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|mute on focus lost notes = Pauses when focus lost, no audio while paused. If on the main menu, music will continue to play when focus lost.
 
|mute on focus lost notes = Pauses when focus lost, no audio while paused. If on the main menu, music will continue to play when focus lost.
 
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===API===
 
===API===
 
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|recHD    = 2 GB
 
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Latest revision as of 15:30, 26 December 2023

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse cover
Developers
WayForward Technologies
Engines
EngineBlack
Release dates
Windows April 23, 2015
Reception
OpenCritic 81
IGDB 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Scrolling, Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Metroidvania, Platform
Art styles Anime, Pixel art
Themes Fantasy
Series Shantae
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse on HowLongToBeat
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse on IGDB
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse guide on StrategyWiki
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse on MobyGames
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse on Wikipedia
Shantae
Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut 2014
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse 2015
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero 2016
Shantae and the Seven Sirens 2020
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution 2024

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is a singleplayer scrolling and side view metroidvania and platform game in the Shantae series.

General information

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

Availability

Soundtrack is available for free at composer's Bandcamp, you can also pay what you want.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\options.txt[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/345820/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
GOG.com <path-to-game>\Shantae and the Pirate's Curse.save
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\345820\remote\save
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/345820/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General Options
General Options

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
16:9 only. Limited resolution selection (1920x1080 is maximum).
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
120+ FPS
Game runs too fast above 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Key binds
Key binds

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and Sound sliders (0-100).
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Pauses when focus lost, no audio while paused. If on the main menu, music will continue to play when focus lost.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Added in the 1.03 patch, not showing up on the Steam page.
German
Added in the 1.03 patch, not showing up on the Steam page.
Italian
Added in the 1.03 patch, not showing up on the Steam page.
Brazilian Portuguese
Translation.
Spanish
Added in the 1.03 patch, not showing up on the Steam page.

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz with Hyper Threading
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics
DirectX 11 compatible


Notes

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References