Back to the Future: The Game

General information

Official game site

Telltale Community for game serie

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions for Episode 1

Steam Community Discussions for Episode 2

Steam Community Discussions for Episode 3

Steam Community Discussions for Episode 4

Steam Community Discussions for Episode 5

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GamersGate
GOG.com
Humble Store		Includes Steam and Telltale key
Steam

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\<episode name>\prefs.prop
macOS (OS X)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/31290/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\<episode name>\*.sav
macOS (OS X)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/31290/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Episode folders are as follows: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Back to the Future 104, Episode 5

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Advanced settings.

Sound setting.

Subtitle setting.

Graphics option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen		See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		But very limited and buggy
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Voice, SFX
Surround sound		Stereo output only
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian				Fan translation, download.
Polish				Fan translation, download.
Spanish				Fan translation, download.
Turkish				Fan translation.
Russian				Fan translation by Tolma4 Team, download.

Issues fixed[edit]

Game will not launch in Steam[edit]

Unplug gamepads^{[citation needed]}

Unplug any gamepads that you might have connected to your PC

Game crashes on change of preferences[edit]

Disable MSI Afterburner^{[citation needed]}

Quit MSI afterburner if you have it installed and running

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
64-bit executable

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3	Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 2.7 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB	3 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	512 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 8.1 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.5.8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 2.0 GHz	Intel Pentium 2.3 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM	512 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/31290/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (31290) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/31290/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (31290) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[Note 1]

Developers

	Telltale Games
Engines
	Telltale Tool
Release dates
Windows	December 22, 2010
macOS (OS X)	December 22, 2010