Gabriel Knight® 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

Once you get over the initial awkwardness of how the game works, it's really fantastic. Other than a few rare instances, the puzzles are actually very intuitive, so I don't understand the moon logic criticism that has been stubbornly attached to this game. It's far easier to play this game without a guide than GK1 or GK2. Have to mount an CD image to play, but other than that I didn't have to jump through any technical hoops. Played with a controller, I made bindings for the DualSense, feel free to check out my controller profile. I found it to work very well. I didn't label it, but the right trigger is a Ctrl+Click which focuses the camera on anything of interest, which streamlines the whole thing. Left trigger for left clicking, right stick for mouse. You can figure out the rest! There's a guide to set it up on Steam Deck that's a little more complex, but it's easy to follow. Really recommend this one. It's really well written, unique, and oddly ahead of its time.

Reading other player's reviews and opinions I was expecting a way worse game, but this is great. Granted it took me close to an hour of tinkering to make it work, but with dgvoodoo2 the experience has been flawless until now. Just turn up the gamma ingame after installing dgvoodoo if it makes it darker, like it happened in my case. First impressions: the 3d world is very detailed and the best part is the camera that has total freedom, ie you can look under a bed, in a trashcan, essentially anything from any angle. It's kinda gimmicky to move it around, but a couple feature makes it easier (default cameras for every room, auto inspect etc). Gone is the omni-click from GK2 that summed up every possible action and instead here for every object you have a list of different possible actions (look, open/close, pickup, talk, operate, use, think etc). The town I'm in now seems fully explorable and pretty big. It seems the kind of game that rewards observant, thorough players. It started very well. Also Tim Curry is back. UPDATE: ended the thing, I can confirm all my first impressions, and that the game runs smoothly until.the end once the tedious setup it's over. Final rate: 11/10, probably the best adventure game there is period, surely better than its 2 predecessors. They poured a lot of development juice into this game and it shows. Technically and from a story and lore viewpoint. The humor is also overkill, like.. every single comment or exchange with anyone is too freaking funny. The scope of the game is massive too, maybe too much, and towards the end there are a couple of very badly designed enigmas as a result, along with some other little issues that couldn't evidently be polished out in time for release. If it's so great, then why isn't this game more acclaimed? well apparently the adventure game era was over by the time GK3 hit the shelf, and now steam sells a broken version that requires the user to fix it woth external tools and sources in order to play it. BUT IT IS WORTH IT. Way better than any indiana jones or monkey island

PLEASE INSERT CD 1 TO CONTINUE. That's all you need to know to have a review of this game. Simply. Does. Not. Work. Steam WILL NOT refund you! The game doesn't even start or anything. NO refunds! P.S. There's a guide in the community workshop that you USED TO be able to use to fix this game. It doesn't work anymore. Or it never did and the dozens of people who upvoted it lied. Anyway, in the end, Steam is the biggest liar and needs to be shut down.

Yeah, give us your money, we don't support our product at all. Thanky you, have fun with a dead game, bye. edit: And additionally, we don't fill out the stuff we need to sell our game in germany. Man how lazy/greedy can someone be?

What were they thinking? The Gabriel Knight series was entertaining enough, but to conclude the trilogy with such an unplayable game made no sense. I spent a lot of time finding out how to make it work on my pc just to learn it was just not worth the effort.

Third and last chapter of the GK saga. Old and clunky commands, but the story, my old friends, the story...

Laughable gameplay and graphics sorry. Even for late 90s this was bad across the board. Why would PC gamers in 1999 subject themselves to convoluted puzzle design, awkward controls, and ugly art style when they could play Half Life, System Shock 2, Age of Empires, Unreal Tournament, Thief, Command & Conquer among others. Or if gamers wanted to stick with point and clicks, plenty of other classics to choose from. I stuck with it anyhow but would not recommend it to my enemies.

One of the best Jane Jensen's works in terms of story and game design. The only downside is the voiceover of Gabriel, somehow the actor made a complete jerk out of him, and it is out of character. Be warned, to play this game today you most likely need to install dgVoodoo drivers, otherwise the game will crash a lot. It is free though. But the game is highly recommended if you like classic adventure with murder investigations and historical references.