Shadow Sorcerer

Silver Box
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Heroes of the Lance	1988
Dragons of Flame	1989
War of the Lance	1990
Shadow Sorcerer	1991

Shadow Sorcerer is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RPG game in the Silver Box series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Bundled with Heroes of the Lance, Dragons of Flame and War of the Lance. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Steam		Bundled with Heroes of the Lance, Dragons of Flame and War of the Lance. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.

Delete/rename INTRO.EXE^[1]

Notes

Pre-game screens (copyright etc.) will still be displayed.

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SAVEGAME._*_ <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME.DIR
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2344020/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save files are SAVEGAME._A_ to SAVEGAME._J_.

SAVEGAME.DIR contains save file names (this file is not needed to load saved games).

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		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

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

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only (toggle with `V`).
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the `priority` background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes

↑ 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>/2344020/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2344020) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.