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The Silent Age

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The Silent Age
The Silent Age cover
Developers
House On Fire
Publishers
Meridian4
Engines
Unity 2018[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows May 29, 2015
macOS (OS X) May 29, 2015
Linux January 1, 2019[2][3]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives Scrolling, Side view
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Vector art
Themes Contemporary, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi
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The Silent Age is a singleplayer scrolling and side view adventure game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
Can be run directly from the executable[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
itch.io
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Publisher website (unavailable)
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\House on Fire\The Silent Age\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/352520/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\House on Fire\The Silent Age\
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\352520\remote\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/352520/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Launcher video settings.
Launcher video settings.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Dialogue can be muted.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
In-game language settings.
In-game language settings.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Ukrainian

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
OpenGL
OS X and Linux only.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9400M
256 MB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2018.2.9f1[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/352520/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (352520) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Mastan on 2019-05-03
  2. The Silent Age · AppID: 352520 · Steam Database - last accessed on 2019-10-09
    "Changelist #5618698: Depot 352523 becomes public."
  3. The Silent Age General Discussions - January 1, 2019 - last accessed on 2019-10-09
    "Linux native version seems to be available to install now. I played the first chapter, seems fine."
  4. Verified by User:Dribbleondo on 2023-03-30
    Ran game from exe, and was able to play around for 5 minutes with no issues.