Can I Run Dave?

Dave is an adventure casual game from MINTROCKET, released in 2023. MINTROCKET both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. It is localised into 11 languages according to the store listing. Metacritic places it at 90. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. There are 43 achievements to chase. Its Steam review count passes 139 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now.

Developer MINTROCKETRelease 2023Genre Adventure, Casual, RPG

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i3 Dual Core
GPU	NVIDIA Geforce GTS 450 / AMD Radeon HD 5570
RAM	8 GB
Storage	10 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10 64 bit
DirectX	Version 11

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5 (Hexa Core) / i7 (Quad Core)
GPU	NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB / AMD RX 480
RAM	16 GB
Storage	10 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10 64 bit
DirectX	Version 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Dave places its action in submerged environments, and the player works through systems the player balances from above. What taxes the PC is the number of things being simulated, which means the requirements describe the start of a game, not the end of one. 16 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented in two dimensions.

Why Dave is demanding

Very little is asked of the GPU by Dave. NVIDIA GTX 1060 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Dave within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Dave takes about 10 GB of disk space. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure.

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

Can you run Dave?

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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.

Dave targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA Geforce GTS 450 / AMD Radeon HD 5570 and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB / AMD RX 480 for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

Resolution	Projection	Headroom
1080p	Comfortable	1.93x
1440p	Borderline	1.09x
4K	Below the bar	0.48x

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 Dave'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.