Marvel Realm User Guide

Marvel Realm is a collection of audio games made for blind players. Everything is spoken or played as sound: menus talk, games place sounds around you in 3D, and each game comes with its own guide.

This guide covers the suite itself: signing in, getting around the menus, the settings, and the features every game shares. For a game's own controls and rules, open that game and choose Read the game's documentation.

System Requirements

These may change as Marvel Realm grows.

• Processor: Intel Celeron N4020 or AMD Ryzen 3 3200U at minimum.
• Memory: 4 GB RAM.
• Storage: 500 MB of free space.
• Operating system: Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit.
• Internet: needed to sign in, list and download games, receive updates, and use leaderboards, achievements, subscriptions, licenses, stores, the community features and Mastodon posting.
• Account: a Sonorous Arts account.

Peripherals

• Keyboard: needed, unless you play with a controller.
• Game controller: optional. Xbox, PlayStation and most other common controllers work.
• Mouse: optional. Some games use it to look around or to fire.
• Headphones or speakers: needed. Headphones are strongly recommended, because the games rely on hearing where a sound comes from.
• Surround sound: surround speakers and virtual surround tools are supported.

First Start And Sign-In

When you start Marvel Realm, it checks for updates, loads its sounds, and signs you in. The first time, or whenever your saved login no longer works, it asks for your Sonorous Arts username and password.

Marvel Realm runs in an ordinary window, not in fullscreen, so it does not rearrange your other open programs.

Updates

Updates are required: Marvel Realm will not continue until it is up to date. It downloads and installs what it needs and tells you the progress as it goes. Some updates restart Marvel Realm. After one of those, you hear a list of what changed; choose Proceed to main menu when you are done reading.

Choosing Cancel during a download closes Marvel Realm. The update is offered again the next time you start it.

If a download keeps failing, Marvel Realm explains why and gives you three choices: Connection settings, to set up a proxy; Retry; and Exit Client.

Announcements

Sonorous Arts sometimes sends an announcement, which you hear at startup or when you open a game. Choose Dismiss to continue. Turn on Don't show again first if you do not want to hear that same announcement next time.

If Marvel Realm Cannot Connect

When the server cannot be reached, you get a menu with Connection settings, Try again and Quit. Check your internet connection first. If your network needs a proxy, set it up under Connection settings and then choose Try again.

Main Menu

The main menu contains:

• Game categories.
• Settings.
• Read the documentation.
• Read the changelog.
• Submit feedback.
• Donate to us.
• Quit.

Open Game categories to see the game series, then choose a series to see its games.

An asterisk after a game's name means that game needs a subscription or a license. If you are not allowed to play a game, Marvel Realm tells you why and offers a link to the plans and pricing page.

Read the documentation opens this guide. At the end of it you will find Save the documentation, which saves a copy as a web page wherever you choose, and Refresh, which fetches the latest version.

Submit feedback and Donate to us open a page in your web browser.

Menu Navigation

Almost every menu works the same way. The keys below are the defaults; you can change them under Settings, Control mappings.

• Up or Down: move through the items.
• Home or End: jump to the first or last item.
• Enter: activate the item.
• Escape: go back or cancel.
• Left or Right: change a toggle, a choice or a number, or move through the columns of a table.
• Control: stop the speech, including the hint that follows an item.
• Tab: jump to the next heading.
• Shift+Tab: jump to the previous heading.
• Control+Tab: move to the next tab.
• Control+Shift+Tab: move to the previous tab.
• Alt plus a number: jump straight to that tab, Alt+1 for the first.
• Alt plus a letter: in Community and Social, jump to the tab starting with that letter, such as Alt+F for Feed.

Long lists, such as the game list, the settings list and the Learn game sounds list, also let you type to find an item. Type the first letter or letters of a name to jump to it. Pressing the same letter again moves to the next item that starts with it.

A hint is read shortly after you land on an item. It explains what the item does, so it is worth waiting for when a setting is new to you.

