Can I Run Ghost of a Tale?
Released in 2018, Ghost of a Tale is an action adventure game built by SeithCG. It offers a single player campaign. At 8 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. With more than 4 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Steam lists support for 7 languages. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. There are 20 achievements to chase. Its Metacritic score stands at 75.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i5 - 2.5Ghz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2GB) or AMD Radeon R9 270 |
| RAM | 3 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i7 - 3.4Ghz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (3GB) or AMD Radeon R9 285 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a gentle, brightly drawn world, moving through spaces built to be avoided rather than cleared. There are 14 official screenshots to judge the look from. It is played from a third person view.
Why Ghost of a Tale is demanding
The graphics requirement for Ghost of a Tale is light. Hardware around NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 ( is enough, so Ghost of a Tale runs on machines never bought for gaming. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Ghost of a Tale at the floor and Ghost of a Tale at the recommended tier are not the same experience. At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding. Disk footprint is light, near 5 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Ghost of a Tale?
Ghost of a Tale is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2GB) or AMD Radeon R9 270, 3 GB RAM, about 5 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 | 3.27x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 1.84x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.82x |
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 Ghost of a Tale'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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Can my PC run Ghost of a Tale?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Ghost of a Tale?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5 - 2.5Ghz; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2GB) or AMD Radeon R9 270; 3 GB RAM.
How much storage does Ghost of a Tale need?
Ghost of a Tale needs about 5 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Ghost of a Tale?
The RTX 3060 runs Ghost of a Tale comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Ghost of a Tale?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Ghost of a Tale is the GPU.