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{{Introduction
 
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|introduction      = '''''Eye of the Beholder''''' is a {{Glossary:first-person}} dungeon crawler and {{Glossary:RPG}} developed by [[Company:Westwood Associates|Westwood Associates]] in 1991.  
 
|introduction      = '''''Eye of the Beholder''''' is a {{Glossary:first-person}} dungeon crawler and {{Glossary:RPG}} developed by [[Company:Westwood Associates|Westwood Associates]] in 1991.  
The player controls a group of 4-6 characters and uses a [[:Category:point and select|point-and-click]] interface to fight monsters.
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{{Availability/row| Steam | 1882240 | DRM-free | Pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]]. Bundled with [[Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon]] and [[Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor]]. | | Windows, OS X, Linux }}
 
{{Availability/row| Steam | 1882240 | DRM-free | Pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]]. Bundled with [[Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon]] and [[Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor]]. | | Windows, OS X, Linux }}
 
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{{ii}} The retail version prompts for copy protection answers from the manual. The GOG.com version has the copy protection cracked (type anything, then press {{key|Enter}}).<ref>[https://www.gog.com/forum/forgotten_realms_collection/note_copy_protection_in_these_games NOTE: Copy protection in these games, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com]</ref>
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{{ii}} The retail version prompts for copy protection answers from the manual. The GOG.com version will accept any answer.<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.gog.com/forum/forgotten_realms_collection/note_copy_protection_in_these_games|title=NOTE: Copy protection in these games, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com|date=May 2023}}</ref>
  
 
==Essential improvements==
 
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===The All-Seeing Eye===
 
===The All-Seeing Eye===
 
{{ii}} [http://ase.zorbus.net/ The All-Seeing Eye] is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (automap, save backups, etc.)
 
{{ii}} [http://ase.zorbus.net/ The All-Seeing Eye] is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (automap, save backups, etc.)
===Grid Cartographer===
 
{{ii}} Supported by [https://gridcartographer.com Grid Cartographer]. Its Game Link feature assists in creating the game map. This is '''not''' an automap. From the Grid Cartographer's documentation. (note: this is not free software! the 'gamer' edition costs $19,99 and the 'professional' costs $49,99)
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 23:56, 3 January 2024

Eye of the Beholder
Eye of the Beholder cover
Developers
Westwood Associates
Publishers
Retail Strategic Simulations Inc.
Digital, former GOG.com
Digital, current SNEG
Engines
Kyra[1]
Release dates
DOS 1991
Windows (DOSBox) August 20, 2015[2]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) August 20, 2015[2]
Linux (DOSBox) August 20, 2015[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Point and select
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Eye of the Beholder
Eye of the Beholder on HowLongToBeat
Eye of the Beholder on IGDB
Eye of the Beholder guide on StrategyWiki
Eye of the Beholder on MobyGames
Eye of the Beholder on Wikipedia
Eye of the Beholder
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Eye of the Beholder 1991
Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon 1991
Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor 1993

Eye of the Beholder is a first-person dungeon crawler and RPG developed by Westwood Associates in 1991. The player controls a group of 4-6 characters and uses a point and select interface to fight monsters.

Key points

Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions for game series

Availability

The retail version prompts for copy protection answers from the manual. The GOG.com version will accept any answer.[3]

Essential improvements

The All-Seeing Eye

The All-Seeing Eye is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (automap, save backups, etc.)

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\EOBDATA.SAV
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
EOBDATA.SAV contains both settings and save data.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Russian
Fan translation, download
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7, 9 GOG version only.
DOS video modes CGA, Tandy, EGA, VGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit support requires a 64-bit build of ScummVM.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2.1
Processor (CPU) 8088 / 8086
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) CGA, EGA, MCGA, Tandy, VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 16.04, Mint 18
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References