Blades of Exile

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Exile
Subseries of Exile / Avernum
Exile: Escape From the Pit	1995
Exile II: Crystal Souls	1995
Exile III: Ruined World	1996
Blades of Exile	1997

Key points

The game has been remade as Blades of Avernum.

This game is a 16-bit application and will not run natively on 64-bit Windows.

The source code was released in 2007, and there is an open-source project for the game.

Blades of Exile is the fourth game in the Exile series and features editing tools that allow players to create their own scenarios in addition to the three that came with the game.

Blades of Exile was released in 1997 for Macintosh and 1998 for Windows, and was available as a shareware download that could be unlocked with a registration key or ordered as a CD-ROM. The full, registered version of the game for both Windows and Macintosh was later released as a free download on the developer's website. The game's source code was released on the developer's website in 2007.

It was remade as Blades of Avernum in 2004.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Developer website		Free download. Registered release.
Developer website		Free download. Registered release.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>^{[Note 1]}

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Only runs in windowed mode.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		No voice acting. All dialog is text.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					Game and installer are 16-bit.
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	3.1, 95
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	256 colors

Mac OS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	7
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	7 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 colors

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Note 1]

Developers
	Spiderweb Software
Publishers
	Spiderweb Software
Release dates
Mac OS (Classic)	1997
Windows	February 28, 1998
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Top-down view
Controls	Point and select, Menu-based
Genres	RPG
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Exile