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Tharsis

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Tharsis
Tharsis cover
Developers
Choice Provisions
Engines
Unity 5[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows January 11, 2016
macOS (OS X) January 11, 2016
Reception
Metacritic 61
OpenCritic 66
IGDB 63
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Flip screen
Genres Strategy, Survival
Themes Sci-fi
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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)
DRM-free when launched directly from executable.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
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)
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
Windows

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Tharsis Data\savedata.sav[Note 2]
Steam
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/323060/pfx/[Note 3]

Additional settings (including the game's resolution) are placed in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Choice Provisions\Tharsis - players who can't change the game to their preferred resolution because the selection box doesn't scroll may be able to manually override it this way.

Save game cloud syncing

Video

In-game audio and video settings.
In-game audio and video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Pillarboxed.
Ultra-widescreen
Pillarboxed.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Default fullscreen is borderless. Use windowed mode with -popupwindow parameter for alternative mode or -window-mode exclusive for exclusive fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
On or off.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
On or off.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Main menu allows for high FPS, but the game itself is locked to 60.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
No acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Uses system cursor.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, music, and effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Portuguese
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Tutorial cannot be completed (Origin version)[2][3]

The tutorial is mandatory, and this issue makes it impossible to play the full game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[4]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-5xxx
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD 5000
Nvidia GeForce 400
AMD Radeon HD 5000
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-5xxx
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD 5000
Nvidia GeForce 400
AMD Radeon HD 5000
A 64-bit system is required.


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.3.6p1[1]
  2. 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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  3. 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>/323060/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (323060) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-05-08
  2. Games Broken, Stay Away :: Tharsis Bug Reports - last accessed on 2019-11-18
  3. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-11-18
  4. Catalina 64-bit Compatibility - Google Docs - last accessed on 5 May 2023