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King's Bounty: The Legend

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King's Bounty: The Legend
King's Bounty: The Legend cover
Developers
Katauri Interactive
Publishers
2008-2018 1C Company
2018-2022 1C Entertainment
2022-present Fulqrum Publishing
North America, retail only Atari
Engines
TheEngine
Release dates
Windows April 25, 2008
macOS (OS X) April 18, 2012
Reception
Metacritic 79
IGDB 87
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres TBS
Themes Fantasy
Series King's Bounty
King's Bounty: The Legend on HowLongToBeat
King's Bounty: The Legend on IGDB
King's Bounty: The Legend on MobyGames
King's Bounty: The Legend on Wikipedia
King's Bounty
King's Bounty 1990
King's Bounty: The Legend 2008
King's Bounty: Armored Princess 2009
King's Bounty: Crossworlds 2010
King's Bounty: Warriors of the North 2012
King's Bounty: Legions 2013
King's Bounty: Dark Side 2014
King's Bounty II 2021

King's Bounty: The Legend is a singleplayer bird's-eye view TBS game in the King's Bounty series.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
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SecuROM 7 DRM.
Russian and German copies use StarForce 5 DRM.
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Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable)
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Crossworlds Platinum Version. Included King's Bounty: Armored Princess and King's Bounty: Crossworlds[1]
Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Kings Bounty\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/King' s Bounty - The Legend/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25900/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Kings Bounty\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/King' s Bounty - The Legend/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25900/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Settings.
Settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Native HUD for 4:3 and 16:10. Pillarbox for 16:9.
Multi-monitor
See Multi-Monitor. Pillarboxed 16:10.
Ultra-widescreen
Pillarboxed 16:10.
4K Ultra HD
Native HUD for 4:3 and 16:10. Pillarbox for 16:9.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Forced by any utility.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
200 Fps Cap
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Startup crash if launching the game when the resolution is no longer available. Fix by deleting or editing the configuration file.

Windowed

Set in game.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open game.ini.
  3. Change setf ~windowed 0 to setf ~windowed 1

Notes

Fullscreen bordered window requires adjusting setf ~screenresoultionx and setf ~screenresoultiony

Multi-Monitor

Set in game.ini
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open game.ini.
  3. Change setf ~r_use_adapter 0 to setf ~r_use_adapter 1 for second monitor

16:9 aspect ratio without Pillarbox

The user "CkNoSFeRaTU" postet on the gog forum a mod to trick King´s Bounty into a 16:9 aspect ratio to have 16:9 resolution without pillarboxes.

Notes

All necessary files are text only, adjustments to languages other than english might be necessary.

Compatibility trusted with GOG an Retail version.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate sliders for music and sound.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Windows only. Audio localization is available only in the local retail version.
Brazilian Portuguese
Retail only.
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 2800+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP)
2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
ATI Radeon X800
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.6 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/25900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (25900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References