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Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

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Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok cover
Developers
Crystal Shard
Publishers
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Engines
Adventure Game Studio[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows December 25, 2013
Linux December 24, 2016[2]
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) December 22, 2023
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Flip screen
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, RPG
Art styles Pixel art
Themes Comedy, Fantasy
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Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is a singleplayer flip screen adventure and RPG game.

Key points

Can be played on ScummVM.[3]

General information

Official forums
Heroine's Quest on Adventure Game Studio site
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
Via Humble Bundle.
Windows
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Linux
itch.io
DRM-free
Windows
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Linux
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
OS X version pre-packaged with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Developer Appreciation Package Includes development documents and a playable alpha build.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Heroine's Quest 1.2\acsetup.cfg
macOS (OS X)
Linux <path-to-game>/game/data/acsetup.cfg
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
In-game settings are stored in the save files.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Heroine's Quest 1.2\
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/ags/Heroine's Quest 1.2/
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

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

External options menu.
External options menu.
In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound, Speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Hungarian
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9 Despite its name, the SDL 2D Software renderer option outputs to Direct3D 9.[4]
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Most versions of Windows XP are also supported.
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) SDL compatible
Sound (audio device) SDL compatible
Also compatible with CentOS 7.2, Debian 8.6, Linux Mint 17, and openSUSE 12.2.


Notes

  1. Adventure Game Studio engine build: 3.6.0.52[1]

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2023-09-30
  2. Linux version and Russian translation - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  3. ScummVM - Oct 9, 2021: Twenty years ago today... - last accessed on 2021-10-09
    "AGS Games versions 2.5+"
  4. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2023-09-30
    Tested with Bandicam, Special K.