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Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness

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Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Activision
Engines
SCI2
Release dates
DOS March 1994
Windows 3.x March 1994
Windows (DOSBox) May 10, 2012
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, RPG
Themes Lovecraftian
Series Quest for Glory
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness on HowLongToBeat
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness on IGDB
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness guide on StrategyWiki
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness on MobyGames
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness on Wikipedia
Quest for Glory
Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero 1989
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire 1990
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War 1992
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness 1994
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire 1998

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

Also titled Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness.
Can be played on ScummVM.[1]
Saves can be imported from Quest for Glory III: Wages of War. Also, after completing the game it is possible to export character data to file in order to be imported to the next game in the series, Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire.
The game suffered from serious bugs at the time of release and official patches fixed only some of these.
Script fixes made by fan known as NewRisingSun fix many of the remaining bugs. These fixes are already applied to the version available at GOG.com.

General information

Sierra Help Pages - Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness
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)
The floppy disk version requires the manual to pass the in-game DRM. The CD version requires the disc to be in the CD drive while playing.
DOS
Windows 3.x
GOG.com
DRM-free
CD version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2] Bundled with all other Quest for Glory games.
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Pre-packaged with DOSBox. Bundled with all other Quest for Glory games.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches are available for the retail releases. The GOG.com version is already patched.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/502750/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\GLORYSG.***
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/502750/pfx/[Note 2]

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

In-game options menu (CD version).
In-game options menu (CD version).

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 and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
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
Surround sound
Subtitles
Spoken dialogue is only available on the CD version.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio
General MIDI audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Non-talkie version only, retail only; download for digital releases.

Other information

Enhanced Edition

Fan mod QFG4 Enhanced enhances the game with additional bugfixing, restored content and more.[3]

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA
Executable16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using ScummVM.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 25 MHz
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows 3.x
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 25 MHz
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/502750/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (502750) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Quest for Glory IV - ScummVM :: Wiki - last accessed on 2019-10-12
  2. List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  3. questforglory.fandom.com - last accessed on May 2023