Can I Run Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy?
Released in 2022, Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy is an action adventure game built by Skyward Digital. Publishing duties went to Valkyrie Initiative. It offers a single player campaign. Entry is free, which makes the disk requirement the only real barrier. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. There are 1 achievements to chase.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3 2100 / AMD FX-4100 or greater |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel HD 4000 series or better |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a historical setting, moving through one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 12 storefront screenshots of these environments. That openness is what costs performance. Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. The view is in three dimensions.
Why Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy is demanding
Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy is undemanding on the graphics side. Its Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy takes about 5 GB of disk space. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy at the floor and Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy needs 64 bit Windows.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy?
Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy is light on hardware. Its minimum, Intel HD 4000 series or better, 4 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 | 2.58x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.45x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.64x |
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 Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy'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 Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 / AMD FX-4100 or greater; GPU: Intel HD 4000 series or better; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy need?
Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy needs about 5 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy?
The RTX 3060 runs Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Buccaneers! The New Age of Piracy is the GPU.