nirvanA Initiative
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| Developers | |
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| Spike Chunsoft | |
| Engines | |
| Unity 2020[Note 1] | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | June 24, 2022 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 88 |
| OpenCritic | 86 |
| IGDB | 87 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | First-person, Third-person |
| Controls | Direct control, Point and select |
| Genres | Puzzle, Visual novel |
| Art styles | Anime |
| Themes | Cyberpunk, Detective/mystery, Japan, Sci-fi |
| Series | AI: The Somnium Files |
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| AI: The Somnium Files | |
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| AI: The Somnium Files | 2019 |
| nirvanA Initiative | 2022 |
| No Sleep For Kaname Date | 2025 |
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative is a singleplayer first-person and third-person puzzle and visual novel game in the AI: The Somnium Files series.
The PC port suffers from a lack of graphics quality adjustment options and antialiasing. The Somnium intro and outro animation videos are also significantly more compressed, compared to the equivalents used in the console versions.
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Store | |
Xbox Play Anywhere. | |
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| Steam | |
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Essential improvements
AISomniumFiles2Fix
- Allows using custom ultra-widescreen resolutions without letterboxing, improved SMAA, and hides mouse cursor while in-game.
- Mod can be configured via the
Mods\AISomnium2Fix.cfgconfig file, generated after first launch with the mod in place.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\SpikeChunsoft\AI Nirvana Initiative\launcher.ini HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SpikeChunsoft\AI_TheSomniumFiles2\ |
| Microsoft Store | |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1449200/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\SpikeChunsoft\AI Nirvana Initiative\Auto.dat %LOCALAPPDATA%\SpikeChunsoft\AI Nirvana Initiative\Manual.dat %LOCALAPPDATA%\SpikeChunsoft\AI Nirvana Initiative\System.dat |
| Microsoft Store | |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1449200/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Cloud | ||
| Xbox Cloud |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | 16:9 only | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | Use Lyall's fix. | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | On/off toggle. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | Low-quality SMAA in certain scenes, no settings to change this. Can be forced to high-quality with AISomniumFiles2Fix for a small improvement. See Downsampling for SSAA with better results. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
| Ray tracing (RT) | |||
| 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 Unity page for more details.
Downsampling
- Downsampling can be used to help with the extreme aliasing in the game, and make up for the lacking antialiasing it uses, at a large cost to performance.
- Your desktop resolution must be at or above the target virtual resolution before game will run at the resolution properly, Nvidia users can change to the DSR resolution via Nvidia Control Panels "Change resolution" menu.
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Keyboard and mouse prompts | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger support |
| DirectInput-compatible controllers |
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| PlayStation controllers | ||
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| PlayStation button prompts | ||
| Motion sensors support | ||
| Light bar support | ||
| Adaptive trigger support | ||
| DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
| Connection modes | ||
| Nintendo controllers |
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| Other controller(s) |
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| Additional information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Input prompt override | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
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 | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | ||||
| Traditional Chinese | ||||
| Japanese |
Other information
API
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Cutscenes | AVProVideo |
System requirements
| Windows | ||||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |||
| Operating system (OS) | 10 | |||
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i7-3770 3.4 GHz | |||
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB | ||
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) | 20 GB | |||
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 | ||
| Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible | |||
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ Unity engine build: 2020.3.30f1[1]
- ↑ 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>/1449200/. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1449200) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2023-03-12