The in-game overlay

Press Esc, or on a controller the touchpad (PlayStation), Share (Xbox Series), Capture (Switch Pro) or Back and Start together. The game pauses behind it.

The side panel: Resume, Settings, Controls, Overlay (the performance HUD), Report a bug, Return to title and Exit game. F1 opens Settings straight away.

Keyboard, mouse and controller all work everywhere in it, and the key hints along the bottom follow whichever you used last.

Every graphics setting, in seven sections: Display, Anti-aliasing and upscaling, Frame generation and latency, Detail, Shadows, Look and Advanced. Each option shows what it does and what it costs in the box below, and the Switch's own choice is marked.

See a change before you keep it. Preview unpauses the game with your character held still and a bar at the bottom with the section's settings and the frame rate, so each change shows live.

Every Switch button with its two keys and its controller input, named as printed on your controller (× ○ □ △ on PlayStation, A B X Y on Xbox). Exploring and battles have their own sets, so a key can do one thing on the field and another in a battle.

With a controller, the controller column is the only one it changes, so a controller never moves a keyboard key.

What the left and right buttons, the wheel press and turning the wheel do, for exploring and for battles. Step through with ‹ ›, or pick from a list of every Switch button named by what it does there.

The mouse also turns the camera; Alt frees it.

A card over the running game with what every button does, in the game's current mode: press F2, or hold Back on a controller. It uses your bindings and your controller's own buttons, and the game gets none of your presses while it shows.

Frames per second with the 1% and 0.1% lows, a frame-time graph, the GPU's and the game's time per frame, CPU and memory, and with frame generation the frames shown and the game's own. F3 steps it: off, compact, detailed. The Overlay page picks its corner, its parts, its size and how see-through it is, with a live preview.

The overlay and the HUD come in the launcher's themes, and stay in step with it: a theme picked in the game (Settings › Look › Theme) is the launcher's too.