Can I Run Helium Rain?
Helium Rain is an action indie game from Deimos Games, released in 2018. Deimos Games both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Its 235 Steam reviews make it a niche release rather than a widely tested one. Being 8 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. It is free to play at the base tier. It is not Windows only, with Linux covered too. It carries 23 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core® i3 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 470 / AMD Radeon® HD 6870 / DX10 compatible GPU with at least 1GB VRAM |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 3.91 GB |
| Storage | 4.88 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core® i7 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970 |
| RAM | 7.81 GB |
| Storage | 4.88 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64 bits) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 20 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Helium Rain places its action in space and the vessels that cross it, and the player works through open space and the ships that cross it. There are 17 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Helium Rain is demanding
The graphics requirement for Helium Rain is light. Hardware around NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is enough, so Helium Rain runs on machines never bought for gaming. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Disk footprint is light, near 5 GB. System memory expectations are modest at 7.81 GB. Helium Rain needs only 1 GB of video memory.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Helium Rain?
Helium Rain targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 470 / AMD Radeon® HD 6870 / DX10 compatible GPU with at least 1GB VRAM and 3.91 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970 for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
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 well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Helium Rain'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 Helium Rain?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Helium Rain?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core® i3; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 470 / AMD Radeon® HD 6870 / DX10 compatible GPU with at least 1GB VRAM; 3.91 GB RAM.
How much storage does Helium Rain need?
Helium Rain needs about 4.88 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Helium Rain?
The RTX 3060 runs Helium Rain comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Helium Rain?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Helium Rain is the GPU.