For everyone
Ancientstone is made for players from younger pupils to advanced adults. Choose how hard the puzzles are and how dangerous the depths feel, and change it at any time.
Five difficulty levels
Difficulty changes the puzzles, the fights and the dangers. You can switch at any time, and what you have solved stays solved. The inscriptions and their dictionaries are the same on every level.
- Younger pupils: simpler puzzles and fuller hints
- Middle pupils
- Older pupils: the puzzles in their original form
- Adults
- Advanced adults: the hardest
Gentler depths
Each kind of danger has its own setting. There is no blood: bites and discharges cost health, and at zero you faint and come to again. What you have solved stays solved.
- Guardians: normal, calm (slower, hitting softer and less often) or off
- Spiders: normal, calm or off
- Traps: normal, gentle or off
Help when you need it
Every puzzle has its own help page that gives the rule and shows it on a different example. Hints come step by step, and the knowledge journal keeps every rule and every line you have read.
Reading and seeing
- Subtitles with adjustable size and background
- Text size of 100, 115 or 130 %
- High-contrast hints
- Camera shake and screen flashes can be turned off
- Arena hints and control hints can be switched off
Controls
Play with mouse and keyboard or with a gamepad: button icons for Xbox, PlayStation and Steam Deck switch automatically. Every key can be remapped, and stick sensitivity, dead zone and vibration are adjustable.
Graphics and sound
Presets from Low to Ultra, AMD FSR 1.0, dynamic resolution, render scale, field of view and a frame-rate limit. 21:9 screens are supported. Spatial sound works with speakers, headphones and 5.1.
Languages
Interface and subtitles in English and Spanish. There is no voice acting. More languages are planned.