The Descendant

The Descendant is a five part episodic adventure game series where the end of the world is only the start. Taking place across two timelines, in the past you'll play as Mia, a janitor tasked with keeping the precious descendants housed within Ark-01 alive while the facility continually fails around her, and in the present, you'll play as Donnie, one of the investigators trying to rescue any surviving descendants trapped within, all while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within the underground Ark complex.

Support summary

	Support	Method	HUD
Widescreen:	Hor+	Native	Proper
Ultra/Super-Wide:	Hor+	Registry	Optimized
Multi-Monitor:	Hor+	Registry	Hindrance
4k UltraHD:	Hor+	Native	Optimized

Rendered Cut-Scene:	Hor+
FMV Cut-Scene:	Blemishes (other)

Game information

Game status:

Released

Release Date:

Thursday, 24 March, 2016

Tested Version:

Steam (free episode)

Play styles:

Single player

Setting:

Post-Apocalyptic

Genre:

Adventure (misc)

Developer:

Gaming Corps

Links:

Website ⋅ ⋅ PCGamingWiki

Store Links:

Steam,

Comparison Screenshots

4:3 Screenshot
16:10 Screenshot
16:9 Screenshot
Ultra-Wide (21:9) Screenshot
Super-Wide (32:9) Screenshot
Eyefinity / Surround Screenshot

Solutions & Issues

Baseline (Widescreen) Solution & Issues

Native Hor+ support.

FMVs are squished below 16:9.

Tech: Unity, no config launcher. Framerate cap (30 fps) can be lifted from the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Gaming Corps\The Descendant\"UnlockFPS_h1723363984"=dword:00000001

Ultra/Super-Wide (21:9/32:9) Specific Solution & Issues

Limited support: menu issues.

Save Files menu (replay) is unusable, see Multi-Monitor Support below for a workaround.
FMVs stretch.

Eyefinity / Surround Specific Solution & Issues

Limited support: menu issues.

As soon as a multi-monitor resolution is applied, the options menu gets cut-off and all you can do is Alt+F4 out of the game.
To work around this you can use a complex combination of Borderless Gaming and Alt+Enter, or quit the game to edit the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Gaming Corps\The Descendant\
"Screenmanager Is Fullscreen mode_h3981298716"=dword:00000001
"ResolutionHeight_h1843629172"= switch to DECIMAL and input display height (e.g 1080)
"ResolutionWidth_h1003235053"= switch to DECIMAL and input display width (e.g 1920 to use Save Files, then 5760 to resume playing)
"UnlockFPS_h1723363984"= 1 to remove the framerate cap