Tower of Guns
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Developers | |
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Terrible Posture Games | |
macOS (OS X) | Minority |
Linux | Minority |
Publishers | |
Versus Evil | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 3 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 4, 2014 |
macOS (OS X) | October 28, 2014 |
Linux | October 28, 2014 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 76 |
OpenCritic | 69 |
IGDB | 68 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
General information
- Developer Discord server
- Publisher Discord server
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Official website | ||||
Epic Games Store | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
- 1.3 update is Windows-only.[1]
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\UDKGame\Config\[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | $HOME/Library/Application Support/com.terriblePostureGames.TowerOfGuns/ |
Linux | $XDG_DATA_HOME/TerriblePostureGames/TowerOfGuns/ |
- This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Binaries\win32\Gamestate.bin[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | $HOME/Library/Application Support/com.terriblePostureGames.TowerOfGuns/ |
Linux | $XDG_DATA_HOME/TerriblePostureGames/TowerOfGuns/ |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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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) | MSAA DX9 and DX11. On or Off. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | Options menu doesn't work with a controller. | |
Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | BGM, SFX | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | All speech is text-based. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | Use Helix Mod: Tower of Guns. |
Issues unresolved
Windows 8 + integrated Intel GFX incompatiblity
There are some reports indicating that systems running on Windows 8 & integrated Intel GFX card cannot run the game.[citation needed] No fix is known as of yet.
Issues fixed
Crash during first startup with message "BUILT WITH UDK has stopped working"
- This is caused by patching the game without starting up the original version.[2]
Reinstall game[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9, 11 | Direct3D 11 can be forced with the -dx11 command line argument. |
OpenGL | 2.1 | OS X and Linux only. |
Shader Model support | 3, 5 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) | [3] | ||
Linux |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | PhysX | |
Audio | Fonix TTS | |
Interface | wxWidgets |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Vista, 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 3 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
- CPU/GPU intensive game
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.6 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 3 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 512 MB of VRAM OpenGL 2.1 compatible |
- CPU/GPU intensive game
Linux | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Any distribution since 2010 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 3 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 512 MB of VRAM OpenGL 2.1 compatible |
- CPU/GPU intensive game
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).
References
- ↑ ToG 1.3 Released! - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: Tower of Guns - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ gog.com forum - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Catalina 64-bit Compatibility - Google Docs - last accessed on 5 May 2023