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Ghostrunner

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Ghostrunner
Ghostrunner cover
Developers
One More Level
Slipgate Ironworks
Publishers
All in! Games
505 Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows October 27, 2020
Reception
Metacritic 81
OpenCritic 82
IGDB 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions Cosmetic
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
Art styles Realistic
Themes Cyberpunk, Post-apocalyptic
Series Ghostrunner
Ghostrunner on HowLongToBeat
Ghostrunner on IGDB
Ghostrunner on MobyGames
Ghostrunner on Wikipedia
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Ghostrunner is a first-person action game with parkour elements set in post-apocalyptic cyberpunk setting.

The release of the game was preceded by multiple periods where different demo builds of the game were made available, allowing players to try the game for themselves and give feedback to the developer, which was then used to further improve the game.[3] The game was released as planned on October 27, 2020, on Epic Games Store, GOG, and Steam and was met with very positive reception from players and critics, although some people found its high difficulty and trial and error gameplay frustrating.

Due to the feedback gathered during demo periods, most known game crashing bugs have been fixed, and options such as an FOV slider and the ability to unlock FPS have been added prior to the game's launch.[3] The game was one of the first titles to implement DirectX raytracing. It also supports Nvidia's DLSS technology.

General information

Publisher Discord server
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)
Game can be launched directly from the executable. If online, an Epic Games Account popup will appear to link the game via web browser, but can be closed or ignored.[4][5] Complete Edition also available.
DLC requires Epic Games Launcher.
Windows
GamersGate
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Complete Edition also available.
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Complete Edition also available.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Complete Edition also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Complete Edition also available.
Windows
Humble Store
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Complete Edition also available.
Windows
Steam
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Complete Edition also available.
Windows

Demo

A demo is available from GOG.com, Epic Games Store and Steam (Direct installation link for Steam demo).

Version differences

Pre-orders through Epic Games Store, GOG, and Steam granted katana sword variations exclusive to each store.[6]

Monetization

Type Notes
DLC The Project_Hel DLC includes a new player character, missions, enemies and weapons.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
Cosmetic Skins offered as inexpensive DLC.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Winter Pack
Windows
Metal Ox Pack
Windows
_Neon Pack
Windows
Halloween Pack
Windows
Project_Hel
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete videos[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Ghostrunner\Content\Movies.
  2. Delete or rename GR_TRAILER_Demo.mp4 and SplashScreen.mp4.

Notes:

A game update will likely restore the files.

Game data

Gameplay settings
Gameplay settings

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Ghostrunner\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1139900/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Ghostrunner\Saved\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1139900/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Video settings
Video 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)
Bound to Texture Quality setting.[7]
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
DLSS 2.0, FSR 1.0
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Features NVIDIA RTX Shadows, Reflections and Ambient Occlusion
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Input settings
Input settings
Keyboard bindings
Keyboard bindings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

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
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Fan voice-over by «GamesVoice», download
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Ukrainian
Added in june 28th patch.

Issues fixed

Alleviate or eliminate shader compilation stutter

Force enable shader preloading[citation needed]
Massively improves framepacing during gameplay and alleviates most stutters caused by shader compilation.
Doesn´t work with the DirectX 12 version of the game. Can exacerbate level loading stutters as the cpu is utilized on all cores to 100% during the loading. The Shaders Cache has to be compiled again once a display driver has been uninstalled or updated due to the display driver´s shader cache being deleted/reset in the update/uninstall process.
  1. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Ghostrunner\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following text as a new paragraph at the bottom and then save the file.
[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
r.CreateShadersOnLoad=1

Other information

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D + FullVR
User Profile, see vorpx forum for introduction

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11, 12 DirectX 12 is required to enable raytracing.
Shader Model support 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Supports ASUS Aurora RGB and Corsair iCue.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3 GHz
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 22 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon RX 550
2 GB (Nvidia), 4 GB (AMD) of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.26.2.0[1][2]
  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>/1139900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1139900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Awesome games coming in 2020 and beyond - last accessed on 2020-01-02
  2. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-03-08
  3. 3.0 3.1 FPS Unlocked, FOV Slider Added - Demo Update - last accessed on 2020-11-05
  4. Verified by User:Dribbleondo on 2023-12-31
    Ran for fifteen minutes with no issues, offline and online. DLC offline not checked.
  5. Epic Store games you can play without the Epic Launcher - last accessed on 2020-10-27
  6. Ghostrunner Pre-Order Bonus for PC, Xbox One, and PS4 Revealed - last accessed on 2020-10-14
  7. Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2020-10-30)