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Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny

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Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny cover
Developers
Attic Entertainment Software
Publishers
Sir-Tech
U.S. Gold
Fantasy Productions
Release dates
DOS April 1992
Windows 2009
macOS (OS X) June 18, 2013[1]
Linux March 14, 2014[2]
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Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny on Wikipedia
Realms of Arkania
Subseries of The Dark Eye
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny 1992
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail 1994
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva 1996
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (2013) 2013
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail (2017) 2017

This page is for the original game. For the 2013 remake, see Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (2013).

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
 Floppies or CD-ROM. Use DOSBox.
DOS
GamersGate
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Includes Realms of Arkania: Star Trail. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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 Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
The German version needs the manual to answer copy protection questions (see passcodes.pdf for GOG.com).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions
Instructions

Use CD music in English version

These steps upgrade the English version with the German version's CD music. This requires the German CD version (GOG.com has both).
This reinstates the copy protection questions; refer to passcodes.pdf in the German version's installation folder for the answers.
Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

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System Location
GAMES.NAM stores save game names; saves can't be accessed if this file is missing.
Generated characters are *.CHR; character files are not needed for loading save games (characters are stored in each save).

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 386DX/33
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

References