The small print

Legal and credits


GK3Reborn is a fan project. It is free software, it distributes no part of the original game, and it makes no claim on anybody else's work.

Copyright and trademarks


Gabriel Knight, Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, and all related characters, artwork, models, audio, music, video and text are the copyright and, where applicable, the trademarks of their respective owners, including Sierra Studios, Sierra On-Line and Activision Publishing, Inc. The story and characters were created by Jane Jensen.

This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or approved by Sierra, Sierra On-Line, Activision Publishing, Inc., Jane Jensen or Pinkerton Road. No connection is claimed or implied. All trademarks are used for identification only, in the ordinary way of referring to the game that this engine plays.

Screenshots on this site show the original game's artwork and characters rendered by the new engine, and are published for identification and commentary. Copyright in that content remains with its owners.

You must own the game


GK3Reborn distributes no original game data of any kind. It reads an installation that you own, validates it, converts what it needs into modern formats and never writes to it. Without such an installation the engine has nothing to play and will not start.

Gabriel Knight 3 is still sold, and buying it is the way to support the people who made it:

Licence


The GK3Reborn engine, its tools and this website are free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or, at your option, any later version. They come with absolutely no warranty.

The source licence conveys no rights whatsoever to the original game's assets, or to any work derived from them. Restored artwork produced by the content pipeline is derived from assets you already own, is generated on your own machine or shipped as an optional layer, and carries no claim over the originals.

Parts of the engine are informed by GEngine, a GPL-3.0 reimplementation of the original engine, whose notices are preserved where its work was adapted.

At a glance

  • Free, non commercial, fan made.
  • No original game assets are included or distributed.
  • A legally owned copy of the game is required.
  • Your installation is read, never modified.
  • Engine and site source released under GPL 3 or later.
  • Not affiliated with Sierra or Activision.

Credits

Gabriel Knight 3 was created by Jane Jensen and the team at Sierra Studios and released in 1999. Everything worth playing here is theirs.

GEngine, the GPL-3.0 reimplementation of the original engine, served as the behavioural reference for the file formats and game logic.

GK3Reborn is built with .NET, Silk.NET, Vulkan and FFmpeg, each under its own licence, listed in the NOTICE file that ships with the build.

Privacy

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and embeds nothing from third parties. Downloads are served from this site or from the link shown next to them, and the engine itself makes no network connections.

Rights holders

If you represent a rights holder and have a concern about this project, please get in touch and it will be addressed promptly.