Can I Run Chernobylite?
The Farm 51 released Chernobylite in 2021. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign. Cloud saves are enabled. With more than 12 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Its Metacritic score stands at 75. Steam lists support for 14 languages. Completionists have 35 achievements to work through. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2500K CPU |
|---|---|
| GPU | Geforce GTX 660/GTX 1050/GTX 770M or AMD Radeon R7 260/Integrated Ryzen 7 4800H or Intel Arc A580 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 SP1 (x64) |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7 4790k CPU |
|---|---|
| GPU | Geforce GTX 970/GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480/RX 570 or Intel Arc A750 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 SP1 (x64), Windows 8 (x64), Windows 10 (x64) |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Chernobylite places its action in a world after its collapse, and the player works through hostile territory. It is played from a first person view. 23 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Chernobylite is demanding
Chernobylite is undemanding on the graphics side. Its Geforce GTX 970/GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480/RX 570 or Intel Arc A750 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Chernobylite. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Chernobylite at the floor and Chernobylite at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Chernobylite takes about 40 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Chernobylite?
Older hardware holds up here: Chernobylite runs on modest graphics, with Geforce GTX 660/GTX 1050/GTX 770M or AMD Radeon R7 260/Integrated Ryzen 7 4800H or Intel Arc A580 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 | 2.07x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.17x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.52x |
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 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 Chernobylite'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 Chernobylite?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Chernobylite?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K CPU; GPU: Geforce GTX 660/GTX 1050/GTX 770M or AMD Radeon R7 260/Integrated Ryzen 7 4800H or Intel Arc A580; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 SP1 (x64).
How much storage does Chernobylite need?
Chernobylite needs about 40 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Chernobylite?
The RTX 3060 runs Chernobylite comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Chernobylite?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Chernobylite is the GPU.