Holdfast: Nations at War cover art

Can I Run Holdfast: Nations at War?

Holdfast: Nations at War is an action indie game from Anvil Game Studios, released in 2020. Anvil Game Studios both developed and published it. The game supports competitive multiplayer. Its 6 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. 20 languages are covered by the store listing. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Steam Workshop support means community content is part of the picture, and a heavy mod load can push the real requirements past anything the publisher lists. Its Steam review count passes 26 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It carries 38 achievements.

Developer Anvil Game StudiosRelease 2020Genre Action, Indie, Massively Multiplayer
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel i5-4670k or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
GPUNvidia GT 1030 or Radeon RX 550
RAM8 GB
Storage22 GB HDD
OSWindows 10 64-bit or Windows 11 64-bit
DirectXVersion 11

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel i7-8700k or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
GPUNvidia GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 580 8GB
RAM10 GB
Storage22 GB HDD
OSWindows 10 64-bit or Windows 11 64-bit
DirectXVersion 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Holdfast: Nations at War places its action in a historical setting, and the player works through combat arenas. Play is presented from a first person view. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.

Why Holdfast: Nations at War is demanding

Very little is asked of the GPU by Holdfast: Nations at War. Nvidia GTX 1060 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Holdfast: Nations at War within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. At 10 GB, system memory is undemanding. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Holdfast: Nations at War at the floor and Holdfast: Nations at War at the recommended tier are not the same experience. The install is small at roughly 22 GB. Windows 11 appears in the requirements, which is worth checking before buying Holdfast: Nations at War.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Holdfast: Nations at War?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Holdfast: Nations at War is light on hardware. Its minimum, Nvidia GT 1030 or Radeon RX 550, 8 GB RAM, about 22 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

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable1.89x
1440pBorderline1.06x
4KBelow the bar0.47x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns great
GTX 1060 LaptopRuns great
GTX 1650 4 GBRuns well
GTX 1650 LaptopRuns well
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against Holdfast: Nations at War'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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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run Holdfast: Nations at War?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Holdfast: Nations at War?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-4670k or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X; GPU: Nvidia GT 1030 or Radeon RX 550; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit or Windows 11 64-bit.

How much storage does Holdfast: Nations at War need?

Holdfast: Nations at War needs about 22 GB of HDD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Holdfast: Nations at War?

The RTX 3060 runs Holdfast: Nations at War comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for Holdfast: Nations at War?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Holdfast: Nations at War is the GPU.