The Fall

Not to be confused with The Fall: Last Days of Gaia or The Fall: Mutant City.

The Fall

Developers
	Over The Moon Games
Engines
v2.7	Unity 5
v3.0	Unity 2020
Release dates
Windows	May 30, 2014
macOS (OS X)	May 30, 2014
Linux	May 30, 2014
Reception
Metacritic	76
OpenCritic	74
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Side view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	The Fall

The Fall
The Fall	2014
The Fall Part 2: Unbound	2018

The Fall is a singleplayer side view adventure game in the The Fall series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		v3.0 DRM-free when launched directly from executable.
GOG.com
Humble Store
Steam		v2.7

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Over The Moon\The Fall\
macOS (OS X)	$HOME/Library/Preferences/unity.Over The Moon.The Fall.plist
Linux	$HOME/.config/unity3d/Over The Moon/The Fall/prefs

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\Over The Moon\The Fall\TheFallSavedData.txt
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$HOME/.config/unity3d/Over The Moon/The Fall/TheFallSavedData.txt

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Display settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		On or off, type not specified.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
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.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Enable borderless fullscreen
Use the -screen-fullscreen 0 -popupwindow command line arguments.

Exclusive fullscreen

Enable exclusive fullscreen
Use the -screen-fullscreen 1 -window-mode exclusive command line arguments.

Input

Keyboard configuration.

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		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback		Only some specific events will make the controller vibrate (when you pick up a head for example).
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
French
German
Italian
Russian				Fan translation by «Prometheus Project / ZoG Forum Team»
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: The Fall.
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

Color banding

By default, the game has excessive color banding that is unsightly when playing.

Fix color banding[citation needed]
Download and run ReShade. Select the game executable and install the Deband.fx shader. Start the game and press ⇧ Shift+F2 to setup ReShade.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			64-bit executable was added in v3.0.
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Input	InControl	Added in v3.0.

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3		10
Processor (CPU)	2.5 GHz dual core
System memory (RAM)	3 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	530 MB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8600 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible		DirectX 10 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6
Processor (CPU)	2.3 GHz dual core
System memory (RAM)	3 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	530 MB
Video card (GPU)	Intel HD Graphics 3000
Other	Two-button mouse

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 10.04
Processor (CPU)	2.5 GHz dual core
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	530 MB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8600 256 MB of VRAM

The Linux version requires the following packages to be installed: libc6:i386, libasound2:i386, libasound2-data:i386, libasound2-plugins:i386 and dependencies.