Can I Run Half Sword?
Half Sword is an action adventure game from Half Sword Games, released in 2026. Game Seer Publishing published it. The game supports a single player campaign. This is current generation software, and the requirements read that way. Its Steam review count passes 26 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. The game ships for Windows alone.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ, Ryzen 5 3500U |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB), AMD Radeon RX 580 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64Bit) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700, AMD Ryzen 7 7700X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10/11 (64Bit) |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Half Sword places its action in a medieval setting, and the player works through one on one arenas. It is played from a third person view. There are 11 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Half Sword is demanding
The graphics demand in Half Sword is at the top end. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT outscores our RTX 3060 reference, and a machine that clears Half Sword comfortably will clear most other things. Disk footprint is light, near 15 GB on an SSD. DirectX 12 is named, so Half Sword expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Half Sword expects 16 GB of system memory. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Half Sword scales hard with the hardware you give it. Half Sword needs 64 bit Windows.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Half Sword?
Half Sword is one of the more demanding games on PC. To reach its recommended tier you'll want a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT-class graphics card, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB), AMD Radeon RX 580 the floor just to launch at minimum settings. Plan for a recent high-end GPU rather than a mainstream one.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Below the bar | 0.63x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.35x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.16x |
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 | Below minimum |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Playable |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Playable |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Playable |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Playable |
Each card is compared against Half Sword'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 Half Sword?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Half Sword?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ, Ryzen 5 3500U; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB), AMD Radeon RX 580; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 (64Bit).
How much storage does Half Sword need?
Half Sword needs about 15 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Half Sword?
The RTX 3060 can run Half Sword: it sits around the minimum GPU requirement, so expect to manage settings.
What is the bottleneck for Half Sword?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Half Sword is the GPU.