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{{Infobox game/row/developer|Strategic Simulations Inc.}}
 
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'''General information'''
 
'''General information'''
 
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==Availability==
 
==Availability==
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{{Game data|
 
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===[[Glossary:Save game cloud syncing|Save game cloud syncing]]===
 
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==Video settings==
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{{Image|Dark Sun - Shattered Lands settings.png|General settings.}}
 
{{Image|Dark Sun - Shattered Lands settings.png|General settings.}}
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Latest revision as of 23:48, 3 January 2024

Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations Inc.
Publishers
Retail Strategic Simulations Inc.
Digital, original GOG.com
Digital, current SNEG
Release dates
DOS 1993
Windows (DOSBox) October 27, 2015[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) October 27, 2015[1]
Linux (DOSBox) October 27, 2015[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Dark Sun
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands on HowLongToBeat
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands guide on StrategyWiki
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands on MobyGames
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands on Wikipedia
Dark Sun
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands 1993
Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager 1994

Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is a singleplayer bird's-eye view RPG game in the Dark Sun series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions for game series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Prompts for answers from the manual.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Bundled with Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\DARKRUN.GFF
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1904600/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVE**.SAV
<path-to-game>\CHARSAVE.GFF
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1904600/pfx/[Note 2]
CHARSAVE.GFF contains saved characters.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 only.
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
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
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References