The Novelist on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.
The Novelist is a story rich, choices matter and atmospheric game
developed and published by Orthogonal Games.
Released on December 10th 2013 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 1,022 reviews of which 763 were positive and 259 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
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System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
- OS *: Windows XP SP2 or higher
- Processor: 1.8 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB VRAM video card
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- OS: OS X Lion (10.7) or higher
- Processor: 1.8 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB VRAM video card
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Processor: 1.8 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB VRAM video card
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Built with Unity 4.3.4, tested in Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10
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