Can I Run Blood West?
Blood West is an action indie game from Hyperstrange, released in 2023. New Blood Interactive published it. It offers a single player campaign. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Steam lists support for 7 languages. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It carries 59 achievements. Over 6 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Its Metacritic score stands at 80.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-7500 or Equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit or later |
Recommended requirements
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Setting and environment
The game is set in the old west. Play is structured around one continuous open world. It is played from a first person view. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Blood West can never assume the player will stop and let it load. 24 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Blood West is demanding
Blood West is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Blood West. Blood West needs 64 bit Windows. Blood West takes about 5 GB of disk space. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Blood West?
Blood West is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M, 8 GB RAM, about 5 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 | 5.27x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 2.97x |
| 4K | Runs well | 1.32x |
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 great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Blood West'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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What are the minimum system requirements for Blood West?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 or Equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit or later.
How much storage does Blood West need?
Blood West needs about 5 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Blood West?
The RTX 3060 runs Blood West comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Blood West?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Blood West is the GPU.