Can I Run Citadel?

Citadel is an action adventure game from Atomstring Games, released in 2026. 2P Games published it. It offers a single player campaign. As a new title, the figures below were written against parts you can still buy. Cloud saves are enabled. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Completionists have 40 achievements to work through. Its Metacritic score stands at 76. It is localised into 8 languages according to the store listing. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Alongside Windows it also ships for Linux.

Developer Atomstring GamesPublisher 2P GamesRelease 2026Genre Action, Adventure, Indie

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GPU	NVDIA GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480
RAM	8 GB
Storage	25 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10+
DirectX	Version 11

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5-12600 or Ryzen 7 5800X
GPU	NVDIA RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 6600
RAM	16 GB
Storage	25 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10+
DirectX	Version 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

The game is set in an anime styled world. Play is structured around an interconnected map that opens up as you gain abilities. It is played in two dimensions. 12 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.

Why Citadel is demanding

Demand in Citadel is ordinary. The publisher has NVDIA RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 6600 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Citadel takes about 25 GB of disk space. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Citadel scales hard with the hardware you give it.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Citadel?

94%

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

Citadel leans on the processor more than the graphics card, its minimum CPU, a Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600, is what most builds trip over. A strong multi-core CPU paired with a mid-range card is the right shape here, the minimum GPU is a NVDIA GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480, not a top-end GPU.

Bottleneck: CPU

Projected by resolution

Resolution	Projection	Headroom
1080p	Borderline	1.1x
1440p	Below the bar	0.62x
4K	Below the bar	0.27x

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	Playable
GTX 1060 Laptop	Playable
GTX 1650 4 GB	Below minimum
GTX 1650 Laptop	Below minimum
RTX 2060 6 GB	Runs great
RTX 2060 Laptop	Runs well
RTX 3060 12 GB	Runs great
RTX 3060 Laptop	Runs well
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 Citadel'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.