Obsidian

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Obsidian

Developers
	Rocket Science Games
Publishers
Retail	SegaSoft
Digital	Call Your Vegetables
Engines
	mTropolis
Digital	ScummVM
Release dates
Windows	December 1996
Mac OS (Classic)	December 1996
Windows (ScummVM)	August 28, 2023
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM)	August 28, 2023
Linux (ScummVM)	September 4, 2023
Reception
Metacritic	85
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	First-person
Genres	Adventure
Themes	Sci-fi

Obsidian is a singleplayer first-person adventure game.

The installer of the retail version is 16-bit and needs a workaround to run on 64-bit systems; see Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows.

General information

Steam General Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Steam		Pre-packaged with ScummVM.
ZOOM Platform		Super Digital Deluxe Edition. Pre-packaged with ScummVM.

Demos

Demos are available from ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saved Games\
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

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		Can be played in widescreen on ScummVM.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

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

Subtitles and closed captions

Install the ScummVM subtitles add-on

Only available in English. Requires ScummVM 2.7.0 or later. Download the archive labeled Obsidian - Subtitles (English). Extract the contents of the archive to <path-to-game>\. Select Obsidian in the ScummVM launcher, then select Game Options.... On the Audio tab, check the Override global audio settings box and set Text and speech to Both. For closed captions, select the Enable subtitles for important sound effects option on the Game tab. Start the game normally via ScummVM.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Subtitles from ScummVM (Requires ScummVM 2.7+)
German
Italian
Japanese

Issues fixed

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows

Obsidian is a 32-bit game but its installer is 16-bit; the game needs to be installed on a 32-bit version of Windows (e.g. in a virtual machine) and then copies back to the 64-bit system. When the filed are copied over to a Windows 7 64-bit machine, this method does not even work with several compatibility options selected. It simply starts a black window that does nothing.^{[citation needed]}

Windows XP setup

Set the Windows color display to 16-bit before playing.[citation needed]

Other information

API

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows

Mac OS (Classic)

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	16-bit color	2 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	Sound Blaster 16	Sound Blaster AWE32
Other	4x CD-ROM drive

Mac OS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7.5.3	9.2.2
Processor (CPU)	PowerPC 80 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	20 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 MB
Video card (GPU)	640x480 resolution, thousands of colors
Other	4x CD-ROM drive