Resonance

Resonance

Developers
	XII Games
Publishers
	Wadjet Eye Games
Engines
	Adventure Game Studio
Release dates
Windows	June 19, 2012
macOS (OS X)	April 23, 2013
Linux	June 12, 2016
Reception
Metacritic	76
Taxonomy
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Relaxed
Perspectives	Flip screen, Side view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Art styles	Pixel art
Themes	Sci-fi

Resonance is a singleplayer flip screen and side view adventure game.

Key points

Can be played on ScummVM.

General information

Publisher Discord server

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Publisher website		Via Humble Widget.
GOG.com
Steam		Can be played without Steam.
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)

A demo is available from the publisher website.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Resonance\acsetup.cfg
macOS (OS X)
Linux	<path-to-game>/acsetup.cfg

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Resonance\
macOS (OS X)	$HOME/Library/Application Support/Resonance/
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/ags/Resonance/

This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Graphics options accessed through <path-to-game>\winsetup.exe.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x240 (4:3) static aspect, stretched, or pixel-perfect. Scaling algorithm is either nearest-neighbor or bilinear. (Bilinear filtering is unavailable with the SDL 2D Software renderer option.)
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		4K resolution can be set, but will be pillarboxed (Stretch, preserving aspect ratio setting) or stretched (Fill whole screen setting).
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set in <path-to-game>\winsetup.exe.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Set in <path-to-game>\winsetup.exe.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped at 40 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

Audio

Pause menu with settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master Volume control only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian				Fan translation by ZoG Forum Team.
Spanish				Fan translation, download.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9	Despite its name, the SDL 2D Software renderer option outputs to Direct3D 9.
OpenGL

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)			In February 2022 OS X builds have been released with 64-bit support on Steam and GOG. Previous builds were 32-bit only.
Linux

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	ME, 2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 5 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.11
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu, Debian, Arch
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL