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Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart

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Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart
Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart cover
Developers
Artifex Mundi
Engines
Spark Casual Engine
Release dates
Windows April 19, 2012
macOS (OS X) February 5, 2014
Linux February 5, 2014
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives First-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Hidden object, Puzzle
Themes Piracy, Zombies
Series Nightmares from the Deep
Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart on HowLongToBeat
Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart on IGDB
Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart on MobyGames
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Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart is a singleplayer first-person adventure, hidden object and puzzle game in the Nightmares from the Deep series.

In January 2022 the whole Nightmares from the Deep series was removed from sales due to licensing agreements.[1]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)
Microsoft Store (unavailable)
Microsoft Store
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Artifex Mundi\NightmaresFromTheDeep_TheCursedHeart\CE\profile\<user-id>\*.prf
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux $HOME/.Artifex Mundi/NightmaresFromTheDeep_TheCursedHeart/CE/profile/<user-id>/*.prf
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\259740\remote\profile\*.prf
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Artifex Mundi\NightmaresFromTheDeep_TheCursedHeart\CE\profile\<user-id>\*.cub
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux $HOME/.Artifex Mundi/NightmaresFromTheDeep_TheCursedHeart/CE/profile/<user-id>/*.cub
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\259740\remote\profile\*.cub

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings
General settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
1280x768 (15:9) stretched to the monitor's resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Stretched from 1280x768.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Non-resizeable 1280x768 window. FMVs are of lower quality.
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
Background effects update at the monitor refresh rate. FMVs and many animations are 30 fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

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

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
OpenGL
OS X and Linux only.
Executable 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM


References

  1. Twitter - Artifex Mundi - last accessed on 2022-05-27
    "We're removing the NFTD series from sales due to licensing agreements."