Banquet for Fools 7.31 Mac

Four generated companions. That is the fixed party size in Banquet for Fools, and it tells you plenty about the kind of game Hannah and Joseph Games set out to make. The player is not a solitary hero but one piece of a small, talkative group on the island of Invimona, sent by a lord to learn what happened on the far side.

1. Accept the assignment and meet your four companions, each with dialogue shaped by their assigned stats.
2. Lead the party through towns where clues and unique items sit hidden in plain sight, with no quest journal to record them.
3. Navigate by landmarks, not an auto-compass, and rely on the pack boar to haul the boat and extra supplies.
4. Piece together the disappearance while managing the quirks of a party you did not choose.

This workflow will appeal to players who enjoy the friction of missing modern conveniences — people who scribbled their own maps during the era of Serpent in the Staglands, the developer's earlier title. The absence of a quest journal and compass shifts the burden back onto memory and observation. If that sounds like work rather than atmosphere, Banquet for Fools is likely to frustrate. The game's strength lies in making a small party feel like real traveling company, but it asks for patience that a more guided RPG would not demand.

What 7.31 fix changed in practice

Before the fix, companion dialogue could occasionally repeat a line you had already seen under identical stat conditions, which broke the illusion of four distinct personalities. The correction in version 7.31 makes stat-gated responses fire once per conversation — companions now fall silent or shift topic instead of looping. In everyday play this means a river crossing exchange about the current will not replay identically when you recross the same river twenty minutes later.

Party inventory handling also tightened. The pack boar previously refused certain boat-related items if your personal inventory was full, a quirk that forced manual reshuffling. The fix restores the expected overflow behavior: bulky cargo now routes to the boar automatically when your slots are occupied, which cuts down on mid-hike menu fiddling.

Dial movement sensitivity back two notches to stop misclicking on tavern scrolls

• Movement click sensitivity. The default registers a click-and-hold as a move command almost instantly. Dialing it back by two notches in preferences prevents accidental pathing when you meant to inspect a scroll on a tavern table.
• Companion chatter frequency. Set to "Full" out of the box. Switching to "Contextual" keeps party banter tied to location discoveries and stat checks rather than filling every silent stretch of trail — useful if you play with the music up and find constant interjections distracting.
• Scroll text size. Many tasks arrive as in-world scrolls with small, period-styled lettering. The accessibility bump to "Large" preserves the parchment look while saving eyestrain during long clue-reading sessions in dim town interiors.

None of these are documented in a tutorial pop-up. The game assumes you will dig into the preferences menu the way you might search a Banquet for Fools Mac torrent distribution for a readme file — by instinct, not by prompt.

• macOS (official support confirmed)
• Apple Silicon and Intel Macs
• Interface language: English