No more details? Don’t you have at least some blurry images in your mind or particular scenes?
E.g. there are games that I couldn’t remember, one was a quest(?) in a set of pictures and a submarine, dark tones, mysterious. I remember a full outside view of it and then few screens inside.
Another was a dos game that had a fullscreen map of some galaxy and a cursor in a form of a torn hand. Five blobs below the map were unnamed(?) buttons on a strange panel. One button sent you flying through a “canyon” on a selected planet, which was drawn as a set of simple \_/ planes slightly offset from each other, synthwave style-ish but much simpler. I believe it was an early rogue like, but I was too young and knew no english to understand it.
I don’t get how one can remember something but not have any details except a period of release.
Glad you found the game you were looking for. Funny enough the sequel to this game was also purchased by me at the same store around the same time (Caldor)
I cannot edit my original post but your comment and others have gotten me to clarify one thing. The graphical style is reminiscent of 90s CGI rendered images. Example: https://i.imgur.com/YknNA31.png
Honestly I cannot remember scenes correctly. It was super unique to me at the time but the constant crashes prevented me from playing it throughly even though it remained in my mind.
Another thing I can add was that there was FMV scenes with humans I think. I also think there were cyberpunk elements but not sure. I specifically chose the above CGI image because it reminds me of the game.
When I say point and click I mean a game like how Myst operates.
My hope is that if I ever find it, with my tech skills that I didn't have as a kid, I can hopefully repair the game so it does not crash(or at least research if someone else has fixed it)
EDIT: Others have kindly gotten me to think of more details of this game. I am collecting them here:
1) The game shipped on a CD, I think the CD had a lot of "Blue" on it. As in the label had a lot of the color Blue. Sorry, I'm trying to dig deep into my head as much as I can.
2) The game was a point and click in the style of Myst. Specifically pre-rendered CGI Images where you would click to progress through the level. Occasional FMVs with real humans would appear.
3) It has a similar setting to Blade Runner (1997): https://youtu.be/9KSqIDxtB4U?t=2427 but again the game didn't operate like Blade Runner, it operated like Myst.
4) This was definitely some sort of Win32 application (ie. runs on Windows 95/98 and not DOS) and so the graphics imitate a game like Myst and not those old VGA DOS games.
Reminds me of the Zork games- most of them are fantasy, but the covers were quite blue, and I think Zork: Grand Inquisitor was a bit more cyberpunky? I only played Return to Zork.
E.g. there are games that I couldn’t remember, one was a quest(?) in a set of pictures and a submarine, dark tones, mysterious. I remember a full outside view of it and then few screens inside.
Another was a dos game that had a fullscreen map of some galaxy and a cursor in a form of a torn hand. Five blobs below the map were unnamed(?) buttons on a strange panel. One button sent you flying through a “canyon” on a selected planet, which was drawn as a set of simple \_/ planes slightly offset from each other, synthwave style-ish but much simpler. I believe it was an early rogue like, but I was too young and knew no english to understand it.
I don’t get how one can remember something but not have any details except a period of release.