Dragon Quest Builders
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| Developers | |
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| Square Enix Business Division 5 | |
| Windows | Artdink[1] |
| Publishers | |
| Square Enix | |
| Engines | |
| Unity 2021[Note 1] | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | February 13, 2024 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Third-person, First-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Building, Open world, Sandbox, Survival |
| Art styles | Anime |
| Themes | Fantasy |
| Series | Dragon Quest |
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Dragon Quest Builders is a singleplayer third-person and first-person building, open world, sandbox and survival game in the Dragon Quest series.
The game was originally released for PlayStation platforms in 2016 and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2018. In 2022, a smartphone version ported by Artdink for Square Enix was released.[3] The PC version, also developed by Artdink,[1] is a port of the smartphone version[4] which featured additional content and building improvements, as well as adding PC-specific features including keyboard, mouse, and controller support.
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Green Man Gaming | |
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| Humble Store | |
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| Steam | |
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Monetization
| Type | Notes |
|---|---|
| One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Microtransactions
| Type | Notes |
|---|---|
| No microtransactions | None |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SquareEnix\DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2436570/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS\Steam\<user-id>\ |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2436570/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 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) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Labeled as Texture Filtering. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | On/off toggle. | ||
| High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | As of release, causes display to severely dim. [5] | ||
| Ray tracing (RT) | |||
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.
Input
| Keyboard and mouse, touch | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Touchscreen optimised | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| PlayStation controllers | DualSense |
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| PlayStation button prompts | ||
| Light bar support | ||
| Adaptive trigger support | ||
| DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
| Connection modes | Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth) |
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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 |
| Steam Input | ||
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| Steam Input API support | ||
| Official controller preset(s) | ||
| Steam Controller button prompts |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | All speech is text-based. | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | ||||
| Traditional Chinese | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Japanese | ||||
| Korean | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
| Latin American Spanish | ||||
| Spanish |
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 11.1 | [2] |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 10, 11 | |
| Processor (CPU) | AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Intel Core i3-6300 |
AMD Ryzen 3 1400 Intel Core i5-6400 |
| System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 16 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | AMD Radeon RX 460 Intel Arc A380 Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 DirectX 11 compatible | AMD Radeon RX 570 Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
- Minimum requirements target 1920x1080 at 30 FPS with default graphics options. Recommended requirements target 1920x1080 at 60 FPS with default graphics options.
- Despite the listed storage requirement, the actual installation size after download is 734.71 MB.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Unity engine build: 2021.3.4f1[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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>/2436570/. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (2436570) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://twitter.com/artdink_tw/status/1752906771990212801 - last accessed on 2024-02-09
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Verified by User:Fds29 on 2024-02-15
- Seen in the
Player.logfile.
- Seen in the
- ↑ https://www.artdink.co.jp/works/ - last accessed on 2024-02-09
- ↑ FAQ - ドラゴンクエストビルダーズ アレフガルドを復活せよ - SQUARE ENIX - last accessed on 2024-02-09
- ↑ The HDR is horrible. - Steam Community Forums - last accessed on 2024-02-14
- ↑ Depot 2436571 for DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS · SteamDB - last accessed on 2024-02-15