Saints Row

This article refers to the 2022 soft reboot. The 2006 title of the same name was never officially released on PC.

Saints Row

Developers
	Deep Silver Volition
Publishers
	Deep Silver
Engines
	CTG
Release dates
Windows	August 23, 2022
Reception
Metacritic	69
OpenCritic	66
IGDB	62
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Shooter, Open world
Art styles	Realistic
Series	Saints Row

Saints Row
Saints Row 2	2009
Saints Row: The Third	2011
Saints Row IV	2013
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell	2015
Agents of Mayhem	2017
Saints Row: The Third Remastered	2020
Saints Row	2022

Saints Row is a singleplayer and multiplayer action, shooter and open world game in the Saints Row series.

The game received its first major patch version 1.2 dubbed as 'The Bright Future' update, fixing co-op, missions, subtitle sync and other gameplay issues. On March 27, 2023, a roadmap for the game announced three upcoming DLCs that will launch in May, July and August, 2023.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		Gold Edition and Platinum Edition also available.
Humble Store		Gold Edition and Platinum Edition also available.
Steam (unavailable)		Coming in 2023.

Monetization

Type	Notes
DLC	Adds new story missions, events, modes, enembies and more.
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Expansion Pass	Includes The Heist and The Hazardous, Dog Ketchum's Murder Circus and Expansion 3.
The Heist and The Hazardous	Contains new story missions, events, cosmetics and more. To be released as part of the Expansion Pass in May 2023.
Dog Ketchum's Murder Circus	Contains a new Solo Mode. To be released as part of the Expansion Pass in July 2023.
Expansion 3	Contains new story missions, enemies, cosmetics and more. To be released as part of the Expansion Pass in August 2023.
SteelSeries FREE Cosmetic Pack	Free cosmetics pack.
Festive Felonies FREE Cosmetic Pack	Free cosmetics pack.
Merry Saintsmas Cosmetic Pack	Cosmetics pack.
Los Panteros American Muscle Bundle	Cosmetics pack.
Saints Criminal Customs	Cosmetics pack.
Saints Criminal Customs	Cosmetics pack.
Idols Anarchy Pack	Cosmetics pack.
Going Commando Cosmetic Pack	Cosmetics pack.
Chicken Dinner Cosmetic Pack	Cosmetics pack.
Front to Back Cosmetic Pack	Cosmetics pack.
Front to Back Cosmetic Pack	Cosmetics pack.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SaintsRow\sr5\display.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\sr5_\_cloudfolder\saves\SR\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher

Video settings

Graphics settings

Video

While at the graphics settings menu, the game itself can still be seen paused in the background, making the user able to directly see the effects of changed graphical settings. Loading different quality of textures can take a few seconds after changing texture quality.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Up to 32:9, fish eye effect on 32:9 with high fov, cutscenes are pillarboxed
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Adjustment-slider with values between 35° and 110°.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16x available.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA and TSSAA 8x
High-fidelity upscaling		FSR 2.1
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Can be set to double- or triple-buffered
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		60FPS with 30FPS physics or uncapped with 60FPS physics.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)		Ray-traced ambient occlusion
Color blind mode		High Contrast (off, Highlight, Full), Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Tritanopia

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Vehicle look sensitivity is not affected, even changing mouse-dpi to 100 is still way too fast for vehicles, especially when shooting
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

DualShock 4 controllers		DualShock 4 acts as an Xbox controller; DualSense supported
DualShock button prompts		DualSense button prompts
Light bar support
Connection modes	DualSense

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Only for weapons
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Only up to 5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

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

Network

Multiplayer types

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

VR support

Devices	Native	Notes
Tobii Eye Tracking		Supports: Extended View - Head Tracking, Aim at Gaze, Clean UI, Dynamic Light.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12
Vulkan

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok, SpeedTree
Audio	Wwise
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-3240 AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i5 12600 AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 480 4 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti AMD Radeon RX 6800XT 12 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.