Can I Run HORSE?

HORSE is an action casual game from Clever Endeavour Games, released in 2016. Clever Endeavour Games both developed and published it. The game supports cooperative play. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. With more than 40 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS and Linux. 15 languages are covered by the store listing. Cloud saves are enabled. It carries 31 achievements. Two players can share one screen on a single machine, which is rare enough now to be worth noting.

Developer Clever Endeavour GamesRelease 2016Genre Action, Casual, Indie

Can your PC run it? →

System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	1.5GHZ +
GPU	512 MB VRAM Intel HD 4000 / GeForce 200 Series / Radeon HD 4000 Series
VRAM	0.5 GB
RAM	2 GB
Storage	2 GB HDD
DirectX	Version 9.0c

Recommended requirements

CPU	Dual Core 2.3 GHZ
GPU	1024 MB VRAM
VRAM	1 GB
RAM	4 GB
Storage	2 GB HDD
DirectX	Version 9.0

Verified from Steam · 20 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in a gentle, brightly drawn world, moving through platforming routes. 9 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. The view is in two dimensions.

Why HORSE is demanding

HORSE makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated 1024 MB VRAM target. It targets DirectX 9.0, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 1 GB. The install is small at roughly 2 GB. HORSE needs only 4 GB of RAM.

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

Can you run HORSE?

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

HORSE is light on hardware. Its minimum, 512 MB VRAM Intel HD 4000 / GeForce 200 Series / Radeon HD 4000 Series, 2 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: CPU

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.