Can I Run Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder?
VRKiwi released Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder in 2022. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Cloud saves are enabled. It is localised into 11 languages according to the store listing. There are 26 achievements to chase. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-7500 equivalent or greater |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580 or greater |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in the old west, moving through spaces built for exploration. That openness is what costs performance. Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. There are 23 official screenshots to judge the look from. The view is from a first person view.
Why Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder is demanding
Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580 or greater target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder. Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder expects 16 GB of system memory. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder scales hard with the hardware you give it. The install is small at roughly 3 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder?
Older hardware holds up here: Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.89x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.06x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.47x |
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 well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder'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 Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder need?
Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder needs about 3 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder?
The RTX 3060 runs Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder is the GPU.