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Last Updated: 05 May 2026 @ 00:56 CE(S)T

Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos

This is a total conversion mod that was released fairly recently. It’s an absolutely amazing experience and I highly recommend playing it. It’s the Gothic 3 we wanted but never got. It’s available with Polish voice acting (which is incredible although I don’t speak Polish) or with German TTS. I prefer the former. By now there is also Russian dubbing.

So far, I have not been able to install and run it in the same way as the other mods described here because of access violation errors or issues with the DX11 renderer. However, the Steam version of this works out of the box without any tweaking necessary — which is why I played it there and for ease of installation I recommend you do this as well. I assume, it is necessary to own Gothic II on Steam for this to work but I was not able to test this because I had it already.

Manual Instructions Base Game

  1. Add the mod to your Steam library.
  2. (Optional) Add the Polish dubs as well.
  3. (Optional) Download the latest release of the DX11 renderer, unzip it and move it inside the system folder. This is located at $STEAM_FOLDER/steamapps/common/TheChroniclesOfMyrtana/system/
  4. Add this to the launch options: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ddraw=n,b" %command%

Manual Instructions Mods

This will let you play the vanilla mod without much hassle. If you want to add some QoL-mods, you need to perform a few additional steps:

  1. Download Union files here, unzip the archive and move the files inside to the appropriate locations (i.e. the system or Data directories of the game).

    Note

    The Data directory already contains a file for the xGamePad mod. If you do not want this, do not copy the respective file over.

  2. Find your desired mods (see here for a small selection), download them and copy them into the Data folder.

Warning

This mod does not support Ninja! If you install it, it will not launch. This means that many of the recommended functional mods listed in this blog post won’t work because they depend on Ninja. Any Union plugin will work just fine – provided you installed Union, of course.

Enjoy!