The strange case of the un-sequel: dumping all of the mythos, gameplay elements and moddability that made The Dark Descent a success, the Dear Esther guys introduced Frictional's HPL2 engine to their own vision of adventure: a stroll through narration with buttons to push. A radical, disturbing experience with multiple levels of interpretation...
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Solutions & Issues
Select a resolution from the config launcher. The list shows all resolutions available to your system and their respective aspect ratios. You can even add custom resolutions by hand.
2D art suffers from some "inverted stretching":
- Loading screens are 4:3 designs. In wider aspect ratios, they get simultaneously pillarboxed and very slightly squished.
- The Journal's background art and text font are also affected by the slight distortion.
If you encounter a bug that zooms fix the zoom to the left upon launching, right click the game exe and edit its properties, in the compatibility tab you click "change high DPI settings" then make sure that "High DPI scaling override" is on and set to application. Works for "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" as well.
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