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Gabriel Knight® 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Developer Sierra On-Line
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is a point-and-click adventure game created by Jane Jensen, developed and published by Sierra Studios, and released for Microsoft Windows in 1999. The sequel to 1995's The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, the game's story focuses on the lives of Gabriel Knight (voiced once again by Tim Curry) and Grace Nakimura as they become involved in a case to… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
98 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 5, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
57
Mixed
55 positive · 42 negative
95% range 47–66%
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| Steam reviews | 55 | 42 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
1 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
79 of 137 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 98 · most liked firstI bought this game without having played any of the others. First time I played this game was when I was 5 years old back in 1999, my mom used to play it and I got to watch and try a little bit myself. Of course I had no idea what I was doing, but it meant a lot to me to play it with my mom. Its been almost 3 years since my mom died of cancer, buying this brings me nostalgia and memories from another time when my mom was younger, with good health and happier. Thank you for the port Steam and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Steam has not updated the application to operate without the use of CD's. As such you will not be able to play this game. No patch of fix has been created and you will ultimately pay for a game you can't play. Sad
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game, as great as the first two Gabriel Knights. Glad it is finally available in Steam along with the original GK1 and with GK2. Didn't play a lot of this version yet, but the GOG version doesn't run so well on modern computers. If that is the case here, I recommend using the dgVoodoo 2 tool to run it. But it didn't crash in my time with it and it felt a lot smoother than the GOG vanilla version. The game itself is brilliant, Jane Jensen at her best. The interface can be a bit obtuse at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't waste your time and money. Just played through GK1 and GK2, and both are great games. I'm sure this one is too, but the game has multiple technical problems. Out of the gate I had to find a work around for an issue where it wanted me to "Insert CD 1" in order to play. After that there was also awful screen flicker. After finding a work around for that I found that entering a new area crashes the game more often than not. All in all unless you have a lot of patience or just really really…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, broken release - game asks for CD which you might not have. I have the original game on 3 CDs but ... I have no CD/DVD drive.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely love Gabriel Knight 3. But the Steam version is broken to the point that you cannot even start playing it. The gog.com version is working fine and is even better with dgvoodoo2. So buy the gog.com version and ignore the Steam version. I tried contacting both Activision and Steam but both have so far done nothing to fix the Steam version. Activision refuses to accept responsibility for the problem and said i should contact Steam. Steam so far has said that i need to contact…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quite possibly my favorite adventure game of all time. It's got an almost open world(for it's time and for an adventure game), an absolutely great story, fantastic voice acting...an all around amazing game. I have beaten it a few times in the last few years and look forward to doing it again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633003-Gaming-Masterpieces/lists/] Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam. If you are just interested in point and click adventures go here: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43642699-The-Adventure-Library/lists/] The Adventure Library Is this game a masterpiece? Nooooo, this adventure is as bad as everyone says. Unsolvable puzzles without real connection to the story (how to obtain the cat hair was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not sure why everyone is saying this game is broken. I had the same issues but it took me three minutes to fix. 9/2024 on Windows 11 1) Download PowerIso or some other virtual drive 2)Mount to the drive. Leave it empty. 3)Voila, insert disk 1 message gone For graphics, go into the in game settings. turn off incremental rendering. Graphics issues fixed. Don't bother with compatibility mode. Haven't come across any issues yet.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is really good, fueled by a strong and well-researched story, great voice-acting and strong characters. On the other hand, you have a rather weak game design (Game wont progress unless you read a number of historical references, which feels arbitrary and forces you to click every single hotspot in all available areas) and dreadfully outdated 3D graphics with laughable textures. It does not take well to Windows 10 either. The game crashed constantly on me. Changing to software…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this when I owned my previous computer. The textures were broken and the game locked up before I could get out of the first area. Not a great first impression. When I got my new computer, I reinstalled the game and tried it out again. Now it's asking me for a CD. I went to the Steam message boards to see if there was a quick fix, but the solution involved grabbing an altered executable from GOG. And because the game folder's read-only and Windows has decided I don't have the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will make this as simple as possible, without these steps the game wont work, which is a shame because its a good game, first step get daemon lite free edition and mount a drive, very easy, doesnt have to have any additional files or software. Start game, right click for settings, go graphics, untick the incremental rendering, and change driver to software render, this is the best your going to get it, you dont want to go down the road of mods because they simply dont work well. Doing these…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game isnt optimized for Windows 10 at ALL! Ive tried EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING! WTF release a game that cant be played on modern gaming rigs?!?!? Its times like these I wish for games as ancient as these we did get a dosbox version.