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Tales

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Tales
Tales cover
Developers
Ape Marina
Publishers
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Engines
Adventure Game Studio[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows November 14, 2016
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Flip screen, Side view
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Pixel art
Themes Fantasy
Tales on HowLongToBeat
Tales on IGDB
Tales on MobyGames

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Can be played without Steam running.[2]
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Tales STEAM\acsetup.cfg
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/416250/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Tales STEAM\agssave.*
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/416250/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

External general settings.
External general settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 (16:10) static aspect, stretched or pixel-perfect. Scaling algorithm is either nearest-neighbor or bilinear.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Available as pillarboxed 16:10.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is locked to 40 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

In-game audio and subtitle settings.
In-game audio and subtitle settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master Volume only
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
In-game language settings.
In-game language settings.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
DirectDraw
Named Software renderer in settings.
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel or AMD CPU
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 900 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectDraw or DirectX compatible card
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. Adventure Game Studio engine build: 3.4.1.11[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-06-26
  2. Verified by User:Mastan on 2020-10-19
    <path-to-game>\Tales.exe launches the game, <path-to-game>\winsetup.exe launches setup program.