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The Mysterious Island

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This page is for the sandbox survival game. For the unrelated adventure game, see Return to Mysterious Island.

The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island cover
Developers
Calaris Studios
Engines
IC
Release dates
Windows March 24, 2004[1]

Key points

This game was re-released as freeware in 2015.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
itch.io
DRM-free
Free download.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Mysterious Island\Data\*.sav[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

No save game cloud syncing information; you can edit this page to add it.

Video settings

In-game general options.
In-game general options.
In-game advanced graphics options.
In-game advanced graphics options.

Template:Video settings

Advanced graphics options can be accessed with <path-to-game>\Mysterious Island\TheMysteriousIsland.exe setup or using a Start Menu shortcut.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game sound options.
In-game sound options.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Released as Tajemnicza Wyspa.
Russian
Released as Таинственный остров.

Issues fixed

Certain transparent textures are not rendered properly

Tranparent textures glitch.
Tranparent textures glitch.
Start the game using the launcher
  1. Access advanced graphics options with <path-to-game>\Mysterious Island\TheMysteriousIsland.exe setup or with a Start Menu shortcut.
  2. Select Very big textures from the Texture size drop-down menu.
  3. Start the game by clicking OK.
This setting is not saved by the game. The fix only works for the current playthrough.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia Riva TNT2
16 MB of VRAM

Notes

  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