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Revision as of 17:07, 23 October 2021
Developers | |
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Supermassive Games | |
Publishers | |
Bandai Namco Entertainment | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 4 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 22, 2021 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 69 |
OpenCritic | 74 |
IGDB | 78 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | DLC |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Survival horror, Quick time events |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Horror, Supernatural |
Series | The Dark Pictures Anthology |
The Dark Pictures Anthology | |
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Man of Medan | 2019 |
Little Hope | 2020 |
House of Ashes | 2021 |
The Devil in Me | 2022 |
House of Ashes is a survival horror game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
It is a sequel to Little Hope released in 2020 as part of the The Dark Pictures Anthology.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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GamersGate | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Curator's Cut | Available through pre-order only and set to become free for all users with a later update. |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete or rename video file[1] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\HouseOfAshes\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1281590/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\HouseOfAshes\Saved\SaveGames\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1281590/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Letterboxed to 21:9. See also Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | Pillarboxed to 21:9.[2] See Widescreen resolution for a workaround. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | [3] | ||
4K Ultra HD | Letterboxed to 21:9.[4] See also Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Fullscreen also available. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Scales with Texture Quality. Low (0x), Medium (2x), High (4x), Ultra (8x).[5] | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | 4 presets: Off, Medium, High, Ultra. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Includes a toggle to limit to 30 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Ray tracing (RT) |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Widescreen resolution
Use a Flawless Widescreen plugin to remove letterboxing or pillarboxing[6] |
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Use The Dark Pictures Border Remover |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | No acceleration option. | |
Mouse sensitivity | From 0 to 100. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Separate options for camera, aiming, exploration and inspecting. Setting also affects controller input. |
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Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Some buttons cannot be remapped, and quick time event buttons can only be swapped.[Note 2] | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion | Separate options for camera, aiming, exploration and inspecting. Setting also affects mouse input. |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | Includes an option to choose between Xbox and DualShock prompts. | |
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | ||
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PlayStation button prompts | Includes an option to choose between Xbox and DualShock prompts. | |
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes | Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth) |
Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Steam Input | ||
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Steam Input API support | ||
Official controller preset(s) | ||
Steam Controller button prompts |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | [7] | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Arabic | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 5 | Co-op, Hot seat Playable through the "Movie Night" game mode with 2-5 players. |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play | 2 | Co-op |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Peer-to-peer |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11, 12 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | PhysX | |
Audio | Ogg | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-3470 AMD FX-8350 |
Intel Core i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB of VRAM | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1281590/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1281590) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ Control sticks, LB (Xbox) and L1 (DualShock) cannot be rebound. QTE buttons can be swapped but not set to anything other than ABXY (Xbox).
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2021-10-23
- Renamed both video files manually to test intro skipping.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2021-10-23
- Tested using a custom resolution of 5760x1080.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2021-10-23
- Tested using a custom resolution of 2560x1080.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2021-10-23
- Tested using a custom resolution of 3840x2160.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2021-10-23
- based off sg.TextureQuality=4 setting in GameUserSettings.ini and the official UE4 documentation.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2021-10-23
- Tested by using the given instructions. Importance of two spaces after the new "House of Ashes" value tested for importance. Tweak had no effect without it.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2021-10-23
- Tested in 7.1 using SpecialK in conjunction with Razer Surround.