Exile III: Ruined World

This page is for the original 1996 release. For the 2002 remake, see Avernum 3.

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

Warnings

The Windows 3.x release of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected releases).

Exile III: Ruined world is the third game in the Exile series.

Exile III: Ruined World was released in 1996 for Macintosh and 1997 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. It was also released for Linux in 2000, and the Linux version remains available for purchase.

It was remade as Avernum 3 in 2002.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Developer website		Free download. Registered 1.0 release.
Developer website		Free download. Registered 1.0.3b release.
Developer website

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

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)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

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

Audio

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

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

System requirements

Windows 3.x
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	3.1, 95
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	2 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU)	256 colors

Mac OS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	7
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	4 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	7 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 colors

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Redhat 6.0 or equivalent (requires glibc 2.1)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)

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
Release dates
Mac OS (Classic)	1996
Windows 3.x	April 15, 1997
Linux	June 7, 2000
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Top-down view
Controls	Point and select, Menu-based
Genres	RPG
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Exile