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Can I Run Aliens In The Yard?

Aliens in the Yard is a fun, engaging, easy to play VR arcade.Protect your house against evil aliens who want to steal Earth's most precious artifacts: your backyard junk. A big mistake!Arm yourselves...

Developer Fair Games StudioPublisher Sad Horse studioRelease 2017Genre Action, Indie, Simulation
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUintel i5
GPUGTX 970
RAM4 GB
Storage1 GB HDD
DirectXVersion 10

Recommended requirements

CPUintel i7
GPUGTX 980 or better
RAM8 GB
Storage1 GB HDD
DirectXVersion 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Can you run Aliens In The Yard?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Older hardware holds up here: Aliens In The Yard runs on modest graphics, with GTX 970 enough to meet the minimum. Add 4 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable1.73x
1440pBorderline0.98x
4KBelow the bar0.43x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns great
GTX 1060 LaptopRuns well
GTX 1650 4 GBRuns well
GTX 1650 LaptopRuns well
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against Aliens In The Yard'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

Can my PC run Aliens In The Yard?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Aliens In The Yard?

The minimum requirements are CPU: intel i5; GPU: GTX 970; 4 GB RAM.

How much storage does Aliens In The Yard need?

Aliens In The Yard needs about 1 GB of HDD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Aliens In The Yard?

The RTX 3060 runs Aliens In The Yard comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for Aliens In The Yard?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Aliens In The Yard is the GPU.