Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father®
Sierra On-Line · 2016 · Adventure, Point & Click, Classic, Mystery, 1990's
Compare prices in Official Stores
Compare prices in Keyshops
Keyshops are third-party marketplaces — keys are resold and can be region-locked or a different edition. Check the listing's region & edition before buying.
Screenshots
About Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father®
Gabriel Knight is the last in a long line of Shadow Hunters, those fated to fight the dark forces of the supernatural. Haunted by a centuries-old curse, he is tormented by terrifying nightmares.
Now he must spend every waking moment scouring the side streets and back alleys of New Orleans for the key to his dark past. And when he sleeps - the nightmare begins.
- Stylishly designed and richly written - a true neo-Gothic computer novel.
- Unravel an ancient and unnerving supernatural secret as you interrogate everyone in this elaborate psycho-thriller set in modern-day New Orleans.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Gabriel Knight is widely praised as a classic point-and-click adventure with compelling storytelling, atmospheric pixel art, and strong voice acting that holds up well despite its age. However, players consistently warn that the game requires technical tweaking to run properly on modern systems (particularly adjusting DOSBox cycles), involves substantial pixel hunting typical of 90s adventure games, and has audio issues including missing music and occasional glitches, with some late-game puzzles becoming frustratingly difficult or requiring workarounds.
i began this game as a boy and finished it as the most unemployed employed man in louisiana stealing priests' clothes to extort information from the elderly1 found this helpful
There is no music and the audio pops, this version kinda sucks :(1 found this helpful
I recommend this but with reservations. Mainly about using dosbox on a modern pc. You will likely need to alter some of the config file to make it playable. Screen size and then more importantly setting the cycles to "fixed 20000". There was a game breaking issue with it being set to auto that made it impossible to do a timed task. Anyways once you get past this, and then also past some of the old school pixel hunting involved in a 90's point and click adventure game, it was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed the pixel art, voice acting (OH but here's another thing. I couldn't tolerate the narrator but if that bothers you just turn it off) and the story. So yeah. This was good but a little bit of a struggle so be prepared for that.1 found this helpful
I'm really glad to see this on Steam, and it's certainly a bonafide classic. Sadly, DOSBox is terrible, especially on a Windows 11 system. I need to dust off my oldest laptop and see if I can finish this there.
The story was gripping and the graphics, which could be seen as outdated, were much to my tatse. Yes, it is a little old, but the old style was very nice to look at and reminded me of playing Theme Hospital. The darker, supernatural aspects and the broke charcter who can be a bit of a jerk nicely reminded me of some of the older Constantine comics, so should defintley be given a chance if that's your sort of thing. Just be prepared to check EVERYTHING and make a few savestates you can go back to. Even with some audio issues due to this being a not compleley perfect port, I would very much recommened this game. I am unsure about Windows, but it played relativley well on linux with no crashes. However, I would recommend going into the config files in in SteampApps/common/Gabriel Knight/GK1/DOSBOX and changing the dosboxGK.conf file to cycles=10000 during a specific part of chapter 6. It can be changed back straight after and is the only meddling I did with this game.
This game in all time classic for a reason. It's so incredibly difficult to play but it's also so beautiful and there's so much to discover that it doesn't take away from how fun it is. I always recommend this game. All-time favorite.
Community reviews
0 reviews
Sign in to write a review.
No reviews yet. Be the first to review this game.
