protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment
Myst

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac1995protected4.1/5 Cyan Worlds
Once Upon a Forest

DOS19953.8/5 Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Corporation
Phantasmagoria

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac1995protected4.3/5 Sierra On-Line
Prisoner of Ice

DOS1995protected4.1/5 Chaosium Inc.
Runaway City

DOS1995NSFW4.2/5 JAST USA
Shannara

DOS1995protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in The Spinal Frontier

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
Teen Agent

DOS1995freeware3.8/5 Metropolis Software House
The 11th Hour

Windows XP/98/951995protected4.1/5 Trilobyte
The Dig

DOS1995protected4.1/5 LucasArts
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time

Windows XP/98/95MacWindows 3.x1995protected3.5/5 Presto Studios
Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer

DOS19954/5 Clipper Software
True Love

Windows XP/98/951995NSFW4.1/5 Software House Parsley

True Love is abandoned visual novel and dating simulation developed by Software House Parsley and released by JAST USA in 1995 for Windows. True Love is one of the many erotic anime-style visual novels released in the 1990s.
3 Skulls of the Toltecs

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected4.1/5 Revistronic
Borderworld

DOS19963.7/5 Midlothian Software
Discworld 2: Mortality Bytes!

DOS19964.1/5 Perfect Entertainment
Fable

DOS19964.2/5 Simbiosis Interactive
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protectedNSFW4.1/5 Sierra On-Line
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

DOS19963.5/5
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1996protected4/5 Access Software

Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive is the sequel to Under a Killing Moon and the 4th game in the Tex Murphy series. The Pandora Directive is a first-person 3D adventure game set in a dark sci-fi version of the U.S.A., more specifically in a futuristic San Francisco. The Pandora Directive was developed by Access Software and released in 1996 for...
The Dame Was Loaded

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Beam Software
The Gene Machine

DOS19963.7/5 Divide by zero
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo

DOS19964/5 Mythos Software
Toonstruck

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1996protected4.2/5 Virgin Interactive
Zork Nemesis

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1996protected4.2/5 Zombie Studios
African Adventure

DOS1997remake3.4/5