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Revision as of 08:02, 16 September 2021

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Way of the Samurai 3
Way of the Samurai 3 cover
Developers
Acquire
Publishers
Former Ghostlight
Current Spike Chunsoft
Engines
Gamebryo
Release dates
Windows March 23, 2016
Taxonomy
Monetization DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Hack and slash, Open world
Themes Japan
Series Way of the Samurai
Way of the Samurai 3 on HowLongToBeat
Way of the Samurai 3 on IGDB
Way of the Samurai 3 on MobyGames
Way of the Samurai 3 on Wikipedia
Way of the Samurai
Way of the Samurai 4 2015
Way of the Samurai 3 2016
Katana Kami: A Way of the Samurai Story 2020
Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief 2022

Key points

Based on the standard version of the game, not the PLUS edition.
Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.
Very limited graphics settings menu.

General information

Official site - Japanese
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
Delisted 2021-03-21[1]
Windows
Steam
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Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Accessory Set
Windows
Head and Outfit set
Windows
Weapon Set
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\WayOfTheSamurai3.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/427510/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Ghostlight Ltd\Way of the Samurai 3\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/427510/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Change FOV= in <path-to-game>\WayOfTheSamurai3.ini
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See here for MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS. Cap can be changed via LockWindowFrameRate= in <path-to-game>\WayOfTheSamurai3.ini, but raising it too far above 30 (ie, 60+) breaks certain elements of the game such as hitboxes and animation speed.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Surround 5.1 mix is messed up: some front sound effects plays from back speaker.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Japanese

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3 support
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References