The Council

The Council

Developers
	Big Bad Wolf
Publishers
	Focus Home Interactive
Release dates
Windows	March 13, 2018

General information

Official Website

Official Forum

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Gamesplanet
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Only the "Complete Season" is available, episodes can no longer be bought individually.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Council\*.conf
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/287630/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Council\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/287630/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		On 16:10 resolutions, cut-scenes are letterboxed to 16:9.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Bug where horizontal mouse sensitivity is greatly reduced. Menus and cutscenes are 16:9 pillarboxed. Gameplay is 21:9.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Texture quality

The "Maximum" texture quality setting is only applied on resolutions higher than 1080p.

Adjust texture quality in config file Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open The Council.conf with an editor like Notepad. Change the numeric value of textureQuality to 2. Notes Do not enter the settings menu afterwards or it will reset this change.

Input settings

In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration		No acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Tracked motion controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, voices, SFX and music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	Native	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: The Council (DX11).

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
Shader Model support	5.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-2125 (3.3 GHz) AMD FX-4100 (3.6 GHz)	Intel Core i7-3770 (3.4 GHz) AMD FX-8370 (4.0 GHz)
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	15 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 AMD Radeon R7 360 1 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB of VRAM