God of War
Developers | |
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Santa Monica Studio | |
Windows | Jetpack Interactive[1] |
Publishers | |
PlayStation PC | |
Release dates | |
Windows | January 14, 2022 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 93 |
OpenCritic | 94 |
IGDB | 96 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | ARPG, Adventure, Hack and slash |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Fantasy |
God of War is a singleplayer, third-person, ARPG, adventure, action game, featuring action oriented hack and slash gameplay and a strong narrative, made by Santa Monica Studio and published by PlayStation. God of War is a sequel/reboot in the God of War series, and uses a proprietary engine.
God of War was first released on PlayStation 4 on April 20, 2018, and was later released on PC on January 14, 2022. The PC version has several features over the PlayStation 4 version, featuring high frame rate, ultrawide, and high resolution support, although with a few issues such as no anti-aliasing toggle or FoV slider. The launch was considered a success, with the player count reaching a peak that surpassed other PlayStation PC games that have been released.[2]
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
Essential improvements
Skip intro video
Delete or rename video files |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\settings.ini[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1593500/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\God of War\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1593500/pfx/[Note 2] |
- PS4 savegames can be imported for New Game+ at least[3]
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Hor+ for certain resolutions. See Field of view (FOV). | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Default FOV is 73. See Field of view (FOV). | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Exclusive fullscreen mode is not available. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Options for Min, Low, Original, High, and Ultra. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Temporal Anti-Aliasing is always enabled. DLSS is supported. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | FPS limiter ranges from 30-120, or off. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | Options for "Brightness" (peak-brightness, 0-100) and "Contrast" (black-level, 0-100). | ||
Ray tracing (RT) |
- Supports FidelityFX Super Resolution.[4]
Field of view (FOV)
Use Cheat Engine[5] |
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Use Flawless Widescreen[citation needed] |
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DLSS Sharpening
Modify the game executable to disable forced sharpening in DLSS. |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Negative mouse acceleration is present. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | And x-axis. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion | And x-axis |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | [6] | |
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | [7] Also supports Dualsense. | |
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | Сolor changes depending on the situation. | |
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes | Wired, V2 tested |
Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | No Dualsense haptic feedback support, rumble is supported (intensity slider from 0 - 10) | |
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Steam Input | ||
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Steam Input API support | ||
Hook input (legacy mode) | ||
Official controller preset(s) | ||
Steam Controller button prompts |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Options for Music, Dialogue, and SFX | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | Options for subtitle background and subtitle speaker | |
Mute on focus lost | Toggle |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Croatian | Available but not shown as supported. | |||
Czech | ||||
Dutch | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Greek | Voice-acting available despite not showing as supported. | |||
Hungarian | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Turkish |
Issues unresolved
Poor performance
- AMD GPUs may show FPS-drops in many locations, regardless of graphics settings and GPU usage percentage. This is observed on Vega 56/64, Radeon 570, 580, 590, 5700XT, 6600XT, 6800XT. Several reports on Steam community forum indicate that both Intel and Ryzen CPU users may be currently affected.[8]
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Wwise | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video 2 |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3.1 GHz |
Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 70 GB HDD | 70 GB SSD |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB (AMD) or 6 GB (Nvidia) of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
- Additional requirements for high refresh rate and 4K resolutions are listed here.
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1593500/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1593500) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Ars Technica - God of War’s 2018 reboot arrives on PC in January 2022 - last accessed on 2021-10-25
- "Sony representatives have confirmed to Ars that this port is being "overseen" by its creators at Sony Santa Monica while otherwise handled by Jetpack Interactive..."
- ↑ God of War Has Passed Horizon Zero Dawn and Is Now Sony's Biggest PC Launch - last accessed on 2022-01-19
- ↑ God of War PS4 save on PC seems to work-ish : ps4homebrew - Reddit
- ↑ GOD OF WAR (2018) PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND PC FEATURES TRAILER - last accessed on 2022-01-14
- ↑ God of War Custom FOV Mod (Currently uses a Cheat Engine table, and affects cutscenes) - last accessed on 2022-01-15
- ↑ Forbes - Everything You Need To Know About 'God Of War' Coming To PC - last accessed on 2021-10-20
- "(and other gamepads, including Xbox)..."
- ↑ Steam - God of War - last accessed on 2021-10-20
- "With support for the DUALSHOCK®4 and DUALSENSE® wireless controllers..."
- ↑ Steam forum - AMD GPU issues