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Arise: A Simple Story

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Arise: A Simple Story
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Developers
Piccolo
Publishers
Epic Games Store Piccolo
GOG.com, Steam Untold Tales
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows December 3, 2019
Reception
Metacritic 79
OpenCritic 81
IGDB 86
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
Epic Games Launcher
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
Epic Games Launcher
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Arise\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/866140/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Arise\Saved\SaveGames
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/866140/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
See Ultra-widescreen.
Ultra-widescreen
Pillarboxed gameplay and windowboxed cutscenes. See Ultra-widescreen.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Labelled Texture Quality, options to choose are Low, Medium and High which are 2x, 4x and 8x respectively.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Options to choose are Low, Medium and High.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
Optional 30 FPS cap.
120+ FPS
Maximum in-game FPS is 60, see Frame rate (FPS) to change it.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Ultra-widescreen

Steam version needs to be de-obfuscated using Steamless before applying the fix.
Use the ultrawide/multimonitor patcher.

Frame rate (FPS)

Change maximum framerate[1]
  1. Navigate to configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open GameUserSettings.ini.
  3. Modify the value(s) under FrameRateLimit=60.000000 to your desired framerate.
  4. Save the file.
Some animations are designed for a 60 FPS experience and can stutter.

Input

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master volume only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
No voice-overs.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio Vorbis

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7, 8.1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-4340 3.6 GHz
System memory (RAM) 6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 670
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
Controller
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>/866140/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (866140) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2019-12-04
  2. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2019-12-04
    Verified by testing the game with a Microsoft Xbox One Controller with a USB cable
  3. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2019-12-04
    Verified by testing the game with a Sony PlayStation DualShock 4 V2 Controller with a USB cable
  4. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2019-12-04
    Verified by hot-plugging 2 different controllers