Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
After travelling back and forth through time in the previous game, Roger Wilco is back in the Starfleet Acadamy, serving as both a cadet and a janitor. Cheating his way through the Starfleet Aptitude Test…
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation is an adventure developed by Dynamix, released 5 February 1993 on DOS.
What Space Quest V: The Next Mutation is
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation is an adventure game developed by Dynamix and released in 1993. It was published by Sierra. It is available on DOS only. It runs on SCI.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After travelling back and forth through time in the previous game, Roger Wilco is back in the Starfleet Acadamy, serving as both a cadet and a janitor. Cheating his way through the Starfleet Aptitude Test, Roger is finally given the rank of captain, his own ship (a garbage scow) and a mission: to explore strange new worlds (which no man in his right mind would explore), to seek out new life and new civilizations (which grew out of the massive amounts of trash Roger will collect on his way), to boldly go where no man has gone before. Step by step Roger will have to unveil a galaxy-wide biohazardous material dumping scheme, solve the mystery of the disappearance of a fellow Starfleet captain…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
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