Can you identify this game?

I remember playing it in the early 90s, but I’m not sure when it was actually released.

It was set aboard a derelict spaceship and I remember having to solve puzzles, detective-style, and try to figure out what happened aboard.

There was a robotic sentry which would hunt you as you played and basically impose a time-limit. You would see the sentry move closer to the room every once in a while and once it reached you, you were blasted and it was game over.

I have a feeling it had a name like Virus or something similarly sinister and single-worded, but I could be totally off.

Any thoughts?

This seems ideal for The Game Room.

Colibri
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Starship Titanic?

Interesting, but no.

Computer game? Console game? Board game?

I was going to say “Impossible Mission” but that was in an underground base, I think.

It was a PC game. Sorry, I meant to specify that. It was from fairly early days, but it used pre-rendered scenes and pre-animated cutscenes for the sentry bot. I think it must have been a click-on-the-object interface for solving puzzles.

Here’s a link about Impossible Mission Impossible Mission - Wikipedia by the way

Yeah, no time limit. Except in the bomb room

which will never go off

No, that was 80s. I think this was 90s. Definitely more graphically advanced than that and almost certainly PC. This is so frustrating. Keep at it, thanks for your replies :slight_smile:

Was this first-person, like Myst?

It was 1st-pereson, yes, but I don’t remember having full directional control, like an FPS - I think it was more like scene-by-scene backdrops, like Resident Evil, but one could interact with objects. My recollection is extremely hazy, I just remember a futuristic, spaceship-like setting, all white and grey.

Was it Iron Helix?

Haha, buy that man (woman?) a drink! Buy it several!

That’s the one. Not EXACTLY as I remembered it, but I was about twelve at the time.

Many, many thanks.

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Your description was good because I remembered the game well. I had to wrack my brain for a while to remember the name.

Well I’m glad I wasn’t just being crazy or inarticulate. Thanks.

Glad you found it.