Gothic
Gothic is an action role-playing game set in a third-person perspective within a fantasy open world. The player controls an unnamed prisoner sent into a mining colony enclosed by a magical barrier. Gameplay…
Gothic is an adventure developed by Piranha Bytes, released 30 October 2001 on PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 5 cheat codes for it.
What Gothic is
Gothic is an adventure game developed by Piranha Bytes and released in 2001. It was published by Egmont Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on ZenGin.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In a medieval fantasy world where humans are losing a war against Orcs, the king sentences all criminals to labor in ore mines to forge weapons. To prevent escape, twelve magicians erect a magical barrier over the mining colony, but the spell goes out of control, trapping the magicians inside and allowing the convicts to overthrow their guards. The prisoners split into three factions: the Old Camp, which trades ore with the king; the New Camp, which hoards ore to attempt destroying the barrier; and the Brotherhood, a religious group worshipping a being called the Sleeper. An unnamed prisoner is thrown into the colony carrying a letter for the Fire Mages. After joining one of the factions…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Gothic holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 450 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 29.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium III 700 MHz, 512 MB RAM and 3D graphics card with 32 MB Ram. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.
What it launched against
Gothic launched on 30 October 2001, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 5 cheat entries for Gothic — 1 cheat code and 4 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
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Gothic cheat codes
Enable marvin mode
Typed during play, this unlocks the console and the debug keys.
Type the word during gameplay. A message confirms it.
Open the console
Opens the command console once marvin mode is on.
Enable marvin mode first, then press the grave key.
God mode
You take no damage.
Requires marvin mode, then open the console.
Add an item
Spawns the named item in front of you.
Requires marvin mode, then open the console.
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Quick answers
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