Gothic II: Night of the Raven (OpenGothic)
Game: Gothic II: Night of the Raven (Windows, 2003)
OpenGothic: an open-source reimplementation of Gothic II: Night of the Raven, Piranha Bytes’ RPG, that runs on the original game’s data and scripts; its goal is a feature-complete Gothic client that’s compatible with the original game and its mods. According to the project, the game has been completely replicated, and both the main quest and the add-on can be finished. It’s designed for modern graphics cards: it uses Direct3D 12 or Vulkan on Windows, Vulkan on Linux, and Metal on macOS, and takes advantage of mesh shaders and ray tracing when the card has them, global illumination included. It reuses options from the original menu to turn on SSAO, volumetric fog, and screen-space reflections, and lets you lower the internal 3D resolution while the interface and text always render at full resolution. It supports content mods (retextures, new worlds, animations) that only use regular scripting, but not those that depend on Ikarus/LeGo, Union, the DX11 renderer, the AST SDK, or Ninja. Gothic 1 isn’t officially supported, though the project accepts fixes for it. Its releases are pre-releases; the latest, 0.92 (May 17), reworked the camera and the combat AI to be closer to the original’s, and the character collisions too.
You needYour own installed copy of Gothic II: Night of the Raven; it finds the most common install paths on its own (Steam’s included) and otherwise takes the path through the -g parameter. On Linux, the game is installed with Wine or Proton or copied over from Windows. Plus Windows (Direct3D 12 or Vulkan), Linux (Vulkan; there’s a .deb package and an AUR package), or macOS (Metal; Mac builds are published by Mac Source Ports), with a modern graphics card: the project warns it won’t run well on low-end or outdated cards.
- How it gets to PC
- Fan reimplementation
- Console
- Microsoft Windows
- Original studio
- Piranha Bytes
- Year
- 2003
- Author
- Try
- Stars
- 1.7k
- Last activity
- 2026-11-11 · today
- License
- MIT
- Language
- C++
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