Difference between revisions of "King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human"

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Adventure in Serenia	1982
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown‎	1984
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne	1985
King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human	1986
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella	1988
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!	1990
King Graham's Board Game Challenge	1992
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow	1992
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride	1994
King's Quest: Mask of Eternity	1998
The Silver Lining (unofficial)	2010
King's Quest (2015)	2015

Key points

The manual is required to pass the in-game copy protection (digital versions include it).

General information

King's Quest Omnipedia - A huge wiki for the King's Quest series

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions for game series

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Amazon.com		Comes bundled with all other King's Quest games (excluding King's Quest 8).
Official website		Available for free. Modified to work on browsers.
GOG.com		Bundled with King's Quest: Quest for the Crown and King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.^[1]

The Steam collection is not properly configured for modern systems

Essential improvements

King's Quest III Unofficial Remakes

There are two complete and free remakes of the game available. Both of them add new VGA/SVGA style graphics, dialogue, an updated Point-and-Click UI, and a complete soundtrack. Each of them have their own extra features and which one is the best is based on personal taste:

King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human Redux - Developed by AGD Interactive
King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human - Developed by Infamous Adventures

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

300px

Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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System requirements

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)	30 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (10100) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

[Proton_path_note-2] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (10100) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[4] The app ID (10100) may differ in some cases.

[5] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[6] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[1] List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

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+{{Availability/row| Amazon | B00I2UDV6U | Steam | Comes bundled with all other King's Quest games (excluding King's Quest 8).}}
 {{Availability/row| official | http://sarien.net/kingsquest3 | unknown | Available for free. Modified to work on browsers.}}
 {{Availability/row| GOG | kings_quest_1_2_3 | DRM-free | Bundled with [[King's Quest: Quest for the Crown]] and [[King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne]]. Pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref>[http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_gog_games_using_dosbox/page1 List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com]</ref>}}
-{{Availability/row| Steam | 10100 | Steam | Comes bundled with all other King's Quest games (excluding King's Quest 8).}}
 }}
 {{--}} The Steam collection is not properly configured for modern systems

Developers
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	Sierra On-Line
Engines
	AGI
Release dates
DOS	October 1, 1986
Mac OS (Classic)	1988
Windows	August 24, 2010