Can I Run Goat Simulator?
Coffee Stain North released Goat Simulator in 2024. It is an adventure casual game, published by Coffee Stain Publishing. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Completionists have 64 achievements to work through. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. With more than 13 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Steam lists support for 12 languages. It keeps shared screen play alive, so a second player needs only a second controller.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | i5 4690k |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 1050 Ti (4GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 12 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | i5 9400F |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 1070 (8GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 12 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
Scores are deterministic, computed by fixed rules and benchmark tables, not written by an AI. How we score. Maintained by Farhad Ali. Spotted a wrong specification? Tell us.
Setting and environment
Goat Simulator places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through spaces built for exploration. There are 12 official screenshots to judge the look from. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Goat Simulator has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. It is played in three dimensions.
Why Goat Simulator is demanding
Goat Simulator sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting GTX 1070 (, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Goat Simulator at the floor and Goat Simulator at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Disk footprint is light, near 12 GB. Goat Simulator asks for 8 GB of video memory, so VRAM capacity matters here as much as speed. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Goat Simulator?
Goat Simulator is light on hardware. Its minimum, GTX 1050 Ti (4GB VRAM), 8 GB RAM, about 12 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 well |
| 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 Goat 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.
Similar games you can run
The Last of Us Part I
Palworld
God of War
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceFrequently asked questions
Can my PC run Goat Simulator?
Upload your DxDiag file to Idxdiag's free checker and get a component by component compatibility verdict for Goat Simulator in seconds. No install required.
What are the minimum system requirements for Goat Simulator?
The minimum requirements are CPU: i5 4690k; GPU: GTX 1050 Ti (4GB VRAM); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Goat Simulator need?
Goat Simulator needs about 12 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Goat Simulator?
The RTX 3060 runs Goat Simulator comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Goat Simulator?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Goat Simulator is the GPU.