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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition

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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition cover
Developers
Original Westwood Studios
Nightdive Studios
Publishers
Nightdive Studios
Engines
Kex Engine
Release dates
Windows June 23, 2022
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Themes Cyberpunk, Detective/mystery, North America
Series Blade Runner
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on IGDB
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on MobyGames
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on Wikipedia
Blade Runner
Blade Runner 1997
Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab 2017
Blade Runner 9732 (unofficial) 2018
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition 2022
Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth TBA

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition is a remastered version of the 1997 adventure game Blade Runner. It features upscaled cutscenes, as the originals were either lost or were otherwise not shared by Electronic Arts from their Westwood Studios archives salvaged in the late 2010s. The interface was redone, gamepad support was added, and several post-processing effects were applied.

When it was first released, the game was bundled with the original Blade Runner, which was taken down from GOG.com as a separate product. This was reverted a few days later after a negative reaction from the fans, but the original version remained exclusively available as bundled on Steam, where it had not been available as a separate product previously.

The Enhanced Edition itself was received lukewarmly due to its bugs and performance. Two patches were published post-release to resolve a large number of the reported issues.

General information

Publisher Discord server
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Includes the original Blade Runner; prior owners of the original get a 50% discount
Windows
Steam
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 Includes the original Blade Runner[1]
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Move, rename or delete files[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\movies.
  2. Move, delete or rename Kex.ogv and NightDive.ogv.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Nightdive Studios\Blade Runner EX\kexengine.cfg
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1678420/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Nightdive Studios\Blade Runner EX\save
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1678420/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings

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

Input

Input settings
Input settings
Gameplay settings
Gameplay settings

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
General "sensitivity" and "smoothing" options.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
General "sensitivity" and "smoothing" options.
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, speech, sound effects, ambient sound, music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
[3]
German
[4]
Italian
[5]
Spanish
[6]

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD
Input SDL
Cutscenes Bink Video 2, OGV

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 10
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz Dual Core Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz
AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) Vulkan 1.1 compatible
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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>/1678420/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1678420) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References