Abandonware adventure games sorted by release date

Adventure games

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  Jewels of Darkness

  DOS19863.8/5 Level 9 Computing
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  King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human

  DOSMac1986protected4.1/5 Sierra On-Line

  King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human is a fantasy adventure game designed by Roberta Williams, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1986 for DOS and for other platforms such as Apple 2, Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh. King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human is also part of the King's quest series.

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  Leather Goddesses of Phobos

  DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
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  Moonmist

  DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
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  Questprobe featuring Spider-Man

  DOS19864.1/5 Adventure International
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  Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

  DOS19863.9/5 Magicom Multimedia
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  Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror

  DOS19863.5/5
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  Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter

  DOSMac19864.2/5 Sierra On-Line

  Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter is an abandoned adventure game designed by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1986 for DOS. Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter is the first game in the Space Quest series with protagonist the clumsy Roger Wilco and it's one of the most popular AGI adventures created by Sierra in...

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  Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

  DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
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  Tass Times in Tonetown

  DOS19863.9/5 Interplay Productions
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  The Black Cauldron

  DOS1986freeware3.8/5 Sierra On-Line
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  The Fellowship of the Ring

  DOS19864/5 Beam Software
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  The Pawn

  DOS19863.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls
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  Transylvania

  DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware
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  Trinity

  DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
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  Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?

  DOS19863.8/5 Broderbund
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  Acheton

  DOS19873.7/5
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  Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor

  DOS19874/5 Infocom
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  Border Zone

  DOS19873.7/5 Infocom
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  Bureaucracy

  DOSMac19873.8/5 Infocom

  Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.

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  Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True

  DOS19874/5 ICOM Simulations
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  Demon's Forge

  DOS19872.9/5 Mastertronic
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  Gnome Ranger

  DOS19873.7/5 Level 9 Computing

  Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.

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  Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

  DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
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  Knight orc

  DOSMac19873.8/5 Level 9 Computing
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  Kobayashi Naru

  DOS19873.3/5
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  Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards

  DOS1987NSFW4.3/5 Sierra On-Line

  Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the first adventure of the Leisure Suit Larry series, created by Al Lowe and published by Sierra On-Line. As a virgin male in his forties, your goal is to, well, find the woman of your dreams. In 1991 Sierra released a VGA remake.

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  Maniac Mansion

  DOSLinuxMac1987protected4.2/5 LucasArts

  Maniac Mansion is one of the most famous point and click adventure games developed by Lucasfilm Games and designed by Ron Gilbert (who later created Monkey Island) and Gary Winnick. The story is a blend of old sci-fi and horror B movie. You can choose between many characters, each one with a peculiar ability useful to solve some of the puzzles. Man...

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  Metropolis

  DOS19873.8/5 Arcadia Systems
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  Mixed-up Mother Goose

  DOS19874.1/5 Sierra On-Line