Blackwell Epiphany
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Developers | |
---|---|
Wadjet Eye Games | |
Engines | |
Adventure Game Studio | |
Release dates | |
Windows | April 24, 2014 |
macOS (OS X) | April 24, 2014 |
Linux | June 16, 2015 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 83 |
OpenCritic | 84 |
IGDB | 82 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Relaxed |
Perspectives | Flip screen, Side view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Adventure |
Art styles | Pixel art |
Themes | Contemporary, North America, Supernatural |
Series | Blackwell |
Blackwell | |
---|---|
The Blackwell Legacy | 2006 |
Blackwell Unbound | 2007 |
The Blackwell Convergence | 2009 |
Blackwell Deception | 2011 |
Blackwell Epiphany | 2014 |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Developer website | Via Humble Widget. | |||
GOG.com | ||||
Steam |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\acsetup.cfg[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/236930/pfx/[Note 2] |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Blackwell Epiphany\ |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/236930/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics options accessed through
<path-to-game>\winsetup.exe
.
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | 640x400 or multiples of it. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Framerate is locked at 40fps | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | Enabled by default. Disable by creating the file allegro.cfg in the main game folder and entering the following text:
[mouse] mouse_accel_factor=0 |
|
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | Audio, Voice. You can disable the music by removing or simply renaming the file audio.vox in the installation folder. This doesn't affect sound effects or speech. |
|
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
Spanish | Fan translation, download. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 9 | |
DirectDraw | 5 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) | |||
Linux |
System requirements
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | ME | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 700 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 350 MB |
macOS (OS X) | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.9 | |
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | ||
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Other | Dual-button mouse or Apple mouse with Secondary Button / Secondary Click enabled. |
Linux | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu 14.04 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/236930/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (236930) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.