These keys work in menus and also while you play:

• F5: open the Community menu.
• F6: open the Social menu.
• Control+Backslash: open the Marvel Realm chat.
• Page Up or Page Down: move back or forward through the messages in the current speech buffer.
• Shift+Page Up or Shift+Page Down: jump to the first or last message in the buffer.
• Control+Page Up or Control+Page Down: switch to the previous or next speech buffer.
• Control+Shift+Page Up or Control+Shift+Page Down: jump to the first or last speech buffer.

Speech buffers keep messages you may want to hear again. Marvel Realm chat goes to the Realm chat buffer, game chat to the Game chat buffer, and private messages to the Private messages buffer.

Using A Controller In Menus

• D-pad Up or Down: move through the items.
• D-pad Left or Right: change a value.
• A: activate.
• B or Back: go back or cancel.
• X: read the current value.
• Y: stop the hint. In the onscreen keyboard, it clears the text.
• Left shoulder and right shoulder: previous and next heading.
• Left trigger and right trigger: previous and next tab.
• Left stick click and right stick click: lower or raise a number by a larger step.

Pressing any button or D-pad direction stops the speech, just as the Control key does. Moving a stick or pulling a trigger does not, so steering never cuts off what is being read.

The buttons are named after an Xbox controller. On other controllers, use the button in the same position: Cross on a PlayStation controller is A, Circle is B, and so on.

Menu Controls

• Static text: information only.
• Button: activate it with Enter or A.
• Number: use Left or Right to change it. Hold Control while you do so for bigger steps where the setting allows it.
• Toggle: on or off. Use Left or Right to change it.
• Choice: one option out of several. Use Left or Right to move between them.
• Text field: see Typing Text below.
• Link: opens a web page, jumps to another part of the same document, or opens another part of Marvel Realm.
• Progress bar: reports progress during a download.
• Table row: use Left or Right to read each column.

Typing Text

A text field is not open for typing when you land on it; Marvel Realm only reads what it holds. That way the arrow keys keep moving you through the menu.

1. Press Enter on the field. You hear "Editing".
2. Type or change the text.
3. Press Enter to save, or Escape to throw your changes away and keep the old text.

In a field that takes several lines, Enter starts a new line and Control+Enter saves.

While a field is open:

• Left or Right: move by character.
• Control+Left or Control+Right: move by word.
• Home or End: go to the start or end.
• Shift with any of the movement keys: select text.
• Control+A: select everything.
• Control+C, Control+X, Control+V: copy, cut and paste.
• Control+Z: undo. Control+Y: redo.
• Backspace or Delete: delete a character.
• Control+Backspace or Control+Delete: delete a word.
• Shift+Delete: clear the whole field.
• Up, Down or F1: hear the whole field.

F1 and Control+C also work on a field you have not opened. Passwords are never copied.

A few fields are ready for typing right away, with no Enter needed first: the chat and private message boxes, and the Search field for finding people. In the chat and message boxes, Enter sends and Escape closes.

With a controller, press A on a text field to open the onscreen keyboard. Move between the keys with the D-pad, press A to type the key you are on, and choose done to save. B cancels and Y clears the text. The keyboard has a shift key for capitals and symbols.

Settings

Settings in the main menu holds the options that apply to the whole suite:

• Game settings.
• Control mappings.
• Sound settings.
• Speech settings.
• TTS options.
• Gameplay recording settings.
• Game controller settings.
• Mouse settings.
• Connection settings.
• Repair browser links.
• Account management.
• Restore default settings.

You can reach the same list from inside a game, under Global settings.

Game Settings

• Submit end-game results to the online leaderboard. When this is off, you still hear your score, but that game does not count towards rankings, achievements or credits, and its result cannot be shared on Mastodon.
• Ask for exit. When this is on, Marvel Realm asks you to confirm before you leave a game in progress.
• Constant camera turn speed. How fast you turn when you turn with the keyboard or a controller.
• Silence speech while the window is minimized. When this is on, Marvel Realm stops talking whenever you switch to another program. Messages still go into the speech buffers, so you can read them when you come back.
• Automatically send crash reports. When this is on and Marvel Realm runs into an unexpected error, it sends Sonorous Arts a report: the error itself, the Marvel Realm version, your Windows version, and the folder Marvel Realm is installed in. If Marvel Realm closed without warning, the report is sent the next time you start it.
• Mastodon post visibility: public or unlisted.
• Automatically post results to Mastodon.

