Can I Run A Year Of Rain?
Daedalic Entertainment released A Year Of Rain in 2020. It is an indie role playing game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. 9 languages are covered by the store listing. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Its 6 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Completionists have 28 achievements to work through. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. It carries 498 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-4690K 3.50GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 960 2GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 14 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.00GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 970 4GB |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 14 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64Bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a wartime setting, moving through a base the player builds up. The load here grows with the save. An empty map tells you very little about how the machine will cope once the build is large. 15 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why A Year Of Rain is demanding
A Year Of Rain is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GTX 970 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear A Year Of Rain. System memory expectations are modest at 12 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means A Year Of Rain scales hard with the hardware you give it. A Year Of Rain needs 64 bit Windows. The install is small at roughly 14 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run A Year Of Rain?
A Year Of Rain is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GTX 960 2GB, 8 GB RAM, about 14 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against A Year Of Rain's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for A Year Of Rain?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4690K 3.50GHz; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 960 2GB; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does A Year Of Rain need?
A Year Of Rain needs about 14 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run A Year Of Rain?
The RTX 3060 runs A Year Of Rain comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for A Year Of Rain?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for A Year Of Rain is the GPU.