Can I Run Button City?
Subliminal released Button City in 2021. It is an adventure casual game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign. Builds exist for macOS as well as Windows. With only 135 reviews on Steam, there is little community data on how it behaves across hardware. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. It carries 17 achievements. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Steam lists support for 5 languages.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i5 Quad-Core |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel HD 4000 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a gentle, brightly drawn world. Play is structured around spaces built for exploration. It is played through a point and click interface. 12 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. That openness is what costs performance. Button City has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Button City is demanding
Button City makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated Intel HD 4000 target. Button City takes about 1 GB of disk space. At 4 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 Button City?
Button City is light on hardware. Its minimum, Intel HD 4000, 4 GB RAM, about 1 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 | 48.57x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 27.32x |
| 4K | Comfortable | 12.14x |
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 Button City'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 Button City?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Button City?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5 Quad-Core; GPU: Intel HD 4000; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Button City need?
Button City needs about 1 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Button City?
The RTX 3060 runs Button City comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Button City?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Button City is the GPU.