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Return to Mysterious Island

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Return to Mysterious Island
Return to Mysterious Island cover
Developers
Kheops Studio
macOS (OS X) Coladia
Publishers
The Adventure Company
Anuman Interactive
Release dates
Windows November 4, 2004
macOS (OS X) 2008
Reception
Metacritic 79
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Pre-rendered graphics, Realistic
Themes Contemporary, Oceania, Steampunk, Sci-fi
Series Return to Mysterious Island
Return to Mysterious Island on HowLongToBeat
Return to Mysterious Island on IGDB
Return to Mysterious Island on MobyGames
Return to Mysterious Island on Wikipedia
Return to Mysterious Island
Return to Mysterious Island 2004
Return to Mysterious Island 2 2009

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Return to Mysterious Island is a singleplayer first-person adventure game in the Return to Mysterious Island series.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Traditional Chinese version uses SecuROM v7.[1]
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Mac App Store
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Director's Cut.
macOS (OS X)
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config.ini[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/277110/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Users[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/277110/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
1024x768 (4:3) only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Pre-rendered scenes and animations.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Pre-rendered scenes and animations.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
Frame rate capped at 30 FPS. See also Windowed.
120+ FPS
Frame rate capped at 30 FPS. See also Windowed.

Windowed

Modify config.ini[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open config.ini.
  3. Change bFullScreen=1 to bFullScreen=0
  4. Save the file.

Notes

Enabling windowed mode also disables frame rate cap.

Input

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
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Main volume slider only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Crash to desktop

It has been reported that on some configurations the game crashes to desktop when starting.[3]

Game runs too fast

On some configurations game runs too fast which makes the game nearly un-playable.[2]

In-game text is too big

It has been reported that on OS X in-game text becomes too big which makes reading the text very difficult.[4]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7 [6]
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[5]

System requirements

Disc Version

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0 compatible
Other 16X CD-ROM/DVD-ROM

Digital Release

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  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>/277110/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (277110) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Posedennetshow on 2023-07-08
    CRC32: BCE635A0. Kheops Studio officially shipped protection SecuROM in Taiwanese version.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tested by JPulowski
  3. Immediate crash on start, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  4. Text size problem., page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  5. GOG.com - Return to Mysterious Island - last accessed on 2022-07-13
    "Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up."
  6. Verified by User:Expack3 on 2021-07-27
    Tested using dgVoodoo2 2.74.1. Only the DX7 wrapper hooked into the game.