The Shell Part I: Inferno
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| Developers | |
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| Innocent Grey | |
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| Shiravune | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | July 27 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Perspectives | First-person, Third-person |
| Controls | Menu-based |
| Genres | Visual novel |
| Art styles | Anime |
| Themes | Horror, Romance, Adult |
| Series | Kara no Shoujo |
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The Shell Part I: Inferno is a 2023 remaster of the 2008 single player visual novel game Kara no Shoujo. It is the first game in the Kara no Shoujo series. The 2023 version includes several new gameplay and Quality of Life additions compared to the original 2011 English release by MangaGamer, such as: HD Artwork, widescreen resolutions, a brand new prologue chapter, a new re-worked English translation and a more forgiving difficulty level. The 2023 Steam release is based on the 2019 HD Remaster of the game.
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Official website | |
JAST USA | |
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| Steam | |
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Monetization
| Type | Notes |
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| One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Microtransactions
| Type | Notes |
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| No microtransactions | None |
Essential improvements
Missing Content Patch for Steam release
- The Steam release only includes certain parts of the full game due to the publisher removing them to pass the Steam review process to allow the game on the store. A patch to add the removed content is available in the publisher's website (18+ website).
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2258770/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\savedata\*.*[Note 2] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2258770/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| Steam Cloud |
In-game settings menu
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | Limited to 1280x720; cannot be lowered or raised in game. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | Game window maxes out at 1280x720 which is then filtered when using the Fullscreen mode to fill out the screen. | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | Game displays in a 1280x720 window; The window can be stretched arbitrarily in 16:9 aspect ratios only. | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS | |||
| 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | Right-mouse button can be changed in the settings menu to either open the notebook or hide the message window. | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
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Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | BGM, SFX and Voices can be changed independently from one another. Individual character voices volume settings can be adjusted. | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | Some grammatical and contextual errors exist in the English script. | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio | The true ending theme song is known to cause copyright claims on YouTube. |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Japanese | ||||
| Traditional Chinese | ||||
| Simplified Chinese |
The English language version contains several contextual errors (such as characters saying a name out loud that is different to the one written) and typos.
Other information
API
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | Windows 10 (64-bit) | Windows 10 (64-bit) |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i-Series | Intel Core i-Series |
| System memory (RAM) | 2GB | 4GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2GB | 4GB |
| Video card (GPU) | Intel HD Graphics DirectX 9.0 compatible | nVIDIA GeForce 8000 Series AMD Radeon HD 2000 Series |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/2258770/. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (2258770) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).