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Pentiment

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Pentiment
Pentiment cover
Developers
Obsidian Entertainment
Publishers
Xbox Game Studios
Engines
Unity 2021[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows November 15, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 88
OpenCritic 86
IGDB 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Themes Europe
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Pentiment is a singleplayer third-person adventure game.

Post-launch patches include fixes for spoilers, additional sound control options, crash and stability fixes etc.[2]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
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Microsoft Store
Windows
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Xbox Play Anywhere. Included with Xbox Game Pass for PC.
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
DRM-free when launched directly from executable.[3]
Windows

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via Xbox Game Pass for PC.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Obsidian Entertainment\Pentiment
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1205520/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.OE-Missouri_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Pentiment
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Obsidian Entertainment\Pentiment\CloudSync
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1205520/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Visuals
Visuals

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Audio

Audio
Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Sounds, Ambient, Music and Writing.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Linux
Rename SpeechSynthesisWrapper.dll in Pentiment_Data/Plugins (Proton unaffected[4])

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7 (SP1)
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-3225
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GTX 650 Ti
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2021.3.5f1[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1205520/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1205520) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Fds29 on 2022-11-15
  2. Pentiment v1.0.1215 Changelog - last accessed on 2022-11-20
  3. Verified by User:Phyziyx on 2022-11-20
    Confirmed Pentiment.exe can be launched directly through the game folder without the Steam client running or launching when using the executable.
  4. ValveSoftware/Proton repository - Issue: Pentiment - last accessed on 2023-01-20