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On my windows 10 laptop, the game launches and I can watch the intro, and the title for the first time block - and then the game crashes. CANNOT RECOMMEND IT UNTIL THIS IS FIXED. AND NO COMPATIBILITIES AND ALL DONT WORK.. If anyone knows how to work around this pls leave msg thanx.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a recommendation but a tough one. Keep the following negatives in mind: 1. The game is difficult to get working on modern systems but it is possible by following several guides online and using dgvoodoo2. This is not the easiest thing in the world to do. 2. The game has some of the most difficult puzzles in adventure game history. I'd only play this with a full walkthrough from start to finish to reduce time wasted. 3. The user interface is quite awful but you do get used to it. Its…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not buy this game, it's unplayable. After a lot of research and changes you are able to get it to run. However it's is extremely laggy still. But what makes it unplayable is that there's a 50 percent chance the game crashes anytime you go to a different zone. And there's a 50 percent chance this crash causes the game's screen to be frozen , where you can't even access the task manager to force close it. I've deleted and installed this game multiple times as I keep wanting to give it a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Please Insert CD1" is a game from Sierra On-Line and Activision. It was once Gabriel Knight 3, an old point and click adventure game. Now, however, it's a game that's fundamentally broken, doesn't launch on Steam, and yet is being sold for a whopping $10 by a bunch of crook game devs who know the game is broken, will never fix it, but keep it on Steam in the hopes they can scam gamers out of money. Really unethical stuff. Don't buy this, it doesn't work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game should not be sold on Steam in its current state. You will most likely not be able to get it running on modern hardware. Such a damn shame.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Have Windows 8 or Windows 10? This game won't run on your computer without crashing every 5 minutes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't bother buying this one. It's not functional on modern machines.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would work fine if I had a 25 year old computers, gfx glitches and bombs out every 5 minutes, nice port sierra.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm done with you, Activision. It's time to pull this game from all digital stores! Gabriel Knight 3 is a classic point and click adventure, and one of my personal favorites. It has a great story, some good puzzles, some notoriously bad puzzles. But overall, I recommend every adventure fan to try it at least once. That being said, the game does not work, this includes both GOG and Steam. Every quote unquote 'fix' does not solve the problem, and all forums that had fixes are no longer working!…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had to install freeware on my computer to get the game working; and then it gave me motion sickness.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the game, but this version doesn't work anymore. I bought it in French twenty years ago, in English again a few years later, I've been to Rennes-le-Château pretty much every year since then, so yeah, I really love this game. But this Steam version just doesn't work anymore with Windows 10. On one of my PCs, the game now freezes if I ever try skipping an animation, and at random other times. On my current brand new PC, it asks me to "Insert CD 1", so I cannot even reach the title…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gabriel Knight® 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned One of the best games for it's time i still have mine in the box. I love and miss Sierra they made wonderful games like the beast within and etc. Now let's talk about the things about the game itself you play as the man himself Gabriel Knight you start off in you're hotel room and explore the hotel for a bit. i don't to give to much away because might be reading this for the first time. they have some issues with it though which i done…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just a game fueled with Nostalgia and Mystery, I will always come back to this game, no matter how long it takes to beat it- my love for Tim Curry's voice just bumps up the grip I have on this title.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unhandled exceptions all over the place.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Although it's a little tricky to run on newer computers, it is absolutely worth it. The best of an already excellent series. It is an early foray into 3D animation, so it's polygon animation that is, in some cases, hilariously awful (like Gabriel's partner Grace looks like she's suffering from severe kyphosis/hunchback and everyone's hair is angular). Again, just look past the silliness of the graphics. If you have a thing (I do) for the lost treasure of the Templars, this is one of its best…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A shame the last proper Gabriel Knight is a mixed bag, horrid performance and very dated visuals and a horrid puzzle in the early game drags down an otherwise decent adventure game, It has a great story and the Le Serpent Rouge is probably the best puzzle in a adventure game series EVER. but damn It runs like ♥♥♥♥ :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still the best adventure game ever made.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game, this story, simply amazing, hermetism, freemasons , priory of sion, conspiracies, Jensen is seriously involved with esoterism, occultism etc. Don't let the graphics fool you or some minor problems that can easily be fixed, this is a great story that is told. I really enjoyed this game more than GK1 and GK2.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It won't launch! It's telling me to insert disc 1. I obviously can't do that on my laptop!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Follow our [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36214917/]Curator Group for more reviews Gabriel Knight 3 is a point and click game that might be good, but runs so poorly on modern systems that is essentially unplayable. It has a number of issues that requires frustrating workarounds. This game has no business being on Steam in its current state. This is really a negative review of the technical aspects, rather than the gameplay. The game itself is generally regarded as decent. 0/10…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →mount a virtual cd before playing
