The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate

The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate

Developers
	Westwood Studios
Publishers
Retail	Virgin Interactive
Retail re-release	Sold Out Software
Digital	Electronic Arts
Engines
	Kyra
Release dates
DOS	1993
Windows (ScummVM)	October 10, 2013
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM)	November 15, 2013
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Themes	Fantasy, Comedy
Series	The Legend of Kyrandia

The Legend of Kyrandia
The Legend of Kyrandia	1992
The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate	1993
The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge	1994

The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate is a singleplayer third-person adventure game in the The Legend of Kyrandia series.

General information

Also known as Fables & Fiends: The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two and simply The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two.

Can be run under ScummVM.

Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Floppy and CD-ROM "talkie" release.
GOG.com		CD-ROM "talkie" re-release. Pre-packaged with ScummVM. Includes the Official Prima Strategy Guide for the series.

A demo is available from ScummVM.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for the floppy release can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\HOF.CFG
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\FATE_???.SAV
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

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		For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
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 settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound Effects and Speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		FM Towns port only

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Speech in CD-ROM version only.
French
German
Italian				Local retail floppy version only.
Spanish				Local retail floppy version only.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	MCGA, VGA	320x200

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.

System requirements

DOS

Windows

macOS (OS X)

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	5.0
Processor (CPU)	Intel 386 20 MHz
System memory (RAM)	2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 MB
Video card (GPU)	VGA

The CD-ROM version requires 4 MB of RAM and 5 MB HDD space.

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM