Can I Run Celeste?

Celeste is an action adventure game from Maddy Makes Games Inc., released in 2018. Maddy Makes Games Inc. both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Metacritic places it at 88. Builds exist for macOS and Linux as well as Windows. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. 9 languages are covered by the store listing. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Its Steam review count passes 129 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Its 8 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Completionists have 32 achievements to work through.

Developer Extremely OK Games, Ltd.Release 2018Genre Action, Adventure, Indie

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i3 M380
GPU	Intel HD 4000
RAM	2 GB
Storage	1 GB
OS	Windows 7 or newer
DirectX	10

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in a gentle, brightly drawn world, moving through platforming routes. It is played in two dimensions. 12 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.

Why Celeste is demanding

Celeste barely touches the GPU. Its stated Intel HD 4000 target is below anything currently sold. It targets DirectX 10, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. The install is small at roughly 1 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 Celeste?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Celeste is light on hardware. Its minimum, Intel HD 4000, 2 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 Celeste'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.