Chains
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Developers | |
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2DEngine | |
Publishers | |
Meridian4 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 25, 2008 |
macOS (OS X) | November 25, 2008 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Perspectives | Side view, Flip screen |
Genres | Tile matching |
Art styles | Abstract, Vector art |
Series | Chains |
Chains | |
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Chains | 2008 |
Super Chains | 2019 |
Chains is a singleplayer side view and flip screen tile matching game in the Chains series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Amazon.com | ||||
Epic Games Store | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | ||||
Publisher website (unavailable) | ||||
Amazon.com (unavailable) | ||||
Green Man Gaming (unavailable) |
Essential improvements
Patches
- The Steam version should be up to date. For the DRM-free version, download the latest patch from the developer site.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\settings.lua[Note 1] %APPDATA%\chains\*.xml |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11360/pfx/[Note 2] |
- Version 1.4 uses Appdata folder.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\*.lua[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11360/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Only single widescreen resolution of 1280x768 (15:9). Force resolution in the configuration file. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Freely resizable window, but is scaled from selected base resolution. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
Color blind mode |
Input
Keyboard and mouse, touch | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | OS cursor is used. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Touchscreen optimised | [1] | |
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music and sound. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | No speech. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Issues unresolved
Toggling to fullscreen crashes the game
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista | |
Processor (CPU) | 1 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 30 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
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Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible | |
Other | Keyboard and Mouse |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.5.8, 10.6.3 | |
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 60 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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>/11360/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (11360) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Steam curator: Touchscreen Games - Chains "100% Touch perfect gameplay."