Special K

Wishlist Follow Ignore Install Unwatch Watch

App ID	1157970
App Type	Application
Developer	Kaldaien, The Special☆K Group
Publisher	Kaldaien
Supported Systems	Windows
Last Changenumber	27924129
Last Record Update	11 March 2025 – 23:07:35 UTC ()

Lovingly referred to as the Swiss Army Knife of PC gaming, Special K does a bit of everything. It is best known for fixing and enhancing graphics, its many detailed performance analysis and correction mods, and a constantly growing palette of tools that solve a wide variety of issues affecting PC games.

Additional Information

This application is excluded from Steam Family Sharing because: This content type cannot be shared

Developer

Kaldaien

metacritic_name

Special K

controller_support

full

ReleaseState

prerelease

Publisher

Kaldaien

Exclude from family sharing (exfgls)

6 (This content type cannot be shared)

osarch

community_hub_visible

Yes

3rd-Party Account

3rd-Party DRM

r/CrackWatch

Social Media

https://discord.gg/specialk

Primary Genre

Free to Play (37)

Store Genres

Free to Play (37), Utilities (57)

app_retired_publisher_request

Yes

Store Asset Modification Time

20 September 2019 – 22:20:32 UTC () (1569018032)

library_assets

library_capsule	en
library_hero	en
library_logo	en
logo_position ↴
pinned_position	UpperCenter
width_pct	50.18259164504394
height_pct	76.8656440775352

osextended

empty string

Detected Technologies (?)

Tobii SDK

First seen on SteamDB

10 September 2019 – 02:29:53 UTC (), in changelist #6847504

Supported Languages

1 Languages	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	Yes

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

Assets

Load all asset images

clienticon

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clienttga

3c3f18a590227ea27ebb3a41f8d189e02da56b12

icon

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logo

296add92da11b820215513d9c4b3bdd2b4335356

logo_small

296add92da11b820215513d9c4b3bdd2b4335356_thumb

LinuxClientIcon

77225aefadd4af5552c873ea336357b6610e3d3a

small_capsule

english

capsule_231x87.jpg

header_image

english

header.jpg

library_assets_full

library_capsule ↴
image/english	library_600x900.jpg
image2x/english	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero ↴
image/english	library_hero.jpg
image2x/english	library_hero_2x.jpg
library_logo ↴
logo_position/pinned_position	UpperCenter
logo_position/width_pct	50.18259164504394
logo_position/height_pct	76.8656440775352
image/english	logo.png
image2x/english	logo_2x.png

Assets

main_capsule	capsule_616x353.jpg
small_capsule	capsule_231x87.jpg
header	header.jpg
library_capsule	library_600x900.jpg
library_capsule_2x	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero	library_hero.jpg
library_hero_2x	library_hero_2x.jpg
community_icon	59e0232da44d28ae0979caa19ef6234dbc98b5c5.jpg
page_background_path	app/1157970
timestamp	20 September 2022 – 01:29:49 UTC

Trailers

256793055 ↴
trailer_name	Trailer
trailer_category	0
trailer_480p/video/webm	256793055/movie480_vp9.webm
trailer_480p/video/mp4	256793055/movie480.mp4
trailer_max/video/webm	256793055/movie_max_vp9.webm
trailer_max/video/mp4	256793055/movie_max.mp4
microtrailer/video/webm	256793055/microtrailer.webm
microtrailer/video/mp4	256793055/microtrailer.mp4
screenshot_medium	256793055/movie.293x165.jpg
screenshot_full	256793055/movie_full.jpg
trailer_base_id	298898
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1594931128

User File System

Key

Value

quota

93.13 GiB (100000000000)

maxnumfiles

10000

savefiles

0 ↴
root	WinMyDocuments
path	My Mods/SpecialK/Global/
pattern	*.ini
1 ↴
root	WinMyDocuments
path	My Mods/SpecialK/Profiles/AppCache/
pattern	*.ini
recursive	1
2 ↴
root	WinMyDocuments
path	My Mods/SpecialK/PlugIns/Unofficial/ReShade/
pattern	*.ini
recursive	1
3 ↴
root	WinMyDocuments
path	My Mods/SpecialK/Version/
pattern	*.ini
4 ↴
root	WinMyDocuments
path	My Mods/SpecialK/Profiles/AppCache/
pattern	*.appcache
recursive	1

hidecloudui

ignoreexternalfiles

Save File Locations

Based on the configuration above, this is where we think the save files are located.

Platform	Path	Pattern
[All OSes]	%USERPROFILE%/My Documents/My Mods/SpecialK/Global/	*.ini
[All OSes]	%USERPROFILE%/My Documents/My Mods/SpecialK/Profiles/AppCache/	*.ini
[All OSes]	%USERPROFILE%/My Documents/My Mods/SpecialK/PlugIns/Unofficial/ReShade/	*.ini
[All OSes]	%USERPROFILE%/My Documents/My Mods/SpecialK/Version/	*.ini
[All OSes]	%USERPROFILE%/My Documents/My Mods/SpecialK/Profiles/AppCache/	*.appcache

Special K

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