Can I Run A Short Hike?
A Short Hike is an adventure indie game from adamgryu, released in 2019. adamgryu both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. Steam lists support for 5 languages. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. At 7 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. There are 12 achievements to chase. Its Steam review count passes 18 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Cloud saves are enabled. Its Metacritic score stands at 82. Builds exist for macOS and Linux as well as Windows.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel or AMD Dual Core at 2 GHz or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel Graphics 4400 or better |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 SP1+ (or later) |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a gentle, brightly drawn world. Play is structured around spaces built for exploration. There are 7 official screenshots to judge the look from. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and A Short Hike can never assume the player will stop and let it load.
Why A Short Hike is demanding
System memory expectations are modest at 2 GB. A Short Hike takes about 1 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run A Short Hike?
A Short Hike targets a mainstream modern PC: Intel Graphics 4400 or better and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Can my PC run A Short Hike?
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What are the minimum system requirements for A Short Hike?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel or AMD Dual Core at 2 GHz or better; GPU: Intel Graphics 4400 or better; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 SP1+ (or later).
How much storage does A Short Hike need?
A Short Hike needs about 1 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for A Short Hike?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for A Short Hike is the CPU.