Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles

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Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles

Developers
	Dead Drop Studios
Engines
	Unity
Release dates
Windows	April 2, 2018
Linux	April 2, 2018
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Survival horror
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Horror
Series	Outbreak

Outbreak
Outbreak	2017
Outbreak: The New Nightmare	2018
Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles	2018
Outbreak: Lost Hope	2019
Outbreak: Epidemic	2020
Outbreak: Endless Nightmares	2021
Outbreak: Contagious Memories	2022
Dinobreak	2023
Railbreak	2023
Outbreak The Fedora Files: What Lydia Knows	2024

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		This version is called Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles Reinvestigated, which includes full story.
Steam		Chapter 1 only without DLCs, Complete Edition also available.

Version differences

Epic and Steam have different list of system requirements and recommendations.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Season Pass	All chapters in a bundle. Included in Complete Edition.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
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%\AppData\LocalLow\Drop Dead Studios LLC\Outbreak the Nightmare Chronicles\
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

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
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		Xbox One, Xbox 360
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger support

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers		PS4
PlayStation button prompts
Motion sensors support
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Linux

System requirements

Windows

Linux

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3		Intel Core i5
System memory (RAM)	4 GB		8 GB (Epic Games version)
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	6 GB
Video card (GPU)	Intel HD 5000 (Steam), Nvidia GeForce 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 370 (Epic Games) DirectX 9.0c (Steam), 11 (Epic Games) compatible		Nvidia GeForce 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 370 (Steam) NVIDIA Geforce 980 or Equivalent (Epic Games) DirectX 11 compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Linux
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu (version unspecified)
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3		Intel Core i5
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	6 GB
Video card (GPU)	Intel HD 5000		Nvidia GeForce 750 Ti AMD Radeon R7 370

A 64-bit operating system is required.