Can I Run Forts?
Forts is an action indie game from EarthWork Games, released in 2017. EarthWork Games both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures. Completionists have 68 achievements to work through. Over 20 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Its Metacritic score stands at 74. Being 9 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. 17 languages are covered by the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Pentium Dual-Core 2.7GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel HD Graphics 520 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
Recommended requirements
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Setting and environment
Forts places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through a base the player builds up. 11 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Simulation heavy building games lean harder on the processor as the map fills, so late game performance rarely matches the opening hours. The view is in two dimensions.
Why Forts is demanding
Forts takes about 3 GB of disk space. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. It targets DirectX 9.0, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Forts?
Forts targets a mainstream modern PC: Intel HD Graphics 520 and 8 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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Can my PC run Forts?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Forts?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Pentium Dual-Core 2.7GHz; GPU: Intel HD Graphics 520; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does Forts need?
Forts needs about 3 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Forts?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Forts is the CPU.