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Ori and the Will of the Wisps

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Ori and the Will of the Wisps
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Developers
Moon Studios
Publishers
Xbox Game Studios
Engines
Unity 2018[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows March 11, 2020
Reception
Metacritic 88
OpenCritic 90
IGDB 91
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view, Scrolling
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure, Metroidvania, Platform
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Fantasy, Post-apocalyptic
Series Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Will of the Wisps on HowLongToBeat
Ori and the Will of the Wisps on IGDB
Ori and the Will of the Wisps guide on StrategyWiki
Ori and the Will of the Wisps on MobyGames
Ori and the Will of the Wisps on Wikipedia
Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Blind Forest 2015
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition 2016
Ori and the Will of the Wisps 2020

Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a platform-adventure metroidvania game made by Moon Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios and is a sequel to the highly acclaimed Ori and the Blind Forest.

The game was released on both Microsoft Store and Steam on March 11, 2020.

Post-launch support included patch 2 introduced more graphical and audio options including HDR, dynamic resolution and audio device selection.[2] Patch 3 and 3.1 introduced even more graphical and audio options for even better scalability for higher and lower end hardware, image sharpening setting, bugfixes and performance improvements.[3][4]

General information

Xbox support page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Green Man Gaming
Microsoft Store
Xbox Play Anywhere, (Only activatable in United Kingdom)
Windows
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Xbox Game Pass for PC, Xbox Play Anywhere
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Windows

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via Xbox Game Pass for PC.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions Game does not contain any microtransactions.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Ori and the Will of The Wisps\
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.Patagonia_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Local\Ori and the Will of The Wisps
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1057090/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Ori and the Will of The Wisps\
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.Patagonia_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1057090/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud
Also on Steam version.

Video

Display settings
Display settings
Graphics settings
Graphics settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Anamorphic 16:9 aspect ratio.
Multi-monitor
Use the community tool for a workaround.
Ultra-widescreen
Native 21:9 support. Use the community tool for 32:9 support.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Exclusive fullscreen also available.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
SSAA ranging from 50% up to 200%. FXAA is always enabled.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Double buffering in fullscreen mode, triple buffering in borderless/window mode.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Slider allows adjusting limit from 30 to 200 FPS. Can be disabled for unlimited FPS. Optional FPS-limiter available.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.
Graphics Quality and Sharpness settings added in Patch 3.[5]
Includes a dynamic resolution setting that allows users to select a minimum frame rate from 30 to 300 FPS and adjust a minimum resolution from 50 to 100% (for both vertical and horizontal) when target minimum framerate cannot be achieved.

Input

Game control settings
Game control settings
Menu control settings
Menu control settings
Map control settings
Map control settings
Controller buttons
Controller buttons

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Full in-game remapping. Four keys per action.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Stick deadzone adjustement.
Rebinding only for DirectInput controllers, see Remapping.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Detected and usable but requires Remapping.
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes Wired,

Generic/other controllers
Rebinding almost mandatory. See Remapping.
Button prompts
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
XInput only. Adjustable from 0-200% in strength.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Using KB/M buttons together with XInput movement causes a stutter with each button press.
Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Hook input (legacy mode)
Official controller preset(s)
Steam Controller button prompts
Cursor detection

Remapping

Modify key/button binding file[6]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open KeyRebindings.txt if you want to modify keyboard bindings and ControllerButtonRemaps.txt for Direct Input controller.
  3. Change Activate Direct Input Button Rebinding: False from the top of the file into True.
  4. Make desired changes (Check your controllers PC Gaming Wiki article for button numbering) and save the file.

Notes

Neither analog sticks nor D-pad can be rebound, resulting in a lesser experience or possibly rendering some controllers completely unusable. Use external XInput wrapper to rebind these instead.
Haptic feedback is not supported with DirectInput controllers. Use XInput wrapper with haptic feedback support, e.g. Steam input.
More details are included at the bottom of the file.
Premade controller configurations:
Dualshock 4
Activate DirectInput Button Rebinding: True
--------
A: 2
B: 3
X: 1
Y: 4
LShoulder: 5
RShoulder: 6
Select: 9
Start: 10
LStick: 11
RStick: 12
LTrigger: 7
RTrigger: 8

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings
General and language settings
General and language settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects and music
Surround sound
Subtitles
All dialogue is text-only with fictional language and mumbling.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Audio Quality settings added in Patch 3.[7]
Audio API settings added in Patch 2. They allow to select Wasapi, XAudio2 or DirectSound.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Fan translation.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
"Spirit Trials" are races against player ghosts from the leaderboards.

VR support

Issues unresolved

Game crashes when quitting

Both Steam and MS Store versions silently crash when quitting (you'll find the crash logs under Windows Reliability Monitor or Event Viewer) [8]. This won't affect gameplay or corrupt save games.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Audiokinetic Wwise Offers 3 APIs: WASAPI, XAudio2 and DirectSound
Input XInput

Debug mode

The debug mode features various settings, for example: unlocking abilities, modifying stats, teleporting to locations or changing render settings like disabling the blurring and downsampling of the background.
Enable debug mode[9]
It is recommended to backup the save files before using any of the debug settings.
  1. Create the folder C:/moon/.
  2. Open the folder and create an empty text document called wispsDebug.txt.
  3. Press 8 in-game to access the control panel.
Online features are disabled while the debug mode is active.
To disable the debug mode, delete the created text file.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-4460
AMD Athlon X4
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon R7 370
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher is required.
Steam version runs on Windows 7 and 8.1 despite minimum requirements.


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2018.4.24[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/1057090/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1057090) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References