Can I Run Hyper Light Breaker?
Heart Machine released Hyper Light Breaker in 2025. It is an action adventure game, published by Arc Games. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. As a new title, the figures below were written against parts you can still buy. It is localised into 11 languages according to the store listing. Over 3 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2+ cores, 2.4Ghz+ |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 1050/1650 or AMD RX 560 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 4+ cores, 3.6Ghz+ |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 2080ti, GTX 3060ti, AMD RX 6700 XT |
| RAM | 16 GB |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Hyper Light Breaker places its action in a world after its collapse, and the player works through one continuous open world. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Hyper Light Breaker has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. It is played in three dimensions. There are 18 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Hyper Light Breaker is demanding
Hyper Light Breaker is a heavy title. Its Nvidia GTX 2080ti, GTX 3060ti, AMD RX 6700 XT target scores above the RTX 3060 we measure against, so anything meaningfully slower is making compromises rather than running Hyper Light Breaker properly. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Hyper Light Breaker scales hard with the hardware you give it. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Hyper Light Breaker?
Hyper Light Breaker is memory-hungry: it wants 16 GB of system RAM, above the 8 GB many machines still ship with. Graphically it is undemanding, Nvidia GTX 1050/1650 or AMD RX 560 clears the minimum, so more RAM, not a new GPU, is the upgrade most players need.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Below the bar | 0.79x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.44x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.2x |
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 | Below minimum |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Playable |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs well |
Each card is compared against Hyper Light Breaker'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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What are the minimum system requirements for Hyper Light Breaker?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2+ cores, 2.4Ghz+; GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050/1650 or AMD RX 560; 16 GB RAM.
Can an RTX 3060 run Hyper Light Breaker?
The RTX 3060 runs Hyper Light Breaker well, meeting the title's GPU requirement.
What is the bottleneck for Hyper Light Breaker?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Hyper Light Breaker is the GPU.