Always Sometimes Monsters

Always Sometimes Monsters
Always Sometimes Monsters	2014
Sometimes Always Monsters	2020

Key points

The game settings can be accessed by pressing F1 as usual with other RPG Maker games.

Only resolution option is 544x416 (17:13).

OS X and Linux lack Steam integration and have frequent crashes.

General information

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Availability

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Game properties accessed with F1.

Games main menu telling keys to change fullscreen and scaling.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use either `Alt`+`↵ Enter` or `F5` to switch and `F6` to scale.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS		^[2]
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Controller key rebinding in game properties.

Keyboard key rebinding in game properties.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Only specific keys and they have to be bound to imaginary controller.
Mouse acceleration		Mouse not used in game.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Accessing options and switching to fullscreen requires keyboard.
Controller remapping		Controller keys are bound to imaginary controller.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

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

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and effects, on or off only
Surround sound
Subtitles		All speech is text.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7
OpenGL	2.0	OS X and Linux only.

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL	Linux only.^{[citation needed]}

↑ ^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).