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Revision as of 06:22, 28 January 2022

Child of Light
Child of Light cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
UbiArt Framework
Release dates
Windows April 30, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 77
OpenCritic 83
IGDB 88
Taxonomy
Monetization DLC
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view
Genres Platform
Art styles Stylized
Themes Fantasy
Child of Light on HowLongToBeat
Child of Light on IGDB
Child of Light on MobyGames
Child of Light on Wikipedia

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Ubisoft Support

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
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Ultimate Edition.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Standard Edition.
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Standard Edition. Included with Ubisoft+.
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg (unavailable)
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Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
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Windows
All versions require Ubisoft Connect DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Dark Aurora Pack
Windows
Faceted Oculi Pack
Windows
Light Aurora Pack
Windows
Rough Oculi Pack
Windows
Stardust Pack
Windows
The Golem's Plight Pack
Windows
Tumbled Oculi Pack
Windows
All DLC is already included in Ultimate Edition.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Child of Light\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/256290/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Ubisoft Connect <Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\609\
Windows %PROGRAMDATA%\Orbit\611\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/256290/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and SFX.
Surround sound
5.1 (side speakers)
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Brazilian Portuguese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Official translation by «Logrus». Steam only. Patch for other digital version here.
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Mexican Spanish. Latin American dialect also available.

Spanish (Latin America)

The game also includes a Latin American Spanish localization, although this is not exposed as an option.
Steam version: Enable Spanish (Latin America)[1]
  1. Exit Steam and ensure it is not running in the background.
  2. Go to <Steam-folder>\steamapps.
  3. Open appmanifest_256290.acf.
  4. Change the language to latamspanish:
  5. 	"UserConfig"
    	{
    		"language"		"latamspanish"
    	}
    
  6. Save and close the file.
  7. Start Steam and launch the game. It will now run in the Latin American Spanish localization.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

"Your CPU is Outdated" error

The game checks for some SSE4 instructions and if it fails, it shows an error message and refuses to run. The game doesn't use those instructions beyond that test, so bypassing is quite safe.
Bypass CPU check[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Wwise
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista SP2
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHz
AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 10 compatible
Shader model 4.0 support
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Supported ATI Radeon chipsets: HD 2900 XT/HD 3000/HD 4000/HD 5000/HD 6000/HD 7000/R7/R9 series.
Supported Nvidia GeForce chipsets: 8800 GT/9/200/400/500/600/700 series.
Laptop versions of these cards are not officially supported.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  2. 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).

References