Return to Mysterious Island
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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 | |
---|---|
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
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | ||||
Retail | Traditional Chinese version uses SecuROM v7.[1] | |||
Amazon.com | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Mac App Store | Director's Cut. | |||
Steam | ||||
ZOOM Platform |
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
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] |
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Notes
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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 |
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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] |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Windows | ||||
macOS (OS X) | [5] |
System requirements
Disc Version
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98SE, ME, 2000, XP | XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 800 MHz | Intel Pentium IV 1 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 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 | 24X 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 | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7.0 compatible | DirectX 9.0c 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
- ↑ 1.0 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). - ↑ 2.0 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
- ↑ Verified by User:Posedennetshow on 2023-07-08
- CRC32: BCE635A0. Kheops Studio officially shipped protection SecuROM in Taiwanese version.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tested by JPulowski
- ↑ Immediate crash on start, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Text size problem., page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2021-07-27
- Tested using dgVoodoo2 2.74.1. Only the DX7 wrapper hooked into the game.