The A Plague Tale Controls Guide is designed to give players a clear overview of essential keyboard controls.
Keyboard Controls
This list includes the keyboard controls created for your convenience. With the help of this list, you can easily play your game more effectively.
| Keys | Actions |
| Arrow Keys | Selects menu choices, buttons, and sliders. |
| Ctrl | Causes skipping to occur while the Ctrl key is held down. |
| Delete | When a save slot is selected (hovered over), deletes that save slot. |
| F (F11 on some machines) | Toggles fullscreen mode. |
| Left-click, Enter | Advances through the game, selects menu choices, buttons, and sliders. |
| Middle-click, H | Hides the text window and other transient displays. |
| Mousewheel-Down, PageDown | Causes rollforward to occur, canceling out a previous rollback. |
| Mousewheel-Up, PageUp | Causes rollback to occur, reversing the game back in time, showing prior text, and allowing menu choices to be changed. |
| Right-click, Escape | Enters the game menu. When in the game menu, returns to the game. |
| S | Takes a screenshot, saving it in a file named screenshotxxxx.png, where xxxx is a serial number. |
| Space | Advances through the game, but does not select choices. |
| Tab | Toggles skipping, causing it to occur until Tab is pressed again. |
| V | Toggles self-voicing mode, which reads text to the user using an OS-supplied speech synthesizer. |
These controls are designed in such a way that you can understand each level excellently, ensuring that you are fully prepared to face every challenge that A Plague Tale presents.
