Can I Run Drone Swarm?
Drone Swarm is an indie strategy game from stillalive studios, released in 2020. astragon Entertainment published it. It offers a single player campaign. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. It carries 277 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin. It is localised into 13 languages according to the store listing. It carries 34 achievements. Its 6 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3-2120 3,3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 975 3,6 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5970 / AMD Radeon RX 550 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-Bit |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3570K 3,4GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 560 3,6 GHz |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-Bit |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a science fiction setting, moving through tight tactical maps. It is played from a top down view. There are 5 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Drone Swarm is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Drone Swarm. NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 560 3,6 GHz scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Drone Swarm within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Drone Swarm needs only 8 GB of RAM. The install is small at roughly 5 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Drone Swarm at the floor and Drone Swarm 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 Drone Swarm?
Drone Swarm is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5970 / AMD Radeon RX 550, 8 GB RAM, about 5 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 Drone Swarm'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
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What are the minimum system requirements for Drone Swarm?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3-2120 3,3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 975 3,6 GHz; GPU: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5970 / AMD Radeon RX 550; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-Bit.
How much storage does Drone Swarm need?
Drone Swarm needs about 5 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Drone Swarm?
The RTX 3060 runs Drone Swarm comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Drone Swarm?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Drone Swarm is the GPU.