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Noctropolis

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Noctropolis
Noctropolis cover
Developers
Flashpoint Productions
Windows Night Dive Studios
macOS (OS X) Night Dive Studios
Linux Night Dive Studios
Publishers
Original Electronic Arts
Enhanced Edition Night Dive Studios
Engines
Access[1]
Release dates
DOS 1994
Windows September 3, 2015
macOS (OS X) October 27, 2017[2]
Linux October 27, 2017[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Themes Horror
Noctropolis on HowLongToBeat
Noctropolis on MobyGames
Noctropolis on Wikipedia

Noctropolis is a singleplayer third-person adventure game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Enhanced Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Enhanced Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\noctropolis.cfg[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\saves\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game advanced settings (Enhanced Edition).
In-game advanced settings (Enhanced Edition).

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480 (4:3) native resolution.[1]
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

In-game basic settings (Enhanced Edition).
In-game basic settings (Enhanced Edition).

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound
Surround sound
Stereo[3]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA, SVGA (VESA)
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Input SDL2 Enhanced Edition only.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i386
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA, SVGA
Other 2x CD-ROM drive, MSCDEX 2.1
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.9
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
Sound (audio device) CoreAudio compatible
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
Sound (audio device) ALSA compatible
A 64-bit system is required.


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

  1. 1.0 1.1 Noctropolis - ScummVM :: Wiki - last accessed on 2019-10-01
  2. 2.0 2.1 MacOS and Linux versions are now available - Steam Community :: Noctropolis :: Events - last accessed on 2019-10-01
  3. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-10-02
    Tested with Special K.