Can I Run Citadel: Forged With Fire?
Citadel: Forged With Fire is an action adventure game from Blue Isle Studios, released in 2019. Blue Isle Publishing published it. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. Over 5 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. The game ships for Windows alone. Steam lists support for 8 languages. It carries 50 achievements. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2.0GHZ or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 950 equivalent or better |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 3.0GHZ or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 970 or better |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a fantasy world, moving through one continuous open world. It is played from a first person view. There are 18 official screenshots to judge the look from. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Citadel: Forged With Fire can never assume the player will stop and let it load.
Why Citadel: Forged With Fire is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Citadel: Forged With Fire. GTX 970 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Citadel: Forged With Fire within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. It targets DirectX 10, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Citadel: Forged With Fire scales hard with the hardware you give it. Citadel: Forged With Fire takes about 20 GB of disk space. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Citadel: Forged With Fire?
Citadel: Forged With Fire is light on hardware. Its minimum, GTX 950 equivalent or better, 8 GB RAM, about 20 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 | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
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 Citadel: Forged With Fire'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 Citadel: Forged With Fire?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Citadel: Forged With Fire?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.0GHZ or better; GPU: GTX 950 equivalent or better; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does Citadel: Forged With Fire need?
Citadel: Forged With Fire needs about 20 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Citadel: Forged With Fire?
The RTX 3060 runs Citadel: Forged With Fire comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Citadel: Forged With Fire?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Citadel: Forged With Fire is the GPU.