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Watchers

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Watchers
Watchers cover
Developers
Blindfold
Publishers
Alawar Premium
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[1]
Release dates
Windows October 22, 2019

General information

Official Discord server
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows

Game data

In-game game settings.
In-game game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Watchers\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1124980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1124980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game screen settings.
In-game screen settings.
In-game effects settings.
In-game effects settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate can optionally be limited to 30, 60, 75, 120, 144, or 200 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
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.

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
24 Versus

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio Wwise

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 460
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-10-23