Beautiful Desolation

Beautiful Desolation

Developers
	The Brotherhood
Engines
	Unity 5
Release dates
Windows	February 26, 2020
Linux	March 20, 2020
macOS (OS X)	April 20, 2020
Reception
Metacritic	81
OpenCritic	79
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Themes	Africa, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GOG.com		Deluxe Edition also available.
Green Man Gaming		Deluxe Edition also available.
Humble Store
Steam		Deluxe Edition also available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\THE BROTHERHOOD\BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION\config.cfg
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\THE BROTHERHOOD\BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Game settings.

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Cutscenes are 16:9.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Low, High, Extreme
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Supports either 30 or 60Hz (referred to as 30FPS and 60FPS in-game)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Uncapped by default (called System Managed in-game); optional FPS cap of 30, 60, or 120FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

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		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Video, SFX, Background, Voice, Music, Interface, Ambience, Locomotion
Surround sound
Subtitles		Video only; all other in-game dialogue is subtitled and cannot be disabled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Language selection.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Bulgarian
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Hungarian				Download
Italian
Japanese				Download
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Turkish

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

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

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	AVPro Video

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3 2.5 GHz AMD Phenom II X3	Intel Core i5-2400 3.1 GHz AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	14 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.12.6	10.14.5
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-4570S 2.9G Hz	Intel Core i7-4770HQ 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	14 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GT 750M	AMD Radeon R9 M370X

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, Linux Mint, Arch Linux
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3 2.50 GHz	Intel Core i5-2400 3.10 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	14 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT	Nvidia GeForce GTX

A 64-bit operating system is required.