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Gunpoint

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Gunpoint
Gunpoint cover
Developers
Suspicious Developments
Windows Abstraction Games
macOS (OS X) Abstraction Games
Linux Abstraction Games
Publishers
Suspicious Developments
Engines
Original GameMaker 8
Update GameBaker 1.0
Release dates
Windows June 3, 2013
macOS (OS X) September 9, 2014
Linux September 9, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 83
IGDB 88
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform, Puzzle, Stealth
Art styles Pixel art
Themes Contemporary
Series The Defenestration Trilogy
Gunpoint on HowLongToBeat
Gunpoint on IGDB
Gunpoint on MobyGames
Gunpoint on Wikipedia
The Defenestration Trilogy
Gunpoint 2013
Heat Signature 2017
Tactical Breach Wizards TBA

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Key points

Resolution options are handled awkwardly, forcing some systems to use blurry or improperly scaled graphics. See Resolution and Scaling.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
There is a demo available from either the official website or the Steam store page.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Special Edition Extras
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Extras Pack 2 The Prototype Pack portion is only available for Windows.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Settings\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gunpoint/Settings/
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/gunpoint/Settings/
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegames\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gunpoint/Savegames/
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/gunpoint/savegames/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.
Resolution options.
Resolution options.
Selecting fullscreen with lower than native resolution changes whole OS resolution while game is open.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Supports up to 1920x1200 only.[1] See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Enable windowed mode and choose your desktop resolution in-game.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode
Enable in settings.

Resolution and Scaling

The game's graphics don't scale according to resolution but are 1:1 pixels, this means with higher resolution you can see more and everything is much smaller. This means with some setups, especially smaller display sizes or playing further away from screen, it's better to play game with lower than native resolution.
Playing under native resolution means display or GPU tries to upscale image. With pixel art graphics this makes game look blurry.

Widescreen resolution

The game offers a resolution and screen mode selection on first start-up, and in-game via 'Change res' option (hotkey F1).
Game has been updated so that if resolution was incorrect you can cancel with Esc and menu is accessible even with first level. If something goes wrong you can press F2 to Safe mode which selects lowest resolution in windowed mode or edit resolution manually.
Edit resolution in Resolution.txt[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open Resolution.txt.
  3. First line is horizontal resolution, second line is vertical resolution, third line toggles fullscreen where 0=windowed, 1=fullscreen:
1920
1080
0

Taskbar overlays window

Alt+Tab works flawlessly with fullscreen mode.[2]
Use Borderless Windowed[2]
Borderless Windowed can be used in conjunction with windowed mode to hide the taskbar if it is overlaying the game window.

Input

Keyboard and mouse, touch State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised
A touch stylus may be needed for precise input.
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Error writing/saving/closing file

Caused by mismatch in game paths between different computers through Steam Cloud.
Delete Latest.gun file in the Save game data location[3]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 2.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.
Linux
[citation needed]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz dual core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) Intel 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 512 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 512 MB of VRAM


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