The Mystery of the Druids

The Mystery of the Druids is a singleplayer cinematic camera adventure game.

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		US, EU: SafeDisc v2 DRM^{[Note 1]} Russia: StarForce DRM
GOG.com
Steam		Can be run without Steam once downloaded

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Instructions^{[citation needed]}
Download the patched data files from this Steam Community post. Extract all files to the UPDATES folder in your install location.

Instructions^{[citation needed]}
Download the latest release of DDrawCompat from GitHub. Extract the dll file to the base folder of your install location.

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\House of Tales\Mystery of the Druids\Config
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/343000/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVEGAME^{[Note 3]} <path-to-game>\lastgame^{[Note 3]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/343000/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Can be enabled through the [[Cougar Setup Utility].
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Enabled if hardware-accelerated, disabled if software rendered.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	FMOD
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, ME
Processor (CPU)	200 MHz	1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	VGA Video (with or without 3D) 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.2 compatible	DirectX 9.0c compatible

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[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>/343000/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (343000) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

Developers

	House of Tales
Publishers
2001-2015	CDV Software
2015-2016	Nordic Games
2016-present	THQ Nordic
Engines
	Cougar Engine
Release dates
Windows	March 23, 2001
Reception
Metacritic	49
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Art styles	Pre-rendered graphics, Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, Detective/mystery