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Commander Keen
Commander Keen in Marooned on Mars	1990
Commander Keen in The Earth Explodes	1990
Commander Keen in Keen Must Die!	1990
Commander Keen in Keen Dreams	1991
Commander Keen in Secret of the Oracle	1991
Commander Keen in The Armageddon Machine	1991
Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter!	1991
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams Definitive Edition	2023

Key points

Also known as Commander Keen: Episode 1

Use F5 to save in-game

Available for free as shareware

General information

Commander Keen Fan Site

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons
Steam		Commander Keen Complete Pack. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.^[1]

A free shareware version is available.

Version differences

Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons

The retail release of the game, which includes the first 3 episodes of the series: Commander Keen in Marooned on Mars, Commander Keen in The Earth Explodes, and Commander Keen in Keen Must Die!.

Commander Keen Complete Pack

A compilation pack containing the entire Commander Keen series (excluding the final episode Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter! and the "lost" episode Commander Keen in Keen Dreams).

All games in the pack are pre-configured to run with DOSBox.

Essential improvements

A launcher for the entire Keen series can be found here (runs in DOSBox). For a modified version of this same launcher that also supports Keen Dreams, try the following:

Episode Launcher

@ECHO OFF

:MENU

CLS


REM All episodes must be in the same folder.


ECHO.

ECHO  ===========================================================================

ECHO  ======================= COMMANDER KEEN COLLECTION =========================

ECHO  ===========================================================================

ECHO.

ECHO     1 - Commander Keen 1 Marooned On Mars (1990)(Apogee Software)

ECHO     2 - Commander Keen 2 The Earth Explodes (1990)(Apogee Software)

ECHO     3 - Commander Keen 3 Keen Must Die (1990)(Apogee Software)

ECHO     4 - Commander Keen 4 Secret Of The Oracle (1991)(Apogee Software Ltd)

ECHO     5 - Commander Keen 5 The Armageddon Machine (1991)(Apogee Software Ltd)

ECHO     6 - Commander Keen 6 Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter (1991)(Formgen)

ECHO     7 - Commander Keen Dreams (1991)(Softdisk Publishing)

ECHO.




CHOICE /c:1234567/n Choose a number.

IF ERRORLEVEL 7 GOTO KEEN7

IF ERRORLEVEL 6 GOTO KEEN6

IF ERRORLEVEL 5 GOTO KEEN5

IF ERRORLEVEL 4 GOTO KEEN4

IF ERRORLEVEL 3 GOTO KEEN3

IF ERRORLEVEL 2 GOTO KEEN2

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO KEEN1





:KEEN1

CLS

ECHO Starting Commander Keen 1...

call keen1.exe

exit




:KEEN2

CLS

ECHO Starting Commander Keen 2...

call keen2.exe

exit




:KEEN3

CLS

ECHO Starting Commander Keen 3...

call keen3.exe

exit




:KEEN4

CLS

ECHO Starting Commander Keen 4...

call keen4e.exe

exit




:KEEN5

CLS

ECHO Starting Commander Keen 5...

call keen5e.exe

exit




:KEEN6

CLS

ECHO Starting Commander Keen 6...

call keen6c.exe

exit




:KEEN7

CLS

ECHO Starting Commander Keen Dreams…

call kdreams.exe

exit

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row Template:Game data/row

System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9180/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row Template:Game data/row

System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9180/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	EGA

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	1.0	2.11
Processor (CPU)	Intel 286
System memory (RAM)	640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 MB (Shareware)	3 MB (full release)
Video card (GPU)	EGA

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/9180/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (9180) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Commander Keen Complete Pack · Commander Keen · AppID: 9180 · Steam Database

[Proton_path_note-2] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/9180/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (9180) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Commander Keen Complete Pack · Commander Keen · AppID: 9180 · Steam Database

[1]

[Note 1]

Developers

	id Software
Publishers
	Apogee Software
Release dates
DOS	December 14, 1990
Windows	August 3, 2007