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Revision as of 15:53, 4 May 2023

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McPixel 3
McPixel 3 cover
Developers
Sos Sosowski
Publishers
Devolver Digital
Release dates
DOS November 14, 2022
Windows November 14, 2022
macOS (OS X) November 14, 2022
Linux November 14, 2022
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Pixel art
Themes Comedy
Series McPixel
McPixel 3 on HowLongToBeat
McPixel 3 on IGDB
McPixel 3 on MobyGames
McPixel
McPixel 2012
McPixel 3 2022

McPixel 3 is a singleplayer adventure game in the McPixel series.

General information

Developer Discord server
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
itch.io
DRM-free
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Purchase includes an Xbox X/S/One version.
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
A demo is available from GOG.com and Steam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\McPixel3\progress.json
<path-to-game>\progress.json (itch.io Windows 95 and Windows NT versions)[Note 1]
Microsoft Store
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
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\McPixel3\settings.json
<path-to-game>\settings.json (itch.io Windows 95 and Windows NT versions)[Note 1]
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Widescreen monitors and windows uses letterboxing to get ultrawidescreen.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
The game's resolution is locked to 22:9.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
No setting.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
No setting.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
The settings have a toggle between 60 and 30 fps.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode
Although the itch.io Windows 95 and Windows NT versions include multiple .exe files with different color palettes, they have not been known to be designed with color blindness in mind.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
The game only has left and right audio channels that are natively output to the corresponding 5.1 speakers.
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
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Fan translation by Dandelion Sprout.
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

(Windows 95 / Windows NT) Incorrect color palette with lots of yellow and dark blue
  1. Use the bgr EXE that came with the installation folder: mcpixel95_bgr.exe for Windows 95, and bgrpixel.exe for Windows NT.

Issues unresolved

(DOS) "Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV" at launch
Occurs both in DOSBox-X, and in FreeDOS through VirtualBox.[1]
As of May 4, 2023, there is no known footage or accounts of anyone other than the game's developer getting the DOS version to run on any setup (Physical PC with the DOS version included with Windows 98).[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9 Applies to the standard Windows version.
DirectDraw
Applies to the itch.io Windows 95 version.
Software renderer
For the itch.io Windows NT version.
DOS video modes
Executable 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
The standard Windows version on itch.io comes with both 64-bit and 32-bit executables.
macOS (OS X)
The SteamDB page has "osextended: macos64, macosapplesilicon"
Linux
According to the itch.io downloads section.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OGG Vorbis

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 16-bit color
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) AC'97 compatible stereo
Windows 95 and Pentium III support is according to the itch.io downloads section.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.9
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) Intel GMA X3100
Sound (audio device) Stereo
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium D
AMD Athlon 64
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics
Sound (audio device) ALSA compatible stereo
Other libsdl2
DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Sound (audio device) Sound card driver
Controller Mouse driver
Other W:CWSDPMI.EXE, and a long-filename driver.


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. Verified by User:Dandelion Sprout on 4 May 2023
  2. Sos Sosowski - Twitter - last accessed on 4 May 2023