Chains
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| Developers | |
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| 2DEngine | |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| Publisher website (unavailable) | |
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| Amazon.com (unavailable) | |
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| Green Man Gaming (unavailable) | |
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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
General settings.
Profile settings, including color blind option.
| 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 |
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| Direct3D | 8 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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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%\VirtualStoreon 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."