Control Mappings

Here you can change which key or button does what. Marvel Realm's own controls, meaning the menu keys and shortcuts such as F5, are listed here. Each game that supports remapping has its own list, under that game's Game settings, Control mappings.

The actions are grouped under headings, and each one tells you what is assigned to it now. Choose an action and you can:

• Add binding: give the action another key or button. An action can have several.
• Choose one of its bindings to replace it or remove it.
• Restore action defaults.

After you choose Add binding or Replace binding, let go of the key you just pressed, then press the key, mouse button, mouse wheel direction or controller button you want.

At the end of the list you can restore the keyboard, mouse or controller defaults on their own, or everything at once.

Some things to know:

• Keys are remembered by their position on the keyboard, not by the letter printed on them. If you switch keyboard layout, your controls stay where your fingers expect them.
• Left and right Control, Shift and Alt count as different keys.
• If the key you pick is already in use, Marvel Realm tells you which action has it and lets you take it over or cancel.
• A key used by one of Marvel Realm's own shortcuts cannot be given to a game. Change the Marvel Realm shortcut first, and the key becomes free.
• A game's keyboard controls do not respond while you are typing in a text field.
• Mouse movement, the text editing keys and the Alt tab shortcuts cannot be changed.

If Your Controls Stop Working

If you end up with controls you cannot use, press Control+Shift+F12, or hold Back and Start together on a controller for two seconds. This opens Control recovery, where you can restore Marvel Realm's controls, the current game's controls, or both. Nothing else is changed: your other settings and your saved progress stay as they are.

If you cannot get even that far, start Marvel Realm with --reset-controls added to its shortcut. It clears every control you changed and leaves all other settings alone.

Sound Settings

• Music volume.
• UI volume: the volume of menu sounds.
• Sound system performance: automatic, low or high. Choose the one that suits your computer.
• Sound system output type: autodetect, WASAPI or winsonic. Autodetect is the best choice for most people. Choose winsonic only if you want the sound to go through Windows Sonic for Headphones.
• Sound output device. Default output device follows whatever Windows is using.
• Microphone input: the microphone used for voice messages.
• Use dolby downmixing.
• Spatial audio engine: FMOD or Steam Audio.
• Steam Audio settings.
• Enable sound reflections: adds echoes from the surroundings. It can slow down some computers.
• Explosion hearing effects: full, reduced or off.

Some of these need the sound system to restart. That happens when you leave Sound settings, or, if a game is running, when you leave the game.

Sound system output type cannot be changed while Dolby downmixing is on, or while the spatial audio engine is Steam Audio.

Dolby Downmixing

Dolby downmixing mixes surround sound down to two channels in the Dolby Pro Logic II style. On stereo headphones or speakers it can make it easier to tell that a sound is behind you.

Spatial Audio Engine

The spatial audio engine decides how sounds are placed around you.

• FMOD is the classic engine.
• Steam Audio is made for headphones. Sounds above, below and behind you are easier to tell apart. Walls and solid objects muffle what is behind them, distant sounds lose their brightness, sounds find their way to you around corners and through doorways, and echoes come from the actual walls and materials of the map. It asks more of your computer.

With Steam Audio, your own footsteps take on the reverb of the room you are standing in. If Enable sound reflections is on, its short echoes are added to your footsteps too, and to the few other sounds Steam Audio does not place itself.

The first time you enter a map, Steam Audio works out how sound travels through it. This happens in the background and can take up to a minute on a large map. Everything plays normally in the meantime, and the result is kept for your next visit.

If Steam Audio cannot start, Marvel Realm tells you and uses FMOD instead.

Steam Audio Settings

These are available when the spatial audio engine is Steam Audio.

Steam Audio quality sets how much of your computer Steam Audio may use:

• Balanced, the default. Echoes and reverb are traced from the walls of the map for the sounds near you, so a wall beside you answers from its own side. Up to 128 sounds are placed at once.
• Performance, for slower computers. Up to 64 sounds, and a simpler reverb that matches the size and materials of the room but has no separate echoes or direction.
• High. More echoes, for more of the sounds near you. Needs a faster computer.

HRTF is the model of the human head and ears that Steam Audio uses to place sounds for headphones. Default suits most people. If you have a personal one as a SOFA file (.sofa), put it in the userdata\hrtf folder inside the Marvel Realm folder and it appears in the list.

HRTF volume normalization appears only when you use your own HRTF. It evens out the loudness between directions, which helps with some files.

Changes here take effect when you leave Sound settings or leave a game.

Steam Audio can only place so many sounds at once. When they are all in use, a much louder new sound, such as a bullet flying past, takes the place of the quietest one. The rest are placed by FMOD.

Explosions

Explosions sound different depending on where you are. A distant one reaches you late, about a third of a second for every 100 meters, with less crack and a longer rumble than a close one. Walls take the crack off it and leave the rumble. You hear a rocket flying right up until the sound of its explosion reaches you. A close explosion makes a controller rumble.

A close explosion also affects your hearing for a moment. Explosion hearing effects sets how much:

• Full: other game sounds dip under every explosion you hear, and a close one muffles them for up to two seconds.
• Reduced: other game sounds only dip briefly.
• Off: nothing changes.

Menus, speech and music are never affected.

Speech Settings

• Speech output: automatic or SAPI5.
• SAPI voice.
• SAPI rate.
• SAPI volume.
• SAPI pitch.

Automatic speaks through your screen reader when one is running, and through the Windows voices (SAPI) when none is.

SAPI5 always uses the Windows voices, even when a screen reader is running.

The voice, rate, volume and pitch apply whenever the Windows voices are doing the talking.

TTS Options

Some games give their characters a voice of their own, using the Windows voices (SAPI) installed on your computer. Springwood Cafe's customers are one example. TTS options decides which voices those games may use. It does not change the voice that reads menus and messages to you; that is in Speech settings.

• One switch for every voice installed on your computer. Each tells you the voice's language. Turn a voice off and games stop using it.
• Allow all voices: turns every voice back on.

A voice you turn off stops being used at once, even in a game that is running. A voice you turn on is used from the next time a game loads.

A voice you install later is allowed until you turn it off.

Whether a game's characters speak at all is decided in that game's own settings. If you turn every voice off here, such a game has no voice to use and announces through your screen reader instead.

Gameplay Recording Settings

Marvel Realm can record the sound of your game to a file.

• Enable gameplay recording.
• Recording format: WAV, which is uncompressed, or MP3, which gives smaller files.
• MP3 quality: Small (96 kbps), Standard (128 kbps), High (192 kbps) or Maximum (320 kbps).
• Open recordings folder.

Once recording is enabled, press F9 while you are playing to start a recording, and F9 again to stop it. Recordings are saved in the userdata\recordings folder inside the Marvel Realm folder.

Each game's menu also gets a Start gameplay audio recording automatically toggle. Turn it on before you choose Play, and the recording starts by itself once the game has loaded.

Game Controller Settings

The first line tells you which controller is in use.

Preferred controller decides which controller Marvel Realm listens to when more than one is connected:

• Automatic: the one connected most recently.
• A named controller: always that one, whenever it is connected.

If the controller you are using is unplugged, Marvel Realm switches to another connected one.

Mouse Settings

• Mouse speed: how far a movement of the mouse turns you.
• Invert Y axis interpretation: swaps looking up and looking down.

While Marvel Realm is the active window, it hides the mouse pointer and keeps it inside the window. Switch to another program, with Alt+Tab for example, and you get the pointer back.

Connection Settings

Use these only if your network needs a proxy to reach the internet.

• Use proxy.
• Proxy protocol: none, http, socks5 or socks5h.
• Proxy host.
• Proxy port.
• Proxy username.
• Proxy password.
• Clear proxy settings.

