Can I Run Genius?

Rebellion released Genius in 2021. It is a simulation strategy game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign. With more than 11 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It carries 90 achievements. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. The game ships for Windows alone. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures.

Developer RebellionRelease 2021Genre Simulation, Strategy

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i3-8100
GPU	GeForce GT 1030 2GB, Radeon RX 550 2GB
RAM	8 GB
Storage	18 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i7-4770K, AMD Ryzen 5 1600
GPU	GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, Radeon RX 5700 8GB
RAM	8 GB
Storage	18 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

The game is set in an open sandbox. Play is structured around a base the player builds up. There are 15 official screenshots to judge the look from. What taxes the PC is the number of things being simulated, which means the requirements describe the start of a game, not the end of one.

Why Genius is demanding

Demand in Genius is ordinary. The publisher has GeForce GTX 1660 Super in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Disk footprint is light, near 18 GB. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Genius at the floor and Genius at the recommended tier are not the same experience.

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

Can you run Genius?

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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.

Genius is light on hardware. Its minimum, GeForce GT 1030 2GB, Radeon RX 550 2GB, 8 GB RAM, about 18 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	Runs well	1.31x
1440p	Below the bar	0.74x
4K	Below the bar	0.33x

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 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 Genius'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.