Whispers of a Machine

Whispers of a Machine is a singleplayer side view and flip screen adventure game.

General information

Availability

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Whispers of a Machine\user.cfg <path-to-game>\acsetup.cfg^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/631570/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Whispers of a Machine\agssave.*
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/631570/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

External launcher on Windows.

In-game settings.

The external launcher on Windows is launched by running winsetup.exe from the game folder.

Mac players must manually configure the acsetup.cfg file in a subfolder of the game.^[3]

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Limited to multiples of 640x360. Supports 640x360, 1280x720, 1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3200x1800, 3840x2160, 4480x2520, 5120x2880. Configured using the Graphics filter label in the external launcher on Windows, or by manually adjusting the `acsetup.cfg` on Mac.^[3]
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Pillarboxed
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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		Capped at 40 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Speech, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Game is paused when focus is lost.
Royalty free audio

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.9
Processor (CPU)	300	1.0 GHz x64
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	1200 MB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600 ATI Radeon 4850, AMD Radeon 4870

A 64-bit operating system is required.

↑ Adventure Game Studio engine build: 3.3.0.1150^[1]^[2]
↑ 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).
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1
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>/631570/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (631570) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

Developers

	Clifftop Games
	Faravid Interactive
Publishers
	Raw Fury
Engines
	Adventure Game Studio^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	April 17, 2019
macOS (OS X)	April 17, 2019
Reception
Metacritic	77
OpenCritic	76
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Side view, Flip screen
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Themes	Detective/mystery, Sci-fi, Europe