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I remember when I bought this game in its own CD case all wrapped up ready to play. I bought it from Walmart! This was back in the day when you can only buy PC games at the store, instead of online, when modem was a thing and AOL existed. This is a very old game, but I still love it to this very day! I remember running Tim Curry's line "Is anyone there? I would like to buy a bike!" over and over! Why? Because I thought it was hilarious for some reason. You'll need to save this game consistently…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game wants me to insert a cd to play it....... WHAT YEAR IT IT???? could never get it to run
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this when it came out. I am a big fan of Sierra and Jane Jensen, but this was a miss for me. The story is overtly indulgent and dry. The game and the puzzles are tedious and dry. I tried to replay this and I am not feeling this anymore. I remember making through this in 1999 and not being nearly as impressed as with the first two games. Unfortunately, and I hate to do this, I can't recommend this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sorry, at the beginning I´ve given poor points to this game, because the graphics made me crazy...not in a good way though:) After switching to ´Software rendering´at the settings panel, the game become playable! So naturally i would recommend this wonderfull adventure to all gamers!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loved this game as a young boy. I still love it, a great story and atmosphere. This version of the game is filled with crashes, glitches and graphical problems. In my honest opinion: this is the hardest game of the whole GK - series. Pros: + Total nostalgia + Music and voice acting. Music is magnificent, atmospheric and enjoyable. Voice acting by Tim Curry, pure gold. + A great story all in all + Unique atmosphere, Jane Jensen can write and create always something different. + Again a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: Very compelling story and interesting characters. Like the previous two Gabriel Knight games, this game is stuffed with stories, information, legends and lore. The voice acting is superb. Seriously, check the cast. Cons: The camera/control scheme in this game is weird but you get used to it quickly. The graphics are not great. You may find all the extra historical tidbits and lore boring if you're not into that kind of thing. I enjoyed it and recommend this and the previous two Gabriel…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing all the others then getting to this game...... I am hurt. I dont liek the mechanics, the voice over, the graphic. Anything. I Just finished number 2 andI really dont think I can make myself play this game....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nope. Nopenopenope. Nope. Error 1: Game black screens on load. Fixed with some files from elsewhere. Error 2: Game wants CD1. Fixed with more files from elsewhere and a virtual CD drive. Error 3: Game is riddled with black boxes and flashing lights. Partially fixed with some graphics setting adjustments. Error 4: Camera goes NEYOOM and then spins in a circle. Fix not found, but I figured I could get used to it eventually. Error 5: UNKNOWN ERROR CAUSES GAME TO JUST CRASH TO DESKTOP. I.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Final game in the Gabriel Knight series and it's one from the time when they thought every game should have 3D graphics just because it was the latest thing regardless of whether it actually looked good or not. (Spoiler: it doesn't.) That aside, gameplay-wise, it's probably the best concept for 3D point & click adventures that was ever used. You freely control the camera and except for the rather cumbersome inventory, everything plays well and quickly. The puzzles are mostly alright, but as a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still enjoy the story. Still miss these good old Sierra games and wish a lot of them got a good remake to the current game standards...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Knight. Gabriel Knight.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gabriel Knight 3 is credited with killing adventure games. Now, I see where it's coming from. A lot of puzzles in this game are bad. Really bad. The "cat hair moustache" puzzle has become the golden example of "moon logic" in videogames. However, with the simple addition of a gamefaqs guide, you'll find that GK3 is not just an excellent game, but an amazing one. First of all, Tim Curry is back as the voice of Gabriel. You wouldn't believe the difference it makes, the man could carry the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This port is so damn broken and no amount of patching seems to make a difference, at least for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Outstanding game! Outstanding series! If you enjoy the classic point-n-click, give this one a shot. If you like it, try the other two games. If not, move on. Rather than writing separate reviews for each game, I'm going to briefly cover the entire series in a few paragraphs. With their love/hate, yin/yang, brain vs. brawn relationship, Gabriel and Grace steal the show! I can tell series' creator Jane Jensen really enjoyed using this to spruce up the character cohesion and back-n-forth…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One day I will overcome the horrible 3D and technical problems with Gabriel Knight 3 and finally finish it. At least I don't need to play the game to listen to the incredible music. #Retrogaming #Retro #JaneJensen #GabrielKnight #GabrielKnight3 #AdventureGames
unlabelledView post →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.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Jane Jensen is master story teller - the best in the business. Blends resonating lore, historical facts and authentic fiction in a superior mix like no other dev. Gabriel Knight 1, 2 and 3 are the best interactive story in the history of gaming. I just adore this series.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having played and thoroughly enjoyed the first 2 games in the Gabriel Knight series, I'm sad to say I was disappointed with this third game - too ponderous for me. The difficulty level was also a bummer for me - during my 15 odd hours playing I had to refer to a walkthrough on far too many occasions, which takes away the fun and satisfaction of solving the puzzles yourself. If there was a mid-ground between yes/no to recommend this game, I would have used it. For those who enjoy a challenge,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Plot wise and atmosphere-wise, probably my favourite GK3, and a must for any adventure game lover!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Keeps crashing every 5 mins. Shame coz it looks like another good game from the series
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