The Vacuum
A downloadable game for Windows
In The Vacuum, you play a student headed home for the summer on a 24th-century space freighter when the journey is interrupted by two explosions tearing through the passenger quarters. Stranded in deep space with the crew missing and no help available, you must determine what caused the accident and how to fix it — if it was an accident at all.
It's a retro point-and-click adventure with some updates for the 21st century. The Vacuum features a non-linear plot that responds strongly to player actions at all stages, and it emphasizes character interactions and investigation over the obtuse and illogical inventory puzzles that were the main cause of the adventure genre’s death in my view.
I made this game in the summer of 2008 in Adventure Game Studio.
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I played this maybe 15 years ago when it came on the free disk with PCgamer magazine and since them I have been looking for it. I could never remember the name until recently I found a screenshot of the game in a old back up drive labeled "The vacuum". I am glad I found the game again, because I remember enjoying replaying it to try and see everything.
Hey, really glad the game stuck with you! I actually wasn't aware that it had ever been included in a magazine disk and would love to find it - looks like a lot of them are on archive.org. Was this PC Gamer US or UK? And do you remember anything about the issue or disk that might help me find it?
it was the UK magazine, but aside from that I can't help you. I gave my disks away and I have looked through my mag collection trying to find the game in the past, there was no mention of your game. it was probably bunded in with a dozen other games and demos, so it was not written in the mag. It would have saved me 15 years of looking if they just put down the games on the disk, but unfortunately not.
That narrows it down! Unfortunately it looks like archive.org only has the discs from the Lithuanian version of PC Gamer but at least I have somewhere to start. Thanks!
While it never helped me, I do have a folder with games I never uninstalled from the free CDs, so maybe you can use them to find the issue your's was in. A demo for "armadillo run", a game called "Choke on my Groundhog, YOU BASTARD ROBOTS", "big building boom blues", "jelly car" (the first one, not "worlds"), "7 colors" and I am like 99% sure my copy of "progress quest" came from the time I was collecting PCgamer. They didn't help me, since I didn't remember the name of your game, but they might be more useful for you. Good luck!
lot of walk .. lot of come and go... The music is awful, but it have a ambience ... Nice job, but not for everyone...