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High on Life

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High on Life
High on Life cover
Developers
Squanch Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[1]
Release dates
Windows December 13, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 69
OpenCritic 70
IGDB 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
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High on Life is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game.

Game has received some post-launch updates that improved performance, audio and the keybindings menu, while it fixed achievement unlocks, some crashes and many other bugs. Additionally, features such as a FOV Slider, text resizing and audio balancing were added.[2]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase High On Life requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions High On Life has no microtransactions.


Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Oregon\Saved\Config\WinGDK\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1583230/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Oregon\Saved\SaveGames\
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\2637SquanchGamesInc.HighonLife_mh7dg3tfmz2cj\SystemAppData\wgs\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1583230/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Display and graphics settings
Display and graphics settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Natively supports 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, 21:9 and 32:9.
A slider for "Render Scale" added in Patch #3.[2] Set to 90% by default. Adjustable from 50%-200%.
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)
A slider was added in Patch #3.[2]
Set to 90° by default. Adjustable from 70°-120°.
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]
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]
Use Flawless Widescreen[7]
Use Bionic-Blob fix (Xbox Game Pass)

Input

Input settings
Input settings

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
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
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sliders for Master, Sound Effects, Music, and Voice.
Surround sound
Plays up to 6.0.[8]
Subtitles
An accessibility option to increase the text size was added in Patch #3.[2] Adjustable from 0-10.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

General settings
General settings
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
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]
  1. Delete <path-to-game>\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\OpenXR\win64\openxr_loader.dll.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Wwise [10]
Cutscenes Bink Video [11]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-4430K
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
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/1583230/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1583230) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Over 80 Unreal Engine-powered games featured during 2022 summer gaming events - last accessed on 2022-11-16
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Patch 3 - last accessed on 2023-01-16
  3. Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
    Tested on a multi-monitor setup in windowed mode at 3840x1080 resolution.
  4. Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
    Tested at 2560x1080 resolution.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 and r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing. r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing was set to 2, the equivalent of TAA, for all settings.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Verified by User:Keith on 2022-12-25
  8. Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
    Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.
  9. Game not starting FIX - last accessed on 2022-12-03
  10. Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
    As seen during splash screens upon boot-up.
  11. 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 are BK2 files.