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Shadow Man Remastered

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Shadow Man Remastered
Shadow Man Remastered cover
Developers
Nightdive Studios
Acclaim Studios Teesside
Publishers
Nightdive Studios
Engines
Kex Engine
Release dates
Windows April 15, 2021
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure, Metroidvania
Art styles Stylized
Themes Horror
Series Shadow Man
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Shadow Man Remastered on IGDB
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Shadow Man Remastered on Wikipedia
Shadow Man
Shadow Man 1999
Shadow Man Remastered 2021

Shadow Man Remastered is a singleplayer third-person action, adventure and metroidvania game in the Shadow Man series.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Includes the soundtrack as 24-bit/48kHz FLAC files, found in <path-to-game>\ShadowManEX04.kpf (openable with any program that can open ZIP files, such as 7-Zip or WinRAR).

Essential improvements

Skip intro-videos

Use console variable[1]
  1. Open the console in-game with ~.
  2. Type g_skipintro 1, then press Enter.
Edit config file
  1. Navigate to %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Nightdive Studios\Shadowman EX.
  2. Open kexengine.cfg with text editor.
  3. Find the line seta g_skipintro "0".
  4. Set it to seta g_skipintro "1", then save the file.
Remove company logos
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Delete/rename the movies folder.
Opening-cinematic will still play (skippable).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Nightdive Studios\Shadowman EX\kexengine.cfg
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1413870/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Nightdive Studios\Shadowman EX\saves
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1413870/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Display settings
Display settings
Video settings
Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Mouse settings
Mouse settings
Gamepad settings
Gamepad settings

Template:Input settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

By default, the game applies a low-pass filter over digital audio samples. This behavior can be disabled by setting snd_lowpassfilter to 0 in the configuration file or the console.

Localizations

Language selection
Language selection
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game won't launch if you have a non-ASCII character in your Windows profile

Create a new Windows account using only standard ASCII characters or wait for a fix

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Vulkan 1.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio XAudio2 XAudio 2.9, file version 1.0.2008.230001
Input SDL2 2.0.9.0

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel or AMD Dual-Core 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL 3.2 compatible
DirectX 10 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/1413870/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1413870) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:SirYodaJedi on 2021-04-24