Shadowgate

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This page is for the original game. For the remake, see Shadowgate (2014).

Shadowgate

Developers
	ICOM Simulations
Windows	Zojoi
macOS (OS X)	Zojoi
Linux	Zojoi
Publishers
United States	Mindscape
Europe	Viacom New Media
Digital	Reverb Triple XP
Engines
	MacVenture
Release dates
Mac OS (Classic)	1987
DOS	1988
Windows 3.x	1993
Windows	August 21, 2014
macOS (OS X)	August 21, 2014
Linux	October 31, 2017
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Series	Shadowgate, MacVenture

Shadowgate
Shadowgate	1987
Shadowgate (2014)	2014
Beyond Shadowgate	2024
Shadowgate 2	2025

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Humble Store
Steam		Ports of 128k Mac and IIgs versions.
Steam		8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I which contains a port of the NES version.

Version differences

Steam purchases of Shadowgate (2014) prior to December 5, 2014 included Shadowgate and Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes True.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS
Windows	%APPDATA%\zojoi
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS
Windows	%APPDATA%\zojoi
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		True for DOS version when using DOSBox. Windows versions always runs windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master volume only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	CGA

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS

Windows 3.x

Windows

Mac OS (Classic)

macOS (OS X)

Linux

DOS
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)			6.22
Processor (CPU)	Intel 8088 Intel 8086
System memory (RAM)	640 kB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU)	CGA

Windows 3.x
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	3.1
Processor (CPU)	Intel 286
System memory (RAM)	4 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU)	640x480 resolution, 256 colors

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	7
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	2 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)

Mac OS
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)			6.1
Processor (CPU)	Motorola 68000		Motorola 68020
System memory (RAM)	512 KB		4 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	2 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Steam OS
Processor (CPU)	Dual core 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 4800 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT

GPU must use vendor-provided drivers.