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Aquaria

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Aquaria
Aquaria cover
Developers
Bit Blot
macOS (OS X) Ryan C. Gordon
macOS (OS X) Ambrosia Software
Linux Ryan C. Gordon
Publishers
Bit Blot
OS X Ambrosia Software
Release dates
Windows December 7, 2007
macOS (OS X) November 13, 2008
Linux May 4, 2010
Reception
Metacritic 82
IGDB 75
Aquaria on HowLongToBeat
Aquaria on IGDB
Aquaria guide on StrategyWiki
Aquaria on MobyGames
Aquaria on Wikipedia

Key points

Game features modding support and source code is available.[1]

General information

Official Forum
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Modding Wiki

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
Humble Widget. Demo available for Windows.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
To disable Steam, use Open Source Edition.
Windows
Linux

Essential improvements

Open Source Edition

Has many enhancements compared to the official version (gameplay and stability fixes, better controller and resolution support, positional sound, online mod downloader, etc.).
Unofficial update packs are available from Github. Works with every sold version of the game, however with the Steam version, Steamworks is completely disabled.

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\usersettings.xml[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Defaults are stored in default-1.xml and if config file is removed, user is prompted with configuration utility when starting the game.
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/Aquaria/
You may need to create the folder yourself before the game will save your progress. "Path to Game" indicates where the game is installed.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

External options menu. Launched if configuration file is missing or corrupted or directly opened from <path-to-game>\AQConfig.exe.
External options menu. Launched if configuration file is missing or corrupted or directly opened from <path-to-game>\AQConfig.exe.
In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
May require AquariaOSE for higher than 1920x1080.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
May require AquariaOSE.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Works using AutoHotkey. See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Toggle from configuration utility.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Keyboard and mouse controls get partially disabled if controller is enabled from configuration.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
DirectInput only.
Full controller support
Controller has to be enabled from configuration before being used. Configuration requires mouse or keyboard.
Controller remapping
Actions cannot be bound to D-pad nor axis. With XInput controllers, this also means triggers becoming unuseable.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Button prompts
Additional information
Button prompts Input settings icon - Generic Controller.svg Only in rebinding window. Game only shows keyboard and mouse prompts and tutorials.
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Added with AquariaOSE.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Retail «1С/Snowball Studios». Patch for digital version here.
Russian
Fan translation download
Spanish
Fan translation download 1 or 2.

Tweaks

Shorten the company logos

Open usersettings.xml with Notepad and look for <ShortLogos on="0" /> and change the 0 to 1 and then save the file. This will shorten the company logo screens that appear when opening the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
OpenGL
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
64-bit, ARM and PowerPC support requires Open Source Edition.[2]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD
Input SDL2 Officially Linux only. Also Open source edition.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 225 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
System requirements do have slight differences: Official FAQ (Windows, OS X), Steam (Windows), GOG.com (Windows, OS X, Linux).
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.3.9
Processor (CPU) 1.42 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 225 MB
Video card (GPU) G4
System requirements do have slight differences: Official FAQ (Windows, OS X), Steam (Windows), GOG.com (Windows, OS X, Linux).
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 225 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
Other libc6:i386, libasound2:i386, libasound2-data:i386, libasound2-plugins:i386 and dependencies.
System requirements do have slight differences: Official FAQ (Windows, OS X), Steam (Windows), GOG.com (Windows, OS X, Linux).


Notes

  1. 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