Can I Run Has-Been Heroes?
Released in 2017, Has-Been Heroes is an action indie game built by Frozenbyte. Publishing duties went to GameTrust Games. It offers a single player campaign. Metacritic places it at 63. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. It carries 26 achievements. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. With only 263 reviews on Steam, there is little community data on how it behaves across hardware. Its 9 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Steam lists support for 7 languages. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3/i5/i7 1.8 GHz CPU dual-core. AMD 2.0 GHz dual-core. |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce 260 / Radeon HD 4000 Series / Intel HD Graphics 4000 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
Recommended requirements
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a fantasy world. Play is structured around runs that rebuild the layout each attempt. Layouts generated at run time move the load onto the processor at the moment each new area is built. The view is in two dimensions. There are 14 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Has-Been Heroes is demanding
Has-Been Heroes makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated NVIDIA GeForce 260 / Radeon HD 4000 Series / Intel HD Graphics 4000 target. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 10. At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding. Disk footprint is light, near 2 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Has-Been Heroes?
Has-Been Heroes is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce 260 / Radeon HD 4000 Series / Intel HD Graphics 4000, 4 GB RAM, about 2 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 | 48.57x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 27.32x |
| 4K | Comfortable | 12.14x |
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 Has-Been Heroes'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 Has-Been Heroes?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Has-Been Heroes?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3/i5/i7 1.8 GHz CPU dual-core. AMD 2.0 GHz dual-core.; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 260 / Radeon HD 4000 Series / Intel HD Graphics 4000; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Has-Been Heroes need?
Has-Been Heroes needs about 2 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Has-Been Heroes?
The RTX 3060 runs Has-Been Heroes comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Has-Been Heroes?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Has-Been Heroes is the GPU.