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Installing River Oath

The browser edition

Nothing to install: open https://retro.theiguru.au/riveroath/play/ in a recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. The music starts after your first key press or click (browsers allow sound only then). F switches full screen. Saves are kept in the browser: see Saves.

The desktop edition

Download from https://retro.theiguru.au/riveroath/, the Heisenbergs Files area on the BBS, or the riveroath folder on the anonymous FTP at home.

Windows

  1. Download River-Oath-0.1.2-windows-x64.zip and unzip it anywhere, for example in your Documents folder.
  2. Run river_oath.exe from the unzipped folder. Keep the assets folder beside it: it holds the world, the rules and the music.
  3. The program is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you the first time: choose More info, then Run anyway.

The Windows version is built on Linux and tested under Wine; it has not yet been tried on a real Windows PC.

Linux

On Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint and other Debian-based systems (64-bit; Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 13 or newer): 

sudo apt install ./river-oath_0.1.2_amd64.deb

Then start River Oath from the applications menu, or run river-oath.

On other Linux systems, use river-oath-0.1.2-linux-x64.tar.gz: unpack it and run ./river_oath, or ./install.sh to install it for your user with a menu entry. It needs GTK 2.

Music plays through pw-play, paplay or aplay (PipeWire, PulseAudio or ALSA); without one of them the game is silent. Music can be turned off in Esc > Options.