Can I Run Firewatch?
Campo Santo released Firewatch in 2016. It is an adventure indie game, published by Panic. It offers a single player campaign. Metacritic places it at 81. Completionists have 10 achievements to work through. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. It is not Windows only, with macOS and Linux covered too. Over 92 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. 7 languages are covered by the store listing. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use. Cloud saves are enabled.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 or higher 64bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Firewatch places its action in a mystery to unpick, and the player works through environments built to be read rather than fought through. It is played from a first person view. 7 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Firewatch is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 4 GB. At 1 GB, VRAM is a non issue for Firewatch. Firewatch needs 64 bit Windows. Firewatch needs only 6 GB of RAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Firewatch?
Firewatch targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory and 6 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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What are the minimum system requirements for Firewatch?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory; 6 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 or higher 64bit.
How much storage does Firewatch need?
Firewatch needs about 4 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Firewatch?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Firewatch is the CPU.