Can I Run Brutal?
Brutal is an action adventure game from Double Fine Productions, released in 2013. Double Fine Productions both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Critics scored it 80 on Metacritic. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Its Steam review count passes 11 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. At more than a decade old it predates every current graphics architecture, which helps compatibility and limits how well it exploits a modern card. There are 59 achievements to chase. It is localised into 5 languages according to the store listing. Builds exist for macOS and Linux as well as Windows.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 at 2.2 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | 512 MB GeForce 220, Radeon 4550, Intel HD 3000 Graphics |
| RAM | 1 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i5 Duo at 2.5 GHz, or AMD FX 3.5 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | 512 MB GeForce 650, Radeon 7000 |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB HDD |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a fantasy world, moving through one continuous open world. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Brutal has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. It is played from a third person view. 6 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Brutal is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 8 GB. At 2 GB, system memory is undemanding.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Brutal?
Brutal targets a mainstream modern PC: 512 MB GeForce 220, Radeon 4550, Intel HD 3000 Graphics and 1 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to 512 MB GeForce 650, Radeon 7000 for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Brutal?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 at 2.2 GHz; GPU: 512 MB GeForce 220, Radeon 4550, Intel HD 3000 Graphics; 1 GB RAM.
How much storage does Brutal need?
Brutal needs about 8 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Brutal?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Brutal is the CPU.