Destroy All Humans!

Destroy All Humans!

Developers
	Black Forest Games
Publishers
	THQ Nordic
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	July 28, 2020
Reception
Metacritic	71
OpenCritic	71
IGDB	67
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	Cosmetic
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Shooter
Vehicles	Hovercraft
Art styles	Cartoon
Themes	Cold War, Comedy, North America, Sci-fi
Series	Destroy All Humans!

Destroy All Humans!
Destroy All Humans!	2020
Destroy All Humans! - Clone Carnage	2022
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed	2022

Destroy All Humans! is a singleplayer third-person shooter game in the Destroy All Humans! series.

The game is a remake of the original Destroy All Humans! from 2005.

General information

Official Discord server

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Epic Games Store		DRM-free when launched directly from the executable.
GamersGate
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Microsoft Store
Steam		DRM free if launched directly from the executable

A free demo version is available from GOG.com and Steam: steam://install/1297100.

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
Cosmetic	A Skin Pack DLC can be purchased for real-world money.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Skin Pack	Titled Special Skin Pack on GOG.com.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use Destroy All Humans! intro skip

Replace intro files with empty ones
Go to <path-to-game>\Content\Movies. Delete or rename the following 3 files: BFGLogo1080p.mp4, Bumper_LegalSplash.mp4 and THQNORDIC_LOGO_Color_white.mp4. Create 3 empty files and give them the same names and extensions as the 3 files above.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\DH\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/803330/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\DH\Saved\SaveGames\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/803330/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Video options

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			HUD is spanned.
Ultra-widescreen			Hor+ gameplay and rendered cutscenes, spanned HUD.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Use Destroy All Humans! FOV changer.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Texture Quality option controls anisotropic filtering.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Anti-Aliasing option uses TAA by default. See Anti-Aliasing (AA) for SSAA/downsampling.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		As of Patch 1.4, Framerate can be set higher than 120, up to 240 in ingame settings. To set the cap higher than 240, see High frame rate. Note that, FPS Limit = OFF, cap the fps at 120.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

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  FOV at 16:9 resolutions

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  FOV at 21:9 resolutions

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  FOV at 32:9 resolutions

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  FOV and HUD at 48:9

Anti-Aliasing (AA)

Adjust r.ScreenPercentage for downsampling
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open Engine.ini with a text editor. Add [SystemSettings] to the bottom of the file, if that section doesn't already exist. Inside that section, add r.ScreenPercentage=100 where 100 is the desired resolution percentage.

High frame rate

Adjust the Framerate Cap using GameUserSettings.ini
Browse to the configuration file(s) location, and open GameUserSettings.ini. Change FrameRateLimit=0.000000 to FrameRateLimit=XXX.000000, replacing "XXX" with the desired framerate limit. Save GameUserSettings.ini. By default, when using "0", or set the FPS Limit to "off' ingame, the game will cap the fps to 120, but this cap can be adjusted to go higher.

Input

Keybinding options

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity		"Camera Sensitivity" and "Saucer Sensitivity"
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		"Camera Sensitivity" and "Saucer Sensitivity"
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger support

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

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  Gameplay options

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  Controller options

Audio

Audio options

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		"Master", "Music", "Noise Effects", "Voices", "User Interface"
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		"Mute in the Background"
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Czech				Fan translation; download.
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D		Dual-View Rendering (3D Ultra) or Single-View Depth Reprojection (3D+) Use TrueGame for Acer SpatialLabs, or NewAxis on other Eye-Tracked Lightfield displays.
Nvidia 3D Vision		Dual-View Rendering Use Geo-11 for Frame Sequential, Interleaved, SBS, TAB or Anaglyph displays.

Issues fixed

Ghosting when moving in-game

Disable in-game TAA
Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\DH\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\engine.ini in a text editor. Add the line r.PostProcessAAQuality=0 to the file. Save the file.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11	Direct3D 12 can be forced using the -d3d12 command line argument.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX

Modifications

More mods can be found on the Destroy All Humans NexusMods page.

60FPS FMVs

Replaces many of the 1080p 30FPS pre-rendered FMV cutscenes with re-encoded 1080p 60FPS videos.

• PCGamingWiki mirror can be found here.

Cutscenes are re-encoded using motion interpolation.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium G3220 AMD A10-7850K		Intel Core i3-8100 AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
System memory (RAM)	8 GB		16 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	19 GB
Video card (GPU)	4 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible Shader model 5.1 support		DirectX 12 compatible Shader model 6.0 support
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9 compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Windows 7 and 8.1 are supported, but some AMD graphics cards might show weaker performance on those OS versions.

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G is required for systems using integrated GPUs.