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Latest revision as of 11:00, 16 January 2024

Impostor Factory
Impostor Factory cover
Developers
Freebird Games
Engines
mkxp
Release dates
Windows September 30, 2021
macOS (OS X) September 30, 2021
Linux September 30, 2021
Reception
Metacritic 80
OpenCritic 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Genres Adventure
Art styles Pixel art
Themes Comedy, Detective/mystery, Sci-fi
Series Sigmund Corp.
Impostor Factory on HowLongToBeat
Impostor Factory on IGDB
Impostor Factory on MobyGames
Sigmund Corp.
To the Moon 2011
A Bird Story 2014
Finding Paradise 2017
Impostor Factory 2021

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
The Screw-It-Just-Gimme-Everything Bundle also available.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM details are not known
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
DRM-free when run directly from its executable.[1] The Screw-It-Just-Gimme-Everything Bundle also available.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\freebirdgames\impostorfactory\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/freebirdgames/impostorfactory/
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/freebirdgames/impostorfactory/
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\freebirdgames\impostorfactory\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/freebirdgames/impostorfactory/
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/freebirdgames/impostorfactory/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings
General settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Pillarboxed 640x480 (4:3) bilinearly scaled to the desktop resolution. For nearest-neighbor scaling see Nearest-neighbor scaling.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Static aspect 4:3 in a freely resizeable window.
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
Capped at 40 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Nearest-neighbor scaling

Edit config file[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open the mkxp.conf file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Change the value of smoothScaling from true to false.
  4. Save the file.

Input

Keyboard and controller bindings (F1)
Keyboard and controller bindings (F1)

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Language selection
Language selection

Localizations

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

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 2.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 1024x768 High Color
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 2400
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 2400
A 64-bit operating system is required.


References

  1. Verified by User:Mmachinecodev on 2024-01-16
  2. Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-01-23