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Chains

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Chains
Chains cover
Developers
2DEngine
Publishers
Meridian4
Release dates
Windows November 25, 2008
macOS (OS X) November 25, 2008
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Side view, Flip screen
Genres Tile matching
Art styles Abstract, Vector art
Series Chains
Chains on HowLongToBeat
Chains on IGDB
Chains on MobyGames
Chains
Chains 2008
Super Chains 2019

Chains is a singleplayer side view and flip screen tile matching game in the Chains series.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Publisher website (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Patches

The Steam version should be up to date. For the DRM-free version, download the latest patch from the developer site.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\settings.lua[Note 1]
%APPDATA%\chains\*.xml
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11360/pfx/[Note 2]
Version 1.4 uses Appdata folder.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\*.lua[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11360/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.
Profile settings, including color blind option.
Profile settings, including color blind option.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only single widescreen resolution of 1280x768 (15:9). Force resolution in the configuration file.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Freely resizable window, but is scaled from selected base resolution.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Color blind mode

Input

Keyboard and mouse, touch State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
OS cursor is used.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised
[1]
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and sound.
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues unresolved

Toggling to fullscreen crashes the game

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Other Keyboard and Mouse
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8, 10.6.3
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 60 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM


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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/11360/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (11360) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Steam curator: Touchscreen Games - Chains "100% Touch perfect gameplay."