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Oxenfree

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Oxenfree
Oxenfree cover
Developers
Night School Studio
Engines
Former Unity 5[Note 1]
Former Unity 2018[Note 2]
Unity 2020[Note 3]
Release dates
Windows January 15, 2016
macOS (OS X) January 15, 2016
Linux June 9, 2016
Reception
Metacritic 80
OpenCritic 81
IGDB 79
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Scrolling, Side view
Genres Adventure
Art styles Stylized
Themes Contemporary, Interwar, North America, Supernatural
Series Oxenfree
Oxenfree on HowLongToBeat
Oxenfree on IGDB
Oxenfree on MobyGames
Oxenfree on Wikipedia
Oxenfree
Oxenfree 2016
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals 2023

Oxenfree is a singleplayer scrolling and side view adventure game in the Oxenfree series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
DRM-free if launched directly from executable
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
itch.io
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Windows
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Night School Studio\Oxenfree\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Night School Studio/OXENFREE/[Note 4]
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Night School Studio/Oxenfree/[Note 6]
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Night School Studio\Oxenfree\save\
Microsoft Store
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\388880\remote\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/unity.Night School Studio.Oxenfree/save/
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Night School Studio/OXENFREE/save/[Note 4]
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Night School Studio/Oxenfree/save/[Note 6]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud
Steam Cloud is not configured for the Linux version.[4]
Xbox Cloud

Video

General Settings
General Settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Natively supported in the Steam version.[5][6]
See the related WSGF post for a workaround for the other platforms.
4K Ultra HD
Defaults to desktop resolution, but in-game settings only allow going up to 1080p if ever changed. Change in the configuration file.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
On by default. Use -window-mode exclusive parameter for exclusive fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS as of patch 1.2.1.[7]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Croatian
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Czech
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Danish
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Dutch
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Finnish
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
French
German
Greek
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Hebrew
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Hindi
[8]
Hungarian
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Indonesian
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Italian
Japanese
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Korean
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Malay
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Norwegian
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Polish
Localization officially added to the game.
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Portuguese
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Brazilian Portuguese
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Romanian
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Russian
In-game fan translation by «Tolma4 Team»
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Swedish
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Thai
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Turkish
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Ukrainian
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.
Vietnamese
To activate it, see the activating instruction section.

Issues fixed

Game silently fails to run (Steam/Linux)

If the Steam version of the game was installed prior to the 3.1.0 update which changed <path-to-game>/Oxenfree_Data to <path-to-game>/OXENFREE_Data,[9] the folder may not actually have been renamed, so the game may not run.
Fix the capitalization of the game's "data" folder

In <path-to-game>, rename Oxenfree_Data to OXENFREE_Data.

Missing saved progress or New Game Plus status (Steam/Linux)

Since the 3.1.0 update which renamed the game from Oxenfree to OXENFREE[9], your saved game progress or New Game+ status may appear to be missing.
Fix the capitalization of the game's "save data" folder

In $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Night School Studio, rename Oxenfree to OXENFREE.

Activating officially added polish version (and many others) of the game (Windows)

Earlier was available a translation made by community of grajpopolsku.pl, but in some patch polish localization was officially added to the game, although it (and many other languages) does not appear on the list of officially available languages on Steam Store. When Polish localization was officially added to the game, the localization made by grajpopolsku.pl was removed by them from their website.[10] [11]
Change one value in Registry Editor
Before you open it, make sure the Russian version of the game has been activated.
  1. Open the Registry Editor.
  2. Go to location HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Night School Studio\Oxenfree\.
  3. Click on text_language_h2258702997.
  4. Set decimal system, change the value for the number corresponding to your native language (full list below), and click OK.
  5. Run the game.
List of the values for setting other officially available languages:
7 = Traditional Chinese
8 = Arabic
9 = Danish
10 = Dutch
11 = Finnish
12 = Japanese
13 = Korean
14 = Norwegian
15 = Brazilian Portuguese
16 = Swedish
17 = Polish
18 = Turkish
19 = Thai
20 = Romanian
21 = Hebrew
22 = Greek
23 = Indonesian
24 = Hungarian
25 = Czech
26 = Vietnamese
27 = Croatian
28 = Ukrainian
29 = Latin American Spanish
30 = Malay
31 = Portuguese

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c, 11
OpenGL 2.0 Launch the game with the -force-glcore argument (see Engine:Unity#Command line arguments)
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam, by default, currently offers only a 64-bit executable (OXENFREE); the separate 32-bit and 64-bit executables (Oxenfree.x86 and Oxenfree.x86_64 respectively) were removed as of version 3.1.0[9] but are still available in a "beta" branch.[Note 5] The itch.io and GOG versions still contain both 32-bit and 64-bit executables.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.0 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.10 or similar
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.0 compatible


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.3.6p8[1]
  2. Unity engine build: 2018.4.32f1[2]
  3. Unity engine build: 2020.3.25f1[3]
  4. 4.0 4.1 The basename of the configuration folder is OXENFREE in the current Steam release of the game's Linux version.
  5. 5.0 5.1 To access the pre-x86-deprecation version in Steam, go to the Betas tab of the game's Properties window and select "linux_pre64 - Pre-x86 deprecation" from the drop-down list. The game will roll back to an older version with both a 32-bit executable Oxenfree.x86 and a 64-bit executable Oxenfree.x86_64, rather than a single 64-bit executable OXENFREE. Note that Steam will still be configured to launch OXENFREE on 64-bit Linux — the option to launch Oxenfree.x86_64 was removed[12] — so using this version of the game on such systems will result in a "missing executable" error. This can be resolved by creating a symbolic link from <path-to-game>/OXENFREE to <path-to-game>/Oxenfree.x86_64. (Open <path-to-game> in a terminal and enter ln -s Oxenfree.x86_64 OXENFREE.) If switching to this "beta" branch after installing the game from the main branch, one may also need to rename the folder <path-to-game>/OXENFREE_Data to <path-to-game>/Oxenfree_Data in order to get the game working. Similarly, when switching from the "beta" branch back to the main branch, the folder may need to be renamed from <path-to-game>/Oxenfree_Data to <path-to-game>/OXENFREE_Data.
  6. 6.0 6.1 The basename of the configuration folder is Oxenfree in older Linux versions, e.g. as distributed by GOG and in the pre-x86-deprecation branch[Note 5] available on Steam.

References

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-05-08
  2. Verified by User:Mastan on 2021-03-29
  3. Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-06-06
  4. Oxenfree Cloud Saves · SteamDB - last accessed on 2023-09-16
  5. Steam Community News - Oxenfree - Patch Notes - last accessed on 2021-04-16
  6. Verified by User:Rose on 2021-07-16
    As of this date, the game version is 3.1.0 on Steam but 2.7.1 on Epic and GOG, and 2.4.0 on Origin.
  7. OXENFREE Patch Notes :: Oxenfree General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  8. Verified by User:Hapaj11 on 2023-09-12
    It does appear on the credits list, but I faild to find the information about how to activate it. Probably it is region locked.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 3.1.0 Patch Notes · Oxenfree update for 12 July 2021 · SteamDB - last accessed on 2022-01-14
  10. YT: Poradnik do Oxenfree - Włączenie oficjalnego Polskiego języka w grze - last accessed on 2023-07-19
  11. Włączenie oficjalnego Polskiego języka - last accessed on 2023-07-19
  12. Oxenfree History · Change #19575794 · SteamDB - last accessed on 2023-09-16