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Can I Run Gas Station Simulator?

Gas Station Simulator is a casual indie game from DRAGO entertainment, released in 2021. DRAGO entertainment both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. There are 101 achievements to chase. Steam lists support for 17 languages. With more than 23 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Builds exist for macOS as well as Windows. Its 5 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Critics scored it 72 on Metacritic. Cloud saves are enabled. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works.

Developer DRAGO entertainmentRelease 2021Genre Casual, Indie, Simulation
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel Core i3 3.0 GHz or Ryzen 3xxx
GPUNvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB VRAM
VRAM4 GB
RAM8 GB
Storage10 GB
OSWindows 10 64-bit
DirectX11

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel Core i5 (recent generation)
GPUNVidia GeForce GTX 1070 or better 6GB VRAM
VRAM6 GB
RAM16 GB
Storage15 GB
OSWindows 11 64-bit
DirectX12

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Gas Station Simulator structures its play around systems the player balances from above. Play is presented from a first person view. 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. 23 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.

Why Gas Station Simulator is demanding

Gas Station Simulator sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVidia GeForce GTX 1070, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Windows 11 appears in the requirements, which is worth checking before buying Gas Station Simulator. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Gas Station Simulator at the floor and Gas Station Simulator at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Disk footprint is light, near 15 GB. Gas Station Simulator names just 6 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM. DirectX 12 is named, so Gas Station Simulator expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Gas Station Simulator?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Gas Station Simulator is light on hardware. Its minimum, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB VRAM, 8 GB RAM, about 10 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

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pRuns well1.31x
1440pBelow the bar0.74x
4KBelow the bar0.33x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns well
GTX 1060 LaptopPlayable
GTX 1650 4 GBPlayable
GTX 1650 LaptopPlayable
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against Gas Station Simulator'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 Gas Station Simulator?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Gas Station Simulator?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz or Ryzen 3xxx; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB VRAM; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.

How much storage does Gas Station Simulator need?

Gas Station Simulator needs about 10 GB of available storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Gas Station Simulator?

The RTX 3060 runs Gas Station Simulator comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for Gas Station Simulator?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Gas Station Simulator is the GPU.