The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
Play as both Gabriel and Grace as they are dispatched to Munich to solve a series of mutilation murders thought to be the work of werewolves.
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery is an adventure developed by Sierra On-Line, released 30 June 1995 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery is
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery is an adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1995. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery is a point-and-click adventure game, created by Jane Jensen, developed and published by Sierra On-Line, and released for MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows in 1995. The sequel to 1993's Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, the game's story focuses on a new investigation for Gabriel Knight, adjusting to his new life as a "shadow hunter" as he investigates a spate of killings around Munich believed to be the work of a werewolf. His work is assisted by Grace Nakimura, who looks into a link between the killings and the final years of a Bavarian king in the 19th century.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 59 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM and DirectX 7 Compatible. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery launched on 30 June 1995, within three weeks of Tekken 2, MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, Air Combat and Aquanaut's Holiday. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Tekken 2, MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, Air Combat, Aquanaut's Holiday.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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