Can I Run Hydroneer?
Foulball Hangover released Hydroneer in 2020. It is an adventure casual game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. There are 78 achievements to chase. Steam lists support for 19 languages. With more than 26 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped. Workshop content is supported, so the published requirements describe the unmodded game only. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Being 6 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Quad-Core 64-bit Intel or AMD processor, 2.4 GHZ CPU |
|---|---|
| GPU | 1 GB DirectX 11 dedicated video card |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Recommended requirements
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an open sandbox, moving through a base the player builds up. Simulation heavy building games lean harder on the processor as the map fills, so late game performance rarely matches the opening hours. The publisher supplies 16 storefront screenshots of these environments. Play is presented from a first person view.
Why Hydroneer is demanding
Hydroneer takes about 10 GB of disk space. Hydroneer needs only 8 GB of RAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Hydroneer?
Hydroneer targets a mainstream modern PC: 1 GB DirectX 11 dedicated video card and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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What are the minimum system requirements for Hydroneer?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Quad-Core 64-bit Intel or AMD processor, 2.4 GHZ CPU; GPU: 1 GB DirectX 11 dedicated video card; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Hydroneer need?
Hydroneer needs about 10 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Hydroneer?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Hydroneer is the CPU.