[Ended] Retro game hunting mini-game (100 giveaways prize unlocked!)

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The task

Welcome lovely people of SG!

I was fascinated by video games since I was a literal baby, which resulted in a lot of titles that I remembered playing or seeing, but with no knowledge about their origins or even titles. A very common thing across people that started to play the games earlier than they were capable of understand what is going on in them, and I was no exception.

This is why a while ago I started to categorize all those old forgotten games, based purely on my flawed memories and logical deduction (as I don't have access to any materials from back then). Since I'm struggling with one specific title, and at the same time have a lot of games to give away, I decided to do a small game-hunting on SG, in which you can help me find my missing sheep, and I can make some giveaways as my grattitude.

The clues

Facts that I'm sure about:

I had to play the game between 1993 and 1996, very likely closer to 1995-1996, so the game has to be earlier than that. I probably didn't have access to up-to-date catalogue of games, so the games I played were usually at least a few years older.
The operating system was DOS, very likely it was MS-DOS, there was no GUI and all games were launched from the floppy disks through console commands. I think it was version 6.xx, perhaps 6.22.
I had Mickey's ABC's: A Day at The Fair on the same machine.
I had Putt-Putt Joins the Parade and Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon on the same machine.
I had The Incredible Machine on the same machine.
I had Raptor: Call of the Shadows on the same machine.
I had Pipe Mania on the same machine.
I had first Prince of Persia on the same machine.
I had Lemmings on the same machine.

Facts that I'm almost sure about:

I had a pinball game, I'm almost sure it was Epic Pinball, since I recall at least a few tables.
I had at least one drawing game, I think it could be Magic Crayon but I can't remember too many details except a huge palette of colors on the bottom.
I'm almost sure that I had Battle Chess, I remembered how my father showed me "magical trick" with king and tower, even if I don't think I really understood how chess worked back then at all.
I had a lot of other games, but this should be enough to narrow-down the expected timeframe, technical capabilities and the potential catalogue. Listing all of them doesn't help.

The facts that I'm not sure about, so majority of my memories and thoughts about actual game:

The game was a 2D point & click adventure, there was a (male?) character doing quests that pushed the story forward. The character interacted with the objects, moved in 3D world shown from 2D perspective, like you could expect from classic point & click adventures.
The location I best remembered was some kind of village with a lot of citizens. I remember we were supposed to find some lost item (sheep?) and bring it back to the owner, which in result gave us something else we were supposed to offer to other character and so on. It was a very simple chain-like linear progression, but the locations were plenty. It felt more like a maze, I remember I had to move across at least a few screens before I found what I was looking for, so the game wasn't too clustered. There were some dialogues too, although I don't remember anything specific about them.
I think the game had simple palette of colours, it could be monochromatic or something very limited. I might be wrong on this because I don't remember very well but they either were black-and-white, or some limited 16-32, max 255 colors. However, this might not be game-specific, because I remember Mickey's ABC to also be in the same palette of colours, so very likely it was my monitor. The fact that I remember both of those games in the similar palette could be some clue.
The graphics style was the most similar to the first Prince of Persia, it could be some a bit older game than the majority of those I remembered.
I can't say anything about the audio, since I only had PC speaker at that time and all games were just bleep and bloops for me, this one as well.
The games that mostly resemble what my memories are composed of are King's Quest, The Secret of Monkey Island and Simon the Sorcerer. The overall setting and scenery was definitely more on the King's Quest side, but the dialogues, especially the spoken letters looked like from Simon's and Monkey's Island. I can't tell if the game had more simple interface with just the mouse/items, or the full interface with all the actions like Simon/Monkey Island. My logical deduction suggests that there was more simplified interface, but my memories tend to disagree with it. Overall I'm confused about that part.
I didn't play a lot of difficult games as a child (obviously), so it could be some more simple/straightforward point & click adventure. I remember how Simon or Monkey's Island (not sure which one I had, but they had similar design) was too hard for me due to too many options and objects to interact with, so instead I played something easier, but also in the same manner.

Mostly irrelevant stuff, but won't hurt to list:

I come from Poland, I was born in 1993, and we're looking for the first 3 years of my life here.
Poland did a lot of deals with the Russia back in 90s, there was still a lot of imports (mostly pirated), but maybe there was something more popular in the east rather than the west, so it could be some clue.
I don't recall having any other game console during that time, so I'm pretty sure that dos/ms-dos was the only game system that I used back then.

The prize

I'll verify all your picks, either via youtube videos or my own gameplay if impossible otherwise. I'm quite positive that I'll recognize the right game if I'm presented with the gameplay, and I'll try to give useful feedback in regards to all your picks, how similar it is to the one I remembered.

The first person that finds my hidden sheep gets something nice off his/her wishlist, a dozen of sacks of gems or a dozen of bundle games of his/her choice from my list, up to you. I'll make sure that you're rewarded for your effort, considering I wasn't able to find the game myself.

In addition to that, we start with 10 giveaways for the effort (right now), 50 giveaways minimum for finding the solution, and up to another 50 if you somehow manage to solve my puzzle in less than 50h, 1 giveaway extra per each saved hour.

The gotchas

Please note that we're basing purely on my memories, which are bound to be flawed, especially in regards to being more than 22 years old. Until now I properly recognized at least a dozen of games that I used to play back then (including all titles mentioned above), which is why I was able to list a good amount of them. This one however is a real mystery for me, I couldn't find any game that matched my memories, even if I successfully did it with all other ones. It could be some homebrew game, local distribution or even a bootleg.

I'm not even sure if this game has even ever existed to begin with, since I could make up all of it as a child, but then I think I wouldn't remember it that well if something like that was just a part of a dream or child's imagination. Therefore, if by any chance I made you waste time searching for a game that doesn't exist, I apologize in advance and I hope that my giveaways can make up for that. I also don't expect miracles, it's a long-shot of "maybe somebody will recognize something, but no guarantees".

This is one of the very last games (if not the last itself) that I'm still missing on my list, this is why I want to solve this mystery once for good, and I really ran out of ideas and deduction at this point, so maybe there will be someone with that magical thought of "wait, I remember a game like that, damn, what was it called again...". I really hope we can tackle this one down, and if not, then I can always say that I tried, and hopefully my giveaways will make up for the lost effort.

All bumps and everything else that can help us find the right game is welcome, I'll also try my best to help, since I want to solve this puzzle more than you do :3.

Happy hunting!