Black Moon Chronicles

Black Moon Chronicles is a singleplayer top-down view strategy game.

General information

Availability

A faithful higher quality icon can be found on the files section.

The GOG.com release has its cutscenes disabled, but still present in the game folder due to compatibility issues.^[1]

The Steam release is similar to the GOG.com release, but music does not play.^[2]^[3]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Ini\Configuration.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/501500/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Sauvegarde^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/501500/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

In-game settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Maximum resolution is 1152x864
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

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

All text can be found in plain text format in <path-to-game>\Localisation. Any edits in this folder will appear in-game.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz	Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	350 MB	540 MB
Video card (GPU)	2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.0 compatible

↑ ^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>/501500/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (501500) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

Developers

	Cryo Interactive
Publishers
Retail	Cryo Interactive
Digital	Microids
Release dates
Windows	1999
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Top-down view
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	Strategy
Themes	Fantasy