Can I Run Arise: A Simple Story?
Piccolo Studio released Arise: A Simple Story in 2020. It is an adventure indie game, published by Untold Tales. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Its Metacritic score stands at 79. Its 6 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Completionists have 34 achievements to work through. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped. Steam lists support for 14 languages. 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 i3 4340 3.6 GHz or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2 GB or AMD Radeon equivalent |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 6 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7 3770K 3.5 GHz or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB or AMD Radeon equivalent |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 6 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64 bit) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a gentle, brightly drawn world, moving through spaces built for exploration. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Arise: A Simple Story can never assume the player will stop and let it load. Play is presented from a third person view. The publisher supplies 9 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Arise: A Simple Story is demanding
Arise: A Simple Story sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Arise: A Simple Story takes about 6 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Arise: A Simple Story?
Arise: A Simple Story targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2 GB or AMD Radeon equivalent and 6 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB or AMD Radeon equivalent for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.16x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.65x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.29x |
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 | Meets recommended |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Meets minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Meets recommended |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Meets recommended |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Meets recommended |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Meets recommended |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Meets recommended |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Meets recommended |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Meets recommended |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Meets recommended |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Meets recommended |
Each card is compared against Arise: A Simple Story'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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Can my PC run Arise: A Simple Story?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Arise: A Simple Story?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3 4340 3.6 GHz or AMD equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2 GB or AMD Radeon equivalent; 6 GB RAM.
How much storage does Arise: A Simple Story need?
Arise: A Simple Story needs about 6 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Arise: A Simple Story?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Arise: A Simple Story is the GPU.