Ikaruga

Ikaruga

Developers
	Treasure
Publishers
Steam	Treasure
Epic Games Store	Nicalis
Release dates
Windows	February 18, 2014
Reception
Metacritic	84
OpenCritic	88
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Top-down view, Scrolling
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Arcade, Shooter
Vehicles	Flight
Themes	Sci-fi

Key points

The PC version was released through Steam in 2014 and is reportedly based on the latest arcade release.

Uses Steam for global leaderboards, achievements and ability to upload and download replays.

The PC version uses analog movement for player's ship (similar to Xbox 360 version). The original digital movement is still available.

The August 2014 update added Appendix to the PC version, although some of the text in Soundtrack and Documents is missing unless switching game's language to Japanese

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store
Steam

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\boot.txt
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/253750/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/253750/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		The game always uses a 90° vertical perspective by default, rotate the screen in the options for actual widescreen.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Set resolution to "Desktop"; maximum resolution is 1280x720 otherwise.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16 samples.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Up to 4x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Turn on/off in boot.txt
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS and is tied to the game speed.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Set borderless fullscreen

Set the in-game video settings to full screen mode and desktop resolution. Install Special K by following the Official Special K Wiki Guide. Manual local installation may work better. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\game.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used. Change ForceWindowed=false to ForceWindowed=true under [Display.Output]. Change Borderless=false to Borderless=true under [Window.System]. Change Fullscreen=false to Fullscreen=true. Change OverrideRes=0x0 to your desktop resolution (e.g. OverrideRes=1920x1080).

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Mouse not used during gameplay.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, music, SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		See Mute on focus lost.
Royalty free audio

Mute on focus lost

Set mute in background

Install Special K by following the Unofficial Special K Guide. Manual local installation may work better. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\game.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used. Change Borderless=false to Borderless=true under [Window.System] Change MuteInBackground=false to MuteInBackground=true. Change OverrideRes=0x0 to your desktop resolution (e.g. OverrideRes=1920x1080).

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				The game has very few spoken lines which are not important to the story.
Japanese				The game has very few spoken lines which are not important to the story.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		2	Co-op Shared single-controller mode also available.
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.

Set screen refresh rate

Install Special K by following the Unofficial Special K Guide. Manual local installation may work better. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\game.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used. Change RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate]. Change Borderless=false to Borderless=true under [Window.System] Change OverrideRes=0x0 to your screen resolution (e.g. OverrideRes=1920x1080).

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo AMD Athlon 64 X2
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	512 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible