Can I Run Ants?
Ants is a strategy game from Tower Five, released in 2024. Microids published it. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. It carries 917 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin. It is localised into 12 languages according to the store listing. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Completionists have 41 achievements to work through. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 9400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | 6GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580 |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64 bit |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 9600 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 6800 / NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10/11 64 bit |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Ants places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through a map at national or global scale. The publisher supplies 7 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played from a third person view.
Why Ants is demanding
Ants is a heavy title. Its AMD Radeon RX 6800 / NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 target scores above the RTX 3060 we measure against, so anything meaningfully slower is making compromises rather than running Ants properly. DirectX 12 is named, so Ants expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Ants needs 64 bit Windows. Disk footprint is light, near 40 GB on an SSD. Ants names just 6 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Ants at the floor and Ants at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Ants expects 16 GB of system memory.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Ants?
Ants is one of the more demanding games on PC. To reach its recommended tier you'll want a AMD Radeon RX 6800 / NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080-class graphics card, with 6GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580 the floor just to launch at minimum settings. Plan for a recent high-end GPU rather than a mainstream one.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Below the bar | 0.68x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.38x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.17x |
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 | Below minimum |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Playable |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Playable |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Playable |
Each card is compared against Ants'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 Ants?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5 9400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600; GPU: 6GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64 bit.
How much storage does Ants need?
Ants needs about 40 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Ants?
The RTX 3060 can run Ants: it sits around the minimum GPU requirement, so expect to manage settings.
What is the bottleneck for Ants?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Ants is the GPU.