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Hiveswap: Act 1

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Hiveswap: Act 1
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Developers
What Pumpkin Games
Publishers
Fellow Traveller
Engines
Unity 5[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows September 14, 2017
macOS (OS X) September 14, 2017
Linux October 17, 2017[2]
Reception
OpenCritic 73
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Comedy, Sci-fi
Series Homestuck
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Hiveswap
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Visual novels
Hiveswap Friendsim 2018
Pesterquest 2019

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM-free
Choice of DRM-free or Steam version.
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
Windows
A demo is available from Steam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\What Pumpkin\Hiveswap Episode 1\config.json
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/What Pumpkin/Hiveswap Episode 1/config.json
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/What Pumpkin/Hiveswap Episode 1/Options.json

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\What Pumpkin\Hiveswap Episode 1\Saves
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/What Pumpkin/Hiveswap Episode 1/Saves
Linux $HOME/.config/unity3d/What Pumpkin/Hiveswap Episode 1/Saves
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

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
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Effects
Surround sound
2.0
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Korean
Download here.
Russian
Download here.

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Dual core 2.2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Sierra
Processor (CPU) Dual core 3.0 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Dual core 2.2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.6.1f1[1]

References

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-05-13
  2. Steam Community - last accessed on 26 May 2023