Spirits of Xanadu is an atmospheric exploration game set aboard a deserted starship in an alternate 1980s. It draws inspiration from classic sci-fi films, novels, and games to create an immersive and highly interactive environment, featuring puzzles and FPS elements in the service of a unique and layered plot.
Key Features:
- Discover the truth
Get to know the crew and piece together what happened through fully voiced audiologs in addition to various types of documents and e-mails.
- Three distinct endings
Make a decision based on what you have discovered, and decide the fate of the Xanadu.
- No hand holding
You have one primary objective: Return the Xanadu back to Earth. There are no objective markers, you have no map, and the ship has been sabotaged. You begin your mission with only a flashlight and a message from your superiors back on Earth, the rest you'll have to figure out on your own.
- Hot robot action with first person shooter combat
Evade the ship's security system while battling hostile robots.
- Fully interactive environment
Inspired by the immersive environments of games such as Deus Ex and System Shock 2: Open every drawer, use every computer, and read every document you find. More importantly, you can flush every toilet.
- Optional 'Peaceful' mode
Not a fan of violence against robots? Switch to the Peaceful difficulty setting in the options menu to make the robots passive, allowing you to explore the ship, experience the story, and solve puzzles at your own pace.
I sat down with Phil Owen recently and had a chat about the game. He wrote a wonderful article about it for Animal, check it out! http://animalnewyork.com/2015/making-spirits-of-xanadu-a-retro-sci-fi-adventure
Now on to the update.
This update contains a few minor fixes relating to AI, a few performance tweaks, second pass at fixing the sound bugs, and some debug keys to figure out the root cause of a sound issue a few of you have been experiencing.
edit: A couple of hours after this update went live, with the help of a few people, I managed to alleviate this bug on their machines. So another patch went out to hopefully address this for those people experiencing sound issues. If the problem still persists for you, please read the rest of this announcement and follow the forum thread.
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The following keys are only for isolating the source of the problem and are not meant as a fix. Since none of us have hardware that can replicate this bug we're unable to test these, as a result we're reliant on those that have the issue to help us out. Please follow the link below if you're affected by this:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/312230/discussions/0/523890681424065082/
Debug instructions (press these when in game, not on the main menu):
Hold left shift and press F4 to change the output to mono (may freeze for a second or two).
Hold left shift and press F5 to disable sound post-processing on everything but the loud speakers.
Hold left shift and press F6 to disable sound post-processing on everything.
Hold left shift and press F7 to disable three dimensional sound. WARNING! Make sure you turn the volume down real low for this as you'll hear every sound on the ship.
You'll have to reload the game to revert these changes.
If any of these have any impact on the crackling/stuttering please let me know. Thanks!
Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu/Mint
- Processor: 2.4 GHz dual-coreMemory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated graphics card with 512MB of VRAM and shader model 3.0
- Storage: 1 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Nvidia GPU recommended
Recommended Setup
- OS: Ubuntu/Mint
- Processor: 3 GHz dual-core or betterMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated graphics card with 512MB of VRAM and shader model 3.0
- Storage: 1 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Nvidia GPU recommended
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