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D4 PC Release Date and PC Specs Revealed

Enjoy Detective Young's Bostonian accent on your computers this summer.

Access Games announced a little while ago that D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die will be breaking its Xbox One exclusivity and head to PC. It has been announced that the PC version of D4 will launch via Steam, Humble Store, GOG, and Playism on June 5 at the price of $14.99.

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The official D4 website has also provided a full list of changes from the Xbox One version and required PC specs to run the game, which you can check out below:

Kinect control functionality has been removed. Instead, the entire game can be played using only the mouse.

・Hand Cursor movement/selecting
・Grab controls
・Push controls
・Direction changes
・Posture changes
・Selecting/canceling
・Interactions

Kinect gesture input controls have been removed and replaced with mouse commands.

・There are new commands to do daily life activities like drinking tequila and

opening fortune cookies.
・Special actions like activating Dive and Vision have been changed to new commands.
・Gesture inputs during cutscenes have been changed to new commands.

Synchronous Kinect inputs have been changed to new mouse commands.

・Actions like wiping the windows and fixing the switchboard have been customized for

mouse controls.
・Other features like changing posture can now be done with the mouse.

All Kinect Commands during Synchro Stunts (QTEs) have been removed. Instead, the QTEs can be played entirely using mouse controls. 

  •   Actions like waving both arms and swiping repeatedly have been changed into new swipe methods and commands.
  •   Gesture commands like swinging the bat have been changed into new commands.
  •   Actions like screaming into the microphone have been changed into new commands.

All Xbox One DLC is now in-game content.

・Collaboration costumes can now be acquired within the game.
・Beard DLC can now be acquired within the game.
・The parameters of various outfits have been altered.
・“Today’s Free Outfit,” a new section of Amanda’s Shop, has been added.

Along with the above changes, the user interface has also been redone.

・Changes have been made to the affected areas in order to fit the mouse controls.

All voice controls have been removed.

・Voice input during Synchro Stunts (QTEs)
・Voice selection during conversation
・Selection during cutscenes
・Shortcuts in the closet and shop
・Shortcuts in the menu

Synchro Stunt (QTE) grading has been revised.

Item parameters and locations have been revised.

Options unique to the PC version have been added. 

・Resolution Settings
・Window / Full Screen Settings
・Vsync ON / OFF
・Dynamic Shadows ON / OFF
・Subtitle Language Settings(EFIGSPJ supported)

The game now runs at 60fps.

*Only capable when using the recommended settings.

Load times have been shortened.

Previously discovered bugs have been fixed.

Content unique to the Xbox ONE version has been removed.

・MELD compatibility
・Leaderboards

Unique content has been added to the Steam version.

・Steam Achievements
・Trading Cards
・Badges
・Emoticons
・Profile Backgrounds
・Cloud Saving

PC version Specifications

Recommended Specifications

OS Windows 7 64-bit edition or Windows 8 64-bit edition
CPU Intel Corei7 4770K @ 3.5GHz or an equivalent AMD CPU
Memory 8GB RAM
Graphic Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD Radeon HD 7850 (VRAM 2GB)
Display 1920×1080
DirectX DirectX 11
HDD 20GB of free space
Sound Card A DirectX 11 compatible card
Other Keyboard and mouse necessary. Compatible with XInput controllers such as the Xbox 360 controller.

Minimum Specifications

OS Windows 7 64-bit edition or Windows 8 64-bit edition
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz or an equivalent AMD CPU
Memory 6GB RAM
Graphic Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon HD 6870 (VRAM 1GB)
Display 1280×720
DirectX DirectX 11
HDD 10GB of free space
Sound Card A DirectX 11 compatible card
Other Keyboard and mouse necessary. Compatible with XInput controllers such as the Xbox 360 controller.

D4 will be released for PC on June 5. You can check out our review of the Xbox One version of the game here.

About the author

Zhiqing Wan

Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.

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