Can I Run Assembly?
Released in 2021, Assembly is a simulation game built by Bad Yolk Games. Publishing duties went to Team17. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. The game ships for Windows alone. Steam Workshop support means community content is part of the picture, and a heavy mod load can push the real requirements past anything the publisher lists. It carries 996 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin. Cloud saves are enabled. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Steam lists support for 10 languages. It carries 21 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i3-4160 or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 or AMD equivalent |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-4460 or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 or AMD equivalent |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Assembly places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through systems the player balances from above. What taxes the PC is the number of things being simulated, which means the requirements describe the start of a game, not the end of one. 24 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. The view is in three dimensions.
Why Assembly is demanding
The graphics requirement for Assembly is light. Hardware around NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD equivalent is enough, so Assembly runs on machines never bought for gaming. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Assembly at the floor and Assembly at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Disk footprint is light, near 3 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Assembly?
Assembly is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 or AMD equivalent, 4 GB RAM, about 3 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 Assembly'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 Assembly?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Assembly?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-4160 or AMD equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 or AMD equivalent; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Assembly need?
Assembly needs about 3 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Assembly?
The RTX 3060 runs Assembly comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Assembly?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Assembly is the GPU.