Can I Run Bleak?

Archangel Studios released Bleak in 2023. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign. The game ships for Windows alone. Cloud saves are enabled. Its Metacritic score stands at 63. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Completionists have 21 achievements to work through.

Developer Archangel StudiosRelease 2023Genre Action, Adventure, Indie

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-6300 or equivalent
GPU	GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD R7 265 or equivalent
RAM	8 GB
Storage	20 GB HDD
DirectX	Version 11

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i7-4770k / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or equivalent
GPU	GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD RX VEGA 56 or equivalent
RAM	16 GB
Storage	20 GB HDD
OS	Win 10
DirectX	Version 12

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

The game is set in a horror setting. Play is structured around interlocking areas that reward learning the route. There are 5 official screenshots to judge the look from. It is played in three dimensions.

Why Bleak is demanding

Bleak sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD RX VEGA 56, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Bleak calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Bleak at the floor and Bleak at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. The install is small at roughly 20 GB.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Bleak?

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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.

Bleak is light on hardware. Its minimum, GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD R7 265 or equivalent, 8 GB RAM, about 20 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	Runs well	1.36x
1440p	Below the bar	0.77x
4K	Below the bar	0.34x

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 well
GTX 1060 Laptop	Playable
GTX 1650 4 GB	Playable
GTX 1650 Laptop	Playable
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 Bleak'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.