Can I Run Forgive Me Father?
Released in 2022, Forgive Me Father is an action indie game built by Byte Barrel. Publishing duties went to Fulqrum Publishing. The game supports a single player campaign. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. With more than 3 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Metacritic places it at 74. Cloud saves are enabled. 8 languages are covered by the store listing. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Completionists have 20 achievements to work through.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5, AMD Ryzen or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 9 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5, AMD Ryzen or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050ti |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 9 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a Lovecraftian setting, moving through combat arenas. There are 15 official screenshots to judge the look from. It is played from a first person view.
Why Forgive Me Father is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Forgive Me Father. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050ti scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Forgive Me Father within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. Forgive Me Father expects 16 GB of system memory. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 9.0. Forgive Me Father takes about 9 GB of disk space. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Forgive Me Father scales hard with the hardware you give it.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Forgive Me Father?
Forgive Me Father is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 8 GB RAM, about 9 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 | 2.7x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.52x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.67x |
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 Forgive Me Father'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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The Last of Us Part IFrequently asked questions
Can my PC run Forgive Me Father?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Forgive Me Father?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5, AMD Ryzen or equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does Forgive Me Father need?
Forgive Me Father needs about 9 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Forgive Me Father?
The RTX 3060 runs Forgive Me Father comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Forgive Me Father?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Forgive Me Father is the GPU.