Browser Links

Web pages can contain links that open Marvel Realm, or take you straight to a part of it. They start with marvelrealm://. If Marvel Realm is already running, the link is handled by the copy you have open.

Some examples:

• marvelrealm://main opens the main menu.
• marvelrealm://categories opens the game categories.
• marvelrealm://settings/sound opens Sound settings.
• marvelrealm://docs opens this guide.
• marvelrealm://social opens the Social menu.
• marvelrealm://game/open?category=breaklessride&name=rushfare opens a game's menu.

If you are in the middle of a game and a link wants to open another one, Marvel Realm asks before it closes the game you are playing.

If these links stop working, for example after you move the Marvel Realm folder, open Settings and choose Repair browser links. It sets the links up again for your Windows account.

Account Management

Account management shows your account name, your registered email address and your subscription status.

From here you can:

• Open the plans and pricing page.
• Set up a Mastodon account, or replace the one you set up before.
• Remove your Mastodon account from Marvel Realm.
• Log out.

You cannot log out while a game is running.

Restore Default Settings

This puts every suite setting back to how it was when you first installed Marvel Realm. You stay signed in. Your Mastodon setup is removed along with the other settings. Settings that belong to individual games are not touched. It cannot be undone.

You cannot restore default settings while a game is running.

Individual Game Settings

Games keep their own Game settings, found in the game's menu and in its pause menu. They apply to that game only.

Game settings contains whatever options the game itself offers, followed by:

• Performance.
• Control mappings, when the game supports remapping.
• Restore game settings.

Restore game settings resets that one game, including any progress it stores with its settings. It does not change Marvel Realm's own settings or any other game.

Performance Settings

The Performance page has three options for matching a game to your computer. Each is saved for that game alone, so a demanding game can run lighter while an easy one stays at its best.

• FPS limit. How many times per second the game updates at most: 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 60. A lower limit asks less of your computer and can keep an older machine steady.
• World detail distance. How far from you characters, vehicles and the rest of the world keep updating at full speed. Beyond that distance they update less often, but they still move and act on time. Choose Low if the game stutters or feels slow to respond, Balanced for the recommended setting, or High or Maximum to keep distant activity as accurate as possible on a faster computer.
• Audio detail distance. How far away sounds keep their full detail, and how soon faint background layers thin out when a great deal is happening at once. Choose Performance if the sound crackles or the game slows down in busy moments, Balanced for the recommended setting, High to keep distant sounds detailed for longer, or Full detail to never thin background sounds at all.

Sounds you need in order to play are never removed, whatever you choose. Gunshots you must locate, mission cues, beacons you are following and anything close to you always play in full. Only faint extra layers on distant sounds are thinned, such as the far-off tail of a shot you can already hear, and only while your computer is under heavy load.

All three apply the moment you change them, and the menu describes each choice as you move through it. If a choice makes a game feel worse, change it back the same way. These settings affect smoothness and richness of sound only, never the difficulty or the rules.

Playing Games

When you choose a game, Marvel Realm checks that you may play it, downloads anything it needs, and opens the game's menu.

A game's menu usually contains:

• Play.
• Start gameplay audio recording automatically, when recording is enabled.
• Learn game sounds, when the game has a sound guide.
• Read the game's documentation.
• Your high score, when you have one.
• The leaderboard, which lists the top 20 players, when the game has one.
• Achievements.
• Read the game's changelog.
• Game settings.
• Global settings.
• Your active license, or a link to the licenses you can get, when that applies.
• Exit to game list.
• Exit to Marvel Realm main menu.

Read each game's documentation before you play. Controls, scoring, goals and shortcuts are different in every game.

Learn game sounds lists the sounds a game uses. Activate one to hear it.

If a game was made for a newer version of Marvel Realm than the one you have, it asks you to update before it will start.

In-Game Shared Controls

Every game has its own controls. These work in all of them:

• Left Control or Right Control: stop the speech.
• F5: open the Community menu.
• F6: open the Social menu.
• F8, held down: record a voice message for the players in the same game. See Voice Messages.
• F9: start or stop a gameplay recording.
• Control+Backslash: open the Marvel Realm chat.
• Control+Slash: open the game's chat, in games that have one.
• Page Up, Page Down and their Shift and Control combinations: read back through the speech buffers, as in the menus.

