Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle

Barrow Hill
Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle	2006
Barrow Hill: The Dark Path	2016

General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GamersGate
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Steam		Can be played without Steam running.^[2]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\settings.mat^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/494360/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savegame#.sav^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/494360/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

In-game general settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		800x600 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Fixed view.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Not an actual 3D game, consist of prerendered images and videos.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c	Steam release
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^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>/494360/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (494360) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

Developers

	Shadow Tor Studios
Publishers
	Iceberg Interactive
Engines
	Macromedia Director^[1]
Release dates
Windows	October 5, 2006
Reception
Metacritic	65
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	First-person, Flip screen
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Art styles	Pre-rendered graphics, Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, Europe, Supernatural, Horror
Series	Barrow Hill