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Man of Medan

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The Dark Pictures Anthology:
Man of Medan
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan cover
Developers
Supermassive Games
Publishers
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows August 30, 2019
Reception
Metacritic 75
OpenCritic 71
IGDB 71
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person, Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror, Quick time events
Art styles Realistic
Themes Horror, Supernatural
Series The Dark Pictures Anthology
Man of Medan on HowLongToBeat
Man of Medan on IGDB
Man of Medan guide on StrategyWiki
Man of Medan on MobyGames
Man of Medan on Wikipedia
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Demo

A demo is available from Microsoft Store and Steam.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Curator's Cut
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\ManOfMedan\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\NAMCOBANDAIGamesInc.ManofMedanGamePass_gdy2aq6ez762w\LocalCache\Local\ManOfMedan\Saved\Config\WinGDK\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/939850/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\ManOfMedan\Saved\SaveGames\
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\NAMCOBANDAIGamesInc.ManofMedanGamePass_gdy2aq6ez762w\SystemAppData\wgs\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/939850/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

In-game Graphics settings. Not pictured: preset setting
In-game Graphics settings. Not pictured: preset setting

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Letterboxed to 21:9. Use the related Flawless Widescreen script as a workaround.
Multi-monitor
Pillarboxed.[1] Use the related Flawless Widescreen script as a workaround.
Ultra-widescreen
[2]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Fullscreen also available.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Scales with Texture Quality. Low (0x), Medium (2x), High (4x), Ultra (8x).[3]
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Available in 4 presets: Off, Medium, High, Ultra.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Toggle available to Limit to 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode
Subtitle Background (High Contrast) and Subtitle Colors (Separate Character Color) available.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

In-game Control Settings.
In-game Control Settings.
In-game Remapping Settings.
In-game Remapping Settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Separate Options for exploration and aiming.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Some buttons cannot be remapped.
Controller sensitivity
Option for Mouse Sensitivity does not affect controller sensitivity.
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Can be selected in the options Menu to either show Xbox or DualShock input.
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Hotplugging doesn't work once in-game. Going back to the Main Menu seems to detect the controller again.
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

In-game Audio and Language Settings.
In-game Audio and Language Settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate sliders for Master, Music, Dialogue, SFX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Issues fixed

Fixing video playback for Windows 7 and 10 users

Modifying the video files with a patcher
  1. Download Man of Medan Video Fix.
  2. Extract the fix to <path-to-game>.
  3. Run Apply_Patch.bat and wait while it finishes. When it's finished confirm with any button.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
5 Co-op, Hot seat
Playable through the "Movie Night" game mode with 2-5 players.
LAN play
Online play
2 Co-op

Local play mod

Shared Story Split-Screen.
See also: Nucleus-Coop on the Nucleus-Coop subreddit.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-3470
AMD FX-8350
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 80 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7870
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit system is required.


Notes

  1. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.20.3.0
  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>/939850/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (939850) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan 32:9 and 48:9 - last accessed on 2019-08-31
  2. Verified by User:Fayaine on 2019-08-30
    Tested at 2560x1080 custom resolution. The vertical FOV matched that of 1920x1080
  3. Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-10-30
    based off sg.TextureQuality=4 setting in GameUserSettings.ini and the official UE4 documentation.