Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a cancelled PC game by Pan Interactive and Digital Village. It was to be an action adventure game and a sequel to the best selling book.

Plot
You play as Arthur Dent just before the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons. Your quest is to grab a towel from a race called the Towelin Monks. To claim the towel he would ned to pass the seven trials.

Characters to encounter would included Bugblatter beasts, Dentrassi cooks, and Lords of Krikkit. Your friends from the Heart of Gold spaceship would also appear, like Zaphod and Marvin.

Gameplay
Gameplay would involve using your towel for everything. It's good for most things up until you need to get the towel from the Towelin Monks.

Cancellation
The game was cancelled in 2002 when the publisher Paradox Entertainment pulled the plug on the project. Douglas Adams had passed away the previous year in 2001.

Timeline:
 * 1998: game development starts
 * 2002: game cancelled