King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human
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Developers | |
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Sierra On-Line | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Sierra On-Line |
Digital | Activision |
Engines | |
AGI | |
Release dates | |
DOS | October 1, 1986 |
Mac OS (Classic) | 1988 |
Windows 3.x | 1994 |
Windows (ScummVM) | August 24, 2010[1] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Series | King's Quest |
Warnings
- The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
Key points
- The manual is required to pass the in-game copy protection (digital versions include it)
- Can be run under ScummVM.
General information
- Sierra Help Pages - King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human
- King's Quest Omnipedia - A huge wiki for the King's Quest series
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions for game series
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | CPC Copy Protection DRM. The game could only be completed by creating spells that had to be learned from the manual. | |||
Retail | King's Quest Collections and The Roberta Williams Anthology. | |||
GOG.com | Bundled with King's Quest: Quest for the Crown and King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne. Pre-packaged with ScummVM DOSBox version is also available (when using GOG Galaxy).[2] |
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Steam | Comes bundled with all other King's Quest games (excluding King's Quest 8). |
- The King's Quest Collection, the collection on Steam, is not properly configured for modern systems[3]
- A web browser version is also available.
Essential improvements
King's Quest III Unofficial Remakes
There are two complete and free remakes of the game available. Both of them add new VGA/SVGA style graphics, dialogue, speech, an updated Point-and-Click UI, and a complete soundtrack. Each of them have their own extra features and which one is the best is based on personal taste:
- King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human Redux - Developed by AGD Interactive
- King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human - Developed by Infamous Adventures
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG |
Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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DOS | |
Windows | <path-to-game>\KQ3SG.*[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/[Note 2] |
- These are the default paths used by the game. The save file location can be determined by the user
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
- ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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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 and 120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | No mouse support. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers | ||
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Button prompts |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | All speech is text-based. | |
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 |
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English |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DOS video modes | CGA, EGA, Hercules, Tandy | CGA (4 colour), EGA (16 colour), Hercules (2 colour), Tandy (16 colour). The game also lists VGA, but only because VGA is backwards compatible with EGA |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | 64-bit requires a 64-bit build of ScummVM. | ||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
System requirements
DOS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 2.11 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 8088 | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 KB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.5 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | CGA, EGA, Hercules, Tandy, VGA |
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.0 GHz | 1.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 30 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | ||
Processor (CPU) | Motorola 68000 | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 KB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (10100) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ New release: King's Quest 1+2+3 - GOG.com - last accessed on 17 May 2023
- ↑ List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on 17 May 2023
- ↑ The Sierra Help Pages - The Many Problems with the 2006 VU KQ Collection - last accessed on May 2023