Can I Run Coward?

Coward is a role playing game from Jacquey Arthur, released in 2026. Jacquey Arthur both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. It is localised into 10 languages according to the store listing. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. As a new title, the figures below were written against parts you can still buy.

Developer Jacquey ArthurRelease 2026Genre RPG

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel i3 ou équivalent
GPU	Intel HD 4000 / GTX 750 / équivalent
RAM	4 GB
Storage	2 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10
DirectX	Version 11

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel i5 ou équivalent
GPU	GTX 1050 Ti / Radeon RX 560 ou équivalent
RAM	8 GB
Storage	2 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10
DirectX	Version 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in a fantasy world, moving through runs that rebuild the layout each attempt. It is played in two dimensions. 6 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Layouts generated at run time move the load onto the processor at the moment each new area is built.

Why Coward is demanding

Coward is undemanding on the graphics side. Its GTX 1050 Ti / Radeon RX 560 ou équivalent target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Coward. Disk footprint is light, near 2 GB. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Coward at the floor and Coward at the recommended tier are not the same experience.

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

Can you run Coward?

100%

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

Coward is light on hardware. Its minimum, Intel HD 4000 / GTX 750 / équivalent, 4 GB RAM, about 2 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	3.7x
1440p	Comfortable	2.08x
4K	Borderline	0.92x

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 Coward'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.