High on Life
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Developers | |
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Squanch Games | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 4[1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 13, 2022 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 68 |
OpenCritic | 69 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter |
Art styles | Stylized |
Themes | Comedy, Sci-fi, Space |
High on Life is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game.
Game has received couple of updates, improving performance, issues with achievement unlocks, keybinds menu and crashes, as well as addition of features such as FOV Slider, Text Resizing, audio balancing to name a few.[2]
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | ||||
Microsoft Store | Xbox Play Anywhere. Included with Xbox Game Pass for PC. | |||
Steam |
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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One-time game purchase | High On Life requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Microtransactions
Type | Notes |
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No microtransactions | High On Life has no microtransactions. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Oregon\Saved\Config\WinGDK\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1583230/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Oregon\Saved\SaveGames\ |
Microsoft Store | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\2637SquanchGamesInc.HighonLife_mh7dg3tfmz2cj\SystemAppData\wgs\<user-id>\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1583230/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Xbox Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Natively supports 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, 21:9 and 32:9. | ||
Multi-monitor | [3] | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Hor+ is applied. FMVs are pillarboxed to a 16:9 aspect ratio.[4] | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Added in Patch 3. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Referred to as "Texture Quality". Three presets are available: "Low" (off), "Medium" (2x), "High" (4x), and "Very High" (8x).[5] |
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Anti-aliasing (AA) | TAA with four presets available: "Low" (off), "Medium" (2x), "High" (3x), and "Very High" (4x).[6] | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Plays at an uncapped framerate. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives. | ||
Ray tracing (RT) |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Field of view (FOV)
Use Rose's cheat-engine based trainer[7] |
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Use Flawless Widescreen[7] |
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Use Bionic-Blob fix (Xbox Game Pass) |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Some actions cannot be rebound. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | Separate sliders for "Mouse Sensitivity" and "Mouse Sensitivity ADS" are available. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Referred to as "Inverse Mouse Y Axis". Can be toggled on or off. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Controller sensitivity | Separate sliders for "Controller Sensitivity" and "Controller Sensitivity ADS" are available. | |
Controller Y-axis inversion | Can be toggled on or off. |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sliders for Master, Sound Effects, Music, and Voice. | |
Surround sound | Plays up to 6.0.[8] | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Russian | Fan machine translation, download. | |||
Latin American Spanish |
Issues unresolved
Game will not launch due to VR hook
- If VR hardware is used, you may be unable to launch the game without its requisite software running.
Workaround: delete VR hook files[9] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 12 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Wwise | [10] |
Cutscenes | Bink Video | [11] |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-4430K | Intel Core i5-6402P AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 50 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon R9 290X 3 GB (Nvidia), 4 GB (AMD) of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
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>/1583230/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1583230) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Over 80 Unreal Engine-powered games featured during 2022 summer gaming events - last accessed on 2022-11-16
- ↑ Patch 3 - last accessed on 2023-01-16
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
- Tested on a multi-monitor setup in windowed mode at 3840x1080 resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
- Tested at 2560x1080 resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
- Tested by playing the game with the Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and checking the texture quality setting after changing each individual graphic setting with the command
r.MaxAnisotropy
.
- Tested by playing the game with the Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and checking the texture quality setting after changing each individual graphic setting with the command
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
- Tested by playing the game with the Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and checking each anti-aliasing setting with the commands
r.PostProcessAAQuality
andr.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing
.r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing
was set to 2, the equivalent of TAA, for all settings.
- Tested by playing the game with the Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and checking each anti-aliasing setting with the commands
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Verified by User:Keith on 2022-12-25
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
- Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.
- ↑ Game not starting FIX - last accessed on 2022-12-03
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
- As seen during splash screens upon boot-up.
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-17
- As seen after opening the
Movies
subfolder in the game's installation directory. All of the files in the directory areBK2
files.
- As seen after opening the