The Novelist

The Novelist

Developers
	Orthogonal Games
Engines
	Unity 4
Release dates
Windows	December 10, 2013
macOS (OS X)	December 10, 2013
Linux	February 14, 2014
Reception
Metacritic	66
OpenCritic	68
IGDB	59

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Technical Support

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Humble Store
itch.io
Steam

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Orthogonal Games\The Novelist\Kaplans.fate
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/Orthogonal Games/The Novelist/Kaplans.fate
Linux	$HOME/.config/unity3d/Orthogonal Games/The Novelist/Kaplans.fate

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Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Orthogonal Games\The Novelist\Kaplans.fate
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/Orthogonal Games/The Novelist/Kaplans.fate
Linux	$HOME/.config/unity3d/Orthogonal Games/The Novelist/Kaplans.fate

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.

Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP2	7
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz	2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	800 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM	512 MB of VRAM

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.7	10.8
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz	2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	800 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM	512 MB of VRAM

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz	2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	800 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM	512 MB of VRAM

Tested in Ubuntu 12.04, 13.10