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Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

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Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin cover
Developers
Team Ninja
Publishers
Square Enix
Engines
Katana Engine
Release dates
Windows March 18, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 68
OpenCritic 72
IGDB 72
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, RPG
Art styles Realistic
Themes Fantasy
Series Final Fantasy
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Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is a third-person action RPG developed by Koei Tecmo's Team Ninja and published by Square Enix. It is an alternate prequel to the original Final Fantasy released in 1987.

The game was released on the Epic Games Store on March 18, 2022 alongside the console versions. It was later released on Steam on April 6, 2023.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
Epic Games Launcher
Digital Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Digital Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Humble Store
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Digital Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Steam
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Digital Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Epic Games Launcher %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN\EOS\<user-id>\config.xml
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN\Steam\<user-id>\config.xml
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1358700/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Epic Games Launcher %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN\EOS\<user-id>\
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN\Steam\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1358700/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Natively supports up to 21:9. Cutscenes are pillarboxed to 16:9. The Nioh 2 Resolution tool can enable support for other resolutions, such as 32:9, but you will need to rename SOPFFO.exe to Nioh2.exe before running the patcher. After patching, rename the executable back to SOPFFO.exe.[1]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
[2]
Anti-aliasing (AA)
TAA On/off toggle.
High-fidelity upscaling
DLSS 2.0, FSR 1.0
Sometimes DLSS will not enable without any notice, if You do not see difference between quality and performance presets, disable DLSS and manually set 3D Rendering Resolution Scaling to 100% before re-enabling DLSS.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
As a toggle.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Choice of 30, 60, or 120 FPS cap.
In-game cutscenes are hard-coded to 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
SDR based contrast expanding. HDR-option becomes available in in-game menus when Windows Desktop HDR is enabled upon game-start.
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Camera settings
Camera settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings
Display options
Display options

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
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Connection types

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer Epic Online Services, Steamworks Epic Games version uses EOS, Steam version uses Steamworks.
Steam and Epic Games users cannot cross-play with each other.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i7-6700
AMD Ryzen 5 1400
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 80 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
AMD Radeon RX 470
6 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Minimum system requirements are for 720p 30 FPS; recommended system requirements are for 1080p 60 FPS.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Hman360 on 2022-04-16
    Tested and running on a 32:9 screen.
  2. Verified by User:Fayaine on 2022-03-21
    The game uses a certain amount of AF which can be compared by forcing AF off in the driver. If i had to guess it's 4x or 8x.