Sonic Lost World
Developers | |
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Sonic Team | |
Publishers | |
Sega | |
Engines | |
Hedgehog Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 2, 2015 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 57 |
OpenCritic | 60 |
IGDB | 58 |
Taxonomy | |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Platform |
Series | Sonic the Hedgehog |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Sonic the Hedgehog fangames (series) | |
Sonic CD | 1995 |
Sonic's Schoolhouse | 1996 |
Sonic 3D Blast (series) | |
Sonic & Knuckles Collection | 1997 |
Sonic R (series) | |
Sonic Adventure (series) | |
Sonic Heroes | 2004 |
Sonic Mega Collection Plus | 2006 |
Sonic Riders | 2006 |
Sonic Racing (series) | |
Sonic the Hedgehog | 2010 |
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine | 2010 |
Sonic Spinball | 2010 |
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | 2011 |
Sonic 3 & Knuckles | 2011 |
Sonic Generations | 2011 |
Sonic CD (2012) | 2012 |
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I | 2012 |
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II | 2012 |
Sonic Dash | 2014 |
Sonic Lost World | 2015 |
Sonic Mania | 2017 |
Sonic Forces | 2017 |
Sonic the Hedgehog (Mobile Decompilation) | 2021 |
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mobile Decompilation) | 2021 |
Sonic Colors: Ultimate | 2021 |
Sonic Origins | 2022 |
Sonic Frontiers | 2022 |
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog | 2023 |
Sonic Superstars | 2023 |
Sonic Dream Team | 2023 |
Sonic X Shadow Generations | 2024 |
General information
- Sonic Retro - A huge fan site for everything Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
DLC and expansion packs
- Yoshi's Island Zone and The Legend of Zelda Zone are exclusive to the Wii U, and not available for the PC version.
Name | Notes | |
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NiGHTMARE Zone | Included with the base game installation. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SEGA\SLW\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/329440/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\<user-id>.sdat[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/329440/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Anamorphic 16:9. Use this plugin with Flawless Widescreen. | ||
Multi-monitor | Anamorphic 16:9. Use this plugin with Flawless Widescreen. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Anamorphic 16:9. Use this plugin with Flawless Widescreen. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Use this plugin with Flawless Widescreen. | ||
Windowed | See Window styling for window styling options. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Game only supports borderless fullscreen windowed. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Nvidia users can force SGSSAA in Nvidia Profile Inspector with the 0x084010C5 antialiasing compatibility flag. Causes minor shader aliasing, especially at 2x and 4x; 4x or 8x is recommended.[1] |
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Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | Cutscenes are pre-rendered at 30 FPS. | ||
120+ FPS | See High frame rate | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
High frame rate
Change frame rate throttle with a command line argument[2] |
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Notes
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Window styling
Window style settings. |
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To set the window style options, find the bytes |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | ||
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Steam Input | ||
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Steam Input API support | Official Steam Controller bindings only. | |
Hook input (legacy mode) | ||
Official controller preset(s) | ||
Steam Controller button prompts |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | 5.1 | |
Subtitles | Can be disabled by pressing S during cutscenes. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
- Lacks the option to choose different language for audio and text present in original Wii U version.[3]
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Spanish | Castilian. |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Sonic Lost World. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | Havok | |
Audio | CRI ADX2 | |
Cutscenes | CRI Movie |
Minimal HUD
Use Sonic Lost World - Minimal HUD Mod and a mod manager (Sonic Lost World Mod Loader or SonicGMI)[4] |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7 | 8, 10 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4200 2.0 GHz | Intel Core i5 2.66 GHz AMD Phenom II X4 3.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 2 GB | 3 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 8 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 8800 ATI Radeon HD 2900 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 ATI Radeon HD 5850 1 GB of VRAM |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX 9.0c compatible |
- Windows XP does work, but is not officially supported
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/329440/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (329440) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).