Knytt Stories

Knytt
Knytt	2006
Knytt Stories	2007
Knytt Experiment	2007
Knytt Underground	2013

General information

The official Nifflas Forum

Nifflas' site(Archive)

Availability

Nifflas' site is down, and probably will be for the foreseeable future. The game can still be downloaded from here.

Essential improvements

YKnytt

YKnytt is an open source implementation of Knytt Stories in C#.

Features: Constant 60 FPS, Knytt Stories Plus support and level downloader, along with bugfixes and optimizations.

Can be found on the YKnytt GitHub Page.

Knytt Stories +

Knytt Stories Plus (KS+) is a mod of the original Knytt Stories, it's design philosophy is to make everything look and feel as if Nifflas had made it himself and keep design features as user-friendly as possible. It allows for borderless windowed fullscreen, creating bigger levels, as well as a ton of other improvements. It can be found on the mod creator's site.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\\Saves\^{[Note 1]}

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Essential improvements for mods.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Can only turn off and on all sounds. To choose between sound effects and music, see Essential improvements for mods.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9, 11
OpenGL

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.3GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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).

References

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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).

[Note 1]

Developers
	Nifflas' Games
Engines
	Clickteam Fusion 2
Release dates
Windows	August 28, 2007
Taxonomy
Monetization	Freeware
Series	Knytt