Can I Run Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending?
Derek Tanis released Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending in 2021. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. The game ships for Windows alone. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Quad core |
|---|---|
| GPU | gtx 1060 3gb |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| OS | 7 or newer |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel 8th gen |
|---|---|
| GPU | rtx 2060 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| OS | 10 or newer |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a historical setting, moving through spaces built for exploration. That openness is what costs performance. Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. 7 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played in three dimensions.
Why Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending is demanding
Demand in Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending is ordinary. The publisher has rtx 2060 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending at the floor and Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending needs only 8 GB of RAM. Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. Disk footprint is light, near 3 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending?
Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending targets a mainstream modern PC: gtx 1060 3gb and 6 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to rtx 2060 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 | Runs well | 1.21x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.68x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.3x |
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 well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending'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 Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Quad core; GPU: gtx 1060 3gb; 6 GB RAM; OS: 7 or newer.
How much storage does Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending need?
Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending needs about 3 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending?
The RTX 3060 runs Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Humanities Legend: Hollow Ascending is the GPU.