Can I Run Close to the Sun?
Released in 2020, Close to the Sun is an adventure indie game built by Storm in a Teacup. Publishing duties went to Wired Productions. The game supports a single player campaign. Metacritic places it at 66. With only 858 reviews on Steam, there is little community data on how it behaves across hardware. It carries 27 achievements. Steam gates it behind an age check at 18. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Being 6 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. It is localised into 11 languages according to the store listing. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Core i5 / AMD FX 2.4Ghz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 3GB Video RAM |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Core i7 / AMD Ryzen 7 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD RX 470 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Close to the Sun places its action in a steampunk world, and the player works through environments built to be read rather than fought through. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a first person view.
Why Close to the Sun is demanding
The graphics requirement for Close to the Sun is light. Hardware around NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD RX 470 is enough, so Close to the Sun runs on machines never bought for gaming. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Close to the Sun scales hard with the hardware you give it. Close to the Sun needs only 8 GB of RAM. The install is small at roughly 50 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Close to the Sun?
Older hardware holds up here: Close to the Sun runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 3GB Video RAM 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 | 2.24x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.26x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.56x |
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 Close to the Sun'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 Close to the Sun?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Close to the Sun?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Core i5 / AMD FX 2.4Ghz; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 3GB Video RAM; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Close to the Sun need?
Close to the Sun needs about 50 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Close to the Sun?
The RTX 3060 runs Close to the Sun comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Close to the Sun?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Close to the Sun is the GPU.