Can I Run Darkest Days?
Darkest Days is an action adventure game from NHN, released in 2025. NHN both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Entry is free, which makes the disk requirement the only real barrier. Steam lists support for 14 languages. This is current generation software, and the requirements read that way. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i5 3570 / AMD FX 8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 570 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7 7700 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5600XT |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Darkest Days places its action in an outbreak scenario, and the player works through one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 6 storefront screenshots of these environments. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Darkest Days can never assume the player will stop and let it load.
Why Darkest Days is demanding
The ask Darkest Days makes is moderate. GeForce GTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5600XT lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Darkest Days scales hard with the hardware you give it. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. Disk footprint is light, near 20 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Darkest Days?
Darkest Days is light on hardware. Its minimum, GeForce GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 570, 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 | Runs well | 1.26x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.71x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.31x |
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 well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Darkest Days'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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What are the minimum system requirements for Darkest Days?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5 3570 / AMD FX 8350; GPU: GeForce GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 570; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Darkest Days need?
Darkest Days needs about 20 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Darkest Days?
The RTX 3060 runs Darkest Days comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Darkest Days?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Darkest Days is the GPU.