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Tales from the Borderlands

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Tales from the Borderlands
Tales from the Borderlands cover
Developers
Telltale Games
2021 update Virtuos[1]
Publishers
2K Games
Engines
Telltale Tool
Release dates
Windows November 25, 2014
macOS (OS X) December 2, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 85
OpenCritic 89
IGDB 88
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Cinematic camera, Third-person
Controls Direct control, Point and select
Genres Adventure, Quick time events
Art styles Cel-shaded
Themes Comedy, Sci-fi
Series Tales from the Borderlands
Tales from the Borderlands on HowLongToBeat
Tales from the Borderlands on IGDB
Tales from the Borderlands on MobyGames
Tales from the Borderlands on Wikipedia
Tales from the Borderlands
Subseries of Borderlands
Tales from the Borderlands 2014
New Tales from the Borderlands 2022

Tales from the Borderlands is a singleplayer cinematic camera and third-person adventure and quick time events game in the Tales from the Borderlands series.

General information

Telltale Community
Official Discord server for game series
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Released April 26, 2016.[2]
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
Epic Games Launcher
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
CD key
Choice of Epic Games Store or Steam key.
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\Tales from the Borderlands\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Telltale Games/Tales from the Borderlands/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/330830/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\Tales from the Borderlands\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Telltale Games/Tales from the Borderlands/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/330830/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
All settings are correct but hidecloudui=1 flag means it is disabled.[3]

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Use Flawless Widescreen and select the profile for The Wolf Among Us.[4]
Ultra-widescreen
Use TellTale Widescreen Patcher.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
On/off toggle.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate or refresh rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and Mouse controls.
Keyboard and Mouse controls.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Fan translation by «Tolma4 Team».
Spanish
Translation for the 5 episodes individually, by Clan Dlan, download.

VR support

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) 512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Intel integrated graphics not recommended
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6
Processor (CPU) Intel 2.3 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) 512 MB of VRAM
Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics or Mac Minis or early-generation MacBook


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/330830/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (330830) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References