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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
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Developers
Cloak and Dagger Games
Publishers
Wadjet Eye Games
Engines
Adventure Game Studio
Release dates
Windows September 28, 2022
macOS (OS X) September 28, 2022
Linux September 28, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 80
OpenCritic 83
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Side view
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Pixel art
Themes Horror, Victorian
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a singleplayer side view adventure game.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Publisher website
DRM-free
Via Humble Widget. Includes soundtrack.
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\The Excavation of Hob's Barrow\acsetup.cfg
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\The Excavation of Hob's Barrow\
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is locked to 40 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode
Color-blind–friendly text option.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate Music, SFX, Ambient and Speech sliders.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
DirectDraw 5 Labeled Software renderer in winsetup.exe.
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5.2 compatible
Other 640x360 resolution, 32-bit color
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.11
Processor (CPU) 700 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Other 640x360 resolution
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux
Processor (CPU) 2.7 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
Sound (audio device) ALSA, DSP, PulseAudio compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


References