King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

King's Quest
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'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)

Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

Sierra Help Pages - King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

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

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Bundled with King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella and King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! Pre-packaged with ScummVM DOSBox version is also available (when using GOG Galaxy).^[1]
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^[2]

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
DOS
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
DOS
Windows	<path-to-game>\KQ6SG.***^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

These are the default paths used by the game. The save file location can be determined by the user

For the GOG.com re-release, the C:\ drive is mapped to <path-to-game>

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

In-game options menu

Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter` (when using DOSBox or ScummVM).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
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 settings[edit]

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
Full controller support
Controller remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	EGA, MCGA, VGA

Executable	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows				Use ScummVM (a 64-bit build is also available).

System requirements[edit]

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	5.0
Processor (CPU)	Intel 386 SX
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 MB
Video card (GPU)	EGA, MCGA, VGA

Windows 3.x
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	3.0 MME
Processor (CPU)	Intel 386
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 MB

Mac OS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 Colours

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).
↑ ^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>/10100/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (10100) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[gamedir-3] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

[Proton_path_note-4] 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>/10100/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (10100) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

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

[2] The Sierra Help Pages - The Many Problems with the 2006 VU KQ Collection

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Developers

	Sierra On-Line
Engines
	SCI1.1
Release dates
DOS	September 30, 1992
Mac OS (Classic)	1993
Windows 3.x	1993
Windows (ScummVM)	February 25, 2010