Welcome to a blind playthrough of Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch!
For these web-based playthroughs I'm picking PC games that were reasonably well received back in the day but, for whatever reason, are no longer available to purchase on digital distribution services such as GOG or Steam.
R:ROTP wasn't the first game to be based on Larry Niven's classic Ringworld novel and it probably won't be the last.
At this point, I should probably confess that despite being an avid science-fiction reader, Ringworld is something that's always escaped my attention, so I'm going into this game double-blind!
I acquired R:ROTP as part of the eXoDOS collection, which runs the game on the DOSBox emulator via Launchbox.
Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch was developed and published in 1992 by Tsunami Media, Inc. The studio was formed by a number of former Sierra Online developers.
They were a relatively short-lived studio, lasting only five years, during which time they produced a number of games that were mostly point-and-click adventure games in a similar style to their former parent studio. They even hired Jim Walls, the ex-police officer who created the Police Quest for Sierra, to develop Blue Force, a similar police procedural adventure game.