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Sackboy: A Big Adventure

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Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Sackboy: A Big Adventure cover
Developers
Sumo Digital
Windows The Eccentric Ape[1]
Windows Climax Studios[2]
Publishers
PlayStation PC
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows October 27, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 81
OpenCritic 80
IGDB 85
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions Time-limited
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform
Art styles Cartoon
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Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person platform game developed as a spinoff of the LittleBigPlanet series. It makes use of Unreal Engine 4.

It was developed originally by Sumo Digital Sheffield and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 and 5, which got released on November 12, 2020. The PC version was developed by The Eccentric Ape and published by PlayStation PC. The PC version got released on October 27, 2022, almost 2 years after its initial release. Notable additions to the PC release compared to the original PlayStation versions are ray traced reflections, ray traced additional effect lighting shadows and ray traced ambient occlusion. Additionally it added support for DLSS 2.4.

Post-launch patches added several pieces of free costume & emote DLC, DLSS Frame Generation, fixes for shader compilation stutter (game now pre-compiles shaders during boot)[3][4][5], added 60, 75 and 144 FPS cap options[6], added T-Shirt, Baroque Costume and Renaissance Costume (originally a PlayStation launch exclusive)[7] and several bug fixes related to performance and stability.[8][9][5][10]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Pre-purchase entitlements Pre-orders come with four bonus costumes for Sackboy, inspired by Connor from Detroit: Become Human, Sam Porter Bridges from Death Stranding, Deacon St. John from Days Gone, and Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima.[11]
Windows
Emote pack Free. Contains Big Love, Boogie Time, Feel The Beat, Jump About, Lollipop and Look At Me emote.
Windows
Nathan Drake Costume Free.
Windows
Cloe Frazer Costume Free.
Windows
Freya Costume Free.
Windows
Atreus Costume Free.
Windows
Kratos Costume Free.
Windows
Football Costume Free.
Windows
Monkey King Costume Free.
Windows
New Year's Costume Free.
Windows
Chinese New Year Costume Free.
Windows
Valentine's Costume Free.
Windows
Gran Turismo Racing Suit Costume Free.
Windows
Casual Clothing Pack Free.
Windows
Matte Paint Pack Free.
Windows
Missing the rest of the DLC from the PlayStation versions.[citation needed]

Microtransactions

No microtransactions information; you can edit this page to add it.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use Sackboy no intro fix[12]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Sackboy\Steam\Settings[Note 2]
%LOCALAPPDATA%\GingerBread\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1599660/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Sackboy\Steam\SaveGames
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1599660/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Display Settings
Display Settings
While at the graphics settings menu, the game itself can still be seen paused in the background. Making the user able to directly see the effects of changed graphical settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Letterboxed cutscenes.
Multi-monitor
No multi-monitor support.
Ultra-widescreen
Hor+ scaling gameplay and cutscenes. Letterboxed cutscenes. The game only officially support aspect ratios up to 21:9. A 32:9 fix can be found here, but causes problems with UI.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Called Windowed Fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Scales with Textures setting; Low (0x), Medium (2x), High (4x) and Very High (8x).[13] No option in-game to increase or disable it individually.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
TAA[14] with presets Off, Medium. High or Very High available. Game always applies sharpening, even when TAA is turned off.[15]
High-fidelity upscaling
DLSS 2.4
Option only appears when supported by hardware. No sharpness slider available. DLSS Frame Generation supported since the March 16, 2023 update and DLSS has to be enabled in order to be able to enable Frame Generation.[16][10][17]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
60, 120 or Unlimited framerate limit options. Online co-op mode is capped at 60 FPS.[18] Game itself recommends a maximum FPS of 150 to "avoid impact on gameplay", but unknown if going any higher results in any significant issues.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Raytraced reflections (Ray Tracing and Ray Tracing Ultra presets available under Reflections setting), raytraced additional effect lighting shadows (separate toggle) and raytraced ambient occlusion (highest preset available under Ambient Occlusion setting).
Options only appear when supported by hardware.
Color blind mode
Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia and Achromatopsia.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Controls - Game Assist
Controls - Game Assist
Controls - Controller Settings
Controls - Controller Settings

Audio

Audio Settings
Audio Settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX, Dialogue and Voice effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Option available to enable it for cutscenes only
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Turkish


Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Co-op
LAN play
Online play
4 Co-op
Co-op is mandatory for some optional levels.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX v3.4.0.0
Audio XAudio, Wwise
Multiplayer Epic Online Services

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10 (version 1809)
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-6400
AMD FX-6300
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 60 GB (HDD)
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
AMD Radeon R7 265
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Minimum requirements indicate performance of 30 fps, 720p at low settings. Recommended requirements indicate performance of 30 fps, 1080p at medium settings.[11]
Additional system requirements for higher resolutions and performance are also available.[11]

Notes

  1. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.25.1.0
  2. Only GameUserSettings.ini can be edited, the other files are encrypted.
  3. 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1599660/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1599660) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Footage of the PC version's credits - last accessed on 2022-12-18
  2. Climax Studios helped Sumo Digital in development - Twitter - last accessed on 2022-12-10
  3. Sackboy PC updated to eliminate #StutterStruggle! - DF Direct Weekly #86: Is Xbox Series S Holding Back Gaming? Forza Horizon 5, Sackboy, Halo Patches - last accessed on 2022-11-12
  4. Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2022-11-09
    Shader compilation is non-existent indeed when playing a completely new level never played before. Checked with RTSS, game still utilizes D3D12.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Sackboy: A Big Adventure - November 25th Patch is Now Available - last accessed on 2022-11-25
  6. Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2022-11-25
    Introduced in November 25 patch.
  7. Sackboy: A Big Adventure - December 9th Patch is Now Available - last accessed on 2022-12-10
  8. Sackboy: A Big Adventure - November 9th Patch is Now Available - last accessed on 2022-11-09
  9. Sackboy: A Big Adventure - November 21st Patch is Now Available - last accessed on 2022-11-22
  10. 10.0 10.1 Sackboy: A Big Adventure - March 16th Patch is Now Available! - Steam - last accessed on 2023-03-16
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sackboy: A Big Adventure is coming to PC on October 27 - last accessed on 2022-09-29
  12. Verified by User:Keith on 2022-12-25
  13. Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2022-11-05
    Confirmed through Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and reading command values; r.MaxAnisotropy while changing Textures setting in-game.
  14. Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2022-11-05
    Confirmed through Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and reading command values; r.PostProcessAAQuality=4 indicates TAA-usage. Also, Render Quality adjusts render resolution, but no TAAU gets enabled when using values lower than 100.
  15. Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2022-11-05
    Confirmed through Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and reading command values; r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=2 indicates sharpening usage.
  16. Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-04-04
    RT-, Reflex- and DLSS-settings do not appear when not supported by hardware, they are then simply hidden from the menu. DLSS Frame Generation option does only show when DLSS itself is enabled. When DLSS is disabled, Frame Generation gets disabled too. Tested on March 30, 2023 version.
  17. Sackboy: A Big Adventure - March 22nd Patch is Now Available! - Steam - last accessed on 2023-03-22
  18. Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-03-18
    Was added around launch with no source, so needs to be re-checked after so many updates.