Can I Run Her Story?
Released in 2015, Her Story is an adventure casual game built by Sam Barlow. It offers a single player campaign. With more than 8 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS. At more than a decade old it predates every current graphics architecture, which helps compatibility and limits how well it exploits a modern card. There are 13 achievements to chase. Metacritic places it at 86.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| GPU | 512MB |
|---|---|
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows XP+ |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| GPU | 1GB |
|---|---|
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows 7+ |
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Setting and environment
Her Story places its action in an investigation, and the player works through self contained puzzle rooms. It is played through a point and click interface. The publisher supplies 5 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Her Story is demanding
It targets DirectX 9, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. System memory expectations are modest at 4 GB. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 1 GB. The install is small at roughly 2 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Her Story?
Her Story targets a mainstream modern PC: 512MB and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to 1GB for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: RAM
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Can my PC run Her Story?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Her Story?
The minimum requirements are GPU: 512MB; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows XP+.
How much storage does Her Story need?
Her Story needs about 2 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Her Story?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Her Story is the RAM.