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The Summoning

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The Summoning
The Summoning cover
Developers
Event Horizon Software
Publishers
Retail Strategic Simulations Inc.
Digital SNEG
Release dates
DOS 1992
Windows (DOSBox) June 6, 2023
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres ARPG
Themes Fantasy
Series DarkSpyre
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The Summoning on IGDB
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The Summoning on Wikipedia
DarkSpyre
DarkSpyre 1990
The Summoning 1992

The Summoning is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric ARPG game in the DarkSpyre series.

General information

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GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVES\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2414350/pfx/[Note 1]
In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

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

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
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only (toggle with F9).
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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Conversation printing

Official DOSBox builds don't support printing (error message: "Printer offline. Press spacebar").
Enable printer support[1]

Set up DOSBox printer support (this game requires the fonts fix).

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 286, 386, 486
System memory (RAM) 640K
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  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>/2414350/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2414350) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Garrett on October 13, 2017