Can I Run Foundation?
Polymorph Games released Foundation in 2025. It is an indie simulation game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign. As a new title, the figures below were written against parts you can still buy. Critics scored it 84 on Metacritic. Over 22 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. There are 45 achievements to chase. Cloud saves are enabled. It is localised into 17 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-4460 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 960 / R9 290 - 3 GB Video Memory |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-6700K |
|---|---|
| GPU | RTX 2060 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a medieval setting. Play is structured around a city the player lays out. The publisher supplies 17 storefront screenshots of these environments. The load here grows with the save. An empty map tells you very little about how the machine will cope once the build is large.
Why Foundation is demanding
Foundation sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting RTX 2060, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Foundation names just 3 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Foundation 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 Foundation?
Foundation is light on hardware. Its minimum, GTX 960 / R9 290 - 3 GB Video Memory, 8 GB RAM, 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 | Runs well | 1.21x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.68x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.3x |
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 well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Foundation'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
Can my PC run Foundation?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Foundation?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-4460; GPU: GTX 960 / R9 290 - 3 GB Video Memory; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
Can an RTX 3060 run Foundation?
The RTX 3060 runs Foundation comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Foundation?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Foundation is the GPU.