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Can I Run Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals?

Glowstick Entertainment released Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals in 2020. It is an action casual game, self published by the studio. It offers cooperative play. Its 6 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Completionists have 16 achievements to work through. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.

Developer Glowstick EntertainmentRelease 2020Genre Action, Casual, Indie
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel Core i5-4330/AMD FX-6300
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB/ AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB
RAM8 GB
Storage3 GB HDD
DirectXVersion 11

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHzj / AMD Phenom II X4 945, 3.0GHz or better
GPUNvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/ AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB
RAM16 GB
Storage3 GB HDD
DirectXVersion 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

The game takes place in a horror setting. Play is presented from a first person view. The publisher supplies 14 storefront screenshots of these environments.

Why Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is demanding

The graphics requirement for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is light. Hardware around Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 is enough, so Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals runs on machines never bought for gaming. Disk footprint is light, near 3 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals at the floor and Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals expects 16 GB of system memory.

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

Can you run Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals?

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

Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB/ AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB, 8 GB RAM, about 3 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

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable1.89x
1440pBorderline1.06x
4KBelow the bar0.47x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns great
GTX 1060 LaptopRuns great
GTX 1650 4 GBRuns well
GTX 1650 LaptopRuns well
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals'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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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-4330/AMD FX-6300; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB/ AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB; 8 GB RAM.

How much storage does Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals need?

Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals needs about 3 GB of HDD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals?

The RTX 3060 runs Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is the GPU.