Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Blind Forest	2015
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition	2016
Ori and the Will of the Wisps	2020

Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a platform-adventure metroidvania game made by Moon Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios and is a sequel to highly acclaimed Ori and the Blind Forest.

Game was initially released on PC with both Microsoft Store and Steam releases, simultaneously with Xbox One releas in March 11, 2020, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series update following later on.

Post-launch support is great, with Patch 2 introducing with more graphical and audio options including HDR, dynamic resolution and audio device selection,^[2] patch 3 introducing even more graphical and audio options for even better scalability for much higher and lower end hardware^[3] on top of many bugfixes and even more patches released after this.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Green Man Gaming		Xbox Play Anywhere, (Only activatable in United Kingdom)
Microsoft Store		Xbox Game Pass for PC, Xbox Play Anywhere
Steam

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Ori and the Will of The Wisps\
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.Patagonia_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Local\Ori and the Will of The Wisps
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1057090/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Ori and the Will of The Wisps\
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.Patagonia_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1057090/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud		Also on Steam version.

Video

Display settings

Graphics settings

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		16:10, 16:9, 5:4, 4:3 aspect ratios.
Multi-monitor		Use the community tool for a workaround.
Ultra-widescreen		Native 21:9 support. Use the community tool for 32:9 support.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)	SSAA ranging from 50% up to 200%.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	Double buffer in fullscreen mode, triple buffer in borderless/window mode.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	Slider allows adjusting limit from 30 to 200 FPS. Can be disable for unlimited FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Graphics Quality and Sharpness settings added in Patch 3.^[4]

Includes a dynamic resolution setting that allows users to select a minimum frame rate from 30 to 300 FPS and adjust a minimum resolution from 50 to 100% (for both vertical and horizontal) when target minimum framerate cannot be achieved.

Input

Game control settings

Menu control settings

Map control settings

Controller buttons

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Full in-game remapping. Four keys per action.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Stick deadzone adjustement. Rebinding only for DirectInput controllers, see Remapping.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		Through DirectInput support.

Generic/other controllers		Rebinding almost mandatory. See Remapping.
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		XInput only. Adjustable from 0-200% in strenght.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Using KB/M buttons together with XInput movement causes a stutter with each button press.

Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Hook input (legacy mode)
Official controller preset(s)
Steam Controller button prompts
Cursor detection

Remapping

Modify key/button binding file^[5]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open KeyRebindings.txt if you want to modify keyboard bindings and ControllerButtonRemaps.txt for Direct Input controller.
Change Activate Direct Input Button Rebinding: False from the top of the file into True.
Make desired changes (Check your controllers PC Gaming Wiki article for button numbering) and save the file.

Notes

Neither controller axis nor D-pad can be rebound, resulting lesser experience or possibly rendering some controllers completely unuseable. Use external XInput wrapper to rebind these instead.

Haptic feedback is not supported with DirectInput controllers. Use XInput wrapper with haptic feedback support, e.g. Steam input.

More details are included at the bottom of the file.

Premade controller configurations:

Dualshock 4

Activate DirectInput Button Rebinding: True
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A: 2
B: 3
X: 1
Y: 4
LShoulder: 5
RShoulder: 6
Select: 9
Start: 10
LStick: 11
RStick: 12
LTrigger: 7
RTrigger: 8

Audio

Audio settings

General and language settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound effects and music
Surround sound
Subtitles		All voice acting is fictional language and mumbling.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Audio Quality settings added in Patch 3.^[6]

Audio API settings added in Patch 2. They allow to select Wasapi, XAudio2 or DirectSound.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
French
Finnish
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese				Fan translation.

Issues unresolved

The Flash visual effect stays on at all times

The Flash visual effect stays on at all times, even when the ability itself isn't currently on.^[7]^[8]

Depth of field looks aliased

The game has no option to disable DoF.

Set resolution scaling to 200%^[9]

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		Use Helix Mod: Ori and the Will of the Wisps - 3D-Vision Ready Fix - 1.00.
vorpX		G3D Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Audiokinetic Wwise	Offer 3 APIs: WASAPI, XAudio2 and DirectSound
Input	Microsoft Xinput Library

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon X4 Intel Core i5 4460	AMD Ryzen 3 Intel Core i5 (Skylake)
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia Geforce GTX 950 AMD Radeon R7 370	Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 570

64 bit OS and Windows 10 Version 18362.0 or higher are required.

Steam version runs on Windows 7 and 8.1 despite minimum requirements.

Notes

↑ Unity engine build: 2018.4.24^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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>/1057090/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1057090) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Verified by User:Max20091 on 2021-01-31
↑ Ori and the Will of the Wisps Patch 2 :: Ori and the Will of the Wisps General Discussion - last accessed on 2021-03-26
↑ Ori and the Will of the Wisps Patch 3 :: Ori and the Will of the Wisps General Discussion - last accessed on 2021-03-26
↑ Release Notes for Ori and the Will of the Wisps – Xbox Series X - last accessed on 2020-11-06
↑ Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Fixing Native Dualshock 4 Bindings - last accessed on 2020-06-05
↑ Release Notes for Ori and the Will of the Wisps – Xbox Series X - last accessed on 2020-11-06
↑ Three bugs I'd like to report. :: Ori and the Will of the Wisps General Discussions
↑ Verified by User:Keith on 2020-04-21
↑ background looks like its in low resolution? :: Ori and the Will of the Wisps General Discussions

[2] Unity engine build: 2018.4.24^[1]

[Proton_path_note-5] 2.0 ^2.1 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>/1057090/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1057090) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[engineversion-1] Verified by User:Max20091 on 2021-01-31

[3] Ori and the Will of the Wisps Patch 2 :: Ori and the Will of the Wisps General Discussion - last accessed on 2021-03-26

[4] Ori and the Will of the Wisps Patch 3 :: Ori and the Will of the Wisps General Discussion - last accessed on 2021-03-26

[6] Release Notes for Ori and the Will of the Wisps – Xbox Series X - last accessed on 2020-11-06

[remapping-7] Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Fixing Native Dualshock 4 Bindings - last accessed on 2020-06-05

[8] Release Notes for Ori and the Will of the Wisps – Xbox Series X - last accessed on 2020-11-06

[9] Three bugs I'd like to report. :: Ori and the Will of the Wisps General Discussions

[10] Verified by User:Keith on 2020-04-21

[11] round looks like its in low resolution? :: Ori and the Will of the Wisps General Discussions

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Developers

	Moon Studios
Publishers
	Xbox Game Studios
Engines
	Unity 2018^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	March 11, 2020
Reception
Metacritic	88
OpenCritic	90
IGDB	91
Taxonomy
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Scrolling, Side view
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Adventure, Platform, Metroidvania
Art styles	Cartoon
Themes	Fantasy, Post-apocalyptic
Series	Ori and the Blind Forest