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The Novelist

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The Novelist
The Novelist cover
Developers
Orthogonal Games
Engines
Unity 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows December 10, 2013
macOS (OS X) December 10, 2013
Linux February 14, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 66
OpenCritic 68
IGDB 59
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
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General information

Steam Community Discussions
Technical Support

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
itch.io
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Orthogonal Games\The Novelist\Kaplans.fate
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Orthogonal Games/The Novelist/Kaplans.fate
Linux $HOME/.config/unity3d/Orthogonal Games/The Novelist/Kaplans.fate
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
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Orthogonal Games\The Novelist\Kaplans.fate
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Orthogonal Games/The Novelist/Kaplans.fate
Linux $HOME/.config/unity3d/Orthogonal Games/The Novelist/Kaplans.fate

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General 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 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

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[2]
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
Tested in Ubuntu 12.04, 13.10


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 4.7.2f1[1]

References

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2017-06-02
  2. macOS 64-bit Support Is Here! - last accessed on 2020-12-22