Opening Community or Social while you are playing pauses the game until you close it again.

Pause Menu

When a game is paused, its pause menu usually contains:

• Resume.
• Learn game sounds.
• Online stores.
• Read the game's documentation.
• Game settings.
• Global settings.
• Exit to main menu.

Games can add items of their own.

Online Stores

In games that have them, online stores let you spend credits on items for that game. Each item tells you its price, how many you may still buy, how many are left in stock, and how long you must wait before you can buy it again. Choose an item, set the quantity if more than one is allowed, and choose Confirm Purchase. Marvel Realm then tells you how many credits you have left.

Community Features

Press F5 to open the Community menu. Depending on your connection and the game you are in, it has these tabs:

• Co-Players: the people in the same game as you.
• Mirabilians: everyone connected to Marvel Realm right now, and what they are playing.
• Settings.

Choose a person to open their profile. See User Profiles.

Community Settings

• Community features: turns everything in this section on or off.
• Community chat language: Disabled, or the language you want to chat in.
• Private messages. Shown once you have chosen a chat language.
• Voice chat: turns voice messages on or off.
• Hear my own voice snippets. Shown when Voice chat is on.
• User presence: turns the lists of connected people on or off.
• Announce game room joins: tells you when someone joins the game you are playing.

Community Chat

Control+Backslash opens the Marvel Realm chat, from a menu or from a game. Type your message and press Enter to send it.

The chat is off until you pick a language. Open Community, Settings, Community chat language, and choose one. Your messages reach the people who chose the same language, and theirs reach you.

The same box takes commands. It opens for them even while chat is off, although private messages need a chat language to be chosen:

• /pm username message sends a private message.
• /reply message answers the last person who sent you a private message.
• /follow username and /unfollow username.
• /mute username and /unmute username.
• /profile username opens that person's profile.

As you type, matching commands and usernames appear as buttons below the box; press Down to reach them.

Control+Slash opens the chat of the game you are in, when that game has one. It works while you play, in the game's menus and in the pause menu.

When you close a chat, Community or Social, you return to the menu you were in, on the item you left.

Voice Messages

You can send short voice messages to the people playing the same online game as you.

1. Turn on Voice chat in the Community settings.
2. Choose your microphone under Sound settings, Microphone input.
3. While you are playing, hold F8. A beep tells you the recording has started.
4. Speak, then let go of F8. A second beep tells you the message is on its way.

A message can be up to 15 seconds long; recording stops by itself at that point. Anything shorter than half a second is thrown away, and so is a message where you let go before the first beep. After sending one, you need to wait a couple of seconds before you can record the next.

Messages from one person play one after another, never on top of each other.

To hear your own messages the way others hear them, turn on Hear my own voice snippets.

Social Menu

Press F6 to open the Social menu. You need to be online and signed in.

Community is about who is around right now: the people connected, chat and messages. Social is about the longer run: the people you follow, what they have been doing, finding new people, and your own profile.

The Social menu has three tabs: Feed, Discover and Profile. Move between them with Control+Tab and Control+Shift+Tab, with Alt+F, Alt+D and Alt+P, or with the triggers on a controller.

Feed Tab

The Feed shows what the people you follow have been doing lately. Each entry tells you who it was, what they did, and how long ago.

Activate an entry and choose Open user profile to see who that person is. Some entries also offer a link, which opens another part of Marvel Realm or a page in your browser.

An empty feed means you are not following anyone yet, or they have not done anything recently. Choose Load more at the end of the list to see older entries.

Discover Tab

Discover is for finding people. Type at least two characters into the Search field and press Enter, or choose the Search button. The people found are listed below; choose one to open their profile.

Clear search empties the field and the list. Load more fetches further results.

User Profiles

Wherever you choose a person, in Community, the Feed, Discover or a list of followers, you get their profile. It has two tabs.

The Actions tab can contain:

• Send private message, when private messages are turned on.
• Follow or Unfollow.
• Muted.

The Details tab shows the person's name, username and about text, whether you follow each other, how many followers they have and how many people they follow, and their achievements. Choose Followers, Following or Achievements to see the full list. If the person keeps their followers private, the profile says so.

Following someone makes their activity show up in your Feed.

Muting someone stops their chat messages and voice messages from reaching you, right away. A voice message of theirs that is already playing is cut off.

Profile Tab

The Profile tab shows your own profile: your name, username and about text, and how many followers, followed people and achievements you have.

Choose Edit profile to change your first name, last name and about text. Two toggles decide what other people can see:

• Share email address: whether people looking at your profile see your email address.
• Share followers and following: whether they can see who follows you and whom you follow.

Choose Save when you are done.

Followers, Following and Achievements open the full lists. Achievements covers every game.

Discord And Mastodon

Discord needs no setup. When Discord is running, your status there shows that you are in Marvel Realm and which game you are playing.

Mastodon lets you share your results. To set it up, open Settings, Account management, Set up a Mastodon account. Enter the address of your Mastodon instance, approve Marvel Realm in the browser page that opens, then paste the code you are given back into Marvel Realm.

After that, the results screen at the end of a game offers Post results to Mastodon. If you turned on Automatically post results to Mastodon in Game settings, results are posted without asking.

Scores, Achievements, And Credits

Each game scores in its own way; its documentation explains how.

When Submit end-game results to the online leaderboard is on, Marvel Realm sends your result to the server at the end of a game. In return you may get:

• A summary of how you did.
• A place on the leaderboard.
• New achievements.
• Credits.

Credits can be spent on Sonorous Arts purchases and in the online stores of games that have them.

Troubleshooting

• The sound stutters, crackles or clicks: set Sound system performance to low in Sound settings. If it happens in one game only, open that game's Game settings, Performance, and lower Audio detail distance. With Steam Audio, set Steam Audio quality to Performance or switch the engine to FMOD.
• A game stutters or reacts slowly: open that game's Game settings, Performance, and lower World detail distance or the FPS limit.
• Sound comes out of the wrong device: choose the right one under Sound settings, Sound output device.
• Windows Sonic does nothing: set Sound system output type to winsonic.
• Sound system output type cannot be changed: turn off Dolby downmixing, and set the spatial audio engine to FMOD.
• Marvel Realm said Steam Audio could not start: it is using FMOD instead, and you can keep playing.
• Marvel Realm goes quiet when I switch to another program: turn off Silence speech while the window is minimized in Game settings.
• I want a different voice: in Speech settings, set Speech output to SAPI5 and pick a voice, or leave it on automatic to use your screen reader.
• My keys or buttons do the wrong thing: press Control+Shift+F12, or hold Back and Start on the controller for two seconds, and restore the controls.
• The wrong controller is in charge, or it keeps switching: pick yours under Game controller settings, Preferred controller.
• My mouse pointer has gone: Marvel Realm keeps it while it is the active window. Press Alt+Tab to switch away.
• F9 does not start a recording: turn on Enable gameplay recording first. A recording can only start while you are actually playing, not in a menu or while paused.
• F8 does nothing: turn on Voice chat in the Community settings and choose a microphone in Sound settings. Voice messages only work while you are playing an online game.
• The chat says it is disabled: choose a language under Community, Settings, Community chat language.
• Online features do not work, or an update will not download: check your internet connection. If your network needs a proxy, set it up under Connection settings.
• Links from web pages do not open Marvel Realm: choose Repair browser links in Settings.

If none of this helps, choose Submit feedback in the main menu and tell us what happened. Attaching the messages.log file from the Marvel Realm folder makes it much easier for us to find the cause.

Credits

• Marvel Realm is powered by the Sage framework, developed by Sonorous Arts.
• Game design, programming, sound design, environment, and gameplay by Sonorous Arts.
• Menu music: "Positive Three" by PeriTune Material.

Special thanks, listed with permission:

• Vlad Ciotescu.
• Muhammad Saidinas.
• Milosz